Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetJust a thought in the heat of the moment, but what if we forget about Chrome OS for a minute and think about the iPad? Let's not forget that Chrome and Safari are both based on WebKit. Could there be more to this than just performance? Could it be that jolicloud is interested to explore opportunities and possibilities on the iPad? I know, I know; they are all Linux-y (for now?), but a cloud OS should be in the cloud after all, not on the hardware platform - right?
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetWell played, sir. ;)
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetNah. I smell a fake. Guy's got talent, though.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetHey Joe,
1. I bought an original OSX DVD from Apple that I installed on my Netbook. How is that stealing?
2. I'm not situated in the US, nor am I a citizen of the USA. US court rulings do not apply where I live.So you see, as far as I'm concerned, I'm not stealing nor doing something illegal. I legitimately own the software and hardware and I can do whatever I goddang please with it. Now go troll somewhere else.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI love my FiveFingers Classics. Great for walking in the city as well as trekking. However, they do not keep stuff out that well when trekking. At the time I bought them, there were no KSOs and I’ve been meaning to get a pair ever since they were launched. Now as the KSO Trek is here, I think I just might get those instead. Maybe my laziness paid off.
I love the ability to feel the terrain through the soles of the feet that my Classics affords. How flexible and sensitive is the KSO Trek sole compared to that of the the Classic’s?
My VFF Classics on top of the Pulpit Rock, NO: http://www.flickr.com/photos/blacktar/2745778415/
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetOptionally, move to a country that provides clean chemical-free drinking water or take action and demand it from your local provider. :/
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI guess if the history of the xerox trademark is anything to go by ‘twitter’, ‘twittering’, ‘tweet’ and ‘tweeting’ could be, albeit disputably, considered common nouns and verbs in a not too distant future.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI guess you're trying to be provocative as is the sometimes admirable spirit of the inquisitr. That notwithstanding, since when did Aston Villa stop being a major club? Get your history and facts straight, boy! :) Birmingham, O'Neil and John Carew FTW! Go Villains!
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetWith all due respect, I think you're dead wrong - and yes, I might be opinionated.
I am convinced that it will turn twitter into something less distinguishable from the old instant messaging, facebook, forums and what not. I do not want that. I don't want information to be walled in, hidden. I don't want to make twitter even more of an exclusive echo chamber than it was until now. I want transparency and open participation, a level playing field. I want to still be able to discover new interesting people by random chance, have my curiosity stimulated, read other perspectives by chance, listen in at will.
I strongly disagree that not seeing replies from others to people you are following it will enable better conversations. Why not just continuing using IM, mail or whatever if you need to keep everything under wraps?. Please don't try to make twitter out to be something that it IMO is not.
Search is not a replacement for seeing all (public) replies. That's like comparing push to pull, search to links, apples to oranges, color to smell, sight to sound. You wouldn't know who and what to search for anyhoo because you can't see the conversation at all. It's like it doesn't exist now.
To me the magic of twitter is that it used to be anything that you wanted it to be. Now it seems one of the major USPs for me has been steamrolled away. I feel like one of the main ingredients of the magic twittersauce has been discontinued overnight.
However, once the cat is out, you can never put it back in.
I don't usually plug my own boring posts, but I find the issue at hand rather important, so I'll mention that I wrote up my initial thoughts after reading the first RWW post here: http://stopmebeforeiblogagain.com/twitter-muzzled/ if someone should be interested in reading my first take in length.
@blacktar
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI'm quite appalled that twitter seems to me to be self confident - if not almost smirk - with removing a setting that potentially alters the mechanics of conversing and discovering on twitter on a fundamental level; In other words making twitter less like, well, twitter.
I find the idea of not listening to 2% of their user base quite grand. Did they do the maths? That's not a tiny amount of people, is it? My guess is, that there are a lot of the early twitter adopters and evangelists in those 2% too.
Another bet of mine is that most of those 2% are most certainly not confused by the @ reply 'system'. It's inaccurate, not threaded and tracked - but who cares? It's 'the twitter way' and some learned to live comfortably with it.
I'm also willing to bet that a much higher percentage was living under the illusion that they were getting every single public tweet from the people they were following and didn't know that twitter was censoring and deciding what they could and could not see.
As to the topic of context, I personally find parts of the twitter blog post completely out of touch.
From the post:
"1) You should feel free to @reply people and not worry about it being out of context to some of your followers. In general, they won't see it." (http://blog.twitter.com/2008/05/how-replies-work-on-twitter-and-how.html)To me, twitter is not instant messaging or email. To me, one of the most important aspects about twitter is enabling discovery, stumbling upon new interesting people, sparking curiosity, reading different perspectives. Why take all that away? I'm flabbergasted. Speechless.
Would it hurt too much to just leave the [promiscuous] setting as default OFF, but there to turn ON for the users who are comfortable with it?
Are there economical incentives involving either business plans or prohibitive cost-benefit ratios precluding it? If so, twitter should be up front and transparent about it.
Please bring 'promiscuous' back. I don't want to have to subscribe to the RSS feed of every single user that I'm following in my reader of choice to get the complete unadulterated twitter stream (even from users that may have blocked me).
@blacktar
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI disagree with your argumentation. If you are displeased with your own usage and experience of and with a free service like twitter, please be professional enough to refrain from projecting your personal problems on the service. Automatic failure ensues trying to apply relations to external additional periferal 3rd party twitter apps and their proponents and/or PR/Marketing idiots rants on twitter trends. On twitter you chose whom to follow or drop. Twitter is not mail so drop that comparison too. If you are having propems coping, chance is that YOU are doing it wrong. Twitter is currently a service AND a company. Not necessarily so for all time. See my comments on Dave Winer’s post http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/04/02/thereMustBeSomeWayOutOfHer.html for my stance.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetDave, I'm afraid you sort of lost me here. To me you are mixing apples and oranges and then some. If you are not happy with the signal coming in through your twitter stream, do some selective defollowing. @spam is like any other spam; it's never going to go away ever - learn to live with it. As to thinking that others/brands want a twitter, you might be right that they would think of it, but I think you both would be dead wrong about the viability of such a solution. Think about it for 2 seconds. Twitter is twitter because it's twitter. Period. To think that one could set up a sustainable and equally successful clone is pretty weird. The free and open source alternatives are here, everybody's welcome to them but they are not taking off for anyone. Everybody wants to be on twitter because everybody is there, because - hypothetically - everybody can hear you, answer you directly. It's your voice, peer to peer on a levelled playing field. A walled off copy is not going to get much love and attention. Further more, twitter is IMO already infrastructure. It has been almost from the start. Look at all the tools, apps and uses revolving, evolving around it, creating value for users an non-users alike. To me it's self evident that twitter is embedding itself to the net as infrastructure. Ask yourself how life on the net was before twitter. Would you go back? Can we go back? I think not. To me twitter is not so much about a company as it is about a paradigm shift in communication. The question if the company twitter can and will survive is a trivial and irrelevant one. Twitter as a peer to peer vehicle for your individual voice, trite or not, will live on and evolve regardless of one company's success or failure. The cat is out of the bag.
Keep on posting! Alway interesting to read what's on your mind.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI enjoyed your post, but With regards to 5. and Ubiquity I find that in my opinion your description is not quite fitting of what it does and what it can do. I would recommend you to spend a bit more time with it and it’s potential. Yes, I know it can be hard.
It’s a completely different way of interacting (depending if you are used to command line interfaces or not) but it is extremely efficient and addicting. I also think that some of the other features mentioned in your post can be better replaced with it, e.g. searches.
I think that expandability with Ubiquity’s own extensions are also worth mentioning https://ubiquity.mozilla.com/herd/
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetHi Tim, thanks for listening. A German Anniversary Edition would be great!
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetGreat article! I’m no health food fanatic, but I do look for high fructose corn syrup in any processed product before I buy. Won’t eat it if I can avoid it.
By the way, loads of food in the EU is ‘artificially’ sweetened with e.g. Aspartame and Acesulfame potassium. (Just in case any non-EU readers should read your comment and think that we in the EU are ‘all natural’ with regards to sweeteners ;).
