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Very good post. I told Scoble in that piece that I wouldn't want the ads, and he told me I would "love" them if the ad was for Half Moon Bay BrewCo and said that he was there. That was cheating. But the idea of receiving ad messages from my friends, like through Ad.ly or even Twitter itself, repels me.
Ah-ha! Lightbulb goes on. Twitter will monetize by charging money for ad-free (premium) content:-)
Twitter’s Decline Begins with the Advent of Advertising
Twitter is starting to monetize by letting users get paid for advertising in their tweets. It is the beginning of the end. Oh, the end won’t come soon, and it won’t even look like an end. There will be an upswing. Twitter and people will make money and things will blossom. Then things will plat...
Oh, Warner, you are exactly right. And by the way, I was being sarcastic. Of course the community we have built on Friendfeed, with all Robert Scoble's time, etc., is not
"just" business. But that's how the guys around the table always think.
It's Just Business
After Facebook acquired Friendfeed today, some Friendfeed users are bemoaning the fact, some are excited about what the acquisition means, and some are angry. Par for the course I guess when something like this happens. As far as I’m concerned, what Friendfeed turns into or if it just gets shut ...
I'm coming!!!!!!!Guess I can't bring @BuppythePuppy, although he tweets.
Announcing 'tBASH,' the Twitterville Book Launch Party
It is has been a long and sometimes difficult pregnancy, but I think the result is a beautiful baby. Please join me in celebrating the birth of my new book, Twitterville, how businesses can thrive in the new Global Neighborhoods. tBASH, the Twitterville book launch party will be held from 4-8 pm...
I've never stopped blogging, but that's because I define myself as a writer. I'm not always just out to dip my toe into the river of lifestreams, or to engage in provocative conversation. Sometimes I want to explain something, tell a story, or teach. So that's blogging. I can always send my blog post to Twitter if I want people to discuss and comment on its title without really reading it:-)
Is there a trend back to blogging? How will it impact Twitter?
[Robert Scoble returns to blogging. Photo by Shel] Robert Scoble has declared that he is going to start blogging more these days, after having spent most of his posting time at Friendfeed and Twitter. I have often followed Robert's lead on social media and in collaboratin...
I've been to Rwanda. My photos are still in the archives of my blog:
http://blog.stealthmode.com/2005/03/03/flowers-on-the-mass-graves/
http://blog.stealthmode.com/2005/03/03/momma-gorilla-and-her-baby/
And here's what I thought, in March 2005
t's so sad to realize I'm in Kigali International Airport on the way
home from Africa. On balance, I think I was drawn as much to Rwanda
as to Uganda in the end.
I was able to overcome the hotel without (hot)water and electricity,
the absolutely miserable food, and the inevitable dust because
Rwanda, like Uganda, can teach us so much about the power of family,
community, and the human spirit.
After driving through some of the most beautiful farmland I have ever
seen, all of it terraced and under cultivation because the country is
densely populated and small in area, we entered the capital city of
Kigali.
You can see the influence foreign aid ( let's call it guilt) from the
developing nations has had on Kigali: there's lots of new
construction, both commercial and residential. We went immediately
to the Genocide Museum, which was (of course) financed by the Belgian
Goverment and the Clinton Foundation among others.
The Belgians were the colonial power that promoted the differences
between Hutus and Tutsis in the first place, issuing identity cards
in 1932 that demarcated them by caste. Tutsis were taller, so the
Catholic colonial government thought they would make better leaders.
Unfortunately, they were a minority, and didn't fare too well after
Rwanda gained independence in 1962.
It was a pretty big mess even before the 1994 genocide, but when a
million Tutsis were murdered in 100 days --with little interference
from Kofi Annan OR Bill Clinton--we hit a new low in civilization.
The Museum showed us mass graves, faces of slaughtered children,
videos of tortured survivors, and memorial gardens all at once.
Every one of us emerged crying. No wonder Bill Clinton has financed
this memorial. I think of him as a very compassionate person, and I
suspect he was just too new on the job to understand what was really
happening in a little country so far away. In 1994 in America it was
still "the economy, stupid."
If you have not seen " Hotel Rwanda,"you must. It is based on the
true story of the Hotel Mille de Collines in Kigali, whose manager
savewd 1000 people by hiding them inside the hotel. Paul Rusesabegina
was (and still is) a Hutu married to a Tutsi, a hero to his people.
As a people, Americans have traditionally turned a blind eye on
events in Asia and Africa until they hit us in the face. After all,
pre-Internet they were pretty far away unless you like big animals or
fine rugs.Asia now has our attention because of its growing economic
power and its ability to make nuclear weapons. Africa will get our
attention, too, and I just wonder how that will happen. I know that
it will, because I sat next to many young people in Internet cafes
across the countries I visited who were writing letters to friends
across the world. The message is getting out.
Leaving Rwanda
Well, it’s that time again. I’ve been wearing the same dusty jeans for much of the last two weeks, I’m sick of every single item on the room service menu, the mini-bar is crying for mercy, weird insect bites are covering my limbs and I sorely miss US television (THANKS FOR NOTHING NON-INTERNATIO...
As a foster mom, I heard more about pimps and hos than any geek ever will, and as an older woman in a male workplace I don't get offended. I just thought it wasn't a very good way to make your point, and I know it did offend others.
The apology is cool. Now, how about that Bing?
The Faces, the *FACES*... it's *ALL* about the Motherf**king FACES! (+ Avatars, Icons, & Big Butts.)
DISCLAIMER: i've never really had any professional training in user interface design... and i'm sure that's obvious from my blog fonts & colors. However, i started designing & developing applications over 25 years ago, back in high-school when i developed some payroll reports one summer for my m...
First: great seeing and hearing you yesterday. You are one smart dude.
Second: Great post. I have been on this geek-to-human translation rant myself for years. Faces humanize technology for the mainstream we are all trying to reach.
Third: I hope there's (still) a difference between my butt and my face, and I think your butt image is both a stretch at a pun and likely to offend where you mean to educate.
No excuses that you aren't a designer. We already knew that:-)
The Faces, the *FACES*... it's *ALL* about the Motherf**king FACES! (+ Avatars, Icons, & Big Butts.)
DISCLAIMER: i've never really had any professional training in user interface design... and i'm sure that's obvious from my blog fonts & colors. However, i started designing & developing applications over 25 years ago, back in high-school when i developed some payroll reports one summer for my m...
I think Wolfram Alpha has been incorrectly positioned and messaged. From the early reviews (Tech Crunch, RWW, Mashable), I heard it would be a "Google killer," so I asked it a few Google type search questions to no avail.
Now I'm trying to figure out what to ask it that's appropriate. It's like trying to feed a picky eater.
An early review of Wolfram Alpha
Via the Guardian: Wolfram Alpha: the semantic web search starts to take shape. Excerpt: Wolfram Alpha is indeed a search engine, but it's not pretending to be Google, and unlike so many of the search engines that I've had pitched to me over the years, it isn't trying to do "search". It's actuall...
I wish either of you were my mother. She thought I was some kind of dysfunctional failure. But I must admit, I thought I was cool even at the time. You can see pretty quickly when you are having an exciting life and no one else is:-)
7 Things You Probably Don't Need to Know About Me
I got tagged by Jason Baer to post about seven things most people don't know about me, and I know I've done this before -- I think for Social Media Club-- but since I can't find the post, here I go again. This will definitely be too much information: 1)I've been married five times. In my day, yo...
I am hoping you will get some comments from iPhone app developers who are working on this issue.
Annoyed by iPhone Apps
So far I've downloaded and discarded dozens of iPhone apps that didn't do what I thought they should do. For me, Twitter apps are the worst offenders. Twitterific hung too often, and Om Malik advised me to switch to Twinkle. No, he didn't just advise me, he downloaded it to my phone while I was ...
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