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Facebook might have the fishes in a barrel but until they can liberate that advert inventory outside their destination it will sit on their books.

I’d expect Facebook Connect to have an interstitial advert show up if this hasn’t already been floated. Planned expiry on major sites (like this one) could guarantee a rev share model along a 90/10 split… or whatever they dream up as what a market will bear.

Simple.

Push notifications have an ON and OFF setting.

There should be a Hipster ON and OFF setting.

In fact, Foursquare just stumbled onto a great way to distance from the pack — just like the early days of online journals allowed for smiley icon sets, they could work towards high quality collectible badges for the crowds they wish to cater to.

Imagine a Democrat badge pack, Republican badge pack, or a licensed NFL logos pack, etc…

This might be an area where Gowalla has an advantage — they have a lot of eye candy.

Each year is the same year that someone predicts we are “6 months from” [insert arbitrary milestone] in the field of speech recognition.

This is the equivalence of Linux finally winning the desktop market.

Put it this way: even HUMANS don’t understand what other humans say all the time — so it is best to consider all the ways this can be used in an effective manner vs. trying to attempt a mythical 100% something or other.

Consider the beat poet. Consider pants on the ground. Consider someone reading something that has no context, no flow, no form of discerning pun from gibberish, and the obvious misuse of the language.

Tin ears indeed.

We’ve come quite a ways in terms of technology from CU-SeeMe, 160×120 grayscale pictures, reflector scalability, and the rarity of a video camera being paired with a networked computer.

I think the key for Skype — and video in general — is going beyond the confines of the desktop, laptop, and expanding to the ubiquity of mobile devices and every surface.

Cisco Telepresence has to realize a 50:1 reduction in TCO and become an expectation just as the Nortel phone handsets were expectations in the workplace as modern key systems and PBXs tied them together in ways we both loved and hated.

Dick Tracy is now or never.

We’ve come quite a ways in terms of technology from CU-SeeMe, 160×120 grayscale pictures, reflector scalability, and the rarity of a video camera being paired with a networked computer.

I think the key for Skype — and video in general — is going beyond the confines of the desktop, laptop, and expanding to the ubiquity of mobile devices and every surface.

Cisco Telepresence has to realize a 50:1 reduction in TCO and become an expectation just as the Nortel phone handsets were expectations in the workplace as modern key systems and PBXs tied them together in ways we both loved and hated.

Dick Tracy is now or never.

[1] this is something you can’t define without some sense of SLA and with SLA comes penalty and/or regulatory requirements

As the MSO demand for ARPU come hell or high water grows… I feel there will be a major class action lawsuit regarding the increasingly utility like approach of cap oriented models by a high profile state Attorney General (or several states that host the MSOs).

Outages, degradation of service [1] and failure to deliver service consistent with contract terms as one would expect of water and power will be subject to an aggressive refunding of the monthly fees — if not revocation of licenses to operate with any exclusivity (see also muni broadband and stimulus).

I’d expect a reverse of the onus being on a subscriber to demand service credits and the industry will have to self enforce or find themselves every bit as regulated as their telco brethren feel when they stand before a PUC.

Further, as the technology improves for service provisioning, it is unreasonable to expect that a subscriber -has- to pay anything in a given month if they don’t use anything.

i.e. pre-paid broadband is coming

Consider that AOL is now Aol.

Will COMCAST become Comcast?

And gain the ability to call Google Apps support and ask for their favorite recipes, hopes, dreams, and what not

Mark Schmulen spoke on the “Too Much Text” core conversation at SxSW 2009. Mark was very insightful on what it takes to bring sanity back in an ever growing deluge of social network email notifications. It’s great to see NutshellMail continue to innovate.

Agreed. Blippy has legs.

BING BING BING

Memo to Yelp partners: A quick reminder… Your chessboard is now my chess piece.

I’m always amazed at the empty comments under a blog post where is there a distinct comments form.

Apathy?
Moderation?
or…
Reliance upon an API or supporting third party service that has been shut down due to an isolated consequence of a strategic partnership?

How would/do you contrast LiveCloud to NING?

Very very cool.

Bingo.

For the same reason I can remember ipchicken.com when I want to know what my general egress IP address is on any given network…

i.e. memorable, funny

see also: nothing like your comment

Let’s hope so. I think it has merit.

Thanks. This was originally a concept I drummed/dreamed up over at GigaOM if you are curious about the original context.

This is actually pretty interesting.

I’m wondering what the remaining special characters might mean.

!someoneyouhate
*groupname
/maybesomeone
^vipgetsinfirst

etc….