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FixedR6: I almost put the Twitter support in, but I didn't want you to figure it out TOO fast! :-)
Oh, and it's April 1st in Australia. So there!
Hmmmm....
This is so implausible that you should have waited a few hours to post it. That way you could at least claim it as an April Fool's joke.
:)
Took me a while though, maybe halfway down the post. You should have stopped at "Much easier than going to Borders and picking up a physical copy."
I'll go tell that to TechCrunch :D
See you and Maryam soon, I hope [I'm in Seattle in May].
Yay you.
But of course, what should I have expected? The nature of the blogosphere is to get riled up in the moment then move to the next great thing.
I commend for highlighting the issue and going so long without blogging, I just wish you had broken your silence for something more important.
Rex
It has been April 1 in India for some 9 hours already :D
You're worse than an alcoholic following off the wagon.
Robert, You made me jump from the chair.
~Steve
My phone and emails got lit up.
Since only 32 people got the proto, they narrowed it down to me.
And now I'm fired.
Happy for your little scoop?
Arrington' post almost had me, and Google as usual pulled another one: http://www.google.com/tisp/.
BTW, I thought your JibJab cameo was real cool.
Man, you clearly have no idea how to tell a proper lie.
And I'm totally telling Steve, Robert. He blogs about you every day. You should read him. It's Scoble this, Scoble that. But now it's over.
You're in our black list now (we call it iList internally). From now on, you can expect lots of spoiled apple crates in the mail every week until we launch this new once-secret product. The Fuji smell awful when they go bad. So how do you like them apples?
By the way, the little thing runs on Intel so it totally runs Vista as well. A bit slow though, and the batteries run out in 30 seconds.
:-)
Here I was going "hell yes, somebody is finally going to make a competent e-reader". Then I look at the damn calendar. Why must you crush my dreams so...
I just want a damn e-reader ;(
I like the new screen technology, thats very innovative!
See my cartoon:
http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2007...
Bye,
Oliver
http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/01/top-5-april-f...
You really had me Scoble. Outstanding 4/1 prank :-)
And with someone on the beach "quickly running" towards you like a crazy person, a better device would be a taser. ;)
And don't worry about the trolls (I know you're not, but anyways). I'd do the same thing. There's nothing wrong with a little fun, and I know Kathy wouldn't mind either :)
:D
Nice one Scoble!
You know when you lost me? When you mentioned that you found an Apple Exec on the beach with the device. If this were a true story Steve Jobs would have had a CSI team at every Execs house who had the device so that he could determine who leaked.
Leave it to Apple to make an MP3 player keyring into a $400 item.
Maybe the Emperor really does have clothes !
This is, also, why paper books will never be dead: as long as the information that keeps being distributed on the Internet keeps being in this tone, I don't see much competition for printed sources. Gutenberg 4; Tim Berners-Lee, 1.
Yeesh.
Dude, that was brilliant, but I think you shoulda gotten someone to fake a "long range" pic or something.
no fair.. apple rumor hoax on april fools day
any news on the apple/emi press conference tomorrow announcing non drm EMI music?
Regarding your resolution to not post, you made it and you break it. We are glad you are back with your writings. But remember that you lost some credibility if you make a similar resolution again in future. A better way would have been pre-plan. I know it is hard but you could have said in your resolution as no more blogging for the rest of the week or no more blogging for the rest of the month (and post it few hour late) or something of that sort. As you always say -- it is always better to under promise and over deliver rather than the other way round.
Always,
Phil
Ain't that the truth...spin a yarn worthy of an Academy, but it's Sidd, amazing how it took, but 168 mph was pushing all reason. I think the Taco Liberty Bell, Nixon for President, the Left-Handed Whopper, stand out, but then Webnode takes the cake, of course basically the dot.com 1997-2004 era was one April Fools after another.
And who can forget John Dvorak's 'Drunk Driving on the Net' bit, that one took...
Chris Carfi just told me it was an April Fool's joke. But, seriously, I want this product. I'm bummed.
They have used this name since it's creation and the domain name since 1994.
Go a head, type http://www.ireader.com and see what returns.
Here we go again Apple using someone elses name for their own needs and apparantly with no consideration.
No it is not hardware, it is software, and pretty decent at what it is designed to do.
It's a very small company, so I guess big bad APPL could just squash them. Either by acquisition then squash their tech, or sick their man y lawyers after them and make it too costly to challenge.
If you have not used the product, give it a try before you slam it or rant some Apple Zealot thread.
E-books are great for travelling, less to lug about etc, but you can't beat the feeling of getting all warm and comfy and turning the pages of a good novel..
I like the new screen technology, thats very innovative!
Joern