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Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

JohnAtkinson — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:44:46 -0000

Good interview Robert. Qik works just fine for this type of impromptu format. Good to see that the Twitter guys are humbly addressing the problem.

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

Robert Scoble — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:35:50 -0000

Robyn: we're all a big deal.

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

Robyn — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:30:23 -0000

Robert- Do you ever have moments when you sit back and laugh while thinking... "Wow. I actually AM kind of a big deal." If not... you really should.

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

Bess — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:09:45 -0000

Hey Jesse

Didn't know you have so much fun the next day - landing an exclusive Twitter interview that Tech Crunch has to write about it.

Scoble has been good about resting. At least after my post, he didn't stay on to monitor the blog post.

That Mike also likes to Twitter non-stop around the clock. He can afford it because he is single. His staff can continue his legacy.

I have another brilliant Architecture idea. We should advise Twitter to purposely turn down the service or fail the server whenever bloggers Twitter over 24 hrs :)

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

Fred2baro — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:16:17 -0000

Hi Robert, great opportunity that you had and well catched despite the laughs ;-). About the audio I use with my N95 a Plantronics P590. It has two advantage : 1/ on a "duo" i put the headset round the neck of the interwiewee and thru the bluetooth, i'll get a better than 8k builtin mic.
and it's very efficient on a very noisy area like in a street..

On a group of discussion like the one that you had at twitter offices , I usually put the headset on a table and the mic seems to do a good job.

you can see example of my (french) interveiws on http://blugture.blip.tv

I realize talking this way about a product is likely considered as advertisement, if anyone have a clue to how talk about a product you like without beiing considered as a marketer or whatever devil ppl, please help me out .. :-)

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

Christopher Coulter — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:04:34 -0000

In the era, of TIVO, Archos TV, Xvid and other misc. time-shifting, the "advantages" of being "live" are minimal, so maybe you get that audience feedback from people who just happened to be glued to their LCDs, at any given time, but once that fleeting moment is gone, the output is, well, junk.

Same thing with moblogging, people posting their lameo out of focus photos inrealtimegeeisntthiscool, but what happened? That "meme", died hard and quick, with the end result of people started posting good pictures, not live, but good pictures on pay presentational sites, of course, the mainstream had already been doing that since the birth of the net, but it took Flickr for the geeks to get all flubbered. Not live, but good. The way you are doing it, the value is lost the second it's over.

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

Alexander von Halem — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:45:11 -0000

Wilson ng:

I think so far friendfeed is not quite there, and it is lame. I also don’t understand your enthusiasm there.

Can you elaborate on why it is you think FF is lame? What is missing? What is flawed? Aren't they reacting quickly enough to recommendations from the base? Or what, exactly?

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

pbx — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:30:11 -0000

Twitter is a hard one to figure out in terms of its mainstream acceptability. Its big in geek land but most people outside "our" inner circle just don't get it.

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

Anthony Colicci — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:12:32 -0000

Robert,

What is your professional camera?

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

Jesse Stay — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:14:14 -0000

Sorry, that was to Bess, not Beth.

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

Jesse Stay — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:13:32 -0000

Beth, ROFL! I could tell Robert was getting a little tired towards the end there. I was pretty exhausted myself. :-)

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

Alex Hammer — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:46:02 -0000

The best part, in a terrific interview, is the shot of Scoble's Friendfeed T-Shirt while in the Twitter office!

All seems well for the moment in the Web 2.0 world (that is a good thing).

Now over to Gillmor Gang to listen to the just released show with Friendfeed founders Bret Taylor (genius ++) and Paul B. (he may be as well).

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

wilson ng — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:41:22 -0000

I think twitter is cool, and so far I can stand an ocassional twiccup.

I think Twitters problems is partly caused by the many subscribers it has, but also on the dozens of great 3rd party applications that also puts a load in its db. I agree that twitters notwithstanding its problems, twitter should not cut them off.

I think so far friendfeed is not quite there, and it is lame. I also don't understand your enthusiasm there.

When Friendfeed succeeds, you can quote me on that (grin)....

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

Bruce — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:24:41 -0000

Maybe it would have helped if you had gone to journalism school, before they handed you a cell phone with a camera. Your no Dan Rather, that's for sure.
Dump the stupid laugh, and buy a tripod. And maybe one day they'll buy you a real camera. Goof Ball.

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

altrenda — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:56:53 -0000

All the goofs worrying about the process instead of the content. Probably won't watch black and white films, either.

Good job getting the story and getting it out quickly.

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

Michael — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:45:26 -0000

So basically the end result is that you and your ego were overreacting to what Twitter posted.

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

Brad Jasper — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:41:07 -0000

Robert,

Your interview was great. I thought you asked good questions and was glad to see both Biz and Evan there.

About the quality of video--Qik isn't meant to have the best video quality available (yet?). It's meant to capture video on-the-go while giving you a channel to interact with your audience.

That's exactly what you used it for here.

Anyone suggesting you used a "regular" video camera doesn't "get" Qik.

Don't listen to the nay-sayers--keep doing what you're doing Robert.

- Brad

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

Bess — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:38:54 -0000

Jesse Stay is the Book Author of O'Reilly "Facebook Essential" and Co-Author of "I'm on Facebook -- Now What?". Jesse also runs the Facebook Developer Garage - Salt Lake City Utah. He is the co-organizer of the Western Region of OpenSocial Hackathon Episode III along with Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB). Jesse is not just a developer!

I would have make sure this Scoble to take power snap during his 30 hr working around the clock schedule. Jesse has 4 kids including a new born. We wouldn't want to see 2 super dad to get into any silly auto accident.

I suggest we put an automatic warning if any blogger twitter nonstop for 24 hrs. We shut off the Twitter feature to put them to sleep. This would be a safety feature and family-protection plan. Many families will be supporting this feature.

@Dawn Douglass health warning is good one!

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

albertoog — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:28:12 -0000

Hi Robert,

Why don't you use a Flip Ultra camera? (http://www.theflip.com/). I'm told the quality is quite high and it seems to be very portable.

BTW, I don't have anything to do with The Flip company or any other company related to the cameras world.

Greetings from Barcelona, Spain.

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

Robert Scoble — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:07:56 -0000

Christopher: well, get some aspirin.

My camera can broadcast live, which is a MAJOR advantage over what you're talking about, especially if you want a two-way audience like I do. And I don't even need to find an Internet connection to upload, either.

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

Christopher Coulter — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:02:12 -0000

how everyone told me “Twitter is lame” first time I told them about it

And the second, and the third...to eternal infinitude, no matter, it's still lame.

"On a lark", heh, which pretty much sums up most of what passes for "Web 2.0"...

You do know they have Sony Handheld HD's, something like the old HDR-HC1, you could get a basic Steadicam Merlin to go with, and dump to SD, and x264 it pretty quick, maybe even using some form of hardware rendering, keep time limit to 20 min or under, and with the Merlin, you might not need to edit it much, posting fairly raw. Quick and professional, with the HDR-HC1 you can shoulder-bag carry, being quite inconspicuous. Cell phone video are just headaches, no matter what the excuse.

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

Alberto — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:51:51 -0000

Watched the "conversation" yesterday and it was quite useful to understand where Twitter is right now and love the summary, helpful to refer to those who don't understand Qik social live streaming value and just want the facts.

Looks like at the beginning, Twitter was really just a microblogging platform and the problems with integrating the whole potential a messaging protocol (XMPP) can provide to the infrastructure are the architectural problems they are facing. I was surprised that they mentioned they only have one copy of the data in the disk with multiple caching updates in memory, they really have pushed the limits with this architecture and the move to a messaging platform it's going to help the downtime, hope it doesn't take them too long.

There is a opportunity for the appearance of a WordPress in microblogging (maybe a FriendFeed or Grazr open source). And for messaging, the fact that FriendFeed looks email as their competition (i.e. rooms=RSS mailing lists) signals they have already thought beyond microblogging. If more applications are built related to the mobile web like Moblf.com, then Robert is right and Twitter loyal users can look FF as a viable option.

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

Kapauldo — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:47:59 -0000

Scoble, you're awesome. I don't really care about your clearing the air (no offense to you) I just really like your reporting. I am just amazed at the excuses coming out of Twitter. They're snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Anyone who says "there will be problems for some time to come" should be fired. The right people with the right leadership with the right funding can fix anything. I suspect they have the right people and the right funding.

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

nigeleccles — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:16:23 -0000

Cool - I thought they were going to ration your tweets!

Re: Clearing the air with Twitter

Alexander von Halem — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:11:56 -0000

I never cease to be awed by the depth of information and argument you get to in the shortest of time. Thanks for your reporting. Good to see someone who is so open to criticism and doles it out in a purely constructive manner.

What twitter is concerned: it's good to know that they are aware of their problems (duh) and are open to communication. I think the really important point, which might save twitter in the long run, is the deserved loyalty by the base.

Stick to a good thing.