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people search for free — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:41:26 -0000

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Wade — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:13:07 -0000

A SUPPORTED BY THE DEVELOPER TOOLS? It was interesting. You seem very knowledgeable in ypour field.

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Ben the cs reapz — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:51:14 -0000

Tried it with no success. you might wanna split the code in two, the injector isnt working.

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Vick — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:55:07 -0000

Great blog. Very good information. Hope most blogs were like this. Keep the good work, you'll get more visitors.. :)

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Chad28 — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:11:47 -0000

use http://rssfwd.com and put your flickr rss feed into this then it will email the pics to them when you post new pics!

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rosevibe — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:53:05 -0000

HA! I've fallen back on the 'just google me' phrase before now *grin* and I am SOOOO not even close to being an 'e' lister never mind up there in the scoble stakes.

c'mon, admit it - it's a ballache emailing pictures to every tom dick and harry when you can just send them all to one place for everyone to access.

I came across something new today on techcrunch that you can annoy your relatives with instead *grin*
http://storyofmylife.com/

Sounds like the solution for all time - and they can do it right back atcha then too ;0)

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Janos Erdelyi — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:02:02 -0000

I personally think this highlights people's laziness.

While i do not expect everyone to use every social networking tool, i think it's a good think for Robert to nicely nudge people away from email.

I find it interesting that according to some comments that email is now looked at as the "common man's" tool. or the accessible tool. far from it! it's a pit of problems!

Robert's post could be rephrased like this:

"Spoon feed me your information"

"Here's a spoon, here's the food, already cooked"

"NO, spoon feed me! my mouth. right in here, thanks."

email is a "push" tool, not a "pull" tool. that friend wanted EVERYTHING pushed, which requires no pull, which is lazy. it's also intellectually lazy - go learn some new things! ween yourself from email!

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Brad — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:59:34 -0000

To follow on jcricket's point @78, what is apparent is that the Web 2.0 brainiacs write software only for themselves to use and not real people. Until they try to solve real world problems with their products and stop trying to write apps THEY simply think are cool, they will continue to have relatively low adoption and not make a dent beyond their own virtual back yard.

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jcricket — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:48:29 -0000

I'm glad you can get so excited about something Robert, I only hope you reserve some of that same enthusiasm for interacting with real people, face to face, like your new daughter. Time spent in front of screens with your "5000 friends" should be considered research/work, or a diversion, not real friendship.

I find fascination with shiny new technology kind of pointless. After 20 years or so I'm impressed by the advances that have lasted (you won't see me arguing in favor of replacing my Powerbook G4 with a 8088) but I've also grown smart enough to realize sitting on the side lines and jumping in as a late adopter is a far more rational real world strategy than trying everything out. You waste less money, time and energy that way, and still reap all the benefits.

Which is my point about your conversation with friends. Early adopters and bleeding-edgers like yourself will always be a tiny minority. So (this goes to the tnkgrl too) if you want a wide community to interact with, you will be the ones who have to adapt until the market sorts out which new thing is "interesting" or "useful" enough for the masses to adopt it.

Unless you're just trying to be kewl. And I've seen you in videos Robert - that ship has sailed :-)

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tnkgrl — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:38:32 -0000

I'm with Robert on this one... Adapt (adopt?) or die!

Sure it's a bit condescending to tell people "just Google me", but ultimately, you can't have a community and connection without people actually participating, be it on or off-line.

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Robert Scoble — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:18:05 -0000

jcricket: we've had discussions like this with every new technology. Every single one. Some people are late adopters, luddites even. My ex father in law enjoyed telling me he never used a computer and never will.

By the way, I was like this LONG before I ever started getting paid by the industry.

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jcricket — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:53:19 -0000

Oh please, Robert wasn't being polite. He's on the cutting edge of every technological advancement and he's expecting everyone (99% of whom aren't paid like he is to care about the new-sk00l stuff) to keep up. You can see it in the "just google me" response.

It's actually quite rational for the average busy (family, job, school, kids, friends, other interests) person to avoid learning all these brand new interfaces. Like I mentioned, Robert (and others) will abandon 90% of them once the "true" killer apps emerge. It's actually good for the tech elite to experiment like this, but everyone else is quite smart to wait until the tipping point occurs and they can be assured what they're learning won't be obsolete in 2 weeks.

Here's a test. Send your friends a link via email to wherever they should go (flickr, tickr, mickr, facebo, friendkyte, whatever). Hopefully that service is actually user-friendly enough for an average person to use it without instructions from you. If an average person can't figure out how to browse your photos/view your videos, etc. on whatever service you use then you're using a service that's not ready for prime time.

When is the industry going to stop blaming the average user for failing to be technical geniuses?

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Kate — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:53:08 -0000

congats* sorry typo.lol.

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Kate — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:51:54 -0000

Congrads on the baby. My mom just had her 9th, his name is Gideon Parry, after my Grandfather. I'm the 3rd of my siblings, I have three weblogs.

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She-Geek — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:38:00 -0000

I have had to put my foot down because otherwise I'd spend more time in Hell-mail than I want.

I've made it clear where they need to get information. If they choose not to, well, I guess they stay in the dark.

I guess it helps that my mother is also an IT geek and does a lot online. Now if I could only walk her through downloading and editing her pictures to her computer without her having a meltdown that requires me to talk her down off the ledge, I'd be golden!

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Nicholas Butler — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:41:22 -0000

Yep the more I read the comments the more Stunned I am about how rude the internet is making people. Robert you were asked to do someone a favour and then they demanded how you were to reciprocate and you were considered rude for not agreeing to that request.

I really am impressed , if this had involved physical transactions of photos there is no way your friend would have been so rude as to demand on the delivery methods.

I really am stunned that people think you were being rude you were doing the favour you would expect to be able to set the terms .Gosh I rally am amazed if only because it highlights how much people dont understand what they are doing online.

Thank you again for the blog entry.

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Nicholas Butler — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:32:28 -0000

Robert,
I am so very much with you on this one. I get that conversation all the time from various clients and friends and associates. There is this wierd in built resistance to actually Listen to what was just said and instead they view that the path of least resistance to them is equal to the path of least resistance for you.

Net result we bump heads trying to do the easiest thing for both of us.

Heres the interesting twist in our society though. If you were using any other mechanism ( post, courier, family friend ) to move the photos to them then they wouldnt think twice about acquiescing to your requests. As soon as the computer is added then the asker is suddenly imbued with a right to be far more rude about their demands !

Wierd but there we go. Lets keep up the good fight eh.

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danielmcvicar — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:59:39 -0000

Hi Robert
Why don't you have an email of your blog available via fedblitz or some other system? It's so easy even a caveman like me can do it.
I look forward to seeing photos of the new youngun....and best to Maryam.

Ciao from Torino/Venice Italy today
D

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Brad — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:26:39 -0000

Seems like in the time it took to have that conversation you describe you could have asked for their email address and sent them a link to your Flickr page. The family friend is satisfied and you don't come off looking like the jerk the friend thought you were sounding like.

And I think you no longer have capacity to add them to your Facebook list, do you? So that wouldn't help.

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Mark Jaquith — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:12:29 -0000

Yahoo! Pipes can help here. Build a Pipe that pulls in your feeds, and only shows posts that contain predefined keywords. People can subscribe to Yahoo! Pipes via e-mail, if they have a Yahoo! account.

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shoo — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:23:14 -0000

Seems like I have had the conversation above with the same family friend. My family is now just starting to come around to photo sharing online and blogs. I love it - 'Why don't you just email me them!' Heard that before.

Grandma just told me last weekend, "I checked out your blo...g site, but you hadn't updated." Check it out again, Grandma.

I've known two guys who have live blogged the birth of their children. Makes for an interesting day at work when you can't stop refreshing the browser.

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Lindsay — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:08:31 -0000

Sign them up with R|Mail (http://www.r-mail.org/). It's basically the same thing as RSSFwd but it lets you subscribe anyone's email address. They will be notified by (drum roll...) email that they've been subscribed and be able to confirm it (or not). You'd only have to do it once for each family member if you set up a combined feed with FeedBurner or something for family.

You can also generate an R|Mail widget for your blog that lets people subscribe by email directly. Then, if you manage to actually get them to your blog, they can do the hard work themselves without dealing with any scary RSS.

I've been using R|Mail for years now instead of an RSS reader. It's the only way I can deal with feeds. I like GMail better than any RSS reader I've found.

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sarchi — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:39:48 -0000

I got a second hand converted sister to firefox when a some guy suggested it.. but was made a friend by one her friends on facebook which I was holding off of

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Luke Gedeon — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:20:04 -0000

Oh yeah, if you want to contact me about RSS to email, I am one of your facebook friends.

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Luke Gedeon — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:17:26 -0000

Put together an RSS (with tumblr, feedburner, etc.) that has just the posts about the baby and then subscribe them to it using http://www.r-mail.org/. It sends RSS direct to email. If that is a too much of a pain, twitter their name, email and/or phone number followed by the word MilanWatch and I will take care of it for you.