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Robert Scoble posted an entry on Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger

Nokia’s touchiest week

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A significant part of Nokia's success stemmed from making sturdy cheap phones. This market is gradually diminishing because of two reasons. People who thought of it as a necessity are now making the move to cellphone as a utility, searching for phones with an encompassing internet and enterprise experience, where Nokia has had no success thus far. (contd.) - Parth Awasthi

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The second is that the largest markets for these phones were the emerging economies, India and China. As the consumer capability increases in these countries, we find users willing to spend more on convergent devices. Besides, in the recent times, these markets have been flooded with other low cost manufacturers who are only focused on that segment. They offer cheaper phones with competitive functions and this reduces Nokia's leverage in this zone too. - Parth Awasthi

Parth: yes, and I'm really glad I visited Broadcom last week. The fact that they are putting three chips onto one tells me that more "iPhone like" features will be coming to much lower-cost cell phones soon. Will Nokia do something dramatic this week? I hope so. - Robert Scoble

It's really a shame Nokia's not been able to engage the US like Apple has, because, like you said, their devices are better engineered and have better hardware. They also run open source Symbian, so your development efforts don't have to be blessed by Apple. It's no mystery, though. Just look at the size of Apple's US marketing budget compared to Nokia's. This is similar to PC vs. mac, and do we really want to live in a mac only world? - Mr. Gunn

They're trying to expand to Japan, too. The first thing they need to do is open Symbian, to get the apps going like iPhone and Android! - Mona N.

@Mr. Gunn Thats a great argument to the whole PC vs Mac debate. A lot of people I talk to think Macs are the end all because they are so easy and such, but do we really want everything to have to be blessed by a single company? - Chacha

If they go sexy with netbook like features where the device is even more independent/stand alone, then they will stay in the game. - Tony

Mr. Gunn: sorry, I don't agree with you. Apple's EXPERIENCE is 1000x better than Nokia's. Not even close. Symbian so far sucks compared to Apple's iPhone OS. I can personally demonstrate dozens of reasons why. The Web browser isn't even close. Google maps? Not even close. Until Nokia gives me a much better experience the engineering doesn't matter. - Robert Scoble

Nokia needs to make the philosophical transition. The problem is one of perspective. Apple is an user experience obsessed computer maker designing a communications device. Nokia (and not just nokia) is a communication device maker trying to add computing like features. People focus on the touch screen, but it's really this difference in approach that results in the difference in experience. - mikepk

Guess I'll just keep my comments on FF, I tried posting on Scobelizer but either it's in moderation or got eaten not sure which :) - mikepk

mikepk: I'll go check to see if Akismet blocked your comment for some reason. - Robert Scoble

I have a Nokia N95 and an iPhone for UK and US networks respectively. After a couple of hours using the Nokia, I wanted to throw it out of the window, it was so horrible. Yes it has a great camera and video, but web browsing, email and the phone on it suck compared to the iPhone. - Sally Church

mikepk: I pulled your comment out of the spam bucket. Now do you see why I think FriendFeed is going to win on the Web? :-) - Robert Scoble

I got my first cellphone back in 1992 - a motorola. I have had a few Nokia ones, but they've always been basic. The first smartphone I got was a Microsoft SPV back in 2003, which wasn't too bad. I am more than happy with my Blackberry Curve now though. It does about all that I need, and I like having a keypad, as I use it more for SMS and brief emails than I ever do to make phone calls. - Ian May

Thanks, I wonder why I got flagged? I agree on FF though, I've become a real fan of FF over the past couple of months. I'm really curious what they're going to do for revenue. - mikepk

This comment sponsored by Seagate, maker of the world's top storage devices. Join Seagate on FriendFeed here: http://friendfeed.com/seagate. - Robert Scoble

You mean FriendFeed couldn't do something like that and make money at it? - Robert Scoble

Most hardware makers simply have not come to grips with the fact that they need to be spending MUCH more money on the software for their devices - and that spans across the entire consumer electronics space. The software for 99% of consumer electronics is an embarrassment to the profession. - invariant

I think if FriendFeed can reach a critical mass, and the ad market doesn't contract significantly, advertising may work out for them. I'm curious if it will have the level of mass appeal necessary though. Advertising on friendfeed would require the balance between audience size and ad targeting/specificity. If they use too much of their valuable attention data, though, they may have a negative reaction (ala Beacon). Like I said, I'm curious which path they take :) - mikepk

@invariant agreed, I think the iphone represents a tipping point of focus from minimum necessary software to support hardware, to more commodity hardware supporting advanced software in the mobile (and other) spaces. - mikepk

Robert, I agree that user experience matters, but I think consumer choice matters more. If either Apple or Nokia (or Microsoft) won their respective wars, it would be a loss for the consumer. Either way it would suck, and it certainly seems to me like it would suck more if the secretive, closed source option won out. - Mr. Gunn

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Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“Anyone who starts a tweet with: "finishing my phd in chemical physics" has gotta be smart! Thanks @acidflask for that!”

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That is for sure - Brendon Wadey

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There's quite a few smart folks in FriendFeed hanging out in "The Life Scientists" - http://friendfeed.com/rooms/th... - imabonehead

after a few years of starting all blog posts (or tweets) with that message, it becomes moot ;-) so I stopped doing it.... - Bora Zivkovic

I suppose when you work most of your life in companies where everyone else has a PhD in similar fields as do your customers, it doesn't jump out as much. It tends to elicit more responses now that I am out of full time science. - Deepak

to me it means his mind is forever programmed, and most of reality will simply be invisible - Gregory Lent

or perhaps he will have a better ability to distinguish between reality and pseudo-mystical crapola. - Bora Zivkovic

@Gregrory, would a blank slate be preferable? - Rajarshi Guha

blank slate is not necessarily preferable, but the rigorous specialization required in most scientific disciplines works against a broad awareness of mind, life, love, intuition, etc... one has to accept a context and a set of concepts, and is forever stuck with them, usually unable to get outside of those boxes .. it seems to me, anyway - Gregory Lent

anyone who gets loud on his education/background in an impromptu manner is showing off.. humility and modesty is a must for any human. - Hayk

"rigorous specialization required in most scientific disciplines works against a broad awareness of mind, life, love, intuition, etc." - and yet, without science, we'd still be in the literal Dark Ages, when "Broad Awareness" would get you burned at the stake. - John Craft

Paraphrasing Feynman (?) - just because you know how/why a rainbow forms doesn't detract from appreciating the beauty of the phenomenon. - Rajarshi Guha

Sorry, that was Dawkins addressing Keats' accusation - Rajarshi Guha

I dream of finishing my phd in chemical physics ;) - Joe Dawson (beta)

yeah, I was just finishing my phd in chemical physics, when I noticed this post. Great one! - timedalkat via twhirl

given the choice between a yogi's understanding of mind, and a neuroscientist's, to me the former is educated, the latter is primitive - Gregory Lent

Why should it be a 'choice'? The 'primitivity' of a neuroscientists understanding is not surprising. But no reason to think it will stay primitive for ever - Rajarshi Guha

As a highly-specialized scientist who also does yoga, I'm getting a kick out of Gregory's replies. - Mr. Gunn

@rajarshi, how long have you got? they have to flip their model, and then things will speed up tremendously ... by "flip their model" i mean the idea that the consciousness is produced by meat ... it is the other way around - Gregory Lent

I'm in no hurry - my point was that understanding will progress over time. It doesn't have to be in my time. And if you assert that 'consciusness produces meat', how do you justify that? It seems that without some sort of scientific procedure it's going to be very difficult to justify it. - Rajarshi Guha

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“FriendFeed & Flickr: For a room I would want to be able to add a flickr group as a source. Can do it as a "blog" but it would be great if it can be seen as a flickr feed. Similarly for feeds for places on flickr.”

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I literally dug up this 'treasure' in Fable II. - Phil Glockner

LOL, I love that game. I played it through as a good guy the first time. Now I'm replaying it as a bad guy. It's not as easy to be bad as one might think. Plus, I like the coop because me and my daughter can play it together. - Jason Shultz via twhirl

I'm playing as a good guy too, I guess most people take that route the first time, social conditioning, etc.. - Phil Glockner

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It is one of the better nerdcore songs I've heard from MC Chris, Jeff. - Phil Glockner

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Pull Your Blog Into FriendFeed and Increase Exposure

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Post by Jesse Stay: http://www.friendfeed.com/jess... - Louis Gray

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google analytics shows friendfeed = 1.09% of my web traffic... - Jeremy Toeman

14% of my traffic comes from FF. That's third behind #1 google and #2 direct visits. - Daniel J. Pritchett

This tidbit looks great for viral posts or your guest posts on other blogs: "Bob simply needs to add the returned URL to his RSS Reader (there is an RSS link down at the bottom of the search results page), and now he'll receive every "like", share, or comment about his article in his RSS Reader." - Daniel J. Pritchett

I know that if it wasn't for FF I wouldn't have most of the traffic that I do have. - Mathew Ballard

@Jeremy, FriendFeed is about 5% of my blog traffic (vs. last 4,000 views), and according to Google Analytics, it is 10% of my blog traffic. - Louis Gray

I like the tone of this vs. the "Friendfeed/Microblogging is killing blogging" doom chant. Although blogging isn't as "popular" as it just to be, Friendfeed is still helping bloggers (me included). - David Bisset (sn)

FriendFeed *is* blogging. It's certainly lowering the ROI for traditional blogs though. Do I spend my free hour growing my network on FF or writing a new blog post? I usually choose FF. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Clearly, this depends on who you are (and what you write on, as I don't do tech). My blog has been fed in here and I think maybe one hit has been from Friendfeed. Still, it's almost easier for me to search for my posts here, than on my own blog. - Anika Malone

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Robert Scoble posted a message

“I'm now synchronized on http://www.inquisitr.com/ -- interesting to see how that works for both me and founder Duncan Riley.”

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When I grow up I'll have to do a Louis Gray guest post. :-) - Robert Scoble

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time of day isn't great for Click through, but it was a great post, so happy to run part of it and thx again Robert for being so kind as to letting us give it a shot. - Duncan Riley

I love sites like this, a giant heap of information that you can organize and fit in to your brain very easily. :) - Melik Yuksel

Robert, I'd be happy to add you as a guest blogger. :-) - Louis Gray

Louis: I'm interested. How about a video on 10 ways to get the most out of social networking software? - Robert Scoble

I think Scoble, Louis, and Duncan should form Voltron and take over the world. - Bwana

Lovely. "Hello, I'd like to do this on your really popular website, even though I am popular myself and have my own website" - reply "Sure, come along". Man, cooperation has never been so easy. Looking forward to see the results. - Sofia Gkiousou

Looks like an interesting site. I'll probably have a deeper look later. Thanks. - Tyson Key

Why is it the better mix? - Mr. Gunn

Leo Laporte posted an entry on socialmedian

Added news on socialmedian: OK that's kind of a flaw in Friend Feed. Do not add your netflix queue to the feed. (via FriendFeed)

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Paul Thurrott posted an entry on SuperSite Blog

The Simpsons Skewers Apple, Their Fanatics

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Leo Laporte posted a message

“OK that's kind of a flaw in Friend Feed. Do not add your netflix queue to the feed.”

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Duly noted...and noted...and noted...and noted...and noted... - Robert Clockedile

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friendfeed should take a page from the facebook newsfeed in ways to handle batch imports of activity. beyond 4-5 updates, it should consolidate them - Baratunde Thurston

I just got that ~30 movie notification in my friendfeed sms, thought there was a backlog or something. Think I'm removing mine as well. - Thomas Hunsaker

Yeah.. I had to hide that entry, and set it to hide all netflix stuff from now on. Only an issue on the real time one though, on the regular site it groups it and says x more entries. - Simon Wicks

Looking on the page, most of them are collapsed together. So, yeah, it failed, but it does so in a way that is not unnecessarily spammy, IMO. YMMV and all that. - Scott from Canada

I have an Apple app store one on my feed that does the same thing every morning. All the new apps come zooming down my real time feed. Should get round to taking that one off really. - Simon Wicks

Weird, I've only had the occasional movie from two years ago show up in FF, but nothing as bad as my entire Netflix queue being re-fed. - Robert Haas

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