have you guys noticed the lack of clean accessible public washrooms in san francisco and valley area?

i’m thinking of starting a service like twitter, where the only conversations will be about clean public washrooms. their locations, their frequency of cleaning, their general cleanliness etc.

I can’t quiet place the name, but i’m thinking I”ll go with something like SHI ttr

beenup2?

If the N95 (or whatever smart phone he’s using) had an extension microphone, the audio quality would be much better. The built-in mic captures the person holding the device … and everyone beyond five feet is about 75 percent lower decibels. That’s the main issue I’ve run into with mine, and the fact you’re relying on a cell network (must be 3G). I love what Qik and Kyte and Nokia and others are doing … just needs time to mesh. Scoble is out on point, taking the first bullets as he’s discovering new stuff. I give him credit for trying new things and trying to get interesting content.

Nokia had some custom extension mics made for Reuters reporters. I’m surprised they’re not pushing them out as fast as they can to video journalists.

Great interview…love it and looking forward to the interview of Zuckerberg

Twitter has become so popular + such a useful tool that it is bad when the site goes down. To me, they are working hard to get the service back up and running, stable.

But reading Mr Scoble’s blog post on “Twitter blames it users” and his friend feed, I think his personal comments on twitter are OTT. Don’t use it if you don’t like it or can’t use it - move off, use something else.

Good to see that despite the founders did talk to Mr Scoble, even after the blog posts.. That shows they do care about users to me - they could easily have ignored that.

I twitter (username:Wavewash) but it hasn’t been a life changing service. My friends (mostly not in the startup/tech scene) don’t use it and that takes a lot of value from it. I do see how it can be great when talking at a conference or coordinating a relief effort. Even those aren’t every day things. Currently I use it to keep up on the startup celebrities. Kevin Rose, Arrington, Scoble and such. So it doesn’t bug me much when it goes down. I’ll just come back in a few days.

@Kimbo - Check this out- These guys are sorta doing what you’re saying. http://www.mizpee.com/

Michael:

>>i think it would have been much better to record this with a proper camera and edit it. you had the interview exclusively, a few hours wouldn’t have hurt you.

One problem. I didn’t know I was going to do this interview until about 30 seconds before I did it. I didn’t have my big camera. My camera guy and producer, Rocky Barbanica, wasn’t with me.

I also didn’t have any sleep the night before, so was very tired, which explains some of the goofy laughing (it gets worse when I’m tired and/or nervous, and here I was both).

I agree it isn’t the best quality, but it still beats not getting the interview at all.

Also, we have two-week leadtimes with our HD camera. Yeah, I could put something to the front of the line, but it would have taken more than a few hours, probably wouldn’t have gotten up until Monday afternoon when the story would have been a lot less interesting.

Scoble, they were totally blaming you, just being diplomatic about it. Listen to the words they said. You are the Fail Whale of Twitter.

Michael: one other reason why I use Qik and a cell phone? Because I had tons of people watching WHILE I DID THE INTERVIEW and who were ASKING THEIR OWN QUESTIONS LIVE (people who leave a comment on Qik.com while I’m broadcasting have their questions show up on my cell phone’s screen while I’m doing an interview). That’s impossible using other technologies and is really important to the kinds of media I want to do. I don’t want to do what CNN does. I want to be two-way/interactive and use the latest Internet-only media types. Qik and Kyte and Flixwagon are the ways I’m going to continue to go for just that reason.

Arrington, Scoble….yawn.

The douchebag wondertwins circle-jerking again about a service nobody but twats cares about.

GTFO already.

Bite me: yeah, no one cares about Twitter, right? Then explain why I’m seeing a new Twitter message on http://www.twittervision.com every second. Got it.

@Jimmy Dell, you are incorrect. We “all” are that whale…

@Scoble: Oooh, a message every second. Wow, that must be really active.

Wait, let’s do some math:

60 * 60 * 24 = 86400 seconds in a day

average user twats 10 messages/day (to be generous, Scoble does probably 666/day)

86400 / 10 = 8640 users/day.

HOLY SHIT, that’s one active site.

Scoble, you’re too stupid to cover technology. GTFO already.

Bite me: most users of Twitter do one Tweet per day. Nice try. Also, TwitterVision doesn’t show all Tweets, only a random sample.

Quick survey poll: in the upcoming movie about Scoble’s indefatigable journalistic career, who do you think should play him?

I offer Phillip Seymour Hoffman after he gets wanged on the head with a 2×4 about fifty times and a frontal lobotomy.

twitter guys are idiots just from me listening to this piece

i wouldnt be surprises if those guys stole those code like fb loser

the reason they are problems scaling it is because they probably stole code

c’mon, nobody really calls themselves ‘Biz’, do they?

really?

@Peter: Of course they do. Take Biz Markie for example.

And he’s about as innovative as twitter is, and equally important to us all.

Check out Sazell.com

@AF/Biz: Is this how it goes?

Biz: Hi. My name is Biz.

Normal person: Later.

Why not just use Noisewater (www.noisewater.net) some bloke built it on Google’s new app engine, and it seems to be in its early stages, but hey thats why twitter’s frustrating me has led to.

Congrats to Ev and Biz. You clearly have a grip on the problem, and you’ll eventually, bit by bit, fix the bottlenecks. Twitter is cool.

Scobel and his sidekick, OTOH, just point out how easy it is to conduct a shitty interview. Full of interruptions and platitudes (”have you thought about opening it up to the community?”) it was entirely painful.

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In all the talk about the, “douchebag wondertwins circle-jerking again about a service nobody but twats cares about.” (which I did find quite funny btw) this gem seems to have been lost.

Robert, note to self, buy another HD camera. Or cameras.

-Sean

I’ve talked some smack in the past about the RoR thing with Twitter, mostly because the RoR podcast folks take jabs at other languages like PHP for no productive reason and come across as elitist bastards..

But I kinda feel bad for the Twitter guys now. I really don’t think they ever planned for it to take off quite like it has, so they didn’t set out to design it for that scale of user base..

I like Twitter (and Pownce too), and will continue to use Twitter, even with the occasional down-time.. I know that if any of my own sites suddenly started to get 10’s of millions of page views per day my database would fall over and cry uncle too.. So who am I to bitch about a little downtime. I hereby apologize to the Twitter guys for any smack I posted previously.

IT would take one day to design a page for newbies , to explain what Twitter is (not what you think)… Some quick re-design (just html, not even code) would go a long way… not smart.

http://www.afpr.com/2008/08/wi.....nd-up.html

it is very good thank you