Tom and I are working with the NJFlex crew to bring 360|Flex to the east coast in a 2 day Flex Camp.
If you missed San Jose, or have never been to a 360|Flex event, this is the perfect chance to get a taste of what everyone is talking about.
Day 1, Flex training from Farata Systems
Day 2, Flex Camp action with sessions, food, sponsors, community! You name it!
Register now! Space is limited! 360|Flex San Jose sold out, no reason New Jersey won’t!
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OK i love the iPhone. I’ve gotten used to the keyboard, the camera that doesn’t zoom, etc. all good.
What I HAVE NOT gotten used to is not being able to call into a conference call from the calendar entry. I mean, crackberry does it. I can only imagine windoze Mobile does it. How did Apple miss this?
I can see the number. It’s even formatted so dialing it would dial the meeting, wait 3 seconds, and enter my pass code.
It was wonderful on my Crackberry. I’d pull up the meeting highlight the number, and be off to the races. Now I have to store the number or write it down or something, so I can dial it, and remember my pass code..
Please tell me I’m just missing something, pretty please. I mean for a smartphone, that sure seems dumb as hell.
Gwen twittered this on Monday and I’ve been noodling on it for a bit. The noodling was fast since I brought something similar up on twitter the week before 360|Flex, so my thoughts were already kinda ordered.
Gwen asked if it was ‘assholish’ for someone to have 5000 followers and follow 0.
My answer, yes, it is. I don’t have the slightest idea why twitter exists, but I believe it to be to build community and allow (140 character) conversations to take place.
twitter isn’t a PR engine, and it isn’t (well it seems to be actually) an ego machine. I don’t care who it is, but there’s no one I’d follow that isn’t actually engaging in a conversation. Following no one in return just says (to me, at least) that you don’t care what anyone has to say. If that’s the case, then why Twitter? Other than ego building by counting how many (largely spammers I’d guess) people are hanging on your every word.
the 360flex twitter account, get’s tons of spam followers. Not only do we not follow them, but I go in and actively block the, so they can’t follow.
I gotta say if twitter turns into merely another water mark of who the next Scoble is or who’s as popular (heaven knows why) than Jason Calcanis, I’m not sure it’s worth participating, there’s other options.
I was watching the live feed from the DNC today, via Silverlight, and Move, and it occurred to me. Microsoft has scored the two biggest online video deals around. Who knows, the RNC too? Making three.
So I got to wondering, is Adobe even trying? Yeah there’s 5 gagillion Flash player downloads, oh wait 5.5 gagillion now, but really, do we think the Olympics and the DNC won’t boost the Silverlight numbers rather dramatically? I installed it after all.
From techCrunch:
NBCOlympics.com
may have streamed 72 million videos and racked up 1.2 billion pageviews, but Yahoo Sports still edged it out with an average of 4.7 million visitors a day versus 4.3 million (source: Nieisen Online). And Yahoo didn’t even have video.
surely not unique to users, but still 4.3 million visitors a day? That’s a lot of Silverlight installs.
I don’t disagree that Flash player is still the king of the hill, but is sitting on the hill not defending your position, really the way to move forward?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m under no delusion that M$ didn’t pay a ton of money for their tech to be chosen, no doubt in my mind, but still, was Adobe in the bidding war?Simply outbid, or too proud to participate?
I’m in favor of the high road approach, Tom and I try to take that road more often than not, but at the same time, defending your position is kinda important. What’s there to say when Silverlight installs equal Flash player installs?
