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      <title><![CDATA[Telephone Calls on Facebook, a Dual App]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Telephone is a recently launched Facebook application that lets you make free VoIP calls directly from Facebook. There are several other applications that enable you to do this on Facebook and other...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src='http://www.allfacebook.com/images/eggphone.gif' width='139' height='120' align='left' alt='-eggPhone Logo-' /><a href='http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-application-statistics/application/2382779607/'>Telephone</a> is a recently launched Facebook application that lets you make free VoIP calls directly from Facebook.  There are <a href="http://www.allfacebook.com/category/voip/">several other applications</a> that enable you to do this on Facebook and other networks like MySpace and Bebo, but Telephone, launched by BabyTel, is adding a few extra features to hopefully make it worth your while.  </p>
<p>After adding the Telephone app to your Facebook account, you can launch the service and make phone calls directly to your Facebook friends.  In order to make a VoIP call, both you and your friend will need to also have the application as well as the downloadable software.  But the good thing about having the software installed on your computer is that the Telephone app can then be used as a standalone desktop application for sending and receiving calls even when you don&#8217;t have Facebook open in a web browser.<br />
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Similar to Skype, you can make VoIP calls and send instant messages.  And similar to Digsby, the desktop app enables you to communicate with Facebook friends without having to be logged into Facebook.  So with so many features similar to existing applications, is it worth it to try the Telephone application at all?  </p>
<p>There are a few features that may be of interest to you, depending on how often you need to communicate with Facebook friends.  For instance, Telephone allows you to organize friends into groups for easy access and messaging, as well as leave voicemails for friends that aren&#8217;t currently available to talk.  Telephone also displays your call history for additional information.  The call history could prove useful given its direct integration with your Facebook network, offering insight into your own personal behavior and communication patterns.  </p>
<p>I imagine such data could be useful to other services as well, from a non-personal standpoint.  But one thing I&#8217;d love to see on the Telephone app is a more direct integration with Facebook&#8217;s existing chat tool, similar to Tokbox&#8217;s integration.  This way, you can invite friends to add the Telephone app in a more direct manner, and more readily initiate VoIP calls with friends as well.</p>
<p>While the application is robust, it doesn&#8217;t appear as though the uptake has been good.  A quick look at the <a href='http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-application-statistics/application/2382779607/'>application chart</a> shows that traffic to the application has dropped significantly over the past month.  While we&#8217;d assume that this trend will continue, perhaps the company will adopt practices that make the application more viral under the new design.  For now we will have to wait and see.  Go <a href='http://apps.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2382779607'>install the telphone application</a> and judge for yourself how successful this will be.</p>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[20+ Top Free Windows Mobile Applications]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[iPhone this, iPod Touch that, BlackBerry and Google Android apps galore, but where is the Windows Mobile love? Well, it is certainly not to be forgotten as the Samsung i770 , HTC Touch Pro and Samsung...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/samsung1.jpg" alt="" title="samsung" align="right" class="alignright size-full wp-image-55246" /><a href="http://mashable.com/tag/iphone/">iPhone</a> this, iPod Touch that, <a href="http://mashable.com/tag/blackberry/">BlackBerry</a> and <a href="http://mashable.com/2008/11/10/android-apps-worth-paying-for/">Google Android apps</a> galore, but where is the Windows Mobile love?  Well, it is certainly not to be forgotten as the <a href="http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=phoneFirst&#038;action=viewPhoneDetail&#038;selectedPhoneId=4326" target="_blank">Samsung i770</a>, <a href="http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=phoneFirst&#038;action=viewPhoneDetail&#038;selectedPhoneId=4331" target="_blank">HTC Touch Pro</a> and <a href="http://www.samsungmobileusa.com/Omnia.aspx?cid=ppc_omn_goo_Omnia_Verizon_verizon+omnia" target="_blank">Samsung Omnia</a> are all being sold in stores this December, and all of them are powered by Windows Mobile.  With those users in mind, here are over 20 top free apps to get the most out of the Windows Mobile operating system.</p>
<p><em>What are some of your favorite Windows Mobile applications? Let us know in the comments!</em></p>
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<h2>Games</h2>
<div style="text-align:center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-55096" title="realms" src="http://mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/realms1.jpg" alt=" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"" /></div>
<p><a href="http://forum.brighthand.com/showthread.php?t=231439" target="_blank">Death Drive</a> - Who doesn&#8217;t love a little vehicular combat?  Death Drive brings Carmageddon like combat to your Windows Mobile powered device.</p>
<p><a href="http://kevtris.en.softonic.com/windowsmobile" target="_blank">Kevtris</a> - What is mobile gaming without at least one version of Tetris?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.palmheroes.com/index.php" target="_blank">Pocket Heroes</a> - Pocket Heroes is a Heroes of Might and Magic game clone for Pocket PC.  It may be a bit simple for some, but still a lot of fun.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.realmsgame.com/index.htm" target="_blank">Realms</a> - A space based shooting game that might remind you a bit of the old Asteroids arcade game, but only in concept.  Multiple ships to choose from and numerous levels to explore.</p>
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<h2>Internet Tools</h2>
<div style="text-align:center"><img src="http://mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/operamobile1.jpg" alt="" title="opera-mobile" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-55202" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"/></div>
<p><a href="http://www.fring.com/download/" target="_blank">Fring</a> - Fring brings their instant messaging services to more than just the iPhone and iPod Touch with a Windows Mobile version.  Allows you to instant message with AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN, SIP, Skype, Twitter and Yahoo.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.opera.com/mobile/" target="_blank">Opera Mobile</a> - The popular Opera browser comes to the mobile format with a full set of features.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lonelycatgames.com/?app=slick" target="_blank">Slick</a> - Allows you to instant message with AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN and Yahoo.  Also has text messaging, emoticons, message history and more.</p>
<p><a href="http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=244" target="_blank">TwitToday</a> - A plugin for your Today screen that allows you to post to your Twitter account.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.anbsoftware.co.uk/viewproduct.php?id=11" target="_blank">Web Viewer</a> - Web Viewer is an expansion to the web browsing ability with a tabbed browser that allows you to save open tabs and more.</p>
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<h2>Media Players</h2>
<div style="text-align:center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-52976" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" title="youtubeplayer" src="http://mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/youtubeplayer.jpg""/></div>
<p><a href="http://www.smartphonefreeware.org/download/mplayer-for-windows-mobile" target="_blank">MPlayer for Windows Mobile</a> - Part of the MPlayer suite for Linux, MPlayer for Windows Mobile will let you play Flash videos as well as videos in the RV40, RV30, R20, sipro, cook and atrac codecs.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.real.com/freeplayer/?rppr=rnwk" target="_blank">RealPlayer</a> - An official mobile release for the famous Real One Player.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hpcfactor.com/downloads/tcpmp/" target="_blank">The Core Pocket Media Player</a> - TCPMP, as it is known, supports a dizzying array of video and audio formats from DivX to Ogg Vorbis.</p>
<p><a href="http://youtubeplay.en.softonic.com/pocketpc" target="_blank">YouTubePlayer</a> - Just as the name implies, YouTubePlayer lets you to search YouTube for videos and then plays them in their native FLV format.</p>
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<h2>Phone Applications</h2>
<div style="text-align:center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-52982" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" title="idialer" src="http://mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/idialer.png" alt="" /></div>
<p><a href="http://call-firewall.en.softonic.com/windowsmobile" target="_blank">Call Firewall</a> - Call Firewall does exactly what you would think it might in that it helps you create blacklists and whitelists for your Windows Mobile powered cell phone.  One of the coolest features is that it will send an SMS to a blocked call telling them why they were blocked.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.supware.net/iDialer/" target="_blank">iDialer</a> - iDialer, pictured above, gives you a new dialing interface that feels similar to another popular phone&#8217;s dialing system.  It does offer compatibility with popular Internet phone services such as Grand Central and JaJah.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windowsmobile/" target="_blank">Skype</a> - The well known Skype service is available for Windows Mobile, enabling you to make Skype calls from your mobile, saving you a lot of money on calls.</p>
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<h2>Utilities</h2>
<div style="text-align:center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-53000" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" title="dashwire" src="http://mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/dashwire.jpg" alt="" /></div>
<p><a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=375573" target="_blank">CapSure</a> - You can capture your screen in BMP, GIF, JPG or PNG and then add captions, obscure sensitive information and more.</p>
<p><a href="http://dashwire.com/" target="_blank">Dashwire</a> - Allows you to sync your phone at all times including pictures, files, contacts, messages and more.  Cool feature that lets you see texts on your computer as they arrive at your phone.</p>
<p><a href="http://gsync.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">GSync</a> - As you can probably guess by the name, GSync allows you to synchronize your Google Calendar with your Windows Mobile powered phone.  The app is available in Dutch, English and Italian.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.supware.net/iContact/" target="_blank">iContact</a> - iContact changes your contact interface to more of an iPhone style system that allows you to browse through your contacts with just a flick of your finger.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.win-rar.com/pocketrar.html" target="_blank">Pocket RAR</a> - An official version of the RAR archive manager that you can use on your mobile device.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.fantasticbytes.com/products/softkeymanager" target="_blank">SoftKey Manager</a> - This app allows you to edit the soft keys on your Today screen.</p>
<p>---<br />Related Articles at Mashable | All That's New on the Web:</p><p><a href="http://mashable.com/2008/03/20/google-search-windows-mobile/">Google Search Now on Windows Mobiles, Too</a><br /><a href="http://mashable.com/2007/11/25/facebook-windows-mobile/">Facebook Optimized for Windows Mobile</a><br /><a href="http://mashable.com/2007/11/28/plaxo-syncs-windows-mobile/">Plaxo Now Syncs With Windows Mobile</a><br /><a href="http://mashable.com/2008/09/26/adobe-photoshop-windows-mobile/">Adobe Photoshop Comes to Your (Windows) Mobile</a><br /><a href="http://mashable.com/2008/02/04/7-freeware-resources-for-your-windows-mobile-device/">7 Freeware Resources For Your Windows Mobile Device</a><br /><a href="http://mashable.com/2008/01/11/lastfm-available-on-windows-mobile/">Last.FM Available on Windows Mobile</a><br /><a href="http://mashable.com/2008/11/28/free-iphone-apps/">Free iPhone Apps!</a></p>
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      <title><![CDATA[Twitter Tweaks: 5 Tools To Make You An Elite Tweep]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[If your Twitter experience has been a little hum-drum recently, check out these tools to help you make the most out of the biggest microblog network out there! Twitter Classification Script for...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If your <a href="http://www.twitter.com">Twitter</a> experience has been a little hum-drum recently, check out these tools to help you make the most out of the biggest microblog network out there!</p>
<h2><a href="http://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2008-04/25-classify_twitter_users_with_greasemonkey">Twitter Classification Script</a> for <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748">Greasemonkey</a></h2>
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<p>One of the most effective ways of quickly gauging the quality of someone you discover on Twitter (maybe you got a notice that they were following you, for instance), is their follower count.  Now almost every account grows its followers over time, so the ratio of following to followers can be a nice metric.  Michael Klier of <a href="http://www.splitbrain.org" target="_blank">Splitbrain</a> created a really neat script for Greasemonkey that displays the ratio above each profile you visit.</p>
<p>There is a scale to determine just how good each user is in terms of their &#8220;crowdsourced&#8221; quality.  If a user is following a lot of other users and has very few followers, the label at the top will tell you that they are a spammer.  If the converse is true, they are a &#8220;twittercaster.&#8221;  You can use the script to set goals for yourself or simply add a little more information to the profiles of those you are following.</p>
<h2><a href="http://twuffer.com/">Twuffer</a> - The Twitter Buffer</h2>
<p><img style="margin-right:20px" src="http://www.makeuseof.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/twuffer.jpg" alt="" align="left" />Sometimes you&#8217;re sitting at your computer and think &#8220;Man, I need to send some tweets out today, but this is the only time I&#8217;ll be at the terminal.&#8221;  Well if you don&#8217;t want to spam out your entire day&#8217;s tweets in a single burst, try Twuffer.  Twuffer provides a kind of buffer for your tweets so you can spread out your updates.</p>
<p>Also, it can be programmed to send out tweets hourly, weekly, or on any date in the future.  The interface is slick and Ajaxy so it&#8217;s a nice user experience.  It stores your personal preferences in a cookie (I believe), so keep that in mind.  You will be asked for your password, by the way, so if that freaks you out, Twuffer might not be the one for you.  It is required for the API though, so it&#8217;s not their fault.</p>
<p>I love how one of the suggested uses is &#8220;appear to never sleep.&#8221;</p>
<h2><a href="http://itweet.net/">iTweet</a></h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.makeuseof.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/itweet.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>I really like iTweet.  Talk about slick interfaces, this Twitter rehash has it <strong>ALL</strong>.  The standard tweeting functions are all there, but they are based on an Ajax system so everything flows smooth as silk.  Links and @replies are linkified, but so are hash codes, for easy searching.  In fact, the search feature is very well done.  It doesn&#8217;t even require a page-load.  Retweeting, favoriting, and @replying all have their own buttons.  Another nice feature is a feed of all your followers, so you can catch up with some of the people you may not want to follow full-time.</p>
<p>One word of caution.  Each time you &#8220;do&#8221; something on iTweet, the server has to call Twitter&#8217;s servers and it uses up one of your API requests.  There is a handy counter on the front panel to keep track, but you&#8217;ll be amazed how a little bit of hardcore twittering will use up all your calls.  Don&#8217;t worry too much though, they reset at a regular interval (every 30 minutes at the moment).</p>
<h2><a href="http://twitturly.com/">Twitt(url)y</a></h2>
<p><img style="margin-right:20px" src="http://www.makeuseof.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/twitturly.gif" alt="" align="left" />With the advent of URL shorteners like <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com">TinyURL</a>, a lot of links are obscured in Twitter until you click them.  This unique service seeks to alleviate some of the irritation shortened URLs cause.</p>
<p>Simply enter any user&#8217;s name onto the end of <a href="http://twitturly.com/user/loyaleagle">this address</a> (my own address, &#8220;loyaleagle,&#8221; is a placeholder and a preview) and you&#8217;ll see a reworked list of everything they have EVER linked to.  The page layout is superb and there each link&#8217;s title has been retrieved from the page it goes to.</p>
<p>You can also see which links have got a lot of attention recently and who linked to them.  It&#8217;s almost (dare I say it?) the <a href="http://www.digg.com">Digg</a> of Twitter!  I mean there is an obvous social bookmarking aspect to it, you can tweet any link with the click of a button, and each link has a very comprehensive history of it&#8217;s use throughout the entire history of Twitter.  Don&#8217;t underestimate this one!</p>
<h2><a href="http://mrtweet.net/"><strong>Mr.Tweet</strong></a></h2>
<p><img style="margin-right:20px" src="http://www.makeuseof.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/mrtweet.jpg" alt="" align="left" />This last webapp is a new one to me.  I stuck it on here because it has a nice, clean interface (in fact this whole list faired pretty well in that respect) and a simple function.</p>
<p>Mr. Tweet is a Twitter bot that follows you after you follow it.  Once you do so, it begins to analyze your history and followers.  Once it is ready, it messages you.  Mr. Tweet offers up a list of people in your extended network that you might consider following as well as people who are following you that deserve a second look (assuming you gave them a first one).</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.makeuseof.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/mrtweet2.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>What I really like about Mr. Tweet is the added data about each user.  It shows not only their follower count and such, but also if they are likely to reply to non-followers and if they typically follow people who follow them.  When you are trying to grow your account, these are excellent statistics to know.  Better yet, Mr. Tweet will show you quite a few posts from their feed so that you can preview their content without having to click through (which can become quite tedious).  Try it out and if it doesn&#8217;t do much for you, unfollow and you&#8217;re done with it.  So simple!</p>
<p>There are so many new Twitter applications popping up every day, it can be hard to keep on top of them.  Recently we&#8217;ve got a few people saying we talk about Twitter apps too much.  If you like lists like this one, let us know (in the comments)!  We&#8217;ll probably be scaling them back a bit otherwise. We really do listen to you guys, we swear.</p>
<p>Oh one last thing, if you can spare a follow (don&#8217;t want to mess up your ratio!), here is <a href="http://twitter.com/MakeUseOf">MakeUseOf&#8217;s Twitter account</a> and here is <a href="http://www.twitter.com/loyaleagle">my lowly Twitter account</a>. <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/keep-up-with-the-make-use-of-writers-on-twitter/">Follow the rest of the MakeUseOf authors</a> as well if you like!</p>
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<p>Voice Search plus the First Speech Recognition mashup to Facebook, Myspace, iTunes. Voice Tech Group, Inc. announces that in it&#8217;s first few months of availability more than 40,000 people have downloaded the free version of <strong><a href="http://www.tazti2.com">tazti</a></strong> (pronounced &#8220;tasty&#8221;) speech recognition.</p>
<p>tazti is the first Speech Recognition software to include robust voice search of more than 16 important web sites and search engines as well as speech recognition navigation of Facebook and  Myspace and voice control of the iTunes music player. In addition users can create their own speech commands, search their bookmarks by voice and search the iTunes music store by voice.</p>
<p><strong>Voice Search:</strong> tazti enables a user to “talk to their PC” to perform searches, local searches and “spellsearches” of Google, Yahoo!, MSN, ASK, AOL Video, Wikipedia, YouTube, eBay, Amazon, Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, and even Google Finance (for stock market data). tazti also allows users to voice search the USA government information website  usasearch.gov. Users can also search the iTunes music store by voice.</p>
<p>tazti mashup to Facebook and Myspace: tazti enables a user to log into and navigate Facebook and Myspace “by talking to their PC.&#8221; Speech commands include: &#8220;go Facebook profile&#8221;, &#8220;go Facebook friends&#8221;, go Facebook inbox&#8221;, &#8220;go Myspace home&#8221;, &#8220;go Myspace mail&#8221;, &#8220;go Myspace music forums&#8221;, &#8220;go Myspace favorites&#8221;  plus 27 other speech commands.</p>
<p>tazti mashup to iTunes: tazti enables a user to control the iTunes music player application when it is installed on their PC, via 35 speech commands.  Speech commands for iTunes includes changing tracks, searching  iTunes music store and controlling most music player capabilities, all by talking to your PC.</p>
<p><strong>Create your own Speech Commands:</strong> tazti allows users to create their own speech commands and associate a web page, file or program to each new speech command. Your new speech commands can be anything from &#8220;Who&#8217;s the boss now?&#8221; to &#8220;Play Star Trek trailer&#8221;. Use your creativity. Many users create speech commands to play their favorite music tracks when they speak the name!</p>
<p>Available from http://www.tazti.com, tazti speech recognition software is <strong>a free download</strong>.</p>
<p>tazti <strong>Video Demo:</strong> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1tt_aeIAM8</p>
<p>tazti <strong>AltSearch Video Demo:</strong> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Po6PPdMtQ</p>
<p>tazti <strong>German Video demo:</strong> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-7OUZCkZrE</p>
<p><a href="http://www.altsearchengines.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/tagline_index.gif"><img class="size-full wp-image-2786 alignright" title="tagline_index" src="http://www.altsearchengines.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/tagline_index.gif" alt="" width="310" height="103" /></a>Road warriors using a notebook PC, Mobile Internet Device or Ultra Mobile PC can use  the speech recognition  voice search - local search capability and other features in tazti wherever they can get connectivity. They can search for a coffee shop in a particular city or zipcode or for anything else on the internet, by voice.</p>
<p>tazti versions are available for Windows Vista and  XP, XP Pro, &amp; XP Tablet operating systems. tazti can also be installed on  Intel based Macs running Parallels or other similar desktop environments.</p>

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      <description><![CDATA[When Scott Heiferman announced his abdication from the NY Tech Meetup throne at the last Meetup , he said that he had asked himself the question of whether the Meetup could be more than just a once a...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=48b6ad3114b9b9e300c11725&maxX=240&maxY=209" border="0" alt="charlie-odonnell.jpg" title="charlie-odonnell.jpg" width="240" height="209" />When Scott Heiferman <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/heiferman-steps-down-as-ny-tech-head">announced his abdication from the NY Tech Meetup throne at the last Meetup</a>, he said that he had asked himself the question of whether the Meetup could be more than just a once a month pitch meeting.</p>
<p>It's exactly the same question I asked three years ago when I started <a href="http://www.nextny.org/">nextNY</a>.  At the time, Meetup.com didn't have listservs, so it was much more of an event than it was any kind of community.  Twitter wasn't around, so even during the event itself, people seemed kind of disconnected from each other.  There were no after parties either.  I actually wanted to meet the people at the event, particularly the up and comers who were in my peer group, so I asked Scott if it was ok to form another group and he was fully supportive.  Now, we're at 2,000 people and growing, and our @shakeshack event was the hot community event over the summer.</p>
<p>But nextNY didn't solve everyone's needs.  Some people wanted more of a direct connection to financing, and so David and Yao created a unique business opportunity for themselves by founding the Hatchery around that premise.  They throw pitch meetings and investor matchups--and that obviously wouldn't be relevant for all the members of the NY Tech Meetup.</p>
<p>There have also been more focused groups, like the Video 2.0 Meetup group, which itself supports almost 2500 people, and industry meetups like the Fashion 2.0 Meetup, where over 200 entrepreneurs at the crossroads of fashion and technology are gathered.</p>
<p>And, of course, for even longer, we've had tech user groups, like NYPHP and the Linux User Group, etc.  These organizations have been holding events and running online listservs for years, connecting the technologists of the Big Apple.</p>
<p>So, as the NY Tech Meetup scaled to 7,500 people, it inspired people whose needs it wasn't fulfilling to go off and create their own groups--creating lots of new community leaders.  Seems to me that it's more than serving its purpose.</p>
<p>Scott, however, positioned the NY Tech Meetup as falling short--so when he asked for new leadership, those who answered the call came new ideas ablazin', writing manifestos, blog posts, etc... and the theme was the same... more, bigger, structure. </p>
<p>This is typical.  No one ever wins this type of thing by promising more of the same.  Change is sexy, as are big visions.  However, as we should know from the Web, focus and reduction are more likely to improve the quality of a product than adding more features. </p>
<p>And now, we're going to be forced to choose between these new visions, when the community never actually asked for any of them.  I mean, this whole time, any one of the people running for Meetup organizer could have proposed any of their suggested changes and ideas, and totally ran with them, and we could have seen whether or not they got any traction in the community.  That's the way nextNY works.  If someone wants to run an event, everyone is free to, and if only 10 people want to go, it's fine -- those 10 people meet.  If 150 people want to go, it naturally gathers more momentum, focus, and effort.  That minimizes the amount of community distraction and mis-allocation of resources.</p>
<p>No one, except Scott, was asking for more overhead, a board, or more structure, because whatever they weren't getting out of the NY Tech Meetup, they were getting out of one of these other community organizations... and now we're going to put the weight of 7,500 people and a board behind someone's agenda--an agenda that didn't earn that following in the first place.  I actually think this could be dangerous--because it has the potential to distract other resources and the community itself on issues and efforts that aren't really being driven by the community. </p>
<p>For example, a lot of people have been saying that there needs to be more venture investment in NYC.  Whether or not that's the case, something like 2% of all startups are ever really appropriate for venture investment anyway.  Still, that's something that everyone will support, even though it really isn't relevant.  Need we waste the NY Tech Meetup's time and energy on trying to work to get more investment in NYC when it doesn't really apply to most of its members?</p>
<p>Plus, a lot of what bothers me about this "election" is that the people running so far have either never tried to show leadership in the community before, or whose leadership efforts haven't garnered anything close to the kind of success the current NY Tech Meetup has.  And now we're going to throw the weight of 7,500 people behind them?  That's going to set off a legitimization of someone's ideas that never got traction otherwise.  That person will undoubtedly be looked to as representative of the community when they really aren't.  I might think differently if anyone gets a majority of the votes, but what are the chances of that happening?  I'll bet you that "turnout" isn't even 50%, not to mention the fact that all the people in NY Tech aren't in the Meetup group, obviously, so this person isn't really going to be very representative of very many people at all.  They'll likely be treated as such, though, because elections create that perception. </p>
<p>Instead, why not keep things a liquid market of smaller, focused groups--representative of what the community actually needs.  This way, if there's a group that wants to get together around investments, like the Hatchery, they can, and they'll naturally rightsize themselves around that need.  Let's not forget that the 7,500 people joined the meetup as designed--to meet once a month, check in with others in the community, and see some interesting new startups.  It was simple, and not surprisingly, simple got traction.  There was no groundswell of people saying "This sucks, we need to do more."  In fact, it was quite the contrary.  Tickets to the NY Tech Meetup sell out in minutes. </p>
<p>Have we not learned anything from AOL and Yahoo?  Kludging disparate factions of a community together in an attempt to be its center never works.  In fact, it goes against the very essence of Meetup itself--a loose collection of groups centered around focused interests, with lots of cross pollination but no central hub.</p>
<p>So, after giving this a lot of thought, I think I really only support two options here.  Let's keep it exactly the same--because it works, and because anything different or with more structure isn't really what the community asked for or needs or can't be found in other groups.</p>
<p>Or, let's just disband the whole thing before it trips over its own structure and overhead and wastes a lot of effort and resources.  Yeah... that's right.  Let's stop the NY Tech Meetup and see how many new efforts pop up in its place and how many new leaders are created.  I would hope that it would create at least a few--because there were a few people running I had never seen or heard from before. </p>
<p>Or how about just spinning out the monthly meetup and keeping that <strong>exactly the same</strong>--run by someone currently on the organizing staff--and have some side "ideas" group coming up with new things to try out and incubate within the community?</p>
<p>Do I actually think the NY Tech Meetup should be disbanded?  No, I don't.  But do I think we are in danger of forming the next NYNMA, which failed under its own overhead during a downturn?  Yes, I do.  (something that nextNY, for example, can't do, b/c it's just a group of people... no finances, no costs... as long as there are two nextNYers who want to meet and talk to each other, it will always be around).   I'm also looking at the NYSIA model, with a paid director that, while more focused on the enterprise side, really hasn't galvanized the community either--despite the good efforts of very qualified people. </p>
<p>Meetup proved that the grassrootsy, low overhead model worked.  The NY Tech Meetup inspired a generation of new community leaders who have packed the <a href="http://www.garysguide.org/events">Gary's Guide</a> calendar full of tech community events.  I'd rather see it disappear than see a new vision haphazardly bolted on to a community that never asked for one.</p>
<p><em>Charlie O'Donnell (<a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/sa100/2008/charlie-o-donnell">SA 100 #61</a>) is co-founder and CEO of <a href="http://path101.com/">Path 101</a>, a NYC-based startup, and founder of <a href="http://www.nextny.org/">NextNY</a>, a tech community group. He blogs at <a href="http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/">This Is Going To Be Big</a>, where this post was <a href="http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/2008/12/poking-the-bear-an-idea-for-the-ny-tech-meetup-disband-it.html">originally published</a>.<br /></em></p>
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      <description><![CDATA[In the Guardian 's excerpt from Michael Wolff's new book The Man Who Owns The News , it's April 2007 and News Corp. (NWS) Rupert Murdoch wants to buy Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones. The...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=47a93a104b543772005e7184&maxX=300&maxY=241" border="0" alt="murdoch.jpg" title="murdoch.jpg" width="300" height="241" />In the <em>Guardian</em>'s <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/01/wall-street-journal-dow-murdoch">excerpt</a> from Michael Wolff's new book<em> The Man Who Owns The News</em>, it's April 2007 and News Corp. (NWS) Rupert Murdoch wants to buy  <em>Wall Street Journal</em> parent company Dow Jones. The family that owns the paper, the Bancrofts, won't talk to him, but he's developed a relationship with Dow Jones CEO Richard Zannino. Murdoch has decided to make him an offer:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">During most of the winter, Murdoch's people (his "henchmen", they tended to call themselves) had continued to analyse the Dow Jones business. The company was trading no higher than the mid-30s; Murdoch had heard about Rich Zannino's estimate of getting the share price to, tops, $45. Nobody at News Corp thought Dow Jones could be worth, most optimistically, more than $50.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">But Murdoch insists they should offer $60 - and because he's Murdoch no one is going to tell him he's a fool. Dow Jones management and the Bancroft family may act sanctimonious and high and mighty, but $60 [which values the company at $5bn], Murdoch knows, will call their bluff.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">In early April he makes the call.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">He's apologetic when Zannino, on vacation at the Ocean Club in the Bahamas, calls him back, sorry to disturb, but it's important, he says, that he see Zannino as soon as he gets back. Suspecting something large, Zannino might here, too, have consulted with others at the company. But he doesn't tell anyone - he persists in allowing himself to believe that seeing Murdoch, even urgently, could be about many things.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">After 45 minutes in which they talk again about American Idol, Murdoch says: "Well, I'm thinking about making an offer to buy Dow Jones."</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Zannino demurs a bit: "You know Rupert, you know as well as anybody, this isn't my call, it's the family's call. And the family has consistently - and Rupert, even as recently at our last board meeting - said that they're committed to the independence of Dow Jones and they have no interest in selling the company."</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Murdoch: "I know that. I was thinking I'd take the offer directly to the board. I know the family feels that way. I've called [Michael] Elefante in the past. He won't even take a number. The number I'm thinking of is ... 60."</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Zannino: (internally) Holy Shit! (externally) Silence.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Murdoch: "So I'm thinking I'll just take that directly to the board to try and get that through the board ... So that's what I'm going to do - I'm going to make an offer to the board. Did I just make an offer to you?"</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Zannino: "No you didn't. You mused about wanting to buy Dow Jones. I told you the family has the call and it's not for sale, and you told me you were going to contact the board."</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Zannino is trying to find his balance - he's walked out to the furthest point and now, teetering on the precipice, he's trying to come back. Zannino tells Murdoch he isn't going to tell his board about the offer, because it's really not an official offer, suggesting to Murdoch that if anybody asks him about it, he should say he was just joking about the $60.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">But, in the car, Zannino understands that the breach has just occurred - that he's let Murdoch in. He breathlessly calls Joe Stern, the Dow Jones general counsel, and tells him: "He gave me a number." Back at the Dow Jones office, each successive person let in on the news understands that the breach is real - and that they can't close it.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Murdoch has correctly analysed that Zannino, who might have blocked his access to the board, has not.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">[<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/01/wall-street-journal-dow-murdoch">Continue reading at the Guardian.</a>]</p>
<p><strong>See Also:</strong><a href="../../2008/11/new-york-times-nyt-now-losing-business-to-wall-street-journal"><br />New York Times (NYT) Now Losing Business To Wall Street Journal</a></p>
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      <description><![CDATA[This weekend Tesla Motors was back in the news as they are pleading with the U.S. government to give them some $400 million to continue their mission of building cars for the &quot;rich&quot;. I say &quot;give them&quot;...]]></description>
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<img border="0" align="right" width="250" src="http://static.centernetworks.com/tesla1.png" alt="tesla" height="168" style="padding: 10px" />This weekend Tesla Motors was back in the news as they are pleading with the U.S. government to give them some $400 million to continue their mission of building cars for the &quot;rich&quot;. I say &quot;give them&quot; because even though the money is apparently a loan, if Tesla goes under, it then becomes &quot;give them&quot;. Randall Stross from the NY Times wrote a piece which apparently bashed Tesla. In response, Tesla sent their first line of blogging defense, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis to take care of the matter. Calacanis has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-mccabe-calacanis/on-bailouts-and-sports-ca_b_147261.html">posted a number of counter-arguments</a> to Stross' post and I'd like to comment on the Calacanis post.
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First, let's begin with a number of disclosures. Something that you would think the $100 million-valued Huffington Post would require of their authors but apparently that's not the case. Calacanis' company Mahalo has received funding from Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk. In addition, Jason's brother-in-law and Mahalo investor <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/theryanscott">Ryan Scott</a> is also a Tesla Motors investor. <strong class="highlight">Boy that's something the readers of the Huffington Post piece should know, right?</strong>
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As many of you know, I am a public transportation junkie. My belief is that all (or most) government funding should be used towards pushing mass transit. Creating cars powered by batteries, water, or anything else won't fix our growing traffic issues. Take the millions and billions of dollars and create better transit systems in cities across this country. There's so much that can be done with transit to create real environmental and human savings.
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If we are going to look at ways to save oil, why not spend the money creating more efficient air travel? I have to imagine that the savings up in the sky would be larger than those on the ground but yet I never hear anyone talking about fixing air travel.
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Ok, now let's talk about cars and what appears to be the hot trend now, battery-powered cars. I am no expert in battery-technology but if the concensus is to move forward building batteries for cars, I am all for it. However, instead of dropping hundreds of millions into Tesla, put it into the great universities across this country. Create a cross-university research center where students, scientists and industry professionals can work together to create the battery technology. Once it's perfected, then it could be sold/leased/provided to companies like Tesla. This would be a much safer investment than giving money to frankly any auto-company at this time. I bet this type of research project could even draw in some of our worldwide allies and help slowly regain some of our lost status in the worldwide community.
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I haven't seen anything from Tesla that speaks to the average American family. A $60k sedan isn't for the average American family. Calacanis' math is interesting -- a person making $80k should be able to easily afford a $60k car. Boy that's exactly how we got into the mortgage hell we are in now - people living beyond their means! And Tesla hasn't displayed the leadership that would be needed for me to believe that they would be able to remain a going concern long enough to repay any loan. How many <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/15/tesla-motors-zaps-another-ceo-and-lays-off-staff/">CEOs</a> have they been through so far?
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At the end of the day, we need better ways to move people from place A to place B. All transportation options should be considered and creating expensive cars isn't the way to accomplish what we're looking for.
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<strong>Update:</strong> <a href="http://www.snooth.com/">Philip James</a> points us to this illustration of why we need more transit:
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      <description><![CDATA[AOL has announced the launch of their latest online content site today. Named PlaySavvy , the goal is to provide a resource for parents to help them figure out the world of console gaming (no...]]></description>
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<img border="0" align="left" width="200" src="http://static.centernetworks.com/aolplaysavvyleft.png" alt="aol playsavvy" height="80" />AOL has announced the launch of their latest online content site today. Named <a href="http://www.playsavvy.com">PlaySavvy</a>, the goal is to provide a resource for parents to help them figure out the world of console gaming (no online??). PlaySavvy is part of the GameDaily section of AOL's content network.
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Libe Goad, Editor-in-Chief, AOL PlaySavvy said, &quot;Playing video games is one of the top pastimes for children these days, almost more than watching TV. We created AOL PlaySavvy to help parents navigate through all the gaming information out there in order to decide what’s appropriate for their children.&quot;
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PlaySavvy contains content in the following categories: gaming 101 (all about games), FAQ (apparently with feedback from a parental gaming panel), gaming reviews from a parent's perspective but with the kids in mind and how-to articles including how to talk to your kids about gaming.
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The login functionality uses AOL ids and some of the content is provided by third-parties. While I can't imagine this site doing massive pageviews, it could help keep parents inside the AOL content network longer which is a good thing for AOL. 
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      <description><![CDATA[Nowadays, there are so many social bookmarking sites, e.g.Del.icio.us, Digg, Facebook, Fark, Mister-Wong, Newsvine, Reddit, Technorati, Slashdot, StumbleUpon and etc
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nowadays, there are so many social bookmarking sites, e.g.Del.icio.us, Digg, Facebook, Fark, Mister-Wong, Newsvine, Reddit, Technorati, Slashdot, StumbleUpon and etc&#8230;</p>
<p>What do you to do if you want readers to promote your content? Encourage your visitors to submit their favorite stories directly to Digg? Not everyone uses Digg. You have to decide on which bookmarking site, if any, to dedicate your precious screen real-estate. It’s a hard choice. If you choose poorly your reader won’t vote—it’s not a single click coupled and out-of-sight means out-of-mind—and your content losses its chance to make it big. You have to choose your horse wisely.</p>
<p>On the other hand, if you take the bird-shot approach, it overloads your reader with branded badge after branded badge. It turns your page into the village bicycle. Not pretty. Nobody seems to have solved the problem yet.</p>
<p>If you could detect which social bookmarking sites your reader uses, on a per-reader basis, you could display only the badges they care about. <a title="Detect The Social Sites Your Visitors Use" href="http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/socialhistoryjs/" target="_blank">SocialHistory.js</a> enables you to detect which social bookmarking sites your visitors use. SocialHistory.js has a big list of the most popular social bookmarking sites which it checks against.</p>
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Demo: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/socialhistoryjs/" target="_blank">http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/socialhistoryjs/</a><br />
License: License Free</p></blockquote>
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<div align="left">Our fearless co-lead Dave Caolo will be <a href="http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=45077&amp;cmd=tc">aboard the USS Talkcast</a> this evening with me, and we'll be talking turkey -- cooking them, chasing them down, plucking them, and how to get the most stuffing in there.  Oh wait, wait?  Thanksgiving is over? Oh well then I guess we'll just be talking Mac and iPhone news as usual.<br /><br />On the menu: Black Friday and <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/25/black-friday-best-buy-discounting-up-to-150-off-apple-retail/">the deals</a> we may or may not have been suckered into, new releases from <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/24/boxee-is-updated-for-apple-tv-2-3/">Boxee</a> (read <a href="http://tuaw.com/2008/11/27/tuaw-talks-to-boxee-and-brings-you-invites/">the interview</a> yet?) and <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/26/utorrent-for-mac-beta-officially-released/">uTorrent for the Mac</a>, and since we've got to get our requisite iPhone talk in there, we'll hit on <a href="http://tuaw.com/2008/11/28/iphone-hackers-achieve-a-milestone-linux-boot/">the Linux install</a>, and <a href="http://tuaw.com/2008/11/24/how-to-sell-an-iphone-app-for-9-99/">the tough subject of App Store pricing</a>.  Join us, won't you?<br /></div>
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Do so on TalkShoe by using the <a href="http://www.talkshoe.com/blog/index.php/the-new-talkshoe-a-message-from-the-ceo/">shiny browser-only client</a>; or you can also use the <a href="http://download.talkshoe.com/TalkShoeSetup_macos.dmg">classic TalkShoe Pro Java client</a> that we all know and love. For the web UI, just click the <a href="http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=45077&amp;cmd=tc">"TalkShoe Web" button on our profile page</a> at 10 pm Sunday. You can also listen in <a href="http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=45077&amp;cmd=tc">on the Talkshoe page</a> or call in on regular phone or VOIP lines: dial (724) 444-7444 and enter our talkcast ID, 45077 -- during the call, you can request to talk by keying in *-8. Talk with you then!
<p><em>Recording support for the TUAW Talkcast provided by <a href="http://ecamm.com/">Ecamm Network's CallRecorder for Skype.</a></em></p><p style="padding:5px;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.tuaw.com">TUAW</a><a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/30/talkcast-live-tonight-at-10pm-et/">Talkcast live tonight at 10pm ET</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.tuaw.com">The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)</a> on Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=45077>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/30/talkcast-live-tonight-at-10pm-et/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tuaw.com/forward/1386618/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/30/talkcast-live-tonight-at-10pm-et/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>
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