Disqus - Latest Comments for Edd

Re: Sharing OPML/RSS Subscriptions

Edd — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:28:08 -0000

The Silicon Vally elevator pitch: 'the del.icio.us of RSS'

Gordon - was there any work done on this at Newsgator back in the day?

Re: Scripting News: Full faith and credit

Edd — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:56:43 -0000

Typo: McArdle

Re: Scripting News: Another in my series of wacko ideas

Edd — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:55:45 -0000

Dave - what would it take for you to get something posted onto Seth Godin's blog? He does not allow comments - explanation at http://sethgodin.typepad.co...

Re: Scripting News: I need to learn jQuery

Edd — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:50:49 -0000

I've found this very useful: http://jqfundamentals.com/b...

Re: Scripting News: JSONified RSS

Edd — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:48:59 -0000

Nice text view of your link in the browser at http://jsonviewer.stack.hu/...

Click the 'viewer' link in the top-left corner

Re: Scripting News: Tech is ready to redefine news

Edd — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:43:11 -0000

It's worth pointing out a recent hacks event in London on this topic - links are
http://www.guardian.co.uk/t...
and
http://www.guardian.co.uk/t...

Re: Nobody tells you about the diarrhea

Edd — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:10:09 -0000

Mark, I went to India for 1 day (yes, all that way & I was in the country for less than 16 hours) and I got it despite taking every precaution I could think of!

Re: Scripting News: Rebooting RSS, interlude

Edd — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 07:12:33 -0000

That's a great article Russ. Polling is the issue but it's not the source of the problem! The problem is that the RSS feed can't automatically inform other services that it has been updated (so no-one knows when your RSS feed has been updated, and polling is used to check the feeds to overcome this problem)

If SRSS was introduced then RSS would switch the relationship from being pull to being push, and would create a firehose of new RSS items... and apps can be built on this firehose (e.g. the original RiverCentral suggestion)

I like Russ's approach because it is an optional 'add-on' to the existing RSS set-up, much like a sitemap.xml is helpful to publish so I can tell Google explicitly what pages on my site have been updated and when they were updated. An incentive exists to break new news with your first timestamp of when the first update was pushed out about the news story (incentives always help to get adoption).

As for one-click subscribe and centralised subscription storage, could this
also be adopted as an optional 'add-on'?

Re: Scripting News: Rebooting RSS, short names for feeds

Edd — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:29:52 -0000

The owner would surely set which RSS feeds they want attached to their own name? Many child feeds (ScriptingNews, flickr, twitter, etc) can be combined within the parent feed, but there is only the one parent feed attached to the name and that is the one that others are subscribing to.

Re: Google Health Gets A Wellness Makeover, Now Integrated With Fitbit And CardioTrainer

Edd — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:20:47 -0000

You can link your fitbit account to Google Health from here: http://www.fitbit.com/user/...

Re: Scripting News: Why didn't Google Wave boot up?

Edd — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:12:01 -0000

Regarding your suggestion of building a modest community of users...

What amazed me at the time with Google Wave was that they had such a community under their noses that they ignored. Essentially Wave is a collaboration tool, and clearly one of the most important places for collaboration is at work. Google sells it's 'Google Apps Premier Edition' to businesses (a great target audience), but did not enable Wave for these customers until May 2010 (an entire year after it was first announced at Google I/O)

Perhaps in the long run it is best that Google is not involved in this area. Effective collaboration is a real problem in the world, and there are smaller organizations out there who rise to the opportunity, and not have to compete with this particular behemoth.

BTW, some good analysis at http://danieltenner.com/pos...

Re: Greetings from Park City. (Scripting News)

Edd — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:12:35 -0000

Some British comedy - http://media.libsyn.com/med...

(warning: includes bad language)

Have a great trip!

Re: danieltenner.com — What problems does Google Wave solve?

Edd — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:04:44 -0000

From your analysis, it seems logical that Google *should* be adding Google Wave as a feature of Google Apps (aimed at the business community)

Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

Edd — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:30:17 -0000

@TheRealTerry is this additional bit.ly feature mentioned on their user suggestions page? http://bitly.uservoice.com/... - which one to vote for? I'm guessing the Google Analytics one is the closest to what you're asking for

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

Edd — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:02:42 -0000

Thanks for the post Paul. Could I also suggest to people to add emails from ecademy to junk / blocked senders list, as even though my account has been deleted I still receive emails from them.

Edd