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Re: Jeff Garrison’s Sales Habitudes

Foliovision — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:22:25 -0000

Very nice article

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

Foliovision — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:28:35 -0000

Actually Frederic, in my five years on Typepad, I've found the support there to be incompetent.

Instead of reading your support requests, Typepad support staff just copy and paste from an out of date knowledge base. Any competent user has already been to the knowledge base and tried those non-working solutions.

Extremely frustrating.

Crappy Typepad support was the main reason I wanted to move La Vie Viennoise out of Typepad.

With Wordpress, you can get lots of free support on the forums and if you want a helping hand, there is huge pool of freelance talent to help you with your site professionally.

For me, if I have to choose between free support and competent support, I know what I'll choose every time.

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

Foliovision — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:22:05 -0000

Hello Dave,

Typepad vs Wordpress is not nonsense.

If you would like to be trapped in a dying platform with no working export, yes Typepad is for you.

If you want to have free access to all your data in an open source environment with full portability, Wordpress is for you.

SixApart is selling a lie. Once you start with Typepad, there is no way out.

That's not my idea of ease-of-use. I'm surprised it's yours.

Re: Blogging Faceoff: WordPress vs. Typepad

Foliovision — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:17:40 -0000

Hi Donna,

I completely agree with you about Typepad export. As the world's leading conversion service from Typepad to Wordpress, we've moved dozens of old huge sites and hundreds of people have followed our DIY guidelines. Despite all our experience, the way SixApart have deliberately crippled export makes it hard work to do a clean transfer. Until SixApart get their act together and fix export (it's a ten minute fix to templates, which we've offered to give Anil Dash at no cost), no one should start a new website on Typepad, or heaven forbid, recommend it to new webloggers.

A Typepad website is a ticking time bomb.

Re: Free the Snow Leopard

Foliovision — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:58:56 -0000

Hi Stephen,

The G5's are great machines and Leopard is an absolutely excellent OS. Nothing to worry about - just enjoy your computer until you are ready to upgrade.

In terms of performance, the white Macbook keeps up with a G5 dual processor desktop, so upgrading isn't too expensive and you can go portable while you are at it.

Re: Free the Snow Leopard

Foliovision — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:53:03 -0000

Linux is great but too tough for multimedia multitaskers (I know, I tried with motivation). Costs of cross-training turn out to be pretty high for a group smaller than ten people (probably the efficiency point).

Microsoft and Apple were both very clever to pursue a grab them when they were young policy.

Re: Free the Snow Leopard

Foliovision — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:28:00 -0000

In that case, make sure you clone out your working Leopard install onto a FireWire drive (recommend SuperDuper! paid or free, I own it and use it many times/week).

That way if something just won't run on Snow Leopard, you'll be able to boot from the FireWire drive when you need to run that app. If you get lucky (you'll know in about a month) then you can put that backup back into regular rotation.

Let us know how it goes!

Re: When Talking About Business Models, Remember That Profits Equal Revenues Minus Costs

Foliovision — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:31:38 -0000

Good point about Flickr and Apple. On the other hand, one should keep one's eyes open for that lode of ore in what one is doing or could be doing.

The alternative is to spend a lot of energy and time on project which aren't really going anywhere.

If you go, go big is what Flickr and Apple did. Once they dipped their toes and found the water to their taste, they dove straight into the deep end. In Apple's case, even if another company had Apple's exact business plan for digital music two years ahead of time, I don't think they could have executed (possible exception Sony).

Re: When Talking About Business Models, Remember That Profits Equal Revenues Minus Costs

Foliovision — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:27:34 -0000

That's a little bit unfair to say that the information is wrong Fred but that you will only discuss it in private. Why start the conversation then?

Re: Free the Snow Leopard

Foliovision — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:27:24 -0000

Hi Richard,

As an old Mac hand, let me recommend to you not to upgrade this Friday. Wait for at least the first rounds of revisions. Each major OS upgrade will break some small but important things in many key applications.

You don't want to be on the bleeding edge. In fact, graphic design studios have to remain at least six months behind, as they can't afford the down time waiting for patches from Adobe among others.

if you have a second computer or a spare external FireWire drive, then by all means. But on your main machine, patience will be rewarded.

Re: The blog content portability debate needs to happen in public

Foliovision — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:02:11 -0000

Hello Jos,

Anil wants the conversation off the record as he is:

a. spinning
b. lying

That's very difficult to do in the public space.

I had a much higher opinion of SixApart and Anil personally until I found out about:

1. Their disinformation campaign to suggest that in fact it is possible to easily transfer a Typepad weblog (it's not).
2. Their deliberate crippling of Typepad export.

As I mentioned, I even offered our own expertise on getting the export right so they could fix the built-in exporter.

Anil lied and said that it can't be fixed as it is a legacy format.

It would take 10 minutes of coding on their end to include permalinks.

SixApart aren't doing it as they are deliberately locking people in to Typepad. The only way out is via us or via $400 SixApart move to MoveableType.

That's just not right.

You are only one of many people that Anil has asked to go off the record on this issue.

Thank you for calling him on it.

Re: Relenta ROI calculator

Foliovision — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:25:15 -0000

Hello Dmitri,

This calculator is fascinating.

We come up with 1,652% on 10 users on just revenue of $15,000/month.

That means our company would make an extra $4130/month on costs of $250/month.

Not sure I believe it would be that good, but very provocative and worth a try.