Disqus - Latest Comments for KevinEklund

Re: Questions for Tony of Zappos and Andrew of Groupon? Step Right Up!

Kevin Eklund — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:30:01 -0000

Ask him what Groupon's cut from the Gap deal.

Re: Groupon Goes National With Gap Deal

Kevin Eklund — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:27:50 -0000

According to my estimates, Gap lost at least $8 million unless they can convince every voucher redeemer to return 4 more times. Here's the calculations: bit.ly/94Gx0r

Re: Groupon Smashes Sales Records with Nationwide Gap Deal

Kevin Eklund — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:33:28 -0000

Great points Mike, however, the aggressive fees that Groupon traditionally charges merchants usually results in a loss of revenue for them. Here you can plug in the numbers and quickly estimate it based on several factors: http://bit.ly/cQE5by

Oh, and those calculations do NOT include any additional workers the merchants have to hire to handle the increased workload. Don't get me wrong, I think Groupon is great. It's just that most business owners aren't aware of all the costs that are involved.

Re: VMWare Fusion 3 Makes Running Windows on Mac Almost Fun

Kevin Eklund — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:09:45 -0000

I'm a Parallels user myself and run Windows XP quite a bit on my MacBook. Love the stability of the Mac and still having access to all my Windows based programs. Does anyone know what the major differences are between VMWare and Parallels?

Re: PhotoSketch: Photoshop + Image Recognition = Awesome

Kevin Eklund — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:04:46 -0000

Should save photoshoppers lots of time finding and incorporating compatible images. Good find!

Re: Apple Aims to Redefine Print with Tablet [Rumor]

Kevin Eklund — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:51:19 -0000

I don't see the Apple tablet being quite as big of a player or Kindle competitor as a reader. I think the Microsoft Courier could be the only real threat to the Kindle. Ergonomically it's much better than the Kindle. Its electronic moleskine persona will perform well with students and business professionals. The Courier is definitely a game changer and unlike anything the other tablet/tablet-like competitors are producing. Despite that however, Apple fanboys will ensure that the "iPad" reaches good sales numbers.

Re: RUMOR: Apple Tablet Is an iPhone with a 10.7″ Screen

Kevin Eklund — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:59:22 -0000

Unlike others I'm really not that excited about any of these new tablets (Apple "iPad", CrunchPad, etc.). The only product I'm at all interested in is Microsoft's Courier which appears to be of a different breed and a very novel design.

Re: Online Retailers: 99% Plan to Have Facebook Fan Pages

Kevin Eklund — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:52:26 -0000

I'm not so sure Twitter is as useful as it once was. There's soooo many spammers and online marketers there that they fill-up search results making search nearly useless anymore.

Re: POLL: Firefox Smacks Down Google Chrome in Reader Vote

Kevin Eklund — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:40:33 -0000

38% is still pretty darn good considering the comparatively short amount of time Chrome has been available. I'm on Firefox 90% of the time but I'd move to Chrome in a heartbeat if it supported RoboForm and a few of the add-ons I use in FF. Chrome is so much lighter and it feels faster. It also seems to perform much better than Firefox when visiting Facebook, which causes FF to freeze for me from time to time.

Re: STATS: Has Twitter’s Growth Peaked?

Kevin Eklund — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:33:33 -0000

I'm not so sure it's going to die off anytime soon. Twitter's growth rate in the US began diminishing way back in March and leveled off approximately last May. Global traffic is still rising but I think we'll see the same thing happen for international traffic within the next 6 months. Twitter is becoming increasingly spammy and the less relevant search results filled with online marketers pushing affiliate links don't help. Unless Twitter devs can find a way to reduce the spam to ensure useful search results without restricting user access too much, it's going to have big problems.

Re: Have you made a donation to your WordPress Plugin Developer?

Kevin Eklund — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:40:50 -0000

Hey Justin,
I just posted a follow-up article that goes a little more in-depth and discusses some alternatives as well as difficult issues developers are facing. It would be great if you stopped by and shared your thoughts with us. Here it is:

http://tomuse.com/matt-mull...

Re: Have you made a donation to your WordPress Plugin Developer?

Kevin Eklund — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:39:05 -0000

I didn't mean to put shame on anyone, honestly. I'm just as guilty as everyone else about not donating every time I download a plugin. I posted that article because I just think people need to be aware of the time and effort plugin developers put into their craft and how little they receive in return. I'm hoping this will increase awareness and maybe we can put our heads together to give back to the devs. :)

Re: Since Everyone Loved Digg For Frames Facebook Follows Suit

Kevin Eklund — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:35:49 -0000

You might like the original article about Digg's Diggbar that includes the 5 reasons to break the Diggbar: http://tomuse.com/digg-digg...

Craig Agranoff:
Thanks for linking to my article after using my image. I appreciate that. Most people don't do it! :)
I'm not 100% sure but I actually think Facebook was using the framebar before Digg. Either way, I'm just hoping more publishers will block such spambars. Glad to hear you joined the fight!

I don't know if you saw this but it's actually beneficial to block the Diggbar and other frames. That is, it can lead to better traffic statistics:
http://tomuse.com/3-reasons...

Re: Commenting Systems Comparison: WordPress, Intense Debate, Disqus

Kevin Eklund — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:24:00 -0000

Disqus seems to have fixed the problem; blog is not hanging on comment system loading anymore :) Best way to get a hold of anyone is via Twitter nowadays.

Re: Commenting Systems Comparison: WordPress, Intense Debate, Disqus

Kevin Eklund — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:31:11 -0000

Now I know what you meant by Disqus being slow. It's super slow today and it is holding up the loading of blog posts. I've contacted @Disqus on Twitter, hopefully they respond quickly or I'll have to shut Disqus down! BTW, I didn't experience this slowness with Intense Debate's comment system.

Re: Tumblr’s Secret For Success: Adult Content?

Kevin Eklund — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:17:04 -0000

Thanks for saying that ;) I hope you stop in and lend us your insight more often, especially if it includes praise for our posts :)

Re: Commenting Systems Comparison: WordPress, Intense Debate, Disqus

Kevin Eklund — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:48:20 -0000

Nice, it looks like that would permit the user to easily sign in but would it sync profile stuff between previously created self-hosted WP blog profiles and all relevant off-site profiles (i.e. Disqus, Intense Debate)? Just wondering what else it would do besides allowing for easy sign in. Thanks for the heads-up, it's the first time I've heard of RPX :)

Re: Top 10 Best Free Online Project Management Application Services

Kevin Eklund — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:42:35 -0000

Actually most of them offer free basic plans for a limited number of users. But yes, some offer free 30-day trials too. It just depends on the business model each is using. I'm planning on creating a comparison chart too that should address this. It just takes a great deal of time to assess each on individually and I haven't gotten around to it yet. But you're right; I should, thanks for the nudge :)

Re: Ultimate Review List of Best Web Hosting Providers Compared

Kevin Eklund — Sat, 30 May 2009 12:54:28 -0000

Yeah, I haven't tested them myself but I would be interested to hear what you think about them. I'd especially like to know what you think they should be used for and who should/shouldn't use them.

Re: Commenting Systems Comparison: WordPress, Intense Debate, Disqus

Kevin Eklund — Sat, 30 May 2009 12:18:33 -0000

I haven't experienced any slowness with Disqus and Intense Debate did a much better job of syncing comments compared to Disqus. I do feel that if Intense Debate were to put a priority on social features it would win out over Disqus. But unless they could allow WP plugins to work across the Intense Debate commenting system, I would still prefer to use the default comment system as it allows for total comment customization.

Re: Commenting Systems Comparison: WordPress, Intense Debate, Disqus

Kevin Eklund — Sat, 30 May 2009 12:12:32 -0000

That's a really interesting question Jon. I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that one currently. All I know is that when I logged into the blog, Intense Debate recognized me and I was therefore automatically signed in. After installing the Intense Debate plugin, I had to add my Intense Debate login credentials for the plugin to connect the two accounts and claim my blog.

I would be surprised if Intense Debate could indeed synchronize the commenter's username and password. This would require you to somehow claim your numerous login credentials across all the blogs you comment on. Instead, I imagine they are using the commenter's username and/or email address to identify the user's profile like Gravatar does.

Re: Breaking: Most Web Companies FAIL

Kevin Eklund — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:33:01 -0000

FYI: I'm working on a new Web 3.0 collage that includes 50 semantic web startups.
Here's the new one: http://tomuse.com/tracking-...

Re: Top 10 Best Free Online Project Management Application Services

Kevin Eklund — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:13:38 -0000

Great, thank John. I'll check it out! :)

Re: Can Social Media Help Repair Michael Vick’s Image?

Kevin Eklund — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:49:36 -0000

It's going to take a few years of hard work and brutal honesty for him to shed this issue. He's going to have to kick butt both on and off the field to gain back the respect from his fans. He'll be booed by everyone initially.

Re: The YouTube Generation: Online Video Usage Up 53 Percent in ’09

Kevin Eklund — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:37:51 -0000

How is Hulu responsible for that growth if it only comprises a 2% market share?