Disqus - Latest Comments for andymurd

Re: Scripting News: Encoding trouble with Twitter's OAuth

andymurd — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:42:00 -0000

I don't know about a specific Twitter OAuth debugger, but I've found OACurl useful in the past:

http://code.google.com/p/oa...

Re: MongoDB CTO on Foursquare’s Scaling Issues

andymurd — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:24:09 -0000

Sharding is hard, let's go shopping (for more servers).

Re: 5 Terrific Twitter Mapping Tools

andymurd — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:51:00 -0000

Hey, thanks for the love for my MMMeeja twitter map. Made my day.

Re: Search and Social? Eh, no.

andymurd — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:20:55 -0000

Excellently put Barry. I search social sites for other users and that's about it. The only exception being that most anti-social of social sites - delicious.com, which remains an excellent resource.

Re: Twitter Annotations: At The Intersection Of Real Time & Semantic - Semantic Web

andymurd — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:45:53 -0000

Thanks for mentioning my post, Bernard. I'm putting together a follow-up to be published soon mentioning some great ideas from the annotations hackfest. It's been great to see that so many developers are experimenting with annotations and really adding value to tweets.

PS: To be fair to StockTwits, adding the price at the time of the tweet is a good idea.

Re: What Are Twitter Annotations And What They Mean For Twitter Users

andymurd — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:13:15 -0000

The most obvious use of Twitter annotations is to add a multimedia payload to tweets. Links to video, MP3, images (and even HTML) closely mirrors media RSS and tweets commonly contain links to these things. Annotations will just encourage twitter client developers to embed multimedia in their interface, instead of handing that off to the browser.

After the first rush to multimedia, I think we'll see a bunch of interesting stuff that mirrors the way that semantic web practitioners embed RDF into HTML. Then we'll really see some interesting use cases develop and Twitter will grow into the open information platform it wants to be.

I think a lot of these will be automatically generated by third party tools. For example, mapmyrun.com could attach a map, the route of the run, etc. Stocktwits could add a load of financial data about the companies they highlight. All cool stuff.

Quick plug: Here's my take on Twitter annotations: http://www.mmmeeja.com/blog...

Re: Developers: how will we all get along with Twitter’s annotation feature?

andymurd — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:17:25 -0000

Sounds like the same kind of problem that linked data (e.g. RDF) developers have already solved. Good quality meta-data will link to its ontologies as well as contain the data payload.

The best, most trust-worthy ontologies will get supported and referenced by a wide variety of twitter clients, just like freebase, dbpedia, freedb get lots of references in everybody's linked data documents.

This is a great move by twitter and I can't wait to see what cool and useful apps people will come up with next.

Re: Get That HiPPO Out Of My Face

andymurd — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:02:59 -0000

HiPPO doesn't just affect SEO. Too often I've seen a new boss arrive and change projects just because they have to be seen to be doing something, anything. Doing something that pisses off their underlings is viewed as having impact.

These bosses wouldn't expect (or allow) a brand new employee to make radical project changes because the newbie doesn't have the full picture, with senior management it's the opposite.

A ranty comment for a ranty blog.

Re: Accepting Payments on the Real-Time Web

andymurd — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:39:42 -0000

Working in the billing/finance arena myself, I know this kind of thing is a nightmare.

It's not helped by the big banks thinking that they own the space and wanting to charge a fortune for a shoddy system. I really hope that someone breaks their stranglehold, and soon.

The reality is that global differences (legal and cultural) have a huge impact on payment processing and acquirers need to talk with Visa, Mastercard & Amex. Just getting to sit down and chat with those leviathans takes time and money. Visa et al could cut out the banks and provide a simple online payment gateway but that's not (yet) in their interests.

Good luck to Spreedly, Recurly, and Chargify but I suspect they've got a long, difficult task ahead of them. Big rewards if they can pull it off though!

Re: Who Are The Most Active Social Media Users…? The Australians.

andymurd — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:49:49 -0000

Maybe Australians spend so much time on social networking sites because our internet is so slow - we're just waiting for the page to load.

Re: More On Seesmic's Vision of Programmable Twitter clients

andymurd — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:28:59 -0000

Agreed. If the API is powerful enough, it should be possible to embed the perl/python/ruby interpreter into a plugin.

Re: More On Seesmic's Vision of Programmable Twitter clients

andymurd — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:54:16 -0000

I'd certainly be interested in adding some filtering functionality (never show another #mafiawars tweet). Maybe even some kind of bayesian filter/unfollow feature too.

Re: SocMed in Adelaide: an invitation

andymurd — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:41:38 -0000

I reckon I'll be able to attend. Looking forward to mixing with a different crowd.

Re: Blatant Reader Grab

andymurd — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:21:55 -0000

Would love a google wave invite - firstwaves at andymurdoch.com. Thanks.

Re: Chinese filtering move demonstrates futility of Australian censorship proposal

andymurd — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:09:42 -0000

Problem is, that after the Great Firewall of Australia is proven not to work, the tools to bypass it will be made illegal.

Re: Woobius Scribbles — Document control - how hard can it be?

andymurd — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:32:54 -0000

The only successful document control I've ever seen implemented was based around document reference identifiers. Every document (and piece of source code and email and so on) had a reference like this:

CO/PR/TY/00001/V

Where:

CO - company identifier (companies change names more often than you imagine)
PR - project identifier
TY - document type. There were about 200 different document types but most people only ever dealt with about 6 and we could remember those off by heart.
00001 - a "next-out number" taken from a big register kept for each project.
V - version number

The system was imple enough that it would work for paper as easily as electronic documents. People actually used because it was simple and they could immediately see the benenfits.

Re: Twitter Shenanigans

andymurd — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:54:35 -0000

Good detective work! I'd wondered the same thing but I soon worked out that the number of followers a person has is a very poor measure of their worth/interest.

It's more fun to find those people who are interesting but have only just started tweeting and then interact with them. They might get 4,000 followers in the next twelve months, but they'll remember that you're the nice guy who chatted when they were starting out on twitter.

Re: How To: Dynamic Slide Down Disqus Comments

andymurd — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:53:42 -0000

Hi Ben, I stumbled across your post quite late because I want to implement something similar. I notice a small problem on rssmeme.com:

If I open two comment iframes, by clicking the "contribute" links against two stories then click the Disqus "options" button against the second iframe it shows options for the first iframe.

Any ideas on how to fix it?

Re: Andreas Lanjerud › helloandy checked in @ Albano, Stockholms Län, Sweden

andymurd — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:15:29 -0000

Hello back! I'll run the BrightKite feed through Feedburner, that seems to be the preferred solution.

Re: Semantic Series of Tubes

andymurd — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:39:48 -0000

That's a great summary of where we all want Web 3.0 to take us.

I'd argue that "the improvement of advertising models" is not necessarily a downside to the semantic web. In my life, advertising models seem to be billboards, cold calling and mail drops. A smaller number of laser targeted adverts would be a welcome change - whilst saturation brand-building will only engender my enmity.

If I can ask my ad-manager-bot to recommend a bunch of $PRODUCTS meeting my requirements and ignore previously blocked advertisers, then great, bring on the semantic web!

APML seems like an excellent technology for ad servers to invest in but it would definitely need the ability to deal with temporal changes.

Re: My Links Are del.icio.us!

andymurd — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:27:56 -0000

You're welcome, Jeff, and keep those links coming.

Loads of people had written blog posts about "10 people you must follow on twitter" or "FriendFeed A-Listers" and I just thought that good old del.icio.us needed a bit of love.

Re: Memo to online companies: Please Stop Georedirecting

andymurd — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:54:47 -0000

Georedirecting can also fail spectacularly.

A train company here in the UK provides free wifi on its long distance services, which is great but... the internet is delivered via a satellite link to a Swedish ISP. So, I'm sat on a train to London trying to decypher google.se.

Re: Pop Quiz 1: Know Your Google

andymurd — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:13:05 -0000

Excellent, look forward to the next post.

Re: Pop Quiz 1: Know Your Google

andymurd — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:47:54 -0000

Sounds fun, I'll have a go...

1. Robots.txt, meta noindex and webmaster tools
2. Had to look this one up, it's DMCA-agent
3. Webmaster tools
4. Google Alerts
5. Googlebot
6. NOSNIPPET
7. site:mysite.com

What do I win? Oh a link, cool!

Re: louisgray.com: SiteMeter's Attempted Challenge to Google Analytics Falls Flat

andymurd — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:16:52 -0000

The interface was very slow last night too.

A gradual rollout of the new functionality might have been more appropriate than the big-bang approach. Small changes are more manageable and mean that criticisms of new functionality can be addressed without degrading existing features.

Good to see Sitemeter trying to compete though.