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Re: OQO Not Dead Yet, Shows Up In First Retail Location

Matt Galigan — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:20:50 -0000

Actually, it's not the first time the OQO hit retail shelves. A store called Escape, owned by Best Buy and operating in Chicago has had the OQO on their shelves since at least earlier this year. It was my first experience with the device.

Re: Social Networking Awards – Vote For Your Favorite Mobile Social Network

Matt Galigan — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:32:50 -0000

Vote: Rabble...hands down the best one out there...

Re: Digg loses

Matt Galigan — Wed, 02 May 2007 10:30:21 -0000

You do know they retracted this right? And that they're allowing all of this stuff now right?

Re: Digg loses

Matt Galigan — Wed, 02 May 2007 10:30:21 -0000

You do know they retracted this right? And that they're allowing all of this stuff now right?

Re: Digg loses

Matt Galigan — Wed, 02 May 2007 10:30:21 -0000

You do know they retracted this right? And that they're allowing all of this stuff now right?

Re: Digg loses

Matt Galigan — Wed, 02 May 2007 10:30:21 -0000

You do know they retracted this right? And that they're allowing all of this stuff now right?

Re: iBrick

Matt Galigan — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:20:47 -0000

Are you running Vista 64bit? I've heard that the iPhone isn't compatible with it.

Just curious...

Re: StartupWeekend: 70 Founders Create Company In One Weekend

Matt Galigan — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 01:36:51 -0000

@Brian basically, it's pretty easy...we just signed up at startupweekend.com and we were in! now, this is kind of an extraordinary case in that the folks that are the founders are pretty freaking smart. no "dead weight" if you will...

All in all, this is freaking amazing thus far.

So one last thing that I'd like to mention about Startup Weekend is that the idea isn't to just make a cool product and get it out there. The idea is that we build an entire, fully functional entity in less than 3 days. That means not only developers and designers, but we've got a legal team, business development team, marketing and PR team...I mean, this thing is a whole company.

In less than 24 hours, we had an idea, a pre-alpha, a design, advertisers, incorporation set up, trademark filed, not to mention...we got TechCrunched. I'm not bragging...I'm encouraging more people to maybe get something like this going...it's not just about the company we create, it's the experience...the people, etc.

Re: Widespread BlackBerry outage?

Matt Galigan — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:13:34 -0000

yup...issues here...BIS

Re: Widespread BlackBerry outage?

Matt Galigan — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:21:34 -0000

Twitter post from a friend in Denver, 7 minutes ago:

"Anyone else on AT&T experiencing a BlackBerry outage? (Since ~9:15am MST or so)"

Re: Exchanging Apple

Matt Galigan — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 05:59:16 -0000

It's too bad to hear about your switching problems. I too wish that my BlackBerry tasks synced up to my Entourage. I've been dying to try out Entourage 2008 for quite some time as it does fix a lot of things that 2004 has lacked...things like Out of Office notification and a much much better Calendar function.

As much as I'm not a Microsoft fan, they sure did it right by Exchange Server

Re: Friend Integration – Phase 1 of 10

Matt Galigan — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 04:52:53 -0000

I've talked with some of the OpenSocial instigators as well as the "containers"...sites like Hi5. They don't seem to think that this will solve the problem of more friends lists. The truth is, OpenSocial is going to give an environment that apps can be cross-site compatible. However, without all of the sites teaming up and banding behind one friend standard, and communication between the sites, we won't see any sort of cool consolidation. Do we really think that MySpace will share their graph with Facebook?

So I guess that's where we (socialthing!) steps in. Nicky was right on the dot when he said that we were up to that...we've developed a way for you to not only consolidate your friends into one list, but also consolidate their identities (meaning that I can see you, Brad, would have Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, etc.). Now the magic comes when you're able to do that without the "friend" being a part of, or having to even know about our service. That's our end-all-be-all goal.

No doubt this game is heating up, but just keep an eye out for our stuff here...

Re: Friend Hierarchy

Matt Galigan — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:48:32 -0000

Right which is also why I should say (for your readers sake) that "our solution" is socialthing!, one of the companies that was in last year's TechStars program.

Re: Friend Hierarchy

Matt Galigan — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:48:32 -0000

Right which is also why I should say (for your readers sake) that "our solution" is socialthing!, one of the companies that was in last year's TechStars program.

Re: Friend Hierarchy

Matt Galigan — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:49:46 -0000

http://socialthing.com (forgot to include what "our solution" was)

Re: Friend Hierarchy

Matt Galigan — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:49:46 -0000

http://socialthing.com (forgot to include what "our solution" was)

Re: Friend Hierarchy

Matt Galigan — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:47:31 -0000

I know your pain for sure. I feel it every single day. I've got friends on MySpace that are just as important as some of my friends on Facebook and LinkedIn, but hardly use MySpace because those friends are the only reason I go there...and it's hard to get to them quickly, unless you add them as a "Top Friend".

I suppose that's why we built the exact thing you're talking about into socialthing!. When the feature gets released (seeing how our first feature, Lifestream, goes into private beta today)...it will consolidate all of your friends across all of your social networks (that we support currently) into one list. Then, you can take that list and categorize your friends by either explicit or implicit definition.

Explicit meaning you specifically say "Foundry Group co-workers" and then drag all of your co-workers into that group. Implicit being when you define certain criteria, like "LinkedIn and Plaxo friends" (essentially defining a work related group)...

It is a mess...so I guess that's why we really want to clean it up...hopefully our solution helps you out!

Re: Friend Hierarchy

Matt Galigan — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:57:37 -0000

completely forgot to add what "our solution" even is...for your readers that is...

http://socialthing.com

Re: Comcast and Tivo – Meet Todd Vernon

Matt Galigan — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:02:01 -0000

I picked up a TiVo HD (same series as the 3) a few months ago, and successfully had Comcast come out and one dual tuner cable card installed.

Works great...not sure why they said they "discontinued" 4 months ago, because I got mine since then.

Re: The Daily Poll: Battle in the Clouds

Matt Galigan — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:10:44 -0000

I don't think that Google's App Engine directly competes with Amazon S3, I would say it competes more with Amazon's EC2 as S3 is not a way to actually deliver a web app, it's simply a storage mechanism.

Re: louisgray.com: Dealing With Capacity Overload and "Laying Off" Features

Matt Galigan — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:22:45 -0000

Hey J. Phil and Louis...we had to disable them simply because of the sheer number of calls we were sending them.

We call the services in a very different way than FriendFeed and others, mainly because our goal isn't just to aggregate you and your profiles, but rather, aggregate your friends on that service. The end result is a single dashboard with all of your friends' activity elsewhere.

What this does, is cause a whole lot of extra calls that we have to make to the services. Some of the APIs that we call are prepared for this, and deliver most all of that information in a single, or maybe two calls. However, in the case of del.icio.us, Digg, Last.fm and YouTube, the process was like this:

1 call for your activities
1 call for your friends list
x calls for x friends

In a very short period of time, we might call a service like Digg 102 times in 1 second (let's say, if you had 100 friends).

To remedy this, we've worked with the services to find alternative ways of calling them, as well as have completely re-written our architecture and ways that we call the services from our end. When we launch 2.0, it will reflect this, and all of those services will be added back in immediately. The new infrastructure also allows for us to call RSS based sites and services, as well as opens us up to many other services. We're expecting to launch the 2.0 features very soon (I can't give a specific date, but I can say that we're almost done testing, and pretty much just awaiting deployment now)

I hope that could answer a few of your questions.

Re: And Now . . . The Backlash

Matt Galigan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:08:54 -0000

Greg, terribly sorry it's taken us so long to comment on this. I'm one of the founders of Socialthing! and I just want to let you know we're far from dead and gone. We've got a good loyal userbase, but most importantly, for the past two months we've been hard at work on our massively revamped version 2.0. It's now almost done, and it will really change the way people think about our service. I hope once it's out, you get a chance to check it out and let us know what you think...we'd really love to hear what you think!

Re: Will I get the next iPhone?

Matt Galigan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:07:29 -0000

1. You're right...fixing isn't a feature

2. Yeah the lock-in sucks, but that's just the nature of the mobile world these days. But as for activation? You activate it once, and that's it really...is it really that much of a problem?

3. Yeah 3G and GPS NOT silly. 3G means that a lot of the things that normally take forever on the iPhone (email fetching, websites, etc.) take considerably less time. Beyond that, you spend half the time, sucking the same amount of battery power...so effectively you're getting much better battery life out of the 3G speed.

GPS is about accuracy. Cell tower triangulation is fuzzy at best, not to mention might only get you within a few miles of accuracy. The only way you can get more accurate is if you're in a very densely populated area with a lot of WiFi signal around for the Skyhook crap to work. GPS throws all of that out of the equation and you get an exact location immediately. This is great for not only Google Maps, but other location-based apps...like OmniFocus' planned location based reminders (which is killer)

Also, think location based sound profiles...such as if you're at work, it goes silent, and when you're out and about it's loud, etc.

4. $200 will get the phone in the hands of many people...it's a great piece of technology. It's a super fast computer, iPod and phone all wrapped into one with a killer user interface.

Yeah, but all of which is my own opinion and just that ;)

Re: Lis311 - Tumblr Tags, Anyone?

Matt Galigan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:45:28 -0000

You should try out http://lijit.com - they add on search for you!

Re: SocialThing upgrades to 2.0 ads Digg and YouTube support

Matt Galigan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:43:26 -0000

The key about the update notification is that they're new updates that you haven't seen yet. By clicking on "See them" we return you to the Home tab and load in the new updates...

That help? Hope you're enjoying 2.0!