Disqus - Latest Comments for dynaMo

Re: Blogging For A Cause

Mo — Fri, 15 May 2009 11:52:10 -0000

Cool, I have an idea for a blog post that I am going to turn into action. It's about how I am a serial volunteer without focusing on one specific cause.

Re: Looking for Help in Starting Not-for-Profit

Mo — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:01:27 -0000

Great idea! I am an operations research consultant with tech background in DC. How can I help?

Re: So What a Smart Grid Anyway? It's More Power to Ya.

Mo — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:15:33 -0000

Must be secure. http://www.cnn.com/2009/TEC...

Re: Extracting Insight From Stock Research Analysts

Mo — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:07:03 -0000

Integrated Stocktwits and Pulse is the killer app.

Re: Bitly + iPhone + Twitter hack

Mo — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:30:59 -0000

Looks like Tweetie added a way to do this from Safari.

http://www.atebits.com/soft...

Re: My focus group of one

Mo — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:17:33 -0000

Looking deeper, it is. I see comments on Hacker News about New Mogul being the financial/business version of Hacker News. nickb of New Mogul is the post leader on Hacker News.
http://www.hackerne.ws/leaders
http://www.hackerne.ws/user...

Cool idea, one can come with various other version of this model and aggregate in one "best of" page.

Re: My focus group of one

Mo — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:18:27 -0000

New Mogul is awesome, reminds me of Hacker News. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Bitly + iPhone + Twitter hack

Mo — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:42:24 -0000

Looking for a way besides the desktop sync and MobileMe to sync this bookmark.

Re: California Proposition 2

Mo — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:26:24 -0000

I sincerely hope you or Don are not holding your breath.

Re: Community Organization Is A Conservative Notion

Mo — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:37:26 -0000

If your assertion about electing leaders who will begin to diminish our influence with them is correct, how do you explain the elections of Sarkozy, Harper and Merkel in recent years?

Re: Open Systems, Open Data, Transparency

Mo — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:50:48 -0000

Sorry Fred, this is juvenile and not going to add anything to the discussion but the first thing that I thought of when I read the first line was this: http://www.angelsoft.com/im...

Re: Thinking About Blackberry Apps

Mo — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:33:29 -0000

Try the Newsgator BB App, I used to be on Viigo and switched to Newsgator because of the online-mobile sync functionality and all the other computer browser based management features for all the RSS feeds. Now I am on NetNewsWire on iPhone.

http://www.newsgator.com/In...

Re: Thinking About Blackberry Apps

Mo — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:37:33 -0000

Couple of thoughts on the Apple App Store that Blackberry needs to replicate:
1. App Store will be a curator of mobile apps so to speak. Let's say you are looking for a to-do list application, sure you can type in Google and browse all the various suggestions or you can just go to the App Store, right on your iPhone and read reviews, view the most popular, weight free vs. pay option and download it and start using it. One suggestion I think needs to happens is what Twitterific is doing, more software developers need to come out with Freemium software. I am tempted to try out many of the games in the App Store but I don't want to pay for it right away, I want to see if I like the App before I will buy it. This is certainly true for games.
2. Yes, it is great to have open systems and free software providers but I do get a sense of security (even if it is false, I highly doubt it) that the app I am about to download from the App Store is not going to take my phone and my lifestream broadcast ability away because it is buggy or virus-y or any of the other reasons that millions of PCs these days are infected with spy-mal-ad-virus-ware. So Apple is not only creating a software distribution platform but also one that says trust us, this app will not destroy your iPhone. This seems naive and useless for people like us but for lot of non-tech savvy users this is feature that delivers a lot of relief. Last thing they want is Symantec or McAfee for their mobile devices.

Re: What can we learn about the iPhone app ecosystem from the Facebook app ecosystem?

Mo — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:45:18 -0000

I believe I read in one of the debriefs from the iPhone Enterprise Roadmap event that Apple would create Enterprise only app stores where employees of a certain Enterprise would be able to download the Enterprise specific apps for free inside the Enterprise App Store most likely on an Enterprise Intranet.

Anyone else hear that?

Re: Memorial Day

Mo — Mon, 26 May 2008 14:55:25 -0000

Bravo! I am glad all the sacrifices men and women of our military have made to allow a person like you to freely voice your opinion. I suppose in your pea sized brain Memorial Day only applies to the Iraq War. Give yourself a pat on the back for standing up against the tyrants.

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

Mo — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:02:04 -0000

A while back you wrote about your perfect/dream mobile device, that is
what we need. A hybrid of iPhone, Blackberry Curve and Nokia N95.

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

Mo — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:52:51 -0000

If you ever used the iPhone, all these other screens would make you feel claustrophobic.

Re: Disqus and Seesmic Pair Up For Video Comments

Mo — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:08:23 -0000

Seesmic = Video Twitter

Re: Video Comments from Disqus/Seesmic…Please Introduce Yourselves…It’s Sooooo Easy

Mo — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:01:27 -0000

or lip sync your comments to a baby's ramblings like the E*trade spot.

Which reminds me E*trade was ahead of the curve on stock trading and video comments with their commercials.

http://www.youtube.com/user...

Re: Disqus and Seesmic Pair Up For Video Comments

Mo — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:06:00 -0000

Along with, all the other things that have been said, here are some of my thoughts:
- 70% of the time I consume information on the go, sometime I am walking reading a few words, looking up and reading a few more words so on and so forth, will the video stop when I am not looking? If the counter argument is that you can just listen to the audio when you are walking, than what is the point of video comment? Listening to the audio, while walking is great. It's like listening to a talk show but with a lot of participants.
- Even while not mobile, I still multi-task while consuming information, the problem of attention comes up again. Video demands my continuos visual attention, text or audio doesn't.
- I agree with you in your response to Robert, Video is great for certain things. All the things Robert listed are great uses of Video comments, but what we need is a hybrid, not all comments need to be in text, some are just as great in getting the point across using other forms of media such as photos, audio, video, animation et al. So yes, their is a place for video, but I don't think an all video commenting system is that great. If you are saying something/opinionating, type it or audio record it. If you want to show/describe/explain me some object, than use video.
- I also agree with others who said that a transcript of the video would be good.
- Lastly, almost any new information consumption technology must pass the mobile friendly test. The usage of mobile internet and ownership of smart mobile devices is only increasing with every new device that is released.

Oh and Howard, please spare us the horror, next time. ;)

Re: iPhone vs Blackberry - Survey Sample Size of One

Mo — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:47:49 -0000

I agree, it's great for music, videos and oh yeah YouTube. You can't do that on BB.

Re: The Lessons of Rev Wright

Mo — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:21:33 -0000

Many people are bringing up the Hagee-McCain connection, so it needs clarification. McCain instantly criticized Hagee for his anti-Catholic remarks. Can the same be said about Obama regarding Rev. Wright? The comparison is really grasping at the straws from Obama supporters. As much as people like to believe McCain is some religious right hero, I find it really hard to believe. Falwell endorsed Huckabee and Robertson endorsed Giuliani in the GOP Primaries. Oh and hope this helps clear it little more from LA Times: http://tinyurl.com/3t2mpv

This is Obama's mess, he has to clear it up himself. People blaming the media, Clinton, McCain or GOP are just looking for excuses to defend Obama at all costs.

Re: The Lessons of Rev Wright

Mo — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:29:05 -0000

I believe if he made the speech he did yesterday back in March, we would be talking about the general election between Obama and McCain right now.

Re: The Lessons of Rev Wright

Mo — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:24:46 -0000

The media giveth and the media taketh. The media likes to build leaders up and tear them down. Let's be honest and admit that Obama's momentum in Jan-Feb was driven largely by the soft treatment of his campaign by the media. Now that some members of the media are attacking/exposing some of Obama's weaker points, you can see he is no longer the juggernaut that strung together several states in a row and put Clinton on the brink of elimation.

As for Wright, Fred is spot on. And please never put MLK and Wright in the same discussion. MLK never used hate to incite his constituency, he used God's love and equal creation of all humans as his message.

Re: Of Course They Are Bitter

Mo — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:55:06 -0000

"Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. " - Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right by Karl Marx Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher February, 1844