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Re: What Do the New Twitter Rules Mean for Social Media Managers (and Buffer Customers)

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 12:05:11 -0000

That's a good question. However, I have to wonder if this is the case since isn't that exactly how Twitter's native button works? It simply shares a title and a link to the post/page.

Re: Diagnosing admin-ajax.php Slow Responses in WordPress

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 15:24:26 -0000

we faced a similar situation when we were developing our social sharing plugin. The solution we came up with was to cache those social shares and then ONLY check once per hours for new posts, once every 3 hours for posts older than 21 days, and once every 6 hours for posts over 60 days old. This way those requests aren't happening on every page load, but instead only once in a while. We also never trigger the request if the page is being accessed a popular crawler like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.

Also, maybe you'll know the answer to this question, but why does GTmetrix and others use ajax requests that are run after the DOMLoaded event as part of the page load time? I specifically put things there just so the user will never, ever notice the slowdown. The page is already fully rendered and then we initiate an ajax request in the background so the user literally never even notices. So then why is that considered part of the page load score or speed or whatnot?

Re: Nominate Your Favorite Social Media Blog: 8th Annual Top 10 Social Media Blog Contest

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 12:30:13 -0000

I would recommend Dustin Stout over at https://dustn.tv/

Re: Chrome and Firefox Brand The Pirate Bay As a “Phishing” Site…..Again

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 08:42:29 -0000

I've personally encountered legitimate Phishing attempts at both Pirate Bay and Extra Torrent. I keep seeing full page redirects that land on a page telling me that my computer is infected and my had drive will be deleted unless I install there software with exit popups warning me not to close the page or my drive will be deleted. That's definitely a scam worthy of being blocked.

Re: Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 10/03/16

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 14:27:11 -0000

Netflix does create excellent original content. I just watched the preview for that movie per your recommendation here and it really does look terrific. The overall concept does look like a total ripoff of Edge of Tomorrow, but I don't really care about that if it's executed really well. I'll probably watch this tonight, in fact. Thanks for the recommendation.

Re: Anti-Piracy Outfits Caught Fabricating Takedown Notices

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 21:00:14 -0000

I agree. It should be a minimum percentage and a minimum quantity. For example, if a self-published author sends out a request with 50 links and 1 or 2 or those links contain a typo, no big deal. He or she made a mistake and are just trying to protect their hard work.

But if someone sends thousands and thousands or URL's to take down and the percentage is 5% or greater (or some reasonable amount) of invalid URLs then the entire request should be invalid or the recipient should be eligible for some compensation of some sort or something.

Re: Anti-Piracy Outfits Caught Fabricating Takedown Notices

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 20:52:47 -0000

For that matter, couldn't you replace the domain with the specific URL on that domain that you're going to automatically add to the takedown notice?

Re: Chrome and Firefox Block Pirate Bay Over “Harmful Programs”

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 16:57:08 -0000

I don't have a problem with this. I've been seeing full page redirects to pages that warn to not close the browsing window or tab or my computer hard drive will be deleted. Instead, I'm told to download and install their program to get rid of the virus. I've been seeing some of those both at The Pirate Bay and at Extra Torrent.

I don't have a problem giving those guys some advertising revenue when I'm on their site, but advertising like that is straight up sickening.

Re: Preserving Sharing Counts When Migrating to HTTPS or Another Domain

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 12:54:35 -0000

Hey Randy! Thanks so much for mentioning our plugin here.

Tadeusz, yeah, basically you have to ask those networks for the share count of two different URL's and then add them together like they highlighted in the article above. In our plugin, we do all the hard work for you. You just fill in a few boxes to let us know what your previous URL structure looked like and then we check both formats for you.

Here's a link to the plugin home page just in case it is something in which you are interested: https://warfareplugins.com/

Re: Swedish ISP Attacks Copyright Trolls, Over Trademark Infringement

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 20:08:55 -0000

Does anyone know why ISP's do log those IP addresses? I'm sure there are a lot of reasons entirely unrelated to copyright and privacy issues that compel them to do so. I'd be interested to hear any input from anyone who might know why.

Re: Google Pixel XL (HTC Marlin) appeared in GeekBench

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 19:31:29 -0000

Do you know what kind of resolution this phone is going to have?

Re: An Absurdly Reasonable Conversation With The Founder Of Snip.ly In Which We Vehemently Disagree Without Yelling Or Name Calling

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 19:09:39 -0000

I agree with you wholeheartedly!

Re: The One Business Question You Need To Ask If You Want Successful Marketing

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 11:38:32 -0000

"Marketers get so mad when you knock down a marketing tactic..." I think that's because too many marketers are making their way living on cheesy, shallow posts that are simply regurgitating ideas that sound neat.

8:30 That's what I call "Marketers marketing to marketers about marketing"

Re: Dilbert for 1989-04-16

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 11:08:53 -0000

Wow. This has been a fun journey.

Re: Nominate Your Favorite Social Media Blog: 6th Annual Top 10 Social Media Blog Contest

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 12:57:31 -0000

I nominate Dustin Stout's blog. http://dustn.tv/

Re: 3 Social Sharing Plugins for WordPress

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 13:54:46 -0000

Brendan,

I'm the developer over at Social Warfare and I completely agree with your remarks.

1. The page load issue is true for our home page. Right now we're just using an out of the box template with very few modifications and we don't have a caching plugin running. The plugin itself, however, is very well optimized. All images are highly compressed and hosted on CDN's, etc.

2. The try before you buy is a great idea which we are currently working on. We're hoping to have a free version ready to release by the beginning of the year. We'll see how that goes.

Re: 15 People Ruining Social Media

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:28:08 -0000

Ha ha. Well said. I only mentioned that because I knew of one particular "social media" expert who was literally living with his parents because he couldn't pay his rent.

Re: 15 People Ruining Social Media

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:18:54 -0000

I think you should have added "The Self-Proclaimed Expert" to the list. The person who lives in their grandmother's basement and posts non-stop updates about how to build massive online influence and make tons of cash online.

This is just one of my pet peeves and was not intended to be a jab at anyone in particular...especially if you currently live in your grandmother's basement.

Re: How to Reduce Camera Shake – 6 Techniques

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 12:30:12 -0000

I've noticed a lot of shake in my photos especially when attempting to create HDR composites. When snapping photos one after the other you can really see the shake a lot more than with only one photos. I'm definitely going to test these out and see which ones really work for me. Thanks!

Re: Stop Deleting Content!

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:00:06 -0000

I totally understand your point here. It would be like a corporation moving in and buying out a unique public library. I library that is filled with books that were only ever printed one time and can only be found in that library. Just before the wrecking ball strikes, they load as many books as they can fit into a wheelbarrow and carry them off to their new headquarters. The authors and the community would be shocked. Understandably so.

Re: How do you people find me?

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:11:30 -0000

Oh my goodness. I'm laughing so hard at these. I don't care if this is 2 years old. These are so funny! You need to do a new post with some of the search phrases that you were spouting off on Twitter. They are as golden as these ones are.

Re: Twitter Profiles: You Eggheads Crack Me Up

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:05:08 -0000

I was laughing so hard as I read through your list here. Great work, Barry. You're writing is as awesome as ever. But I have a question. What are you supposed to do if you're as ugly as I am? I can't be waving my picture around all over the internet. It might break something.

Re: Working MySQL 5.1+ Levenshtein Stored Procedure

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:59:25 -0000

Thanks, mate. I actually figured that out shortly after my initial inquiry. I actually had a different error in my syntax that was throwing it off. Good 'ol echo mysql_error() got me back on the straight narrow.

Re: Working MySQL 5.1+ Levenshtein Stored Procedure

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 12:16:43 -0000

Okay. Now I have a follow up question. Is there a way to make this case insensitive when running the comparison?

Re: Working MySQL 5.1+ Levenshtein Stored Procedure

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 23:42:36 -0000

After trying for hours to find something that worked, I copied and pasted this into a SQL query in phpMyAdmin and it worked like a charm on the first attempt. Thanks so much for making it so incredibly easy.