Disqus - Friends of jeancharles

Re: Delicious 2.0: Who bookmarks any more?

plerudulier — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:05:48 -0000

I would agree with you and... disagree at the same time. I guess ever since Del.icio.us hit the market other competitors emerged and, in time, several took their share in what del.icio.us could pretend once to have the monopoly. The reason is: there are several ways of bookmarking because there are as many intentions when one wants to save a link.
The way I personally bookmark:
1 - a site: Stumbleupon
2 - an article, more specifically: Diigo (with our without addition of a sticky)
3 - a content I want to retrieve and won't be certain to retrieve whenever I'll need it: Google notebook
4 - an article I don't care to keep but want to share with others: Facebook this, Friendfeed this, Twine this, Tumblr this, etc. depending on whom it may best/most concern (friends, colleagues, business partners, people you only know from have friended them via various platforms, ...)
5 - anything else (and sometimes redundant with a/m bookmarking facilities): del.icio.us. A word concerning the latter: Many a time I've found better quality infos (and faster too) using del.icio.us than merely googling for them.

Many ways of bookmarking because what is ... bookmark-able is also very diverse.

My 2 cts.

Re: Intersections: Twitter, Track, and CNN

plerudulier — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:56:46 -0000

Let's have conversation and particularly comments take central stage instead of having them marginally count and put behind mere votes/clicks/duggs and what have you.

Re: New Journalism

plerudulier — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:47:38 -0000

Several ways of considering safety:
- personal safety like disclosing where you live, you phone number(s), you bank card number + pin, etc.
- protecting yourself from spam
- protecting your privacy, your intimacy, your secret garden.

Much depend on who you deal with: family, friends, colleagues, total strangers from across the globe,...

Answer to each question (plus others I haven't listed here) depends on everybody's personality, human values, confidence in others, in themselves.

Re: Lapin's log - À compter du 12 janvier 2009, tout voyageur...

plerudulier — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:17:35 -0000

avec un yahoo pipe spécifiquement dédié à ça, voilà comment s'en souvenir.

Re: Twitternomics: How Will Twitter Make Money, Not Whether Twitter Will Make Money

plerudulier — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:49:38 -0000

As sad as it may sound I believe more in alternative solutions to Twitter than in Twitter itself. Although it is Twitter that first paved the path to microblogging others might actually benefit from that idea. I have in mind Yammer which cleverly aims at companies and would sell specific admin tools.
On a broader scale the business models for web2.0 apps can only be the same as they were for web1.0 or for any other businesses for that matter:
- appealing customers.
- selling them extra features.
- keeping them by constantly creating added values.

Re: Lapin's log - “… Je pense qu’il vaut mieux que les français...

plerudulier — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:20:09 -0000

On l’on occulte et escamote en sous-entendant que l’ouverture des magasins le Dimanche est OK. Quant au point de vue, il reste très discutable.

Re: Metaphor: The Workstream as Subject Only Emails

plerudulier — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:55:12 -0000

One might argue that, like the distributed water cooler or the coffee machine, one is not supposed to remain there all day long. Like there are times for checking out e-mails and others for logging off and get actually some work done I don't see how yet another stream of infos, although offloaded from the inbox, can prove any relevance in the context of work.
For the record I'm all for using alternative tools to e-mails but so far failed to find sound arguments and strong examples to back up any of them (wikis, blogs, twitter-likes, etc.)

Re: Get Satisfaction Announces Socialized Ad Policy

plerudulier — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:36:04 -0000

As much as I can see the advantage for active participants and, even, 'Get Satisfaction' to not be subject to (too much) advertisement I see here a problem for companies at the origin of the ads themselves: who originally pays for 'Get Satisfaction' to remain online?
Mind you I'm not advocating advertisement here but wish to point out a problem of wrong (and simplistic) message being conveyed: implying that advertisement is plainly bad.

Re: Tumblr Fing

plerudulier — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:14:19 -0000

-Interesting online app. Strange thing I noticed (but maybe it is my browser that hasn't parsed it correctly) is that it's their icon that shows up in the URL field but HP's...
- application interessante. Une chose étrange que j'ai noté (mais peut-être est-ce mon navigateur qui ne l'a pas bien 'traduit') est que ce n'est pas leur icone qui apparait dans la champs de l'URL mais celui d'HP...

Re: Typepad Still Stuck In Second Gear

plerudulier — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:28:22 -0000

I used to be on LJ, left it at about the same time it was bought out by some Russian company (just coincidental). Was never attracted by any other platform 6Apart own(ed)s, be they Movable type, typepad or Vox. Moved to Wordpress instead.
Do you know Google trends? Here a little comparison for you: http://www.google.com/trend...
I haven't regretted moving. Maybe it's time for you to consider alternatives. Mine is not the only one.

Re: /Ambivalence

plerudulier — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:33:15 -0000

The term 'chaos' may be too strong a term. The Chinese economy has, more than ever before, the financial resources to go through this storm with better chances of overcoming it than indebted countries. The next step is developing its enormous internal market.

Re: Working On The Streamflow: A Microstreaming Workflow

plerudulier — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:15:31 -0000

You seem to totally overlook FriendFeed which could help addressing your problem. Part of it might be, pardon me in advance for saying this, that you persist in using Twitter. Go to your account on FF [https://friendfeed.com/account] have a look.

Re: 10 Predictions For 2009

plerudulier — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:50:36 -0000

"6 - Wikipedia board drops Jimmy Wales, switches to ad revenue model. Please."
Please what? That Wikipedia drops J.Wales or that it switches to ad revenue? I for one don't care about what happens to J.Wales, I care more that Wikipedia remains ad free (and, for the second year, donated in that regard).

Re: 10 Predictions For 2009

plerudulier — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:36:48 -0000

There is a certain sense of responsibility and ownership in donating that, I'm afraid, switching to a anonymous advert based model may loose.
Not that I own Wikipedia if I only donate a $100 but I feel more inclined to support it and, yes, advertise about it than I would if such a relationship disappeared.
This relation, in my opinion, is similar to the one those who contribute build in time with the site. This is in essence the type of relationship the Wiki concept is based upon.
Besides, isn't there a different business model than advertisement?

Re: FF2Disqus v0.3

plerudulier — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:15:26 -0000

If I understand correctly, since it's now FF->Disqus, whatever comment I write on FF will end up on Disqus... and this is where I get confused: why the addition of a blog (in my case I picked tumblr)?

Re: Facebook Connected

plerudulier — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:02:59 -0000

I have an account on both, Disqus and Facebook. I will continue to comment logged un Disqus as I have set up Friendfeed with all my social accounts something I only have partially done on Facebook.
Regarding your post am I glad Friendfeed appears to be too complicated (???) vs FB or Twitter. This results in a lot less noise there and generally more 'mature' inputs from the community.

Re: Bush slips in one more shot against France

plerudulier — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:19:39 -0000

Coming from someone who's been thrown shoes at what remains to be said that hasn't been already?
"Dear Mr President, take a walk with me..."

Re: Mashable on Tumblr - Kodak moment! Awww…a little gadget fan. (A...

plerudulier — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:33:28 -0000

Who is she? One of the president's daughter?

Re: 25 With A Bullet

plerudulier — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:47:00 -0000

I'd have to think long and hard to remember when I first came across your online existence. I think it was from a comment on someone else's torrential flow of tweets I was following (dumped since). I've become a regular viewer of your shows on Twit since then. Keep it up mister and congrats for a job well done.

Re: tumbléo

plerudulier — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:13:56 -0000

Excellent. Trader Joe's can't really endorse it as lyrics can be ... borderline rude but I have the feeling the guy who shot this and edited the video loves his trader Joe's.

Re: FingLive!

plerudulier — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:03:29 -0000

Personnellement j'en doute fortement. Peut-être plus exclusivement Geeky mais pas encore tout à fait mainstream.

Re: As the Twitter Tweets – the please shoot me now episode

plerudulier — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:10:41 -0000

if the business model consists in getting part of what mobile companies already charge customers for sending SMS's I'm all for it. If, on the other hand, said companies charge an extra, even though it would benefit Twitter, then I wouldn't be so pleased. Part of SMS's are exchanged because Twitter created the business, so to each his own.

Re: Please Retweet Me Makes Retweeting Dead Simple

plerudulier — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:40:49 -0000

I use Tweetree that, unlike the genuine Twitter website, allows retwitt(er?)ing. This said I don't see the point of using yet another website for only this purpose; like someone already commented here it looks like the perfect tool for chain letter, enough noise on Twitter already.

Re: If You Are Doing An Event, Bring Twitter Into The Room

plerudulier — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:49:50 -0000

"It is hard to moderate a conversation of 40 people and there are times when several people want to make a point but one gets the opportunity. I started to notice that the others would simply post their thought to twitter instead which allowed the rest of the room to see what they wanted to say in parallel with the point that was being made live."

Very clever indeed. One of the first time I actually read an application of Twitter with a positive aspect to it, professionally useful and, at last, convincing. I'll spread the word, thank you.

Re: Tired of Twitter Talk?

plerudulier — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:15:31 -0000

"Twitter is a big story, and getting bigger all the time. We talk about it because it’s one of the biggest stories of the day"
This is true and I, for one, am very happy about its success and continue to be delighted by the creativity of many apps that surround Twitter. Still, mentioning how many followers one has is considered a faux-pas, a major one at that, and it's not even news for that matter. Correct me if I'm wrong Twitter is not a popularity contest is it?