Disqus - Friends of justinhamilton

Re: ChrisRicca

ChrisRicca — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:23:04 -0000

I really like this song, and I'm testing out comments on Discus.

Re: Tumblr Hacks - Add comments to Tumblr with Disqus

ChrisRicca — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:13:37 -0000

Discus is a slick service, and ends up being a perfect pairing for Tumblr. Of course, they are both Union Square funded, so I wouldn't be surprised if Tumblr held off on comments knowing Discus was coming down the pipe.

Re: ChrisRicca

ChrisRicca — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:30:44 -0000

Merci! Thanks.

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

ChrisRicca — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:11:28 -0000

Word on the street is that Apple is working on haptic feedback, so the screen would be able to dynamically rise up to form keys when in keyboard mode. Full screen + a tactile keyboard. Fits in with the iPhone vision of a totally programmable interface.

http://www.appleinsider.com...

Re: ChrisRicca

ChrisRicca — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:04:05 -0000

Yeah, I was trying to figure out how best to bring in the funky, swung
Dota beat :) what do you think of the newer version?

Re: Heroku | Heroku & Redpoint Ventures

ChrisRicca — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:36:08 -0000

Check out the resources on editing your code locally using git and the heroku gem. The gem needs a little fiddling now and again, but it allows for a really great workflow. I wouldn't expect full dev. capabilities from the browser any time soon - the code has to run somewhere...

Git and Heroku:
http://blog.heroku.com/arch...

Re: Entrepreneur in Residence

ChrisRicca — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:30:34 -0000

That sounds like so much fun. Well played :)

Re: Whole lotta pups!

ChrisRicca — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:02:54 -0000

Awwwwww Cute!

Re: kenroy george

ChrisRicca — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:45:37 -0000

Congrats on the new Discus comments. Big fan of the DISCUS + Tumblr combo.

Re: a public post on Quil.us

ChrisRicca — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:28:19 -0000

So, this is a QUIL.US comment, eh?

Re: a public post on Quil.us

ChrisRicca — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:03:41 -0000

I've become somewhat enamored of this simple experiment. I would love to get ideas from people

Re: Eat.ly - Meal Tracking and Social Food Discovery

ChrisRicca — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:15:53 -0000

ewwwwww

Re: Eat.ly - Meal Tracking and Social Food Discovery

ChrisRicca — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:29:49 -0000

Wow that salad looks killer. Way to go foragers

Re: Eat.ly - Track, Share & Discover Great Food

ChrisRicca — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:19:23 -0000

health: 2/100

Re: 24 Hours of Gowalla and FourSquare

ChrisRicca — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:45:31 -0000

The subset of Foursquare users who signed up for SocialGreat shouldn't be considered typical ;). I would expect that number is closer to the Gowalla checkin rate, but still very interesting to see some rough numbers - thanks for the details.

As developers bring more useful interactions back to the user as the result of a checkin, I'd expect the checkin rate to continue to grow for foursquare as 3rd party apps help deliver niche location feedback to users. People will check in on the platform that gives them the most bang for their precious location info buck - which is why I'm baffled about Gowalla's strategy these days. They cling to their Elastic GPS restriction at the expense of a useful API. It's weird.

Re: New York Makes First Award: A BIG LASER!

ChrisRicca — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:05:22 -0000

Awesome! Congrats, Ben!

Re: The Google Buzz API is a Book Not an API

ChrisRicca — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:41:46 -0000

It's all about the API! But I do agree with some of the folks here. Gowalla is shooting themselves in the foot (or perhaps a more important body part) every week that passes without WRITE access. Buzz, on the other hand, will not live or die because their WRITE API is a month or two late. (not that it wouldn't have been a good idea in terms of using launch to gain developer momentum, just not mission critical like it is for a startup trying to define/own an API for a specific interface). Nice to have vs. Need to have?

Re: http://blog.chrisricca.com/post/390859652

ChrisRicca — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:06:23 -0000

Ha. There are certainly some important lessons for drop.io here -- but even after rich media there are a lot of opportunities for API interfaces that still need building. The trick is to use our perspective as developers to not only think about products we would like to build, but keep building the Internet that we wish we had at our disposal.

Re: The Google Buzz API is a Book Not an API

ChrisRicca — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:50:28 -0000

PubSubhubbub does mean realtime updates to apps, which is a crucial piece of the location API stack. Progress!

Re: Check.in Aims to Support Universal Location Checkins [INVITES]

ChrisRicca — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:18:25 -0000

How do they support Gowalla? Last time I checked, that API was read-only.

Re: On foursquare, cheating, and claiming mayorships from your couch…

ChrisRicca — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:20:33 -0000

How does this fit in with checkins via the API? (where lat/long can be sent as an optional, but unverified, parameter). Do you then use your aforementioned tricks?

Re: http://blog.chrisricca.com/post/428370632

ChrisRicca — Sat, 01 May 2010 16:10:30 -0000

You're definitely right on your first observation, though I wouldn't call it stupid behavior (not because I'm afraid of calling out the many stupid people on the web - but I think in this case we're the super techie-geeks) . In the middle of the adopter bell curve, the 'normals', you anecdotally see a whole lot more navigational search activity, which would explain the higher representation of facebook in searches. ( If you haven't read the comment thread on this ReadWriteWeb article that momentarily beat out the facebook login page for the top spot on Google search results for 'facebook login', it's an enlightening example of just how important navigational search is to the mainstream experience of the web: http://www.readwriteweb.com... )

Also, to get a better sense of who the normals are, check out this post: http://cdixon.org/2010/01/2...

But this popularity of Facebook with the average user is exactly what I'm pointing out. You are right, each tick in the graph *doesn't* necessarily represent one additional user (might be more, might be fewer), but it does suggest a fundamentally different stage of adoption.

I don't disagree with your other points when it comes to the behavior of techies. I would probably search on summize.com ;) for realtime tweets, but on the other hand I also find google to be the best way to search for older tweets (http://www.google.com/searc.... I don't think this kind of techie behavior is enough to move the needle, though.

What do you think?

Re: http://blog.chrisricca.com/post/428370632

ChrisRicca — Sat, 01 May 2010 18:19:00 -0000

Interesting comments on the Hacker News thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com...

Re: Console for Sinatra

ChrisRicca — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:34:40 -0000

Wow, So simple and useful. I couldn't figured out what was going on for a second, and then I realized it's using require! To generalize the option, if you wanted to open up irb with access to someawesomegem, you can do irb -r rubygems -r someawesomegem. Should save a second or three. ;)

Re: HTML5: SEO Incompatibility

ChrisRicca — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:41:33 -0000

...Why wouldn't you use h2s for the article titles in the HTML5 example? Even if you are using h1s for the article titles, there's still an implied hierarchy, though in a new style. The second h1s are nested down in a child document of the first. That seems to be an appropriate signal to a search engine that they aren't on the same level in terms of importance.