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Re: SFoodie - Noah Sanders - Ritual's Tex Bohlin Talks Competitive Coffee and Raw Steak Whip Cream at the Southwest Regional Barista Championships

Niall Kennedy — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:39:22 -0000

Did you attend SWRBC and take that photo from behind the prep station? It looks a lot like you just grabbed my photo and presented it as your own.
http://www.flickr.com/photo...

Re: TechCrunch not dead yet

Niall Kennedy — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:30:56 -0000

"they tend to give lowball figures for sites who don't sign up for (or stop using) expensive direct measurement services"

Load TechCrunch.com. View source. Search for "scorecardresearch.com" or "COMSCORE." Beacon fires with the pageload. There could be sampling happening but direct measurement is available for the site.

Re: Damnit Amex, Give Me A Credit Card

Niall Kennedy — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:04:52 -0000

If you are willing to share your new home billing address I can look into why you may have been denied by American Express. Email is best, no need for excited engineers to invade your home.

Re: Please fix WordPress for podcast feeds. (Scripting News)

Niall Kennedy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:11:55 -0000

I noticed your MP3 file stored on S3 returns a Content-Type of binary/octet-stream. Seems like a bigger issue than the publishing platform, as podcast consumers or direct file browsers might not accept files with MIME types other than audio/* .

Loading the direct URI in Safari results in a download instead of being automatically handled by the browser. Loading the URI directly on the iPhone fails.

curl -I http://mp3.morningcoffeenot...
"""
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amz-id-2: XhuaY2s50d2xYTXvOoK7OQwIkQM7+y/O+U03z6njGIyQTnoJeItFBDI1V3fm6FZw
x-amz-request-id: 9656767E7DD020D3
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:57:38 GMT
x-amz-meta-s3fox-filesize: 43235806
x-amz-meta-s3fox-modifiedtime: 1268071380000
Last-Modified: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:04:02 GMT
ETag: "1a70e610628aadd8aa15a26cfcf23a57"
Content-Type: binary/octet-stream
Content-Length: 43235806
Server: AmazonS3
"""

Re: Twitter Raising New Cash At $250 Million Valuation

Niall Kennedy — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:23:05 -0000

Your previous funding number is off by millions of dollars according to more factual Reg-D filings.

Re: Episode 6: Sizzling Open FX

Niall Kennedy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:18:39 -0000

The audio quality seemed worse than normal, with audible feedback and background conversations blending into the podcast audio. The content was good enough I put up with the bad audio quality but each participant could step into a quiet room while recording.

Re: Widget Summit

Niall Kennedy — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:39:15 -0000

Thanks for the mention. I'll also be posting session summaries in 140 characters or less over at @widgetsummit on Twitter.

Re: http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/09/orkut-on-the-iphone-%e2%80%94-a-brazilian-socialites-dream-come-true/

Niall Kennedy — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:50:01 -0000

Orkut announced a version of their mobile website optimized for iPhone OS's Mobile Safari browser, but not an installable application. Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn have applications available for the iPhone OS installed via the App Store.

Re: Help, I’m clueless about Web Service scalability

Niall Kennedy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:06:58 -0000

What are your current bottlenecks? If you could install a new piece of software or rack a new piece of hardware tomorrow to solve key pain points, what would it do?

Re: Adobe Confirms Flash for iPhone, Awaits Apple’s Approval

Niall Kennedy — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:38:45 -0000

Hi. You used my Creative Commons By-Attribution Non-Commercial photograph on this very commercial blog. Please remove the photo or discuss licensing.

Re: The Scoble Top Tech Blogger/FriendFeed/Social Media List

Niall Kennedy — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:00:20 -0000

Actually spend most of my time these days on Widget Summit, my third-annual widgets conference, and syndication consulting.

Re: Yammer+Takes+Top+Prize+At%26nbsp%3BTechCrunch50

Niall Kennedy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:39:45 -0000

The winning company, Geni, has about $11.5 million in funding through its corporate parent. A runner-up, Grockit, has raised $10.7 million. Last year's winner, Mint Software, had already raised $5.5 million.

It's not the raw and new type of startup you'd expect to see coming out and meeting an overwhelming market demand at a conference such as TC50. Good marketing opportunity for the company on stage for sure, but a contrast with the scrappy types of companies Mike tends to get most excited about.

Re: Can you recommend me a good speech to text for Seesmic?

Niall Kennedy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:06:57 -0000

The best audio search technology comes out of the government labs. You can benefit from the same technology used in wiretaps a few years ago. Check out derivatives of the BBN Technologies AVOKE system such as EveryZing or Delve Networks.

Re: What are the best rules to optimize a site for Google? Can you recommend someone to help?

Niall Kennedy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:43:49 -0000

Hi Loïc,
Take a look at my state of multimedia search blog posts from 2006: the state of image search, the state of audio search, and the state of video search. My most recent blog post on optimizing Flash for Google also applies.

Re: What’s the Persona of Your Company? Examining the LinkedIn Company Directory

Niall Kennedy — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:27:25 -0000

Tenure data does not necessarily correlate to employee retention data, especially for new and/or growing companies.

LinkedIn calculates a tenure number for employees in their current position. If you have been employed at Forrester since October you currently have a 6-month tenure at the company. Lots of new hires will skew the tenure number, showing the average person working at a growing company such as Facebook has been there X months.

Niall Kennedy — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:13:18 -0000

I visited Blue Bottle Mint Plaza this morning for espresso, siphon, and breakfast. I took lots of pictures, now uploaded to Flickr.

Re: Vitality – what’s next?

Niall Kennedy — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:34:38 -0000

Facebook offers subscriptions for many of its features, including posted items, notifications, and status updates. Most feeds are added to web-based feed readers (My Yahoo!, Google Reader, Bloglines, etc.) and might expose private user data through each site's search function in the process. Syndicating an individual's personal data can be a bit tricky, and many companies err on the side of privacy/safety.

Adding secure communication to each feed (HTTPS) with proper per-user authentication is one way to address the issue but likely raises the support cost. We usually let users experiment with advanced features that could possibly cause injury, but in this case they might also expose the personal crushes, activities, or fears of their 200 closest "friends."

Re: Blog Tracking Services Compromise Online Bank Security?

Niall Kennedy — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:40:49 -0000

I am guessing Citibank is warning you about the Firefox extensions and other browser modifications that may scan the page looking for actionable objects. A service such as coComment might sniff for comment boxes such as this one looking for an opportunity to send that comment field to its remote web service for storage and indexing.

Were you running Firefox? The Citibank page could look for certain JS variables present in the DOM and send you a warning. Gmail currently issues tips/warnings for its members with Firebug turned on for example.

Re: Blog Tracking Services Compromise Online Bank Security?

Niall Kennedy — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:40:49 -0000

Re: Roll Your Own Widgets With OS X Leopard

Niall Kennedy — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:17:15 -0000

A subset of Netvibes and iGoogle widgets will work in Dashboard. Netvibes and iGoogle are personalized homepage providers, not desktop providers as you mention above.

Netvibes <acronym title="Universal Widget API">UWA</acronym> serves widgets as a stand-alone web page individually accessible from any browser, including the WebKit (Safari-light) powered Dashboard. Older Netvibes widgets, or inline widgets dependent on other on-page modules and functionality, will not work outside the Netvibes.com homepage.

Google Gadgets for Your Webpage are stand-alone web pages served by Google and will also work within the WebKit rendering engine. Inline gadgets or gadgets that have specified no syndicated distribution will not be available in stand-alone environments such as Dashboard.

Web Clips lets any Leopard user view any webpage inside a smaller viewing window and offset to the location of their choice.

Re: Widget Summit, a conference done right

Niall Kennedy — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:53:21 -0000

Thanks! Mike Davidson kicked off some interesting badge discussions in April. The comment thread includes design experts weighing in on the proper font usage, spacing, and the size of the conference logo on your badge.

Disqus - Latest Comments for niallkennedy

Re: SFoodie - Noah Sanders - Ritual's Tex Bohlin Talks Competitive Coffee and Raw Steak Whip Cream at the Southwest Regional Barista Championships

Re: TechCrunch not dead yet

Re: Damnit Amex, Give Me A Credit Card

Re: Please fix WordPress for podcast feeds. (Scripting News)

Re: Twitter Raising New Cash At $250 Million Valuation

Re: Episode 6: Sizzling Open FX

Re: Widget Summit

Re: http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/09/orkut-on-the-iphone-%e2%80%94-a-brazilian-socialites-dream-come-true/

Re: Help, I’m clueless about Web Service scalability

Re: Adobe Confirms Flash for iPhone, Awaits Apple’s Approval

Re: The Scoble Top Tech Blogger/FriendFeed/Social Media List

Re: Yammer+Takes+Top+Prize+At%26nbsp%3BTechCrunch50

Re: Can you recommend me a good speech to text for Seesmic?

Re: What are the best rules to optimize a site for Google? Can you recommend someone to help?

Re: What’s the Persona of Your Company? Examining the LinkedIn Company Directory

Re: Blue Bottle CafÃ© Opens, Features $20K Siphon Bar Coffee Machine

Re: Vitality – what’s next?

Re: Blog Tracking Services Compromise Online Bank Security?

Re: Blog Tracking Services Compromise Online Bank Security?

Re: Roll Your Own Widgets With OS X Leopard

Re: Widget Summit, a conference done right