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Re: Riding towards a more cycle-friendly Joburg

niksmit — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:16:14 -0000

These kind of people make the world at least 143% better. Good on them.

Re: Startup Mullings - The Startup Advantage: Details, Details, Details

niksmit — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:54:37 -0000

Would like to provide a counter point here. Every code change you make has a future tax. Whether you're a startup or a large corporate. That trivial change you mentioned, is a trivial change now. But 2 months from now, when you make some other change to that calendar system, it now has the chance to become a bug. Suddenly you discover that it doesn't work correctly in region X on browser Y. But now your users expect it, so you must fix it and maintain it forever. Feature Z you want to add on that page now needs to be aware of this auto-updating feature. Soon your precious little resource in a startup is being wasted on things that ultimately added little value, as compared to making progress on the big stuff everyone will notice. If your system has loads of unnecessary items like that, your system gets more and more complex, more likely to break, and less likely to quickly iterate - which is what every startup should be aiming for. Its not a lack of empathy for user that drives stuff like this - its making sure you have the resources and flexibility to address empathy where and when it definitely matters.

Re: Zotero vs. EndNote

niksmit — Thu, 05 May 2011 11:19:58 -0000

That's great Brian - just give me a shout if you have any queries at all. Its got an interesting roadmap ahead of it, and we love shaping it with feedback from those that use this kind of software all day long.

Re: Zotero vs. EndNote

niksmit — Thu, 05 May 2011 07:10:36 -0000

If you're looking for solid research PDF management software, check out Qiqqa (http://www.qiqqa.com). It's Windows only right now, but offers very similar features to what's discussed here, including syncing, as well as some unique features not found elsewhere.

If you work with a lot of PDFs, you'll love it. It's OCR and search is particularly strong.

It's also free.

(Ok yes, I am a developer on it, but take a look - you might find it to be just what you're looking for )

Re: 6 Online Business Card Tools To Spread Your Personal Brand

niksmit — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:49:34 -0000

Was a temporary blip - back up.

Re: Mono on Android, update - Miguel de Icaza

niksmit — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:44:39 -0000

I would also love to know of any updates on this. Guy, if you come across anything, any chance of letting me know? niksmit [at] google's email service - thanks a stack.

Re: Twitter Travel Apps & Sites

niksmit — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:24:14 -0000

Inoqo - www.inoqo.com - TRUE last-moment hotel offers, in real-time, via twitter, for 100 global cities.

Re: Albumcoverama

niksmit — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:57:59 -0000

Awesome!

Re: HOW TO: Manage Multiple Social Media Profiles

niksmit — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:39:15 -0000

Some interesting ideas in your post - understand your need for the API. Would be great to have you as a tester on that - I'll definitely ping you closer to the time - thanks.

If anyone else is interested in similar access, please do drop me a line at retaggr.com/Contact

Thanks!

Re: HOW TO: Manage Multiple Social Media Profiles

niksmit — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:08:50 -0000

@ahynes1 The good news is that a Retaggr API is in the works :)

Re: Retaggr adds Lifestreaming to their Ultimate Profile Service

niksmit — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:42:03 -0000

Thanks very much for the post Mark.

I would like to call out two other new features real quick, as they were the most asked for by Retaggr users: - themes, - and the ability to put your profile under your own domain name. Both help to let you really own your profile.

Thanks again for the comments - please shout if you have any further ideas/comments/suggestions - we love feedback.

Re: Twitter lays the foundation for it’s revenue model

niksmit — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:22:08 -0000

Gnipcentral.com provides an invaluable service in this area... we use them for Retaggr.

Their offering is not 100% complete, but they already have a charging scheme in place for heavy consumers of twitter (and other publishers') data.

Re: Create Your Own Web Footprint Page:Extendr

niksmit — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:20:29 -0000

Retaggr has two main features, the business card, and the new "Retaggr Page". Both are powered by your same Retaggr profile.

While I agree with you that the card is somewhat compact, the Retaggr page is very clear in terms of what the icons mean, with everything laid out neatly and categorized. You can also home it under your own domain name.

http://www.retaggr.com/home... for more info.

Re: :) &роидами для &роидов (:

niksmit — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:54:01 -0000

Lol :)

Maybe if she'd called it Spinach Home Edition Premium?

Re: Cloud computing brings us rain

niksmit — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:19:37 -0000

Agreed. Its a bit premature, but we have to start somewhere. The current incarnation of cloud apps solves problems in certain well defined areas, but not all, and has its vulnerabilities.

But traditional apps in the traditional environment have their limitations and risks too, as emsquared pointed out.

I agree with you Roland - we need an umbrella - but its not too hard to imagine a future where the cloud *is* reliable, and we stop thinking about it - like electricity.

Re: louisgray.com: As I Get Older, Some Online "Friending" Gets Creepier

niksmit — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:28:58 -0000

My 2c is that there's something incredibly wrong with inhibiting totally positive innocent actions (like just being friendly to someone 10 years younger than you, or helping a young child across the street) because of some *possible* *perceived* social infraction.

Only the guilty should feel guilty,but recently our societal norms seem to reinforce this collective guilt idea. At the risk of sounding like a hippy, we need all the positivity,mentoring, and free exchange of ideas we can get - not less.

Surely we should be judging people based on what they do - a meritocracy. The internet is fantastic in levelling the playing fields (location, gender, race, etc.) - (further hippy alert) ideally those ideas would become more expressed in the real world too.

I agree with Peter - how we deal with this online will either further encourage the media sensationalisation, or perhaps curb it. Actually discussing it is a great first step though, as I think a lot of people keep these thoughts in their heads, and end up just erring on the side of caution by default.

Re: Retaggr – An Interactive Business Card

niksmit — Fri, 30 May 2008 05:20:52 -0000

Hi Corvida!

Thanks for checking out retaggr :) We're just getting going, so any feedback is welcome.

Couldn't agree with your more - customization is a key part of a card like this, and it's on our todo list. Ultimately you will have a large amount of control over how your card looks.

They key part about retaggr that makes it interesting though is that it follows you around the web. It really is quite different in its focus than mybloglog.

With retaggr, if you comment on another (retaggr enabled) website, your Profile Card will be left there, against your comment, as a popup. When your readers are looking at comments, they can now find out exactly who the commentor is, without leaving your site, and interact with the widgets in the card.

For the blog, this is great, as it adds a whole bunch of relevance and encourages a community that know each other better.

For the person leaving the comment, its good because they can get better visibility on their online life (if they choose), be contactable, and express themself business-wise, or personally.

A good example is this very comment. It will automatically go into my Disqus widget on my card. But I use cocomment too and unfortunately my cocomment comments are invisible to your users. My retaggr card has both, so on a retaggr enabled blog they would see a complete picture.

p.s Great site - added it straight into my RSS reader :)

Re: Disqus - the non-stupid version

niksmit — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:46:02 -0000

The points raised about SEO are valid. Perhaps theres a possible solution involving robots.txt (or similar) to point spiders towards disqus for the content....