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Re: Value to the audience

bunnyhero — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:16:29 -0000

maybe the audience needs more power (or rather, needs encouragement to use its power). a tougher audience might mean fewer pure product pitches. i know at democamp 12 (the only one i’ve been to) you reminded the audience that since it was a *camp, we were expected to ask questions and interact during the presentations… perhaps we are just too polite and need more prodding to get out of our shells :P

or maybe more tools. it’s unfortunate that at no regrets the wifi seemed limited, so there was no opportunity for backchannel.

ponders

Re: Disqus comments on WordPress

bunnyhero — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:31:34 -0000

testing?

Re: » Idée Tineye in limited beta - We have invitations | StartupNorth

bunnyhero — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:12:12 -0000

doh! too late for me :(

Re: PHP vs Perl comparison: the Perl view

bunnyhero — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:26:49 -0000

that lexical scope thing bites me SO OFTEN. i keep forgetting i have to do "global $x" in functions where i want to use something in global scope and i wonder why things aren't working. argh!

Re: Localization in China

bunnyhero — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:14:56 -0000

i'm definitely looking forward to your future articles!

Re: Idée Tineye in limited beta - We have invitations

bunnyhero — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:12:12 -0000

doh! too late for me :(

Re: Facebook’s Poor Messaging System

bunnyhero — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:50:00 -0000

more and more people i know are using facebook messaging instead of email. i sure wish i could export my facebook messages for backup, since it's getting more and more important...

Re: I’m really liking San Francisco

bunnyhero — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:27:28 -0000

i miss san francisco. i lived there 8 years, and for various reasons i returned to canada. like you said, it's a little world of its own, and within that each neighbourhood is like its own little pocket world.

Re: 2006/11/30/bunnyhero-labs-the-massive-myspace-phenomenon-youve-never-heard-of/

bunnyhero — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:31:01 -0000

thanks for the write-up!

your criticisms are definitely spot-on. note that bunnyhero labs was originally not conceived as a widget site-- it started out as a place for me to experiment with stuff (hence the "labs"), but the adoptable pets became surprisingly popular, first on livejournal, then xanga, and now myspace. that's why the site's organization is a bit odd. i think i might like to give the pets a domain of their own, but bunnyheropets.com is taken. i'll think of something.... in the meantime, i should give the home page a makeover as you suggested.

and yes, it still is a one-man show. i haven't been giving enough time to developing new content recently (i was very busy all of november with something totally unrelated). and pete cashmore's answer to jordan mitchell's question is correct :)

thanks again, i feel quite honoured to have been noticed by mashable :D

Re: 2006/12/11/capazoo-rivals-wallop-social-networking-in-flash/

bunnyhero — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:05:26 -0000

alas, i cannot really see anything on capazoo without creating an account first. at least mooble lets you do that. that's definitely something myspace got right: just viewing a basic profile does not require registration. seeing any extra goodies (like extra pictures) *does* require sign-up. i think that's just about the right amount of carrot, so to speak... with capazoo (and wallop, so far, for that matter), there's no incentive for me to sign up, without a free sample first.

Re: 2006/12/14/bebo-widgets/

bunnyhero — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:26:02 -0000

yeah, i wish it wasn't closed, either :( my pets used to work on bebo, but no longer.

i will have to look into their widget program.

Re: 2006/12/22/widgets/

bunnyhero — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:19:19 -0000

haha, this ballot wasn't open for very long was it? i just found out about it now. ah well :)

Re: 2006/12/22/widgets/

bunnyhero — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:22:32 -0000

i'm really confused, actually. the front page says that voting is over? but these posts are still open for comments. and if voting ended on friday night, then voting (for this category anyway) was only open less than 24 hours! seems like a strange way to run an award, but that's just me ;)

Re: 2006/12/24/top-social-networks-2006/

bunnyhero — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 13:54:37 -0000

i would also like to chime in and say that more time should have been given for the people's votes. especially for the later categories! i didn't even find out about being nominated until it was too late to put a button on my site or anything. and i think voting was open for less than a day on the widgets category. seems a bit silly.

Re: Photobucket, BuddyLube Snag Top MySpace Artists

bunnyhero — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:18:27 -0000

haha, maybe an "annoying audio" warning would be in order for that buddylube link :)

Re: MySpace Blocks MySpace Tracker (Updated)

bunnyhero — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:46:55 -0000

i have to admit that myspace's habit of arbitrarily blocking sites without any explanation or warning often makes me nervous.

Re: MySpace Blocks MySpace Tracker (Updated)

bunnyhero — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:27:38 -0000

when i say it makes me nervous, i mean as a widget developer. i don't think that was clear in my original comment :)

as for dynamic php-style addresses in embedded content (be it image or otherwise), i've had to get around that kind of thing using url rewriting on the server side (so something like /widget/parm-parm-parm.png gets converted internally to /widget.php?parm&parm&parm). it's not just myspace that does this, i think, but i honestly don't remember where else i ran into this...

Re: MySpace Blocks MySpace Tracker (Updated)

bunnyhero — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:18:33 -0000

riiiiiight...

Re: 2007/01/12/aol-napster-sidekiq-mapwing-helphee/

bunnyhero — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:00:17 -0000

actually i know that the help page on my site could use a LOT of improving... as well as the help pages of other sites. still, a small market, to be sure.

Re: 2007/01/18/myspace-disables-flash/

bunnyhero — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:08:52 -0000

i got a few tech support emails today regarding my pets not being embeddable into myspace. what's interesting is that i looked at the code on their profiles and the embed tag was transformed quite a bit more than is usual on myspace. usually myspace just add attributes like 'allowNetworking="internal"' and such, but this time the embed tag was completely reformatted and [param] tags inserted, as though it was to be used by an [object] tag.

curiouser and curiouser!

Re: 2007/01/18/myspace-disables-flash/

bunnyhero — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:10:35 -0000

oh, sorry, i didn't read comment #14 fully. yeah, that seems to be a reasonable guess...

Re: 2007/01/18/myspace-disables-flash/

bunnyhero — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 04:08:34 -0000

aha!

i've been playing around a little more, and it seems that the new filtering blocks QUICKTIME completely!

i can now see why they don't use "embed" at ALL: the object tag can force the mimetype of the embedded content, whereas the embed tag cannot (i believe). in the past, myspace has tried to block certain kinds of embedded content via filename extension, but that can be easily circumvented on the server side (e.g. serving up a quicktime movie that is named 'movie.swf'). now ALL embeds are forced to be flash, so even if you try to serve up a quicktime movie (or some other kind of media), it'll be loaded by the flash plugin. no more quicktime worms... and no more quicktime of any sort on myspace.

Re: 2007/01/18/myspace-disables-flash/

bunnyhero — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:04:00 -0000

hmmm. i was wrong, the embed tag does have a type attribute as well. i shouldn't post at 5 AM, haha. regardless, the filtering breaks quicktime completely.

Re: 2007/02/23/youtube-skins/

bunnyhero — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:13:24 -0000

it's a good idea, but also very easy to implement, if it's just a graphical border around the standard youtube player (which is what it looks like from here, i haven't tried it). if it catches on, i wouldn't be surprised if every myspace code/layout site adds their own.

Re: 2007/02/23/youtube-skins/

bunnyhero — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:01:21 -0000

oh, i am wrong, it's not just a frame, it's more advanced than that. pretty cool.

Re: Is Stripe Generator a Joke?

bunnyhero — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:52:44 -0000

heh, fun. i'm surprised the preview doesn't update in real time, though. maybe in the next version?

Re: Best MySpace Layouts That Don’t Look Like MySpace At All

bunnyhero — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:26:29 -0000

i'm always most impressed by the ones that use the actual myspace elements (like mikeindustries' layout) rather than just hiding everything and adding new stuff on top.

i wonder if there's a myspace layout that makes your myspace profile look like facebook!

Re: 2007/06/14/iphone-apps/

bunnyhero — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:45:46 -0000

"Ol' Steve claims that it will all work out when Apple signs a special deal with YouTube, and YouTube re-encodes their videos to H.264 format, just to please all us iPhone fans."

didn't they already sign this re-encoding deal for AppleTV?

Re: 2007/07/20/myspace-blocks-the-letter-i/

bunnyhero — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:35:03 -0000

hmmm. might be fixed now? i just made a blog post and it seems to be ok.

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=bl...

Re: 2007/12/21/fuser-facebook-application/

bunnyhero — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:57:33 -0000

this definitely looks useful!

i noticed that (at least on firefox/win) it uses a signed java applet. it's possible that this applet could potentially get around any myspace blocking, because requests to myspace could be sent from the user's own computer.

Re: 2007/12/26/fast-company-mashable/

bunnyhero — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:54:53 -0000

congrats! mashable has become essential reading for me.

Re: 2007/12/25/drama-20-predicts-what-wont-happen-in-2008/

bunnyhero — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:01:43 -0000

amen to prediction #5. the so-called blogosphere is an echo chamber and it only seems to be getting worse. we'll here more about the projects of the in-crowd and less about innovation on the fringes as the new media starts to resemble old media more and more.

wow that sounded grumpy! must be the grinch in me :D

Re: URL Toolbox: 90+ URL Shortening Services

bunnyhero — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:24:27 -0000

i agree with alex. this is a useless article :(

Re: 2008/01/13/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-treads-lightly-in-60-minutes-interview/

bunnyhero — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:06:39 -0000

of course age and wisdom don't necessarily go hand-in-hand, but there is a lot to be said for experience, and the older you get, the more chances you have to gain it.

Re: 2008/03/12/live-journal-user-board-members/

bunnyhero — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:21:58 -0000

meanwhile... have you seen the blow-up over livejournal's removal of basic (no-ad) accounts?

http://news.livejournal.com/106731.html?thread=...

even brad fitzpatrick is pissed, especially since he's on the advisory board and his advice seems to have been ignored: http://brad.livejournal.com/2368071.html

Re: 2008/04/17/deviantart/

bunnyhero — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:32:46 -0000

is there any way for you to improve the audio quality in these interviews? i like the podcast but it's always kind of uncomfortable to listen to.

Re: 2008/04/21/twitter-usability-poll/

bunnyhero — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:49:04 -0000

there should be a poll "how messed up is mashable for you right now?" i tried voting on the poll and got "500 server error". and this is the 4th time i've tried posting a comment here :P

Re: Facebook Tries to Take the FriendFeed Concept Mainstream

bunnyhero — Sat, 24 May 2008 01:09:50 -0000

the problem with facebook's news feed, though, is that if you have lots of friends, facebook won't show you all of the stories. you can tweak your preferences all you want but you're still going to miss something. the facebook news feed is a pretty poor aggregator in that regard.

Re: 2008/09/08/the-new-mashable/

bunnyhero — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:10:58 -0000

i like the new header design, but i am finding it hard to distinguish the article headlines-- i feel like the rest of the page is a bit of a jumble.

Re: 2008/09/08/the-new-mashable/

bunnyhero — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:12:44 -0000

and call me an idiot or blind, but i can't seem to figure out how to log in any more...

Re: mikeyy: Another Twitter Worm on the Loose

bunnyhero — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:06:42 -0000

according to a WHOIS on stalkdaily's IP address, stalkdaily.com appears to be hosted at fastservers.net. i have sent an email to their abuse team, fwiw.

Re: mikeyy: Another Twitter Worm on the Loose

bunnyhero — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:30:37 -0000

what about the post on stalkdaily's home page that claims responsibility? i'm confused.

Re: i like to call him whitey

bunnyhero — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:14:54 -0000

yay, they're still there :) i've seen them in trinity bellwoods too, but the last time i spotted one would have been probably five years ago.

Re: Twitter spam, effective or idiotic?

bunnyhero — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:40:03 -0000

@twply, your website has *no* privacy policy anywhere i can see.

what is your privacy policy?

Re: Twitter spam, effective or idiotic?

bunnyhero — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:33:39 -0000

i wonder if anyone has tried to contact the person listed in twply.com's whois record, for comment.