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Re: How To Get Attention From Your VC

Adam Kalsey — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:31:43 -0000

Fred, since you don't mention *how* to get attention from your VC, just that it's important to do so, I wrote up some tips on that at http://www.sacstarts.com/2007/10/06/getting-you...

Re: Twittering Photos

Adam Kalsey — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:30:12 -0000

A friend of mine runs http://beenup2.com which allows people to photo stream their life. Send a photo from your phone, attach some text and a location, and all your friends can see it, comment in it, etc.

Sort of like a combination of Flickr, twitter, and loopt.

Re: Doriot Quote Of The Day

Adam Kalsey — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:52:12 -0000

The quotes are interesting, but what I'd really love is some analysis of what's behind them. A short quote standing alone is just empty calories. Maybe I should tackle that.

Re: Tools I Use

Adam Kalsey — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:15:02 -0000

When I do need a desktop app for documents, I've found that I like iWork's apps more. Keynote was the beginning and then I fell in love with Numbers and Pages. For my web apps, I've moved gdocs and gmail out of Firefox and into Fluid. I love having a dock icon for my gmail.

Re: Feedvertise with Text Link Ads

Adam Kalsey — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:41:16 -0000

Just a clarification, Pheedo and others don't serve feed as as script. Feed readers don't allow Javascript because of the potential security holes when doing so.

Disclosure: I was one of Pheedo's founders, but I no longer work there.

Re: Feedvertise with Text Link Ads

Adam Kalsey — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:41:16 -0000

Re: Activity Stream a.k.a. Web Presence | iSeanReiser

Adam Kalsey — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:00:15 -0000

This only seems to be a bug with certain systems. As far as I can tell, it's a php 4 thing. In general, I'm not going to spend a lot of time ensuring that the module works in obsolete environments (php5 is 4 years old and php4 was declared unsupported almost 3 years ago). However in this case, it's an easy change with little chance of impacting anything else, so I'll get it in.

Re: 2007/01/22/lijit/

Adam Kalsey — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:51:17 -0000

That's got to be a typo... $900 million?

Re: 2007/02/13/whosonmypage/

Adam Kalsey — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:25:15 -0000

Steve,

I know the founders of Who's On My Page, and although I'm not familiar with the technical details of the service, I'd be shocked if the guys behind this were spamming. They simply aren't those sort of people.

Not being a heavy MySpace user, I'm not sure why your account would be sending spam, but I can say that it's very easy for a JavaScript widget to read your login details from your cookie.

If the MySpace login cookie is readable from your friend's profile pages, then JavaScript widgets have access to it as well. It would not be difficult for a widget to log in as you and spam away.

Any widget installed on a profile you view could conceivably steal your cookie. That's one reason that MySpace has been heavily limiting what widgets can do and why eBay, LiveJournal, and other services don't allow script in their content.

Re: 2007/05/14/imified-feedcrier/

Adam Kalsey — Tue, 15 May 2007 00:43:06 -0000

Pete, thanks for the coverage. I'm excited about what we'll be able to do as part of IMified.

Re: 2007/10/03/riaa-sony-fair-use/

Adam Kalsey — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:52:55 -0000

RIAA has held this position for several years. In a filing about the DCMA they said, "creating a back-up copy of a music CD is not a non-infringing use." They also said, however, "it's perfectly lawful to take a CD that you've purchased, upload it onto your computer." (see http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004409.php)

It would seem that they've been fairly consistent in their views over time, even if they inconsistently apply the basic concepts behind their idea of fair use.

Re: 2007/11/05/aol-platform/

Adam Kalsey — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:08:29 -0000

Who's "Smith"? I thought you were talking to Mike Jones?

Re: 2007/11/07/google-reader-blogroll/

Adam Kalsey — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:28:03 -0000

What does this mean: "describes how he make what he calls a blogroll on his site can take a look at what he likes to read." I can't even comprehend what you were trying to say.

Regardless, this posting is just plain factually wrong. The entire purpose and premise of this posting is that the Google Reader blogroll isn't a blogroll because it's the contents of a number of blogs, instead of direct links to those blogs.

Not sure what you're looking at, but here's an excerpt of what I see in Steve's blogroll...

# Blog Maverick
# Boing Boing
# Box.net Blog
# Carsonified!
# 'Change, Culture, Creativity, Communication'
# Charlie Owen

Sure looks like a list of blogs to me.

Re: 2008/03/27/chris-pirillo-gnomepal-drupal/

Adam Kalsey — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:03:33 -0000

Jacob: It's not all hot air. We've been developing it for months for our own usage and now we're opening it up to the community.

There will be a site up later today with the bleeding edge, the code will be in a public SVN repository, etc.

We have no intention of forking Drupal. What we're doing is creating a pre-configured instance of Drupal with the right themes and modules woven together. With the custom code that's needed to get it all to work.

Drupal does a lot of things. We're taking one of those things (community) and building all the little things that are needed to make it work right out of the box. It's not going to be for everybody and not appropriate for every site. And that's okay.

Re: Tips for Publishing RSS feeds - Part 1

Adam Kalsey — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:42:28 -0000

I'd caution publishers against doing advertising on their own by adding footers to their feeds. Publishers that do this don't generally implement it well, and they change the ads periodically. This results in feed readers re-displaying the entire feed and annoying subscribers.