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Re: Twitter Launches Facebook Status Updates

willswords — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:49:58 -0000

sweet! thanks for the tip - I've been hoping they would add that feature.

Re: Twitter Launches Facebook Status Updates

willswords — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:34:39 -0000

One annoyance I've noticed after using this for a while is that it forces you to twitter as if finishing the sentence "Fulano is..." since Facebook automatically pastes that in the front of your update.

Re: The Phoenix Shield Firewall or How I Got a Ton of Traffic by Writing About Fictitious Technology

willswords — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:23:35 -0000

I thought it was an obscure Harry Potter reference.

Re: Google pissin’ on average folks all over it seems…boycott anyone?

willswords — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:35:25 -0000

This is a good reminder of why it is good to use an e-mail client (Thunderbird, Entourage, etc...) that downloads your webmail to backup your messages. Even if you still read it online, it makes sense to have your own copy.

Re: You Might Not Love the New Facebook, But Brands Should

willswords — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:54:56 -0000

Fortunately there are numerous Greasemonkey scripts for Firefox that let you hack out all the new garbage that comes through now on the homepage. For example: Facebook Purity http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/44459

Re: 8 Reasons Grooveshark’s Better than Pandora

willswords — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:18:13 -0000

One thing though- I know Pandora pays royalties, but does Grooveshark? I say this because I swear that Pandora has some of its limitations in order to stay legal (not being able to pick exact songs for example).

Re: Insufficient LDS Test

willswords — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:55:50 -0000

JSYK (Just so you know) I'm a Mormon, but I've never heard anyone of my faith make that argument before. I think it is kind of a straw man to start something with "Mormons often argue..." because without citations it is meaningless.

Re: Insufficient LDS Test

willswords — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:41:50 -0000

Ok - Now that I think about what she said I think I know and recognize what she is saying. However, we usually don't quite put it that way. Personally speaking, I wouldn't hold myself up as being a sign that Joseph Smith is a prophet.

I would give examples of other people who are members of my church maybe, such as President Hinkley, but I think most members wouldn't point to their own lives because most of us recognize we are imperfect. I would say, however, that living the principles of the gospel restored by Joseph Smith have enriched my life, so maybe that it more how I would interpret the test.

I think Mormons usually use the "by their fruits" argument (and now here I go speaking for all Mormons) to encourage people to read the Book of Mormon. Since we believe it to be a "fruit" of Joseph Smith, a translation of ancient scripture, we hope people will taste it for themselves, i.e. read it individually, before they make a judgment of whether he is a prophet.

Re: Noah’s guide to the Internet

willswords — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:47:38 -0000

I would add geocaching.com for the way it is merging our physical planet with the web.

Re: The big question for new Mac: will it run Windows?

willswords — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:36:51 -0000

How does the .mac team write so fast? (Every post was made at 9:00 AM) And no comments? Fauxblog I say.

Re: Introducing Origami

willswords — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:22:52 -0000

Interesting feature pointed out at slashdot...
It appears that the screen can shift in space off of the device:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/umpc/howtobu...

;-)

Re: Much ado about blogging (Scoble, you didn’t answer the question)

willswords — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:16:46 -0000

Scoble, did any of the companies you interviewed link blogging with something negative?

And, how about the long term effects? Do you have evidence that it matters in the long run?

Re: What’s in a Name?

willswords — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:44:44 -0000

I'm glad they don't refer to each other by alias where I work, we'd be calling each other by number!

Re: Dear Jeff Bezos (one-week Kindle review)

willswords — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:44:07 -0000

Your point about the funky page numbers in the video is an excellent one as well. Imagine a class where the professor is using a printed copy of the book and you are using your Kindle. When the professor says "turn to page 115 and read the second paragraph" you need to be "backwards compatible" with the paper version or you will immediately be lost in the discussion. So there really needs to be compatibility between paper users and electronic users.
One thing that did appeal to me about the "Service" aspect of the Kindle is that you can redownload your purchased books at any time -- Apple could at least learn a lesson from this and allow people to redownload media when they lose it.
And now a critique of the kyte video player you are using since the topic is usability -- why won't it let me skip ahead without downloading the entire clip up to that point? I wanted to jump forward to a later point in your review, but it wouldn't let me.

Re: Why Facebook has never listened and why it definitely won’t start now

willswords — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:02:16 -0000

Fortunately at least in Firefox with Greasemonkey scripts you can customize what you get on the Facebook homepage.

The main problem I see in the new layout is that it includes way too many "I took a quiz and I found out that I'm X" entries, and other really annoying application messages (like gifts). I don't care that you someone gave an Easter egg to 15 of their friends, and yet there it is, repeated fifteen times in my homepage feed.

Thankfully through the wonders of CSS and regex and Greasemonkey javascript, these can be zapped out for me. See this script for example: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/44459

Re: Why Facebook has never listened and why it definitely won’t start now

willswords — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:04:37 -0000

(I didn't mean you literally Robert about the Easter eggs).

Re: Snelgrove Dies Away

willswords — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:06:09 -0000

This truly is sad. Having grown up in Salt Lake Snelgroves was always a favorite place to go with family, and then when I got older, on dates. They had gigantic revolving ice cream cones at the store we drove past all the time. I think they even sent Ronald Reagan a bunch of jelly bean flavored ice cream at one point. Now I feel old.