Disqus - Latest Comments for dc crowley

Re: What 5 blogs do you think are MUST read?

dc crowley — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:26:17 -0000

Hi Bobbi, just my 2 cents. I have abandoned my reader. I use iGoogle. I have about 5 tabs and maybe 10-15 feeds in each. Using iGoogle I can scan real quick and get what I need.

I also use feedly. It's a Firefox plugin and I love it. It makes reading a ton of feeds very easy. But as far as I know it only works if you are already using Google reader. See: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/feedly-a-new-firef...

Sorry that does not answer your question but it is an alternative route :)

My powerhouse for the next web stuff would be: RSSmeme, Techmeme, hackernews, Twitturly, Friendfeedlinks.com

What is good about the about these 5 is they gather many sources... and it's what's getting noticed now. It's a kind of cure.

Re: Socialminder = Fail

dc crowley — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:39:41 -0000

Hi Bobbi, I got an invite as well and signed up. While they have not betrayed my trust. I regretted signing up and smapping my friends. I have deleted my account and changed my gmail and linkedIn passwords. They need to make a bold privacy statement. Otherwise trust issues will continue imo

Re: LeWeb, le wrap

dc crowley — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:42:36 -0000

Hi Dennnis, thanks for that. Best write up I've read about LeWeb and without even a gram of BS.

Re: Why I use Twitter (Scripting News)

dc crowley — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:31:42 -0000

Thanks for that! That other anti twitter hype was just stupid IMHO. When I am too busy I switch off. Works just like TV! duh!

Re: Warner Music: We’re totally screwed

dc crowley — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:29:46 -0000

They can turn it around. Embrace the change. Selling digital and drm free is good. Embrace it. make it a value for money product. Most music is disposable, 1% are classics. If customers can enjoy buying again then they will buy (yeah it used to be fun to go to the record store on a saturday and bring back a few LP's or CD's). A CD costs $1 to produce. So songs can be much cheaper.... the profit margins on downloads should be bigger. Sell the stuff! that is the ONLY reason you guys aree in business. If you don't want to sell at a price we think is value for money... th go and don't come back!

Re: Is Joost headed for the deadpool?

dc crowley — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:06:18 -0000

I met Dirk-Willem van Gulik once and saw him speak at a conference on another occasion, You know he is also President of the Apache (server) foundation. His knowledge and intelligence is really impressive. I think we will all snigger at Joost for losing a guy like this. I bet that the guys over at the BBC cannot believe their luck. If I was Joost I'd cut my losses and die real soon. Joost does not need a box, neither does YouTube. YouTube has content... and Joost?

Re: Lance Ulanoff’s death spiral has begun

dc crowley — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:20:57 -0000

I remember lots of people dancing and singing about the death of Facebook, when Open Social (a 2 bit widget piece of crap that nobody talks about any more). The Social Graph API could be something amazing though. Facebook numbers going down is big news, but hardly the end. In a years time we can see a real trend. The fact that Fox news is reporting this guy says a lot about Fox news as well.

Re: Blogs and the settling of the Wild West

dc crowley — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:18:05 -0000

What is the difference between Valleywag and Duncan Riley? What is the difference between bustups between TechCruch -v- Calacanis or Scoble and Valleywag. It is show, mud wrestling, blah, blah! Luckily TechCrunch has great stories as well. One serious critique. They are posting so many stories per day that half way through the afternoon the earliest ones have fallen off the main page! Take a tip from Ars or Om IMHO (headline/ summary/ read more). The CNET hate leaves me totally cold by the way. How many seasons are they planning to run this crap?

Re: Podtech failure: Scoble’s lessons

dc crowley — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:50:22 -0000

Scoble is passionate and honest... even if he may or may not be right. He wanted it to work. I did a compare a while ago comparing his shows on fastcompany with Podtech. The growth was very impressive :)

Re: My social map is totally decentralized but I want it back on my blog

dc crowley — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:27:25 -0000

I have my lifestream on my blog via a grazr widget. But todays cool lifestream service may not be tomorrows. I am using friendfeed since aboout a month and I love it. But Jaiku has been my first lifestream and it's the main one that I publish. But I publish it via feedburner. That way if I decide to switch to friendfeed I only have to do that at feedburner. The end users will not notice. You could in theory do the same for Flickr. If MS bought Yahoo and you wanted to switch to say smugmug or zooomr, publishing it via feedburner would save yourr skin!

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

dc crowley — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:08:25 -0000

*21* You now not only piggyback Twitter, but Pownce and Jaiku as well! If anything had happened to twitter up to now Seesmic would be in trouble (at least for a while). Twhirl spreads you around. Great move

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

dc crowley — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:01:02 -0000

@SteveSmith leave me alone, I want to sound interesting. It gives meaning to my pathetic little life :p

Re: Seesmic Desktop Announces Full Facebook Open Stream API Support

dc crowley — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:15:56 -0000

Great that ik can put facebook in with twitter in one window. What is the gripe with AIR apps? It is develope once deploy everywhere! Developing on many platforms is a curse. Hiring an UI expert is money netter spent imo

Re: Happy now, bitches?

dc crowley — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:08:57 -0000

Steve get a life.... you really are dead. unplug and wander into the wilderness dork :)

Re: We need a Wikipedia for data - Bret Taylor's blog

dc crowley — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:33:09 -0000

Great, great idea. Equally amazing but fairly trivial is that you made Techmeme with your first blog post

Re: louisgray.com: Trimming the Fat On RSS Feeds - You Could Lose 99%!

dc crowley — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:37:35 -0000

I did this about a year and a half ago... after a few months I realized I was missing some important blog's... like Dare's (but we did not have friendfeed back then, or RSS meme, or twittury or friendfeed links or hacker news). I have also unlike you taken a step back from blogging. I blog a few times a week. last year I was blogging between 1-7 times a day.

All that posting a total stupid focus, it's like a dog chasing his tail. In general though I feel sorry for this years startups, we have had it with them because we overdid it last year (speaking for myself at least).

Re: louisgray.com: Trimming the Fat On RSS Feeds - You Could Lose 99%!

dc crowley — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:40:12 -0000

Just one last point. I use iGoogle for the fast skim over soem important stuff and feedly (which is just a fancy google reader) for the rest. I have 343 feed subscriptions.

Re: louisgray.com: Two Features Every Gmail User Must Utilize

dc crowley — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:54:04 -0000

funny that you use gmail.com. I use yahoo.com to back up. But gmail has never locked me out :)

Re: A is for Audacity

dc crowley — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:33:37 -0000

Apple will not be able to keep up this charade. You can't buy a Ferrari that turns into a brick after a few months. At least they will be opening up the iPhone to 3rd party apps.

I sure hope Apple will have to abandon the exclusive deals with telcos. The pricing is unrealistic medium to long term. But at the moment it is selling well. Got to give them that.

Re: It’s Time For FriendFeed To Kill Twitter

dc crowley — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:51:36 -0000

I admit to using twitter for only a fraction of the time compared to 6 months ago. But I am also fed up of all the moaning about twitter. Fact is, Friendfeed which is the only alternative I take seriously does not have to do much heavy lifting compared to twitter. My ''wild guess' is that it does not even have a third of the users of twitter. So we don't know if Friendfeed can cope with 1.5 million users. Is FF being built as a messaging service or as a microblogging (CMS) service? FF does not look like a fully fledged messaging service to me.

Re: Mad Men and Twitter

dc crowley — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:11:00 -0000

Funny you say that. Today I have a twitter meetup. Going for a drink with the local twitter crowd. Over 2 weeks I'm eating with fans of TED Talks and next month I've organized a Flickr photo walk. These networks get me in contact with lots of people I might never meet. But then we can take it back sometimes to the face to face again and actually meet people whom we bump into online. I live in the Netherlands. But in London there are Facebook events as well :)

Re: Prevent a Disaster! A Remote Backup Service Showdown

dc crowley — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:23:31 -0000

awesome work Tim! This has my vote for best blog post of the year so far, seriously!!

Re: 50+ essays on viral marketing, social network monetization, product design and more

dc crowley — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:41:38 -0000

Andrew! that is an awesome list. Really appreciated

Re: Web Browser Faceoff: Mozilla Firefox vs. Google Chrome

dc crowley — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:09:56 -0000

No offense but this is meaningless. You are asking opinions :) I want facts. I'd rather see test results instead of a poll! Which starts faster? which loads faster? which has the most display or security bugs? which has the most features? 5 chrome features which firefox misses. 5 Firefox features chrome misses... the possibilities are endless imo :)

Re: 5 ways to break past the San Francisco echo-chamber

dc crowley — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:06:38 -0000

Hi Andy, I am thinking about this a lot as well. I do have some plans. While another project has gotten in the way at the moment, I would like to make this one of my main community todo's this year.

Tech blogger's are a kind of evangelist. But instead of 'preaching' to the converted (our readers) I want to take to the streets and organize a few sessions to show people how blogging, flickr, del.icio.us is. I have been testing this. Showing how easy it is to upload photos to flickr and then hit in the blog this button. We don't even think about it when we do it, but everyone I show is left gob smacked at the possibilities and how easy it is.

Also moving your stuff online via Google Docs and del.icio.us is a weird and possibly scary concept for many people. And then there is video... We have alot to do. I certainly want to do it and I hope that more like me do as well.

Your other point about salary differences is symbolic for the so many differences we have with 'John Doe'. Visit the in-laws :)

Re: Technorati makes changes to blog ranking - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

dc crowley — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:32:22 -0000

Not just the top 100 Paul, I was in the top 10000 at the start of the summer. Now 280000+. C'est la Vie.

On another note. A french blogger (Gonzague Dambricourt) has published a top 60 European blogs. First english blog is at no.12. Surprises me that! Would like to see where he gets his figures from. Also I have never heard of 80% plus of those blogs.

Re: Technorati makes changes to blog ranking - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

dc crowley — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:16:48 -0000

what counts at the end of the day is that you and I are even bigger networking sluts than we were last year :D Meeting so many interesting people, have to say I'm loving it!

Re: Why Qwitter is likely to do more damage than good - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

dc crowley — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:02:09 -0000

spot on Paul. What also misses the mark is the last tweet bit. The last tweet before I unsubscribe means nothing. Last christmas I tweeted like 'Scoble' and lost quite a few followers, once I stopped eating sweets ;) and calmed down again the fallout disappeared

Re: 2007/08/25/linkedin-facebook-2/

dc crowley — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 03:06:54 -0000

I hate to say this but if they think one person instead of a small team can do this they are being cheap, even if you outsource the coding. If this is true, they are saying they have little or no vision about where to go... Makes you wonder if they need for an evangelist yet!

Last year I used to get quite a few LinkedIn connections every month. This year is different. I got my first one in months last week. FB is on the other hand rocketing. It is also because of shifting successes in social networks that the portable social network initiative is *so bloody important* and that could be something for LinkedIn to jump on if they want a way back!

Re: 2007/09/05/tripit-consolidates-your-travel-plans/

dc crowley — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:52:32 -0000

I have a few invites for those interested. Leave a comment on my blog and I see what I can do.

http://doncrowley.blogspot.com/2007/08/tripit-o...

Re: 2007/10/26/troll-week/

dc crowley — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:48:49 -0000

Another typically wasted idea from Mashable. Pity the on cell in your brain that does work sits on the right side :-D

Re: 2008/03/21/joost-web-version/

dc crowley — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:02:54 -0000

Too late me says. Is the content quality on a sharp upward curve? If no, who cares.

Re: 2008/09/04/friendfeed-web-apps/

dc crowley — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:54:57 -0000

Palin, very useful post! So thanks :)

Re: 2008/12/05/facebook-connect-vs-google-friend-connect/

dc crowley — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:15:29 -0000

With facebook and last years beacon drama - let's say I have trust issues. But I do use facebook a lot and it works so well for me. I have a site with a small community which has gone stale, but on facebook I've been doing lots of stuff with that crowd. When I get my site going again - there will have to be a facebook presence.

Googles FC is cool, in that it's simple. But Google, Yahoo, AOL and OpenID are not serious players in the social networking sphere - at least not in my opinion. Google are going to have to work very hard and be very social, very out there promoting it, being very unGoogle if they want this to be successful. I hope they take it seriously and do promote it like mad. There is so much you could do with this and they need to start creating the waves with cool stuff and 1 or 2 great evangelists. Then they can win imo.

Re: 2008/12/17/playing-catch-up-google-chrome-to-get-rss-auto-discovery/

dc crowley — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:53:29 -0000

Weird! That is one feature I really want to see in Chrome. I have 1.0, but that feature is not showing up at all

Re: 2008/12/17/playing-catch-up-google-chrome-to-get-rss-auto-discovery/

dc crowley — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:58:32 -0000

duh! you've got a point :) The chrome 'search feature' in the url bar never works for me

Re: 2008/12/17/playing-catch-up-google-chrome-to-get-rss-auto-discovery/

dc crowley — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:48:14 -0000

Thanks, but that setting is on. It does not seem to work. Thanks for the tip though :)

Re: 2009/01/11/tech-twitter/

dc crowley — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:07:22 -0000

Twitter is important, it's growing, has enormous possibilities and lots of changing context's. Also lots of apps. being built on top of it :) But it's not everything.

Re: 2009/01/11/tech-twitter/

dc crowley — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:02:46 -0000

@Isolabella twitter is about conversation... networking. It's flat! I can talk to Pete, Scoble, Mike Arrinton, Britney Spears ;), Steve Rubel. How amazing is that? I think it's amazing. That's all that counts

Re: 2009/01/26/apple-multi-touch-patent/

dc crowley — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:35:09 -0000

While you all dance cheerfully on PALM's grave "maybe" this goes to prove that the patent laws impede innovation. The iPhone with it's less is more approach makes it easy to beat because it is missing a ton of features. I don't hate Apple, but my respect for them is dwindling rapidly.

Re: 2009/01/26/apple-multi-touch-patent/

dc crowley — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:34:04 -0000

What bugs me is that Apple did not invent this. They just patented it. They will also not license it to competitors to their advantage. As I said earlier, it is holding back everyone. I just hope that Nikolay is right when he mentions the heuristics aspect to the patent.

Re: Technorati Deletes Index, Hopes Customers Won’t Notice

dc crowley — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:09:05 -0000

I blogged about this a few weeks ago and blognation germany did as well.I have emailed them... no reply. Let them be damned. Within a month of Sifry's departure it was going belly up. They might have a new CEO - but he is making all the wrong noises.

Re: Technorati Deletes Index, Hopes Customers Won’t Notice

dc crowley — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:09:05 -0000

Re: Technorati Deletes Index, Hopes Customers Won’t Notice

dc crowley — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:56:24 -0000

Sorry Ian - all the wrong noises yet again. Rank and authority have been 2 key features since I can remember. They don't work. It means Technorati is broken. You avoid the issues, distract us with irrelevancies. The lack of conversation here is plain arrogance! To use the blue monster credo "change the world or go home". I don't hate you guys. But you are wasting everyones time. Go home!

Re: Technorati Deletes Index, Hopes Customers Won’t Notice

dc crowley — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:56:24 -0000

Re: Stop the Idiotic Laptop Searches

dc crowley — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:24:11 -0000

Is it just me or are we in the stupid part of the idea curve at the moment? Also that could be great fun *NOT*, bluetooth/ wireless hacking. We can stick porno files on there laptops while they wait in line for pasport or customs control!

Re: Stop the Idiotic Laptop Searches

dc crowley — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:24:11 -0000

Re: You Know You Blog Too Much When…

dc crowley — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:55:11 -0000

haha! LOL... your right!

Re: You Know You Blog Too Much When…

dc crowley — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:55:11 -0000

haha! LOL... your right!

Re: Free Exclusive resource from Jimiyo: Skull Reference Photos

dc crowley — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:29:36 -0000

Well 'shiver me timbers!' just what I needed. Friday is 'talk like a pirate day' ARGH!

Re: Creatief met RSS: Netwerken

dc crowley — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:10:44 -0000

Thanks for the link Fred

Re: Facebook-Let Me See My Friends

dc crowley — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:37:14 -0000

Exactly. I think Facebook would do well to do usability testing as well. You can do lots of stuff but it is not all obvious or easy to do. Friends wheel, is not a solution to what you are talking about but it is kind of cool (IMHO) oh yeah and socialistics
http://apps.facebook.com/friendwheel/
http://apps.facebook.com/socialistics/

Re: Your 3 Goals for 2009

dc crowley — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:13:00 -0000

interesting how you call 'your community' an army. That changes the dynamics quite a bit. I hope you come to Europe some time to do this :)

Re: Breaking news: Adobe to release PDF to ISO

dc crowley — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:24:45 -0000

Great move. For mac osx users with acrobat resource hogging issues, open your pdf in preview. It is much faster.

Re: Microsoft has no innovator’s dillema?

dc crowley — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:29:18 -0000

I hope Ray Ozzie can really do something for Microsoft. Soapbox would be very cool - the quality is great. I just can't log in on my Mac (that should be easy to fix). Live.com maps are awesome, good looking, cool functionality BUT NO API for mash ups and it only works for the US of A, the rest of the world is waiting! I'm tapping my fingers with impatience. Come on Microsoft! Do you want Google to be a the next monopoly? I don't want any monopoly, just 2-3 great companies with great stuff. To quote Hugh@gapingvoid.com Change the world or go home

Re: It’s a boy

dc crowley — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:13:04 -0000

Hope he (or she) causes you lots of fun and the other good stuff kids can do.

Re: Getting links from A-listers

dc crowley — Sat, 26 May 2007 04:18:29 -0000

That is funny, I was going to say your link blog is as important to me as techmeme, but they went and said it for me. Scobie do you need reciprocal links? I don't think so. But your linkblog is just another quality service you are providing. Don't bury it soon.

Re: FeedBurner and Lifehacker debate full or partial feeds

dc crowley — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:45:30 -0000

I do *not* subscribe to partial feeds. Sites that offer them disappear off my radar. If sites really want to offer partial feeds, offer at least a choice. IMHO offering only partial feeds is a stupid as banning firefox users with the ad block extension.

Internet is full of stupid initiatives, Universal Music's forced opt-in of drm-free music is another example. If people want to shoot themselves in the foot it's fine by me.

Re: NewTeeVee Conference lacking substance?

dc crowley — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:48:09 -0000

38 nails in the coffin of his conference - WOW! hehe! nice one Robert. Right on the mark!

Re: FeedPressure

dc crowley — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:42:52 -0000

Sod techmeme, your linkblog is the number 1... esp. cause you have it going through twitter as well. I can't follow everything but value the more than I can eat approach :-)

Re: Google Android: we want developers but…

dc crowley — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:01:48 -0000

Hey Robert! Android does not have to beat the iPhone. I don't find it earth moving... but we are spoilt brats. Android offers lots of possibilities to easily develop new stuff. I was disappointed with Google last week when they announced this. All the hype about a gPhone and we end up with a platform. But Google are being clever offering $10M in prizes. This could lift the level of android applications very quickly.

I don't have an iPhone, I'm not in a 'state' to get a phone that has Android. But it might change. I think the biggest problem will be the greedy telco's.

Re: What would you ask Tim Berners-Lee?

dc crowley — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:50:51 -0000

1/. why is rdf so ugly? Why bother with FOAF? when it costs extra time, programming, money... Can you really use it for trust? You can fake FOAF files.
2/. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft should be doing the semantic web... that is when it works. Semantic web top down, microformats is bottom up IMHO.
3/. what do you think of the dataportability.org initiative

Re: Saving digital work after death…

dc crowley — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:33:31 -0000

You did an interviiew on PodTech with a guy on this very subject... more like the cultural implications of our generation creating so much bu it not being backed up properly... just like your first blog posts that have gone down the drain! Got a link to it? It was really good.

Re: Google Reader needs GPC

dc crowley — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 04:59:22 -0000

This needs 2 approaches. Add password protection to feeds. Netvibes can do it, why not Google?

Explain, explain, explain! And we bloggers need to do that as well. Want to see something really scary? Go to Google calender. In the search field type username or password. You get results... other peoples results!

Re: Plaxo: the social monster?

dc crowley — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:58:25 -0000

Robert, your arguments are getting better. But I don't mind you using my email address, I am one of your facebook contacts. It is just I have a serious dislike for Plaxo. Were they not spamish a few years ago? Also I deleted my Plaxo account months ago. I cannot log in. Yet I still get mails form people asking me to add them to theeir contacts. The only difference is that now I know most of them. When I was a member of Plaxo I was getting connections with all sorts of middle management guys form companies I do not know and who were not in my 'field of interest'. It is a real pain to be just saying 'no' and not really bumping into anyone you know. All I can say is that even though Facebook can be a real pain in the rear, up to now I have had a far more positive experience there than at Plaxo.

I hope that if you do make Plaxo your primary social network that you keep your Facebook channels open. There are people who will not follow you over.

Seriously. Open is the way forward. If something better comes along I will sign up, but IMHO plaxo is not is. Plaxo is also for sale. That makes me question the authenticity of what teh Plaxo guys are trying to do right now. What the next owners will do is anyones guess. I posted my own two cents about all this over on my own blog. Remember most of the stuff promoting data portability is very fresh and not widely available yet. I also wonder what if anything openSocial will play in this. I think openID and openAuth and plain old RSS provide us with a multitude of possibilities (future tense).

Re: Is Facebook doomed?

dc crowley — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:37:08 -0000

Yeah I'm using it less as well, notice the fatigue, even have contacts quiting and I'm making less new contacts than 6 months ago.

That said I prefer Facebook to anything other SN. They are clever people and they hire great people as well! The fallback might be a wakeup call to work with the customer better than they do now. The PR side really needs to shift up at least 2 gears. Hire people who will be visible as FB employees... get them interacting with the community and take a page from Robert's time at Microsoft.

Re: Maryam on Yahoo’s rejection of Microsoft

dc crowley — Sun, 04 May 2008 10:18:10 -0000

I was for a Microsoft takeover of Yahoo but not in a possible combination with News Corp. I think the Yahoo board will have a very tough next 2 years. They did stupid things to avoid the deal. It might have seemed very clever at the time. It was nothing more than a panic reaction. Yahoo can't get where it wants to get on it's own, but Google is not their friend whatever they think. I hope for their sake that my gut feeling is wrong.

Re: Why YouTube is going long-form

dc crowley — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:35:07 -0000

When was the last time you read a long article on the web? No way I'll watch long video's... and I consider myself to be 'highly engaged'. Guess youTubes monetization has a long way to go yet

Re: Mozilla gives the passionates one with Ubiquity

dc crowley — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:37:17 -0000

I am taking every chance I get to show Ubiquity to anyone who cares to see it. That is for me a litmus test that it's amazingly useful.

Re: Startups: your web site sucks

dc crowley — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:21:13 -0000

STOP! while you are right... few problems. Don't do video unless you can make it work, like Gary Vaynerchuk and you don't need to be a Gary Vaynerchuk clone to make it work either. Stay away from stock photo's, in fact if you can pull it off stay away from photos, they only say more than a 1000 words if they are spot on, otherwise they miss the mark.

Content is key. So call around to a friend, your mom, you know and watch them go through your website. DO NOT TELL THEM WHAT YOU DO. then when they are finished ask them what you do. DO they know?

OK now don't make a long bland explaination of what you do. Keep in short, but don't make it too snappy, maybe more conversation than marketing. Just my 2 cents. If you change the site and you are panicking, leave it :D

Re: Our disappearing web

dc crowley — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:49:07 -0000

You need to print everything a few times and save it at various locations around the world. It might just survive then. But what happens if one of the smaller video hosting guys goes bust... or a photo sharing site... yeah I have the stuff somewhere... but will I go to the trouble all over again? If one of these services were to go down then I hope a big player would step in to offer support in moving assets

Re: I am not an American

dc crowley — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:09:13 -0000

wait til after the election. If McCain - Palin win it, then yes you are in trouble. But you can't do what you are doing from any other base in the world. No other kid could have grown up anywhere else in the world in the 70's like you did. America made you and heck it's OK. Still I can't talk. I left a religiously over zealous Ireland in the early 80's. Once I left the place picked up a little ;)

I notice how intolerant the far right can be. Maybe it's time to be an intolerant liberal and stop their nonsense.

Re: Cisco’s new datacenter: does more, lower cost

dc crowley — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:32:39 -0000

Great video there Robert. You know it's a shame that you can't get facebook video's onto other platforms to (to ember in blogposts for example). Their loss is Kytes win... for now. Nice to see Cisco doing something which I think is cool and that they are hiring bloggers to converse!

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

dc crowley — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:17:31 -0000

Yup twitter is my weapon of choice. I also find a distinct 'lack' of conversation over at friendfeed. I don't hate friendfeed at all, it's just I really love twitter (a love which faded after the May downtimes, but is totally back).

Re: Mike and Loic are wrong about Twitter search

dc crowley — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:52:59 -0000

99% agree with you. IMO Technorati 'authority' does not work if you are outside the valley crowd, if it even really works there. One disagreement, I use favourites to mark tweets a lot but I am one of the few I know who do. Since it has low usage - I'm not sure how useful it is.

Great that you are blogging more again

Re: Did Adobe snub Apple with FlashPlayer 10, Palm Pre, and Development Fund announcements?

dc crowley — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:27:50 -0000

You say it like Adobe are messing about. But how come everything has Flash except Apple. In this case Apple is gouging it's own eyes out. I am looking for a smartphone in the 2nd half of this year. I won't even consider the iPhone without flash and proper video support. I am practically certain that Abobe has much more costs developing for iPhone than any other platform with no results to show to date. My feeling is that Apple is demanding an inferior flash product.

The way I see it Apple got ahead of the field and now is trying to hold everyone up with veiled lawsuit treats for their IP, meaning they are unwilling to license technology (they did not invent, only patented) that will improve all our user experiences.

Re: What I hate about real-time web (your productivity goes to hell)

dc crowley — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:06:04 -0000

This technology is not helping. It's biting your butt - Remember that GTD tip with email - check every 2-3 hours! You could do that with Friendfeed, twitter, facebook, whatever - I could anyway and I do

Re: “Just like your local record store”, Universal launches Lost Tunes

dc crowley — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:29:13 -0000

Shops from individual record labels are a waste of time. Sure the pricing is crap BUT! This is the internet at it's best. Finding obscure stuff, finally having the chance to get it. I've been on this site for the last half hour! When was the last time you spent that long on a website. I'm older than I want to be and totally addicted :)

Re: “Just like your local record store”, Universal launches Lost Tunes

dc crowley — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:50:54 -0000

I'm wondering if these mp's are laced with DRM. If that is so this is doomed and unicversal is being ****ing stupid. down at the bottom on the left hand column it says download to up to 3 of your computers. Idiots! Next please.

Re: Amazon MP3 arrives in the UK

dc crowley — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:08:18 -0000

7digital's prices look like they are 40-odd% higher. I can't wait for them to go out a business :p I'm very pleased with the arrival of the amazon mp3 store!

Re: Amazon MP3 arrives in the UK

dc crowley — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:53:52 -0000

I live in 'mainland Europe' a small island off the English coast. Does any one know when Amazon is going to start selling mp3's there or is the market just too small?

Re: Have we just witnessed the second coming of Palm?

dc crowley — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:45:56 -0000

I'm an old palm fan who lost the faith. This looks very convincing. The web OS and synergy looks amazing and the low barrier for widgets shows they mean business. I hope they do really well with this

Re: Google Latitude shows what’s wrong with Nokia’s social location (SoLo) strategy

dc crowley — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:55:35 -0000

Google is clever, has a mobile OS for lots of carriers and devices. It also has lots of services and they are not android dependent. Latitude is a great example. I am not sure if you can build on top of latitude... like could you stick Brightkite on it? That would be cool.

Re: OpenID Logins Take too Long

dc crowley — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:59:21 -0000

Hi Carsten, another problem is the url. Ask 10 people in a supermarket what a url is... no one knows what it is. And no one knows how to get a url to work with openID. You and I know do, but that is not good enough. Really openID should create an ID repository without a url which you can claim and just use. I have stopped using it :) I use Facebook for nearly everything because it is easy peasy (And I can hide behind the fact that facebook is an openID supporter/provider). I know the openID guys are trying to move openID up to a next level, but I think it has fallen so behind, facebook has really moved ahead. The possibility of getting a broad support base has been lost imo :(