DISQUS

Thank God for the NFL weekly Patriots highlight package on iTunes. Now I just need to get HBO's NFL show and Ron Jaworski's radio show too.

Have a couple Buffalo Wings for me a Buffs Pub.

Go Pats!!

Thanks Derek. Appreciate it!

Thank you Denis. For anyone looking for in-depth information about the Krasnodar commercial real estate market, Denis is the guy to speak with here. Denis speaks fluent Russian (he's a native of Krasnodar) and fluent English (he spent a number of years in Framingham, MA). Click his name above to see his blog.

Thanks CJ!

Thank you Lawrence. I feel like all of us widgetheads are beginning to wrap our brains around potential models for widgets.

One point of clarification. What I meant to suggest is that there should be a unique widget for each relationship in our lives. Not one widget which would capture all of them.

I should have made this more clear because it's important to the viral adoption of these types of widgets. Each widget sponsor (Hilton HHonors in the example above) would do what LinkedInABox has done with LinkedIn themselves. It would be as if LinkedIn offered the LinkedInABox widget itself to its own members on each membr's individual page.

Therefore, each widget would serve as its own "data container" for each individual user account at the widget sponsor.

You wrote:

So what you’re talking about is a private, mobile device friendly, configurable widget in which the owner can select data fields from his various profiles / memberships. One personal container that would always be up to date. (YES, ABSOLUTELY)

So like a LinkedInABox that pulls from multiple sources. (No, JUST ONE WIDGET FOR EACH USER ACCOUNT)

Let me know if I this doesn't make sense. It's tough to explain because there's no analog out there.

Aaron:

Yes, after you've logged-in to your GAFYD account, click the Manage Your Domain link in the top right and then click Domain Seetings. At the Bottom of the page is a section called Advanced Settings. Click the Edit link and then set the catch-all setting to "Forward this mail to:" your main email.

With respect to your current email addresses, the catch-all feature would not apply. For all your actual "real" email addresses, you would need to go into each of their settings and have them forward to your new master email address at your name's domain.

Please note, that within your new GAFYD email you can set-up up to 50 email boxes. These 50 prefixes (email boxes) are different than the catch-all feature. The catch-all is set-up specifically to redirect any emails which are NOT one of those actual 50 email boxes.

Congrats on your progress with Slang o Rang.com. I look forward to seeing how it develops.

We might even let you buy a vowel.

That stinks. I'm sorry to read that the Palo Alto folks didn't suggest this option to Patrick. My guess is that this "program" isn't an official program nor is it well known. I think I was just simply lucky to speak with someone who knew of this option.

Best of luck to Patrick.

... just to be clear. The refurbished MacBook Pro was "purchased" using a credit card. I meant to write that there was no "restocking" fee by Apple when I returned the refurbished MacBook Pro and I received a full credit to my credit card. The only cost to me was a nominal interest charge on the amount of the MacBook Pro over 7 days.

Robert:

Not sure if you already know this or if I missed it but Apple has a pretty cool "program" which enables one to use a refurbished Mac when one's own Mac needs to go in for servicing.

My MacBook Pro (purchased April 2006) needed to go in for a new logic board (the mooing sound thing). Anyhow, the manager at the Apple store here in Boston explained to me that I could "buy" a refurbished MacBook Pro (assuming they have one for sale at the store in question) and then "port/copy" the contents of my MacBook Pro onto the refurbished MacBook (similar to what you do when you buy a new Mac).

Anyhow, once my own Mac gets sent back to me fixed I can then again port/copy any content/data changes back from the refurbished Mac to my own and then return the refurbished MacBook WITHOUT a stocking charge.

In essence, Apple enables me to use a "loaner" while my machine gets fixed. Since I was using a refurbished MacBook Pro it was as if I was using my own actual computer. I could've cared less how long it took Apple to return my own machine (It took less than 1 week).

If Patrick has already sent his MacBook back in then this option won't be available but at least you'll know for the next time.

Happy New Year!

Check-out Josh lane's photoblog "HOV Lane" at http://hovlaneblog.com/wordpress/

Jajah is awesome!! My wife uses it everyday to call her family and friends in Russia. The combination of VoIP and a "real" handset is the clincher for her. She even has Jajah call her cell phone when she's on the go.

Rob:


It was a par 60 "executive" course. I guess with the tiny print it looks pretty impressive. It was actually 11 over par.



That's funny.



TGP

Thanks Alex. I look forward to reading your stuff. Looks interesting!


TGP

Thanks Gordon.


I look forward to hearing your thoughts tomorrow.



And now, I'm off to read your blog.

For everyone else, the link is:



http://gordon.blogsmith.com/

2006/08/29/

identity-and-consumption-a-

response-to-flying-seeds/

Ivan:


I'm dying to see Snipperoo. You've wetted my appetite. Any timetable?



Regarding the question of value you raise, I would not underestimate the importance of emotional value.



Sure, there are some things that we will choose to keep private but there are many things we will want to share.



The type of web service I describe in this post would provide a platform, in and of itself, upon which people could showcase their brands (things they own).



Some items would migrate to other platforms (blogs, web pages, etc) through badges/widgets but the general brand collection would be displayed on "BrandRank."



The fact that each item would be a badge does not necessarily imply that it needs to be distributed.



I know for myself that I currently have too many badges and widgets to display in my blog sidebar. I need a place to store these scripts.



I would love to have a service available to me whereby I could store my badges but also display them at the same time.



Lastly, I would want to be able to "voyeur" other people's badge collections in an effort to discover new products and new badges.

Jeff:


Thank you for the heads-up to FavoriteThingz.com



My understanding is that FavoriteThingz enables users to create a widget of their collections but not of the individual items themselves.



Would you consider making it possible to make each favorite a discrete item with its own embed code?

Check-out www.okaydave.com Not technically a blog but certainly an impressive personal website.

BTW, check-out librarything.com same concept. it's interesting that none have been monetized by the creators.

Pete:

You're right about monetizing possibilities. I want to use wists as a generator for affiliate marketing badges on my website. The image would sit on my blog, be generated from wists, and link to my affiliate account at whatever supplier in question.

For instance, I could put badges on the bio pages of my yoga instructors relating to what equipment they use for yoga. Say Chanel uses a prana mat and a yogitoes towell. Within her bio page would be a section "What in your yoga bag?" Through the use of wists.com I could grab the logo image for Prana and Yogitoes and paste the code into Chanel's page. Within the code would be a url to my studio affiliate marketing page (like Amazon associates) at a third party affiliate marketing site, say Commission Junction www.cj.com.

Whenever folks cliked on the image it would give them the possibility to purchase that yoga mat or towell. My studio gets 5%. Chanel gets half. We often look to others to help determine which products to use. Think Michael Jordan.

What wists.com does so cleanly is allow the badge (and maybe that's the wrong term) maker to use an image of his/her choice. I think the wists badge concept can be made more customizable with lots of possibilities. Say two images together.

Take a look at swagroll.com as well. Similiar concept.

Thanks, Tim Post

Happy Holidays, Tim