Disqus - Latest Comments for Kortina

Re: Hello, world!

Kortina — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:05:16 -0000

Congrats, and good choice of a place to work--disqus rocks!

Re: Hello, world!

Kortina — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:05:16 -0000

Congrats, and good choice of a place to work--disqus rocks!

Re: The value of an incubator.

Kortina — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:46:16 -0000

Awesome post. Just tweeted it. Back to php....

Re: Google – our gentle giant?

Kortina — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:53:20 -0000

I definitely fall into this camp:

"many of us see them as more of a patron who are giving us the tools to deploy application without having to concern ourselves with many details"

Having made the switch from Desktop software / imap to Google Apps for domain, I'm pretty excited to outsource my deployment woes to Google.

Remember when everyone was scared about Google placing ads based on the content of their emails? Gmail alleviated so many headaches that we stopped caring about our initial gripes.

I think appengine will have a similar adoption rate, but I plan to be on the forefront of it, cutting my costs and increasing my bottom line by using their awesome deployment / scaling service.

Re: SummizeReader

Kortina — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:30:20 -0000

Do you guys have auto updates on this app once it's installed? If not, that's the first thing I would add.

Re: Dashblog - why you need it

Kortina — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:08:20 -0000

You guys should make a quick FAQ or Help doc. I don't think people will easily find the right-click-context-menu, which, personally, is the feature I have ended up using the most.

Ah, sweet, the clicking-on-check-box-event-bubbling issue is fixed--nice! Now that that issue is resolved, I think I'll be using this a lot more. Funny how something small like that can prevent me from using an app.

You guys gonna hook up the disqus plugin soon?

Re: Silverlight – closing ceremonies

Kortina — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:15:57 -0000

The olympics was my first experience with silverlight as well, and I agree that it's horrible compared to flash. None of the video buffered properly, making almost all of the videos unwatchable on anything but the fastest connection.

I'm also in your camp re: opinion of Microsoft--I personally think they're a solid company that people make ungrounded criticisms of, but most of their web plays have been failures. One thing I have to complement them for, though, is http://photosynth.net/

Re: evolution not revolution

Kortina — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:04:49 -0000

Spot on--twitter is quite similar to the away message of yore. I think the reason a lot of people don't get twitter is that it takes quite a bit of work on the user's part to make it valuable. That is, with twitter, you really need to expend a bit of energy finding people to connect with and giving it a go before you start to see the benefits.

I would guess there's a good chance that twitter will not even be the dominant innovator in their space--there's still lots of room for someone to come in, learn from twitter's mistakes, and do things better.

Snackfeed is on the right track and in a killer market for innovation. Looking forward to seeing the next evolution of the service..

(aside) I'm digging your quote: "snackfeed is the next evolution (not the next revolution) in web video"

Re: 5 things to help survive the downturn

Kortina — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:27:23 -0000

"cash and morale" - this should be a hip hop song or something. Good thoughts here.

Re: Barcamp philly

Kortina — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:00:23 -0000

Wow, Comcast is using git, huh? Dope.

Re: Mobile Wars

Kortina — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:23:05 -0000

Good to hear all this stuff. I've been thinking about getting either a G1 or a Bold, cause I need a tactile keyboard.

So have you played with building anything for android yet? Easy to work with the SDK?

Are you going to try switching to the Android phone as a primary device for a weeklong test run or anything? Would love to grab it from you when you are done and try it for a week. Will contribute to the cost of the phone, too.

Re: Android Update

Kortina — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:39:36 -0000

How did you find working with the android SDK? Easier than objective c?

Re: Facebook Responds to Concerns Over Terms of Service

Kortina — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:22:24 -0000

I can't believe anyone cares about this. "we live in public"

Re: http://gary.tumblr.com/post/78887853

Kortina — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:45:05 -0000

Great post, Gary. This (and some of the other vids you've posted this week) have really gotten me thinking about personal brand.

Thanks!

Re: http://gary.tumblr.com/post/78888659

Kortina — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:23:01 -0000

Keep doing this vids, Gary. Loving them--thank *you*

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk - Details On A Show Idea Gary today shares a show...

Kortina — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:35:22 -0000

Gary, I watched this video a few weeks ago and I loved the idea of using the physical props. I have been meaning to do more video blogging, and along with some peer pressure from friends your video helped inspire me to just do it:
http://bit.ly/2D9aZg

Thanks for making videos that inspire.

Re: How to Resurrect Your High School Spanish… or Any Language (Plus: Be on the CBS Early Show!)

Kortina — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:00:36 -0000

Personal outsourcing: one of the simplest examples I can think of that has been totally worthwhile is the Wash and Fold. I discovered the joy of wash and fold about a year and a half ago when I moved to an apartment that had no washer and dryer. I was looking for a laundromat and discovered a place where I could drop off my clothes in the morning and pick them up in the evening washed and folded. I have never washed my clothes since.

I spend about $10-$12 a week on wash and fold, as opposed to about $6-$7 I would spend on using quarters and doing it myself; the time I save by not having to fold my clothes makes this fully worth while.

I have friends who still say to me "I can't believe you spend that much on laundry." They just can't grasp the concept of opportunity cost or understand that I value my time enough that I'll gladly pay for someone to do something as boring as folding clothes.

Re: Measuring What Really Works on Twitter: Post Timing and Headlines

Kortina — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:55:19 -0000

I love this kind of case study. I'll talk to the other engineers at bit.ly and see if we can do a similar case study across a day's worth of bit.ly links to get a more significant sample size and post results back here if we can mine this data.

Glad you're onto bit.ly now, btw. Reliability and speed have been our focus of late, and it appears to be paying off. Stop by next time you're in NYC and we'll hook you up with a pufferfish and t-shirt.

Re: Pennsylvania might as well be in Israel

Kortina — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:41:35 -0000

Love Viddler. Keep representing Philly + East Coast.

Also, great pic. I've spent many a morning doing burpees at the top of the stairs with that view in front of me.

Re: SummizeReader

Kortina — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:18:29 -0000

Looking forward to playing with it more--hopefully Flex Builder install worked last night...

top todos: reply & direct message. Once that stuff is in, this will beat twhirl and the other clients IMO. Brand managers, PR people, and customer service don't need fancy stuff like photo/video sharing via twitter. They just need a dashboard like this and an easy way to communicate with clients.

Re: 11 Best URL Shortening Services – Vote Your Favorite

Kortina — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:27:51 -0000

Hey, good summary. I would like to note that bit.ly does do 301 redirects:
$ curl -I http://bit.ly/L8mw
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
...

The only time we do a 302 is if you use a custom URL.

Another "extra" we have that you might mention in the last column is our Firefox extension, which lets you preview page titles and full links for short urls before clicking on them. The extension is available here: http://bit.ly/bitlyFirefox

Thanks for the writeup!

Re: 11 Best URL Shortening Services – Vote Your Favorite

Kortina — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:36:47 -0000

I apologize for a mistake in the last comment. I read the table incorrectly and see that you have bit.ly listed as supporting 301. Misread the table--mea culpa!