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Re: The EntreCard Twitter Fiasco

Willem Kossen — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:26:30 -0000

Aren't we all humans? Well, we certainly behave like them. I guess that all humans have some unfortunate characteristics ans every now and then they come up to the surface for all others to see. Then we start talking about it, and it seems there's no end to al the chagrin anymore....

Why don't we just look at it this way:
1. all human have their way of doing things regardless of our opinions about it.
2. most humans make the occasional mistake they might even regret afterwards
3. there are a number of mortal sins that somehow most of us commit every now and then (pride?)
4. squabbling is not making this world a better place.
5. so get on with what we do best, creating interesting reads for others and be friends with those worthy. Let's forget the rest.....

Cheers

Re: twitterwordle

Willem Kossen — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:55:53 -0000

That's very nice. I suppose you could release such a program under an open source license of choice and let us create wordles of our own.... Wordle.net is a very cool site I have been using for quite some time. I haven't however found a quick way to get my twitter-stuff into that one. (http://tweetake might be an option, though...)

Re: Tracking Online Identities

Willem Kossen — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:19:05 -0000

Social networks take time, I agree, and - as you have noticed - I'm on a lot of them, too. The place where most of these networks meet is - unfortunately - my e-mail inbox. That's where the notifications go. I'm not going to check all those sites to see if there's an update waiting.

I agree with your statements on FOAF. I want to take my friends with me on all networks I visit, I don't want to 're-search' all over again when I join something new. It's generally a bad thing that proprietary APIs are used to interconnect sites when open standards are already available.

Your tip to sign up with DandyID was definitely a good one.

Thanks!

Re: Building A Social Network Contact Management System

Willem Kossen — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:37:13 -0000

I had a look at friendbinder.com. It might do part of what you want (alas I don't know the real solution either, and as you can imagine, I have the same need.)

Couldn't we get a number of multinetworknetworkers together and just build what we need?

Re: Notifixious : Founder's blog - How cool are they? Hey, wanna know what’s on the...

Willem Kossen — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:05:55 -0000

I'ld be interested to see the other side, but when will you be visiting the Netherlands????

Cheers

Willem Kossen

Re: 2008/09/26/wordpress-weirdest-uses/

Willem Kossen — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:05:49 -0000

You would forget that you could actually also create a weblog on wordpress.... (or did that feature get dumped?)

Re: 2008/09/26/wordpress-weirdest-uses/

Willem Kossen — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:26:03 -0000

Hi,

I actually use a wordpress-MU installation for hosting multiple Curriculum Vitae right here: http://cvvanmij.nl/wkossen.
(actually, only one CV yet, but more to come) It's in dutch, but the translator from google will at least give you some idea about the content even if the translation is dodgy....

You could of course say that I'm using Wordpress as a CMS, but this is rather specific so I just mention it here anyway. Feedback is of course highly appreciated...

Cheers

Willem Kossen

Re: 2008/12/09/ivtrii/

Willem Kossen — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:48:13 -0000

Well, I've been keeping a LifestreamLog at my lifestreamer site build simply with Wordpress and the Lifestream plugin. It's here: Lifestreamer.nl Pretty simple to get that going and full control on my own server.

I'm still thinking to reinstall this on wordpress-MU to allow others to do the same. Would that be interesting? Would people -say- pay a dollar a month for it?

Re: 2008/12/11/google-chrome-market-share/

Willem Kossen — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:04:23 -0000

And the answer is yes, I'm one of those chrome users. I use it for almost all my browsing needs because of the one killing feature, speed. I'ld love some extensions, add-ons, plugins etc, but I would not want to loose the speed. Before Chrome I used K-meleon because of the same reason. Chrome is faster than that....

I have used safari, lynx, Mozilla, netscape, opera, IE (up to 7), konqueror k-meleon and chrome and chrome is the one that wins.

Re: 2008/12/14/baby-twitter/

Willem Kossen — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:12:38 -0000

hmmm. I guess this baby is not going to follow anyone back. This baby is not going to react to any tweet you or I make. I doubt this baby will respond to DM's or @replies.

Interesting as it may be from a technology point of view, I don't think that this really has anything to do with communication, the basis for twitter in the first place.

However, I feel the need to follow @kickbee and see what will happen 'after birth'....

I guess this is one in the same category as @pothos (twittering plant) and @MarsPhoenix

Cheers

Re: 2008/12/14/baby-twitter/

Willem Kossen — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:32:27 -0000

Sure.

Re: 2008/12/15/twit-or-fit/

Willem Kossen — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:14:26 -0000

It's an interesting concept, though not one I'll visit many times.

rating a persons twitterability requires more input than a 'latest tweet' and an avatar. Fun for once..... (oh, twice, want to know my rating some time from now...)

Re: 2008/12/15/twit-or-fit/

Willem Kossen — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:57:40 -0000

sorry I shocked you...

Re: 2008/12/15/twit-or-fit/

Willem Kossen — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:20:29 -0000

And I tried to hide behind my santa-hat..... I hope you'll recover quickly!

Re: 2008/12/16/twitter-dell-million/

Willem Kossen — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:54:41 -0000

At least some (annoying?) twitter users are monetizing twitter for their own sake with a twitter spamming service called magpie. This service twitters - in the name of it's members - advertisements to their followers which I believe is twam. However, I can't opt out without unfollowing those people (which is a bit drastic, because I was following them for other reasons...)

Follow me at http://twitter.com/wkossen

Re: 2008/12/16/twitter-dell-million/

Willem Kossen — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:14:38 -0000

As a frequent visitor I can assure you this blog talks about lots of other things as well.....

Re: 2008/12/14/baby-twitter/

Willem Kossen — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:37:32 -0000

I guess describing Twitter is a problem for lots of people.

I feel a competition coming up: Best description of Twitter in less than 30 words wins a free twitter account.....

Cheers

Re: 2008/12/16/twitter-dell-million/

Willem Kossen — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:10:48 -0000

that is, if Twitter still exists then. There have been many great ideas that never made it because of the lack of money flowing into, rather than out of the bank accounts of those providing it..... I guess Twitter needs to come up with a way to make some money to make sure it will be here two years from now...

Re: 2008/10/20/25-celebrity-twitter-users/

Willem Kossen — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:12:31 -0000

http://twitter.com/maximeverhagen for the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs...

Re: 2008/12/11/google-chrome-market-share/

Willem Kossen — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:47:20 -0000

Well, anonymous previous poster, Thank you for your nice comments.

I am still using the Chrome browser and am very happy with it. It's more stable than IE(anyversion) or Firefox. It's also faster and most sites actually work.

It's unpolished and that's good. Polishing apps makes them unstable, user-unfriendly and bulky. The interface is clean rather than childish.

I guess you posted this comment to get attention, hey, you got it!.

Cheers!

Re: Unsexy blog posts can be valuable too!

Willem Kossen — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:40:57 -0000

If I had to worry about all the numbers and stats all the time, I would not get any post done. I blog because I like to do so and think I have something to say. In fact, There are people out there that like what I do. The stats? Well, let's say I don't financially depend on my blog yet. It's a more relaxed way of doing things.....