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Re: Texting In Purchases

Jez — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:09:09 -0000

a great idea! its such an easy thing to set up on any online account as well.. Set up with your mobile number, Amazon / Apple send a 5 digit short-code to you, and from then on you can send requests in! A quick response with what you asked for... and its all done!

Looking at the comments, a few people mention jott (only available in USA) and mobile web browsing... I believe mobile phones and simple texting are ubiquitious and much more useful to the majority of people...

Re: ASK: How do I hire a community manager?

Jez — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:24:46 -0000

Just discovered your website from a link from ChrisBrogan.com ... some great ideas! My company is looking at increasing our social media.. so I am going to point some other people here!

Some great ideas... liked the idea from someone else. "how do I become a Community Manager?" ...

One final thing is.... if I search on wikipedia for a Community Manager. I get a housing manager. Whats another term?

Re: Anatomy Of A Perfect Post

Jez — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:04:23 -0000

Great Article.. only discovered your article through Louis Gray Shared Feed on google Reader.

I love how you should attract attention to your post.. got a couple of other points to add:

An article now should be constructed with an executive summary (less than 100 words, preferably less than 255 charcaters), and links to directly related information. If the entire article if covering a range of different topics, then it should be split into different posts. The entire Article length should not be more than two pages of A4. Otherwise it's rambling and should be split across more than one article.

This would allow the author to put his main point across sufficiently, with the reader having understanding.

Re: Whispers of the G2 Android phone grow louder

Jez — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:20:08 -0000

I firmly believe that there will be a whole range of Android Phones in 2009, so a Jan 26th release date isn't that unbelievable. Remember, Android is the OS.. its not like iPhone. Look at the Apple product range. They love to keep it simple, with only a few products.

Re: Android netbooks on their way, likely by 2010

Jez — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:02:03 -0000

Netbooks are proving very popular due to the simple fact that 80% of users only need 20% of the features.. As long as there is messaging (gTalk), music (amazon MP3 in the USA), photos (picasaweb), video (youtube) and Office Apps (google Docs).. most users will be happy.

Yes, you will always be getting people saying that I need it to run PhotoShop etc.. no problems, Adobe either port it over or say, "Sorry you need a more powerful PC"

Re: The Social Platform Race to My Contact List

Jez — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:07:42 -0000

The company that manages to sync contact lists PERFECTLY.. (not you plaxo) will be top of my list. Why Facebook couldnt get together with the email providers, and provide a secure API that syncs my google / hotmail / yahoo / outlook emails together, so that they all have the right info is beyond me.

I guess someone somewhere, is trying to hold onto all of that information as they see it as theres. To be fair, its not. My friends are MY friends and not facebooks. Make it easy for me FB and I will convince everyone I know to get on it, so that we all have a decent connection.

It cant be that difficult..

Re: A Glitch in My Digitally Nomadic Life

Jez — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:29:22 -0000

Nick

Like Stephen says, you could change the home drive on your mac. Alterantively you could change the drive on your PC.. Just create /Macintosh HD/Users/nick/Documents/ on the PC.. go to the main My Documents link.. Right Click > properties > change this to /Macintosh HD/Users/nick/Documents

Once you have clicked Apply, and then OK, it will ask if you want to move everything from My Documents to the new folder.. Yep!

To be fair, its the first thing I do. Create new folder in C:\ and call it data. Its the new My Documents. Easy peasy file name stucture.

Re: I Am A Facebook Addict

Jez — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:32:05 -0000

I only accept friend requests from people i have actually met! (unlike MySpace.. where it was a race to get them numbers up)

I am a true evangelist of Facebook though, and constantly tell my Tech UN-savvy mates what they are missing out on!

I found a great link the other day, about having TWO fb profiles. One personal, and one professional. However, I just want FB to let me classify my friends better. And only open parts of the pages professionally, but let my close friends see more. I really think that they are working on something like this!

Re: Do Facebook Users Have a MySpace Mentality?

Jez — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:55:16 -0000

damn right.. I refuse ALL random strangers.

Thats why i binned MySpacker and its game of who can get the most friends. (i think I had 72 quite fit ladies who I never met!!!!!)

I read an article today in UK's IT WEEK (13.08.07 - Vol10 No32), called "Businesses have to face up to my Facebook"

"Sophos, the online security giant, has added a new question for IT Mnagers in its latest Security Threat report. It reads 'Why haven't you blocked MySpace in your company?'. The Security vendor obviously regards IT managers that allow users to MySpace as highly irresponsible."

This is just Sophos now saying that FB users are just as willing to collect as many friends as possible..

reminds me of those Head and Shoulders ads on TV.. 74% of those polled said no visible dandruff (then in tiny writing at the bottom.. distance 4m 132 people polled) :)

Re: Facebook Banned at Work

Jez — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:59:48 -0000

I'm fine! Contractor for #1 IT multinational.. access is fine. You just don't take the mickey, coz ITSEC are watching what sites you are on.

I reckon this is simply people who prob dont have net access anyway! (or another crappy article like that one by the spam filtering firm last week)

Re: Facebook’s Killer Feature

Jez — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:57:34 -0000

I have been thinking of this for some time! Vote @ http://facebook.shoulddothis.com

This is the ONE killer feature that will be a success for FB.. of course there will be some people out there that will have no idea.. or find it a little complicated :)

The way I see it: classes of 'friends'

Class 1 - Best friends - can see class 1/2/3/4/5
Class 2 - Friends (todays friends) - Can see class 2/3/4/5
Class 3 - Acquantances (yesterdays friends) - Can see class 3/4/5
Class 4 - Colleagues - Can see class 4/5
Class 5 - Randoms (poke buddys etc) and also your public profile - Can see class 5

It removes the stupid limited profile. (what does that mean really?) and your 'friends' don't need to know what class they are in anyway!

Like you said, would replace LinkedIn, and also means you can have a public profile that actually means something!

All you allfacebook readers out there.. send this in as an improvement to Facebook

Re: Should Facebook Allow Aliases?

Jez — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:04:21 -0000

This is pretty important for me.

I use Jez XXX and I also have a work FB with Jeremy XXX ... My friends all know me as Jez and it is a recognised shortened version of Jeremy.

I set up the work FB account as I realised that letting work colleagues know what I was up to at the weekend was a bit of a no no. I don't really use it and want to get rid of it soon in favour of aliases.

Also didn't Facebook just change some back end coding that means they can now provide an individual user ID for everyone on earth and all of there pets? :)

Lets hope this means that when they bring in the much needed groups of friends feature that we could have:

Jez XXX - Friends
The most wonderful Jez XXX - great friends!
Jeremy XXX - work
J XXX - Family

Would really help things out!

Re: Facebook Beta Tests Payment System

Jez — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:45:31 -0000

FACEBOOK FRIEND LISTS!! they are here... just exploring them now!

Re: Facebook Killer Feature Arrives

Jez — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:44:28 -0000

Whilst I am already on FB and don't care for LinkedIn , I totally agree with @1 Jason "Show various Groups different profiles" with what could be the killer feature:

*Group A sees all (great Friends)
*Group B sees all less Group A, (good friends)
*Group C and D see only C or D (family and work)

Also FB should also make certain Apps seen by certain groups!

From what the blog at Facebook says, this 'could' be a feature we see next year!

Re: Facebook Newsfeed Returns, No More Ratings

Jez — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:40:40 -0000

I used it.. it was always a red cross if it was an application spamming my newsfeed. In all honesty, I only use Facebook for events, photos, and keeping up with friends (old and new)

I dont want the applications bugging me. Apparently they say that you can change these settings in your NewsFeed Preference Page. Well thats real easy to find.. and once you do, there is nothing there about Applications bugging me!

BTW even if you put "Less stories about this friend" .. they still come up occasionally.

Re: Users Fight Back Against the New Facebook

Jez — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:24:27 -0000

totally in favour.. much cleaner. Now when I go to a friends page, I dont see rubbish apps anymore, as I never interact with the boxs page.

Nick - as you know there is a little link right at the box, that says "Back to the old version".. lets hope FB keeps that there for a while, and doesn't add any new features there!

Re: 7 Tips for Fighting Information Overload (Plus: Competition Winners)

Jez — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:30:31 -0000

Hi Tim!

Its always good to find new ways to beat Information Overload... cutting the RSS feed seems to be the only way!

Anyway is there a reason why you have two themes in every post? Why not just have two posts?
I like some of your posts, enough to want to del.icio.us them, but generally dont as the second half was not informative enough..

MAybe its for us to read something slightly different after your post... that qould be quite clever!

###

This is something I've been fighting with and will poll all readers soon. I guess I feel that I don't want to clutter people's RSS or e-mail with separate posts just to make announcements, so I append them at the end of posts (a la "(Plus: Competition Winners)"). Thank you for reminding me to poll everyone!

Tim

Re: Free eBook on Social Media and Social Networks

Jez — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:55:46 -0000

forwarded already!! cheers chris!

Re: New Site Design Launched

Jez — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:17:04 -0000

Very nice!! Nice and clean. Can I steal it?? ;)
jez

Re: The Web Version of You

Jez — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:54:25 -0000

Chris.. How about your wiki user page?? and Talk page?? some people make a lot of edits and help out with the wikipedia project..

What about ClaimID or OpenID 'about me' RSS Feeds? Yes it can be an RSS feed.. but make it look different. If you can say THIS IS ABOUT ME! or I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS.. sometimes people may do a search for you online, and find stuff that is not you.

Also FF should have an editable profile page! Not too much, but some info you could add. To be fair, it really should point to your Blogs About page... but still maybe a useful feature

Re: Writing Effective Blog Posts

Jez — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:30:07 -0000

One thing I am trying to implement in my blog (t'InterWebs) is an 'Executive Summary' that is a maximum of 255 characters. If someone adds it to del.icio.us then they can cut 'n' paste into the summary box and then add tags they think will be useful!

At the moment it's a work in progress ;)

Re: The First Step To Starting a Blog: Ask Yourself If You Actually Want One

Jez — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:15:24 -0000

Thanks Monica.. I have just started another blog :) my first one is still going, but it was for friends and family about my travels and life experiences.

I wanted to write that was a guide to branding yourself on the internet. I am a bit of an information junkie, and love to find useful information. I want to share what I find useful with others..

Hope you don't mind, but I have used your post here, at .. FULL KUDOS TO YOU!!

Re: The First Step To Starting a Blog: Ask Yourself If You Actually Want One

Jez — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:16:19 -0000

blimey I messed the formatting up on that...

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

Jez — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:27:06 -0000

Robert
As an early adopter for most sites, I was trying to get on to Facebook for years. My Uni in UK was not on the list, and was not added for a couple of years after I left. So when they opened up, I was straight there. Now all those people I knew from Uni, High School, old workplaces who are all there are on it. Its great to find out what people are up to!

One thing that the FB Dev's need to do though is to create a way of segregating your friend list. For instance, I have 160 'genuine' friends on FB, but really only actually keep in touch with approx 50 of them. They should be my A friends. Another 100 are 'old' friends, and people I probably wouldn't make the effort to keep in touch with. These should be my B friends. I have added a few work colleagues. These should be my C friends. Finally, like a lot of your 2500 friends, they are just people I know online. My D friends.

Why cant the FB Dev Team create a system, where I can classify them? 'Limited Friend' is not enough. This way, my B/C/D friends do NOT see what the interaction is between my A friends and myself is.. This would then make it a lot more useful.. and private!

PS the best features of FB is planning nights/events. Its great to see who is coming, and all the other little directions. Also after, people can share the photos with those who came along!

Re: Things on my mind…

Jez — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:52:32 -0000

Robert-

Take some enjoyed time off!! I expect I will still see you taking over my Facebook front page though :D

Enjoy! your blogs gonna stay in my Reader.. waiting for you to return!

Jez

Re: Steve Jobs gets on Facebook?

Jez — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:12:06 -0000

Was watching engadget coverage yesterday of the new iPod lineup! When FB came up on the iPod Touch, I saw that one of Steves friends was "Erik *** " ... so did a quick search on FB for "Erik *** " .. Found him! (pic the same as on the iPod touch), clicked 'View Friends' but no Jobs there :(

I wonder if Apple let these people know that they were gonna be featured at the release, so they could have turned the 'View Friends' feature off if need be!

Re: 7,200 Google Reader lockins

Jez — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:23:15 -0000

Its definitely the best way for a linkblog, but wouldn't it be good for you to specify an address that you can share your link blog? something like www.XXX.com/linkblog ...

It must only be a setting? or a tweak?

Anyway I use Google Reader because I like the Google product set, and feel that they are the only company going into the future that can look after what I want them to look after.. mail / calendar / search / feed reader and hopefully a decent address book and to do will be coming out soon!

Re: My stats from a few minutes ago

Jez — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:38:49 -0000

So how about this...

I read TechMeme through Google Reader. Is that going to show as a Google Reader referral or TechMeme??

Re: Attention thieves; keeping you from living a “FOOCamp life?”

Jez — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:58:21 -0000

Great article... I realised a long time ago that t'interwebs was taking up far too much of my time. I know I have a slightly addictive nature, but I thought being addicted to information can't be too bad.. its not the worse addiction after all!

Anyway, finding something new out gives me a great feeling, and with RSS feeds I find loads of new things out everyday. But its really distracting. So I had to amend this habit, so it wasnt too time consuming!

Now I still can't actually cull the feeds, but using some shared feeds and ranking my sites ; Primary / Secondary / tertiary / personal & work, means I can spend a little free time reading my PRIMARY feed, a little work time reading my WORK and FRIENDS feed, and mark the rest as read.

gReader gives me the ability to search, so if I need to find something its my third stop - after two pages of Google & del.icio.us

I still spend a couple of hours a day on this, but now I dont feel as guilty, and actually get on with life!

As for the others, I just let gReader pick up a PERSONAL feed, and can scan what my my friends are doing, and go to the site if I need to respond.

Anyway... Like I said at the beginning "great article" .. I know it is when you can spend some time writing a comment, as it struck you in its own way. Thanks.

Re: How our digital lives are spreading out

Jez — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:54:42 -0000

Robert.

See if Disqus can do commenting for you as you wish. It would only let me use disqus for NEW comments only, on blogs without them .. but I am sure for someone like you they could find a way around it ;)

That way you can also bring your comments into FriendFeed.

Worth a try anyway.. BTW I'm nothing to do with disqus... just like what they do

Re: I’ve redesigned

Jez — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:52:56 -0000

Looking good!! Even though TC just mentioned your a bit of a Sell Out, I think the advert you have works well...

Using FF though the Photos and about, appear below the submit comment button.. Perhaps its my 125% DPI setting on WinXP (UPDATE -- yep, quick check and it went back up)

Any chance of making the template "Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License" for other bloggers???

Re: Is Education The Answer?

Jez — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:10:40 -0000

While I am not aware of how the US organises and provides it education system, I have some understanding of the UK system. It sucks..

Not going to go into a rant into politics, but our current government (http://www.labour.org.uk/education) want 50% of 18 year olds to achieve a degree at university (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widening_participa...) ... The problem with this?? It lowers the value of a degree.

As such a degree is becoming worthless, and its more important to achieve a credible result, so that you can study a PhD or masters.

The purpose of a degree is to give the ability to take information from many sources, and turn that into understanding. Its not what you learn, but how you do it.

Re: What Do You Think Of Gears Of War So Far?

Jez — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:07:56 -0000

"Best Game Ever.." said in Comic Book Guy style!
I feel like I am at the movies.. not yet playing on xbox live, wait till I get to grips with things!
Its even better on a HD projector :)

Re: What Do You Think Of Gears Of War So Far?

Jez — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:19:00 -0000

Every time I go on xbox live I get a serious ass kicking

jura55ik

Re: Help With WordPress Timestamps

Jez — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:35:08 -0000

well.. its 16:35 GMT or thereabouts right now.. as I am sure you are fully aware!

Re: New Members Of MyBlogLog Community

Jez — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:38:30 -0000

Cheers Everton! Anybody who decides to go and visit my site, Please leave a comment to say how my site could be improved..

obviously you don't have to!

Re: Join Connected Internet’s MyBlogLog Community And I’ll Feature Your Posts

Jez — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:58:42 -0000

Everton.. what else am I to do during my lunchbreak?

The king of Procastinators, I am :)

Anyway like I said on my blog, I use Google Reader to track the net, and my fave blogs... Anything else I let you track for me!

Re: Friday Fun: Tribute To Giggsy

Jez — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:34:16 -0000

Man U??

Everton, I didnt think you were a Man U fan... I think the 90's players were some of the best of there time (look at the england sqaud, it might as well of been Man U), but Man U??

Aren't you from London?? :)

Re: Friday Fun: Video Of Rhain Davis 9, Man Utd’s Latest Star

Jez — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:34:07 -0000

If I had a Â£100 would put it on Rhain Davis being in the England football team scoring goals before Rooney did!!

Re: $100 Site Logo Competition

Jez — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:08:04 -0000

How long till some design Nazi posts with a link to http://www.no-spec.com ??

Great Idea! Love your blog Everton.. so will knock something together ASAP! Got a rough close date?

If you can't choose.. you gonna let us punters vote? like X-Factor :)

Re: $100 Site Logo Competition

Jez — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:05:02 -0000

Apparently there are graphic designers out there who actually want to 'Charge' for some speculative work!! have a nosy at this article.. http://www.no-spec.com/archives/i-wish-i-had-wr...

They do have a point.. go and have a look through the archive on www.dailycupoftech.com .. He (think its he.. maybe she) recently did a logo redesign (search 'logo' on site for more details) and got LOADS of flak..

Just a pre-warning!!

Personally in this day and age, I believe a logo design does deserve credit (maybe not payment for speculative design though... think of the idiots that designed that bloody Olympic Logo for London). The designers should all get there websites linked to from a 'hot' page of yours. From this WebSite a link in your footer is worth its weight in gold to the designer who actually 'wins' this comp!!

Re: Please Choose Your Favourite $100 Logo

Jez — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:20:54 -0000

#2 and #5 - but dont like the font on #2 -- the Logo is great on both of them!

Re: Windows Home Server Review

Jez — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:45:45 -0000

waiting for my $5 120 day trial disk now! this 'should' hopefully solve most of my issues! Hope there is a good community for addins..

Re: Tagging the Traffic Monster to Your Site

Jez — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:44:44 -0000

Sorry.. just to let you know that the formatting in this article is TERRIBLE. found it very difficult to read in gReader

Great article though..

Re: Tagging the Traffic Monster to Your Site

Jez — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:05:32 -0000

@sergio:

I don't think so... it looks like there have been done at random times through the article. i.e (the first paragraph):

"After analyzing many SEO methods, Iâ€™ve come to believe that link building is the most

critical, as well as overlooked."

Or is just me??? I don't normally see little mistakes here! It looks exactly the same in Google Reader.

Sorry but a little part in me dies when i see grammatical mistakes :)

Re: Tagging the Traffic Monster to Your Site

Jez — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:09:09 -0000

My mistake i entered Carriage Returns inside 'Less than' and 'Greater than' arrows, and the word disappeared....

@sergio:

I donâ€™t think soâ€¦ it looks like there have been 'Carriage Returns' done at random times through the article. i.e (the first paragraph):

â€œAfter analyzing many SEO methods, Iâ€™ve come to believe that link building is the most

critical, as well as overlooked.â€

Or is just me??? I donâ€™t normally see little mistakes here! It looks exactly the same in Google Reader.

Sorry but a little part in me dies when i see grammatical mistakes :)

Re: Windows Home Server Deleted My Files!

Jez — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:08:40 -0000

Everton.. please try and find out why this happened, and let us all know... I havent got round to installing WHS yet but I was going to do it this month.

I was thinking of raiding my music and media, but backing up all files / photos / important docs somehow. Amazon S3 sounds like a good idea.