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Re: Microblogging should be decentralized (Scripting News)

dave — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:01:04 -0000

...or you could simply use yonkly.com when emad finishes the open source code -it's a clone of twitter, and uses twitter's api to call in and out...that way you can have your very own twitter for you and your close friends but still dump into the pool...

Re: http://www.rev2.org/2007/05/31/jason-calacanis-human-powered-search-mahalo-launches/

dave — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:10:27 -0000

dude, come on! this initiative is pathetic and nobody has apparently looked very hard at their first 4 thousand pages!

Re: Talk about getting too big for your britches

dave — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:21:25 -0000

i'm a bit confused...at first it smacks of arrogance, which is the tone of your entire piece, but in reality all these folks are saying is that they have a preferred medium, much the same way magazine editors say 'don't call, email us' - it's 2008, not 2001, things are very different...publicity seeking individuals or firms would be well served to follow these nascent communication trends and just deal with it. period.
dave
www.passingnotes.com

Re: Twitter: We Need Search By Authority

dave — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:09:41 -0000

you're kidding, right? i mean, you DO understand that there is no correlation between volume of followers and reliability or credibility of an information asset? you are not really that out of the know when it comes to information foraging?

this is a terrifying and horribly flawed idea. you need only visit adherents.com to see the travesty of such an idea - go take a visit and tell me, based on number of followers, which religion matters most...

you are manufacturing problems in search of solutions that are in want of purpose...

Re: iPhone fart app pulls in nearly $10,000 a day

dave — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:21:37 -0000

you know why? because it is *awesome* - my younger son got an ipod touch this year and the ifart app was a perfect match for his "here's a buck for one stupid app" budget (he loves real apps like band)...

don't you get it? people love stupid applications...just look, here you are commenting on some blog posting on some site that some small audience reads - is that any more a waste of time than pressing a button to make a fart noise? at least with ifart, you can share the love with people around you, as opposed to any blog where your noise vanishes deeper into the ether with each new passing post (buried, never to be seen again, and so what ever did you type for?)

Re: Yonkly - Open Source Twitter

dave — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:11:48 -0000

emad, this is outstanding - if you'd like some help with documentation please drop me a note (my email is in my comment details)...i don't write code, but i'd love to maybe sit on the phone with you for an hour to create some easy to follow installation and set up instructions for interested users...have written tons of recipes and mod documentation for drupal (and elgg too), so quite familiar with "keeping it easy" - and you can find me on twittter as passingnotes

Re: Twitter Goes to the Corporate World as Yammer

dave — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:42:26 -0000

what a depressing win, if twitter adds a button called "groups" then yammer is gone by sheer virtue of installed user base (by this i mean the myriad applications that have sprung up on mobile devices and oses across the globe for twitter fans)...

besides, i'm espousing the virtues of yonkly.com for enterprise - it's open source and built on msft technologies, not php or ruby, much more logical choice for those interesting in experimenting

oddly, informationweek just did a survey on social networking in the enterprise, and nearly 80 percent aren't there yet though most are 'thinking about it' - so what's yammer after? 20 accounts at a dollar a month? dumb...

Re: 2007/05/15/explode/

dave — Tue, 15 May 2007 20:25:43 -0000

...and you forgot to mention the MOST attractive thing about this: anybody who is interested can use the open source elgg.org platform to build his/her own social networking site (as niche as you'd like) and use the explode plugin to connect directly to the larger network...like ning on steroids, and with total admin control over features...

the folks behind explode are the same folks behind the amazing elgg.org code base...they've worked really hard on this thing, and it's nice to see how it is evolving...

Re: 2007/05/26/myspace-white-label/

dave — Sat, 26 May 2007 17:10:25 -0000

...you can already do this, build your own myspace - but it's even better, and it's an open source application used by tons of universities:
www.elgg.org

Re: 2007/05/30/mahalo/

dave — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:12:54 -0000

this waste of space startup is going to die on the vine - mark my words!...dumbest thing i've seen in years. is it 1999 again?

Re: 2007/07/18/people-search/

dave — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:56:56 -0000

hey, nice roundup - oddly, i just wrapped up (last month) a very large article for my regular column in "Competitive Intelligence Magazine" (published by SCIP.org) that looks at dozens of these tools including aggregators and additional utilities...it won't be up on http://www.passingnotes.com until probably novemberish, maybe october/late sept depending on publication date, but if you'd like to see a preview copy please ping me...

Re: 2007/11/21/flickr-uploadr-30/

dave — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:44:07 -0000

any idea why the mac app version is so huge? like 50 plus megs? that is absolutely ridiculous for this kind of utility...

it is bloatware.

Re: Automattic Assimilates BuddyPress, Moves Towards Social Networking

dave — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:30:01 -0000

interesting that andy edited the google code 'open source description' recently...the code is still there (google code) it's 3 mu plugins...

for an example of a buddypress wordpress installation, check out www.chickspeak.com

Re: Automattic Assimilates BuddyPress, Moves Towards Social Networking

dave — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:31:01 -0000

sorry, forgot the link to the google code downloads for WP users who want to try it out NOW even though buddypress is shut down:

http://code.google.com/p/buddypress/downloads/list

Re: 2008/04/27/tweetcret/

dave — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:11:03 -0000

it's a spammer's haven....postsecret should just do their own with moderation and that will be the end of it...OR (to the dev) allow users to flag spam...

Re: 2008/06/02/trackur-trends-featur/

dave — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:34:26 -0000

sorry, but 1 keyword for 18 bucks per month? these folks have got to think about one word being free to get users interested in the service - there are far too many alert and monitoring services out there to waste the money on something that might be at best marginally better...if it's great, then prove it, let users get a word for free and learn to use and love the service. if it's any good, they'll upgrade and trackur will filter out the loyalists...

Re: 2008/07/24/boston-summermash-is-on-its-way/

dave — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:06:45 -0000

hey, very cool...i hope to be there and will try to notify some other locals...tuesday night is a good pick, there should be tons of parking around that area...

Re: 2008/07/24/boston-summermash-is-on-its-way/

dave — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:44:22 -0000

uh, stephanie, if you're the hot blonde in the photo, you're more than welcome to crash at my place provided you can put up with the pack of dogs ;)

on a more practical note, check out cambridge - right across the river, and if it's nice out you could walk it in 15 minutes....anyplace near MIT or harvard sq or even near the sonesta or marriott in kendall (nice river views)...

Re: 2008/07/28/conotes/

dave — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:44:59 -0000

my advice:

use crunchbase API to pull in startup data
fix rss feed to display company name, not conotes (for all)
allow user feedback/ratings on companies (or via cb api)

Re: 2008/08/19/songsterr/

dave — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:15:36 -0000

it's outstanding - just turned my son on to it...a bit slow loading but once it's there it's totally solid

BUT it's missing the single most important thing a learning player requires from a site like this: a PRINT TAB button! duh...

Re: 2008/08/19/songsterr/

dave — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:54:12 -0000

@denis - wow! that was fast, really looking forward to it...basically, my son sits there playing a nirvana song but also needs to take it ofline to practice, but if he winds up on another site with a variation in the tab it's all for naught when he returns to your site...

Re: 2008/10/07/youtube-click-to-buy/

dave — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:01:50 -0000

uh, is this the end of overlay.tv and their competitors?

Re: 2008/10/17/twellow-trending-categories/

dave — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:29:20 -0000

it's awful! categorization from keyword scans is crapola...as an example, i have hundreds of tweets around business research and competitive intelligence, my industry/occupation - but because i have mentioned my dogs a few times, i am under 'recreation/pets' - total crap. it's like the mahalo of twitter search for the time being...when it improves, let me know...

Re: 2008/11/24/kontain/

dave — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:18:47 -0000

sorry, but this site is all wrong - not something anybody over the age of 35-40 would use, far too complicated and visually busy for anybody who's not into the "latest and trendiest interface" design

the site is slow loading, overstuffed with queries, scripts and animations that serve no purpose other than to bombard home page users and is just too damned confusing.

for those people above 'shilling' for this site, seriously, ask yourself how this is even remotely 'decent' compared to the other nine million sites out there...it's just a busy template on top of some old crap.

you could build this site yourself with drupal in about 2 days and then hire a designer to doll it up the same way with better utility and performance...

Re: 2008/12/10/zentact/

dave — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:19:38 -0000

uh, nice idea BUT you want me to give this tiny company ALL of my contacts, all of their contact data and add rich contextual and private information to it????

they have got to put out a hand-signed agreement and they will need to mail it to me, notarized, before i consider using this kind of service ;)

Re: 2008/12/19/youtube-videos-are-becoming-an-unwatchable-mess/

dave — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:36:00 -0000

you're kidding, right? people are going to go to youtube and watch videos even if they have to look at half screen ads, because that is what the masses do, and youtube is built for the masses...it's just like people watching television with displays in screen corner and in top band, no different, just an alternate platform...if it's free, people will always take it with a side of shit...

Re: 2008/12/20/google-desktop/

dave — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:18:59 -0000

google desktop is arguably the product from google that receives the worst support - go look at desktop forums and groups from google...notice that they *never* reply? it took them nearly 4 months to respond to mac issues with spotlight hooks from other apps (e.g. mailtags) that were causing crashes...

file caching is nice, but is it worth crippling your system for this level of utility? perhaps you could write a more intelligent article that says, very clearly, how GDS is better than Spotlight or integrated Windows desktop search - and leave out Gmail search as that bears little relevance to 'the desktop' (as in, local drive comparison only)

i think that you will then find a load of folks yawning, waiting for gds to finish indexing and then wondering what on earth they've just installed...for mac users, i truly do not see the point..

Re: 2008/12/27/blogo/

dave — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:33:20 -0000

any chance you could do a fup piece comparing it to marsedit (the de facto ruler of paid mac editing sw) and scribefired (as mentioned above, the leader in free)?

otherwise it's just shilling, or feels like it...

Re: Facebook to Launch Video Chat

dave — Sat, 16 May 2009 10:53:22 -0000

if FB really wanted to capture our entire collective attention(s), then they should have launched pop3 access to messaging (e.g. for gmail users) AND they should dramatically improve their messaging utilities (fwd, save/tag, folders, etc)

Re: Facebook Users Are Getting Older. Much Older.

dave — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:42:53 -0000

wow, facebook is the new eons.com - they should just buy out eons, it makes sense..

Re: With 1.8 Million Apps Downloaded So Far, Palm Pre Opens Platform

dave — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:24:57 -0000

well, 1.8 million downloaded out of sheer boredom and frustration - likely 1.7 million uninstalled...

Re: Twitter is definitely down, sorta

dave — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:41:50 -0000

hmm...i asked jim gosling and he says it just 'cause twitter on ruby can't scale for the web, they should rewrite in all java, right? ;)

Re: How to compete with Silicon Valley

dave — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 08:36:47 -0000

First of all, to my fellow Americans, I just want you all to know that ManBearPig is real, I'm super cereal. Secondly, this guy is talking out of his butt. He's apparently forgotten that Gateway, the king of all computer companies, is in the middle of noplace special. Same goes for Micron in Idaho, the semiconductor companies in Northern New England, General Motors in Michigan and so on. After you all see my film, you will realize that these technology hubs are not important given the fact that we're going to be wiped off the face of the earth by both the environment and ManBearPig. I'm super cereal.

Re: What to do when you’re bored: talk about Google OS!

dave — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:34:59 -0000

hmmm, so then lets try to figure out why they hired the entire original plan9 team from bell...they are clearly looking at this idea but i certainly wouldn't call it an os either....but the file system ideas and language within plan9 is genius, and is already adopted within linux, and elgoog runs a modified kernel and loves linux, so why not extend that file system language to support a new type of interface? pike, quinlan, presotto, they're all there and then some...

Re: Microsyntax.org: A Messifesto

dave — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:55:03 -0000

uh, nice idea - and great conceptual effort - but if folks can't even adhere (remotely) to the regular rules of grammar, why on earth would they adopt a new set of rules for an ad hoc service online? shouldn't we focus on teaching children how to write first?