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Re: Are You a Hot Up-and-Coming Utah Startup? I Want to Meet You!

keldwud — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:40:46 -0000

I would recommend that you find my contact info and get in touch with me.

I have some good people to network you with that can give you the information
that you are looking for.

Re: Why I Hate the Twitter Syntax

keldwud — Sat, 03 May 2008 08:16:37 -0000

First answer - @

I remember reading about this elsewhere and I believe the answer that somebody else came up with was that the @reply
symbol came into common usage on the Gawker networks with the commenting system. (I could be wrong)
The non-standard practice may have originated elsewhere but I saw several mentions from longtime gawker commenters
that after a short incubation period of using the @reply visual function (as this is a visual function
created only by the human brain and not translated by software by any means), the community started to develop
grease monkey scripts to ease the use and readability of the commenting system and thus including the @reply format
as code that could be parsed by the script. I could be making wild speculations here, but it may give you
some insight and a lead into the information that you were looking for.

Second answer - IRC vs txt.

I am making another speculation here based less on fact and more on just what I know of certain services. I think
that your second query revolves around terms such as SMS and '140 character limit' and Service Providers and
not needing to install any software on the client side mobile device. I believe (speculation again) that the
developers of this particular social app may have asked themselves questions about how to integrate mobile devices
into the loop of communication without installing any client side software. What would be the most universal?
I think that asking these questions may lead us into the information that helps clarify your confusion as to why
-- as to why twitter had come to evolve as it had -- Instead of IRC evolving in its place.

(sorry for the disjointed post, I can never see what I am typing once my characters reach your "recent
visitors window on your sight, and the text never autowraps while I am commenting)

Re: Why I Hate the Twitter Syntax

keldwud — Sat, 03 May 2008 08:37:16 -0000

Oh, and the nature of your OP has left you wide open and vulnerable to counter-attack with lots of snark and
turning certain statements made back upon themselves thus either slighty damaging your credibility or ego, or both
I have, of course, chosen *not* to take advantage of this. However, if there is somebody following your blog that does not like you, they may jump on the opportunity you left open with this post. See @vaspersthegrate for more info about blogosphere warfare. ;)

If you would like to know more about the vulnerabilities that I noticed, feel free to contact me and I would be happy to let you know in private so as not to call them out in public.

Re: Why I Hate the Twitter Syntax

keldwud — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:12:27 -0000

Oh, and I agree with you that the syntax does leave something to be desired.

Re: April Group Blogging Project: Need 10 bloggers ASAP!

keldwud — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:54:47 -0000

Some potty mouth words coming, be forewarned. Oh and these were written before I took English 1010 but I still like them, regardless. :)

http://keldwud.org (IE 6 breaks my code)

Short and Sweet
http://keldwud.org/trax.html

Defcon 12
http://keldwud.org/defcon12.html

Sarah Silverman (don't read this if you are easily offended)
http://keldwud.org/sarasilverman.html

Or I could recommend some of my more tame stuff at blog.keldwud.org, but... meh.