Disqus - Latest Comments for Jeff Standen

Re: Writing about Jack Dorsey and Twitter

Jeff Standen — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:16:19 -0000

I think it's pretty interesting how such a simple idea has really blossomed into something I'm sure they never expected.

Rather than using Twitter for emo-driven microblogging, I'm remote controlling several applications through IM/SMS via Twitter as easily as I'd chat with a buddy on Google Talk or my cellphone.

Re: Writing about Jack Dorsey and Twitter

Jeff Standen — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:30:35 -0000

Hey Julien!

I apologize for the delayed reply. I wrote up a short article about my Twitter and Remember the Milk (Tasks) integration.

You can find it over here:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/262l3j

Re: Top-Ten Blogging Best Practices

Jeff Standen — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:44:50 -0000

For #1, Caroline Middlebrook gives some great advice on streamlining your blog commenting strategy over here:
http://www.caroline-middlebrook.com/blog/do-you...

On #9, don't forget trackbacks as well.

Re: Twitter is a Conversation Ecosystem

Jeff Standen — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:20:03 -0000

We've always faced the uphill challenge, as developers, of convincing customers why *one more* discontinuous application on their desktop will make all the difference. With Twitter, our web apps can simply be their IM/SMS buddy. They don't need to install anything.

That's one really interesting thing that people tend to overlook when they criticize Twitter as "emo-driven micro-blogging". You're choosing specifically who you want to listen to -- and that may be news outlets, politicians, authors, applications or random people you find interesting.

I can assign quick tasks to my team by just twittering to @rtm (the "Remember the Milk" bot) with my Google Talk or cellphone, regardless of where I happen to be at the time.

It's a permissive layer sitting on top of IM/SMS, without the 1000 contacts, feeds or applications it would take otherwise.

Re: Netflix on XBox 360 is Very Disappointing

Jeff Standen — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:15:20 -0000

I've actually been thrilled with Netflix on my 360 and managed to remove a bunch of things from the physical DVD queue that I can stream. My tastes are pretty eclectic though -- the Watch Now feature definitely has documentaries covered.

If they offered everything, I'd probably knock my physical DVD plan down from 5-at-a-time to 2-at-a-time. I'm sure they'll get there, since Netflix is Microsoft's current play to make BluRay's win irrelevant.

For #1: Use a laptop. When you add something to the queue it updates on the screen queue automatically (it will even re-order as you drag things around in your browser).

For #2: Try "Paranoia 1.0", "Revolution OS", "e-Dreams", "The Pixar Story", "Helvetica", etc. If you want the latest blockbuster, add it to your physical DVD queue.

For #3: Yeah, the HD movies you can rent from XBL for a couple bucks are nice. To be honest, with a decent movie I don't even notice if it's in 4:3 or 16:9 once I'm immersed.

For #4: Yeah, and the sound is great. If your network connection slows down (aka if you use Time Warner in O.C. and it's not midnight) then it'll gracefully pause, adjust the stream, and resume.

I'd call my experience better because compared to October I'm a lot better off than I was just _waiting_ for Netflix to finally jump into a reasonable VOD model. Baby steps, but much better than hooking up my laptop to the HDTV.

-Jeff (via Twitter)