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Re: Understanding the Players in the Social Data Layer | Sachin Rekhi

Blake Samic — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:11:33 -0000

Outstanding overview Sachin. I could see Rapportive getting into this space at some point. They seem to be collecting similar data to Rapleaf.

Re: Noise Control: Thoughts on the Future of Notifications

Blake Samic — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:27:36 -0000

Thanks Ryan

Re: 3 Outstanding Services You Need to Try

Blake Samic — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:39:06 -0000

Thanks Mike. I'll check it out. That may work if they have an app on all platforms, like Kik.

Re: 3 Outstanding Services You Need to Try

Blake Samic — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:43:06 -0000

@Ben totally agree.

BTW I checked out svpply.com for the first time today. I think it will be HUGE. Can't wait to see it progress.

Re: Re-Birth of Study Hall

Blake Samic — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:23:52 -0000

Mike - I love this idea. Let me know what help you need.

Re: The Graves’ Next Chapter

Blake Samic — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:25:59 -0000

Bro, I'm so pumped for you! This is exactly what you've been after for so long and the experience is going to be amazing. Sad to see you go from the midwest, but the world is getting much smaller these days anyway. I'll see you in Chicago or SF very soon.

Re: New Vid: Miami Horror - 'Sometimes'

Blake Samic — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:14:27 -0000

This is awesome. We need more vids on sayno.

Re: The XX/ Friendly Fires Concert Review

Blake Samic — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:24:57 -0000

Put me down for two tix to the April concerts. Great review!

Re: Foursquare Article in the Chicago Tribune

Blake Samic — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:32:40 -0000

Outstanding! Congrats :-)

Re: Vega: Android Leaps from Phone to Tablet

Blake Samic — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:21:06 -0000

I agree with you. The money should be put on OS X at this point (based on track record alone). The video of the Microsoft Courier that's been circulating looks amazing, though. If it works like it does in that video (we'll see), then I'll be all about it. The 'infinite journal' idea is awesome.

I'm hoping some actual dates are announced for these products soon!

Re: Pirate Bay Sale on Life Support

Blake Samic — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:12:14 -0000

Ben, do you sleep?

Re: Foursquare: Why It May Be the Next Twitter

Blake Samic — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:28:06 -0000

Great analysis Jennifer. Do you know how FourSquare is selecting new cities to roll this out? Is it just a function of the number of people signing up in various cities?

Re: Digsby Passes 1 Million Users; 3 Million IM and Social Media Accounts

Blake Samic — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:50:11 -0000

When will they come out with a Mac version? It has said "coming soon" on their website for over a year...

Re: Introducing blakeju.mp - my life online

Blake Samic — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:36:16 -0000

Thanks Juergen. Check out http://chi.mp

Re: Cameron Hall TDIA Case Study #3: How Small Projects Become Big Profits

Blake Samic — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:13:22 -0000

I love how he declined multiple offers and made it all the way to 1 million daily views and a $28k sale! One of the best points of this story is that whether or not Cameron sold the widget, he had a very interesting personal project to talk about - which helped lead to future opportunities. That's awesome.

Re: Twitter Focus: Solving The “Groups” Dilema

Blake Samic — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:25:06 -0000

@Jorge @Scott
I realize this is patch solution. Judging by the tools that are available right now (April 21, 2009), this is the best solution I've seen anyone propose (to fit my personal needs anyway).

@Scott, you wouldn't have to "re-follow everyone from your main account" depending on how you use it. I only have 10-20 people in each of these categories, so I only need to re-follow those 10-20 people. So if I want to see what everyone is saying, I look at my main account. If I just want to see what the Milwaukee people are saying, I look at the Milwaukee account, etc.

Also, it should be noted that I see these other accounts as read-only. I don't even pay attention to people @replying to them or new followers. In fact, all the new follower emails for those accounts go directly to the trash [who would follow an account that hasn't said anything (ever), anyway?]. All of my out-going communication comes from my personal account.

Even if a grouping feature was built into Tweetie or another comparable app, there's still the problem of setting up the groups again in the other apps you use. In my case, I use an iPhone Twitter client (Tweetie), but I also use a desktop Twitter client (Twhirl) on two different computers. Instead of me having to create groups in all of these applications (assuming it was possible), all I have to do is log into all of my accounts on each app. All those groups are maintained, cross-platform.

Take it or leave it, but this has really helped me cut down on useless Twitter noise.

Re: On the Fly (Washington, DC)

Blake Samic — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:57:38 -0000

Dan, this is the first vendr.tv I checked out and I love the concept. The production of the whole show is top notch.

Re: How to Light Paint

Blake Samic — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:29:15 -0000

During. One person paints. One person poses.

Re: Twitter Focus: Solving The “Groups” Dilema

Blake Samic — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:19:53 -0000

I just set Twhirl up the same way, to have groups on the desktop. It works just as well, and the beauty is that you don't need to recreate your groups. You just use the same Twitter accounts in Twhirl.

Re: Twitter Focus: Solving The “Groups” Dilema

Blake Samic — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:27:51 -0000

That's almost exactly what I did. I've actually got a special gmail account set up for Twitter (here's why). When I was registering each of the Twitter accounts, I used the '+' gmail feature described by @SirCrumpet with the Twitter gmail address.

Re: 1000th Twitter follower: @danielzev

Blake Samic — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:18:13 -0000

This is an awesome idea. I'm going to do the same thing when I hit 1000 - eventually ;-)

Re: The Rural Alberta Advantage

Blake Samic — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:13:28 -0000

I dig it

Re: Presentation at Alverno College 1/31/09

Blake Samic — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:12:50 -0000

This is a great presentation man. I bet it was a huge success at Alverno.

Re: iPod Touch Calendar Sync - a must!

Blake Samic — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:43:41 -0000

NuevaSync is solid... gives iPhone/iTouch a feature it should have had out of the box

Re: indie.mix.22

Blake Samic — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:19:47 -0000

This is long overdue... you've outgrown email.

Does rapidshare ever expire?