Disqus - Latest Comments for VinnyLingham

Re: Online Marketing Manager (Retention): San Francisco

VinnyLingham — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:07:14 -0000

unfortunately, I didn't make it this year - definitely next year!

Re: SynthaSite at Web 2.0 in New York

VinnyLingham — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:56:20 -0000

Thanks Mircea - that sounds great!

Re: SynthaSite makes it even easier for your grandmother to build a Web site

VinnyLingham — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:50:00 -0000

Thanks Dorothy! Glad you like SynthaSite!

Re: SynthaSite makes it even easier for your grandmother to build a Web site

Dorothy — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:07:19 -0000

Mr. Lingham:
I'm a grandmother who just signed on, trying to build a web page for my designer originals. I'm liking how it works so far. I love anything that does WHAT I tell it to, WHEN I tell it to (my grandkids don't always do that). Not all grannies can barely move their arms like Ryan's. I studied computers probably before Ryan was born. But, thanks much for your site. I need it. Tell Ryan to give his grandma my regards and let me know if he needs any tips.
Dorothy from New Hampshire, USA
necessories@tds.net

Re: Synthasite Beta

VinnyLingham — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:59:15 -0000

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Re: Synthasite Beta

VinnyLingham — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:49:16 -0000

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Re: SynthaSite featured in Wall Street Journal

VinnyLingham — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:12:33 -0000

Thanks everyone for the good wishes!!

Re: Free Software is the Future

Philip Copeman — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:07:00 -0000

I have no problem with commercial players. This is the real world that we live in. On the other side I am always fighting with Open Source purists, who struggle to accept our acceptance of Windows. My argument with them is that there is no pure open source - in the end this all runs on Intel PCode and this is very proprietary.

Thinking that we do not care about usability borders on arrogance. Like Synthasite is the only people in the world that discovered that users actually have to use the code. I have been in this business (designing software) for nearly 30 years - I still underestimate just how low the users' tolerance is for ambiguity. But lets leave it at that - the resolution of this debate is totally subjective and has been going on since I first argued it with Dan Bricklin at Visicalc 20 years ago - He won and I learned from him..

Let me help you - Here is my narrative :

I do like to support South African companies, even if they are based in California. I spent much time there myself in the TurboCAD days. I did try Synthasite, and recommended my daughter (17) and son (10) to set up their sites. Independently we all found it too complicated. (usability)

She ended up at bappy he ended up at wetpaint and I ended up at Ning. All different experiences.

That said - I believe that EVERY business needs a web site and we have 70 000 TurboCASH users, many of whom do not have a web site. If there is any way that you think Synthasite can be of assistance to them get your people to contact my people and let us get something going. Along the way I will show you how we do care about usability in Open Source and that usability does matter.

So why exactly would a TurboCASH user want to use Synthasite?

Re: Free Software is the Future

VinnyLingham — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:15:45 -0000

Hey Philip

I never said I was an open source expert, what I'm saying is that I believe the future of (consumer software, mainly), is free and I'm also saying that the perception is that free software IS ALWAYS open source, and therefore unusable.

SynthaSite is built using open source technologies and is made freely available, but we have a heavy focus on usability, much more than other free products out there. Also, I read your blog post at (http://www.turbocash.net/index.php?option=com_c...) and you incorrectly assume that we have to market to our users to make money. That is not our business model, which is to assist our users in becoming active online and consuming 3rd party online services.

Knowing the infrastructure that we're putting in place to conduct user testing, support & design in a data driven organization, I find it very hard, if not near impossible to believe that open source, non-commercial mass consumer applications are getting as much attention in the usability field as we are giving it in the free, commercial field.

Vinny

Vinny

Re: Free Software is the Future

VinnyLingham — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:25:33 -0000

Rebecca & Martin - thanks for both your insightful comments. This is definitely an interesting thread, as software development changes, so do the economics of Software as a Service. I'm very interested to see how lean and nimble some companies become, whilst servicing millions of customers - very different to the pre-2000 paradigm

Re: SynthaSite takes Gold Award from WebUser Magazine!

VinnyLingham — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:59:26 -0000

Thanks man - much appreciated!

Re: SynthaSites releases much improved interface

VinnyLingham — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:14:36 -0000

Thanks Jayson! Please email any feedback you have to support@synthasite.com - we really look forward to hearing from you!

Re: SynthaSite makes it even easier for your grandmother to build a Web site

VinnyLingham — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:13:33 -0000

Hi Anthony

Thanks for the write up!

We did have some problems with performance last week - just after the release. The problem was fixed and performance/speed is up to expectation now. People based in South Africa, such as Shawn69, may experience speed problems due to bandwidth constraints in South Africa in general - as our servers are hosted in the USA.

We do believe that SynthaSite's performance is up to expectations - please let me know if you experience otherwise!

Thanks
Vinny Lingham
CEO, SynthaSite

Re: SynthaSite takes Gold Award from WebUser Magazine!

VinnyLingham — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:24:46 -0000

Thanks Jen!

Re: SynthaSite takes Gold Award from WebUser Magazine!

VinnyLingham — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:24:34 -0000

Thanks Frederick - I feel the same way :-)

Re: SynthaSite takes Gold Award from WebUser Magazine!

Aguair — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:49:19 -0000

Well done, Vinny!

Re: SynthaSite takes Gold Award from WebUser Magazine!

VinnyLingham — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:24:29 -0000

Thanks Wayne!

Re: SynthaSite takes Gold Award from WebUser Magazine!

VinnyLingham — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:22:51 -0000

Thanks Andy!

Re: SynthaSite takes Gold Award from WebUser Magazine!

VinnyLingham — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:57:26 -0000

Hey Su! Thanks for the great review - much appreciated!

Re: Cloud Computing Conference Feedback

VinnyLingham — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:35:23 -0000

It's coming man ... give it a few years...

Re: Let’s Disqus

VinnyLingham — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:44:32 -0000

I think that the new iPhone 3G will be a game changer. Everything we have thought about before then will have to be rethought...

Re: Let’s Disqus

Guest — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:30:27 -0000

the one major challenge we still have (not just here in South Africa) is that more people have mobile handsets than have PCs.. even in countries with bandwidth but no real hardware. how do we bridge that gap?
i'm in discussions with a programmer friend of mine who worked for clickatell on the viability of developing technology that can stream radio to mobilephones via the WAP platform. perhaps the same could be done for blogs and blogging.. some type of micro technology that includes the .mobis and other WML-developed properties...

then again.. i could not be as well-read as i think i am..

Re: Let’s Disqus

VinnyLingham — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:20:30 -0000

The more I think about it...the more I believe you!

Re: Let’s Disqus

VinnyLingham — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:48:26 -0000

Come come, it was thaaat bad!

Re: Wordpress: What's the difference between the three options?

VinnyLingham — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:47:10 -0000

Great - I'm already using Disqus for new or uncommented posts - so no worries.