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Re: Techcrunch RSS Subscriber Payola?

beagooddad — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:29:18 -0000

FYI. Google Reader does have some default subscription options. If you click on the browse link next to the add subscription on on the left sidebar, there are several generic categories, click on the more bundles. TechCrunch is in the Technology one.

Re: Techcrunch RSS Subscriber Payola?

beagooddad — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:29:18 -0000

Re: Techcrunch RSS Subscriber Payola?

beagooddad — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:50:55 -0000

Thanks. It would be interesting to see what happens to the subscriber base when put into one of those little subscriber packs.

Re: Techcrunch RSS Subscriber Payola?

beagooddad — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:50:55 -0000

Thanks. It would be interesting to see what happens to the subscriber base when put into one of those little subscriber packs.

Re: ReviewMe & Sponsored Reviews Updated

beagooddad — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:39:36 -0000

Is there a reason they use bloglines counts instead of Google Readers considering a lot more people use Google Reader?

Is there a partnership with bloglines? Or are Google's counts not really public despite feedburner having access to them?

Re: ReviewMe & Sponsored Reviews Updated

beagooddad — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:39:36 -0000

Re: Apple Just Killed The iPhone

beagooddad — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:22:05 -0000

Is that the price without a wireless plan? Will it cost less when you sign up for the two year contract with whoever the cell provider is?

Re: noodad » The Predad Dictionary Part 3: Pre-natal Tests

beagooddad — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 02:20:28 -0000

Nice list.

While the Ultrasound is pretty neat, the Doppler was by far the coolest one for me. It\'s difficult to actually see anything in the ultrasound pictures most of the time, but hearing those heart beats (we had twins) for the first time is absolutely the coolest thing ever.

On a side note, I can\'t imagine getting one of those amniocentesis or CVS tests without a very good reason. I would be so terrified that I would be in the 1 in 100 or 200. Seriously, those are way too high of odds for me. Good job mentioning that. That would be a tough decision to make on the spot if you didn\'t know about it before hand.

Re: noodad » Top Tips for Announcing Your Pregnancy

beagooddad — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:23:16 -0000

Congratulations. What a cool way to announce. I\'ll have to remember that. I\'ll also have to make sure I start getting my family to read my site.

Re: How to Learn (But Not Master) Any Language in 1 Hour (Plus: A Favor)

beagooddad — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:31:26 -0000

Fun article. I couldn't help but find it funny that there is an error in the Arabic graphic that opens the post, though. Akalty would be you (fem.) ate, not I eat. Maybe that will get covered in hour two. :)

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LOL... some of the Arabic doesn't correspond to the English next to it. Most of that is by design, but there could certainly be some mistakes in there. On to hour 2... :)

Tim

Re: Former boss in the New York Times

beagooddad — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:36:04 -0000

I'm out in the west Chicago burbs, too. I'd be interested in meeting up depending on the time and location.

Re: ScobleShow Trailer (and tonight’s geek dinner report)

beagooddad — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:29:55 -0000

It was fun to meet everybody last night. It reminds me that I need to get out of my house a little more often. Everytime I drive into the city I'm amazed at how much it has changed and since I live so close, that really shouldn't happen.

Re: ScobleShow update

beagooddad — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:27:13 -0000

If the show does kill you, I bet the views of it will be off the charts. Good luck getting everything together this weekend.

Re: PS3’s go on preorder sales tomorrow…

beagooddad — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:16:09 -0000

I think I'm going to go with the Nintendo. Something about the other two seems to be heading in a direction I'm not really interested in.

Re: Internet video business challenges

beagooddad — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:40:21 -0000

Isn't this what Mark Cuban has been saying?

Re: I love reading feeds

beagooddad — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:22:38 -0000

The only time I remember that you have the shared page is when you mention it in the posts. But, because you mentioned it, I decided to look into how they work and like the idea of using them. I have started sharing a few things recently and want to look into adding it to the sidebar of my blogs at some point and see if I like it there enough to keep it there.

Re: I love reading feeds

beagooddad — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:23:12 -0000

And, I forgot the link to my shared items.
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/14267505817...

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

beagooddad — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:54:29 -0000

I'm with you all except for this:

"One last thought. Have you ever noticed that the most abusive commenters don’t have blogs of their own? I sure wish these readers who think they know how to do this so well would do a blog of their own so we could all learn from their greatness."

That's like people that say that those of us who never played football can never complain about the players or coaches in the NFL. You can no what you don't like without ever needing to know how it should really be done.

Keep posting what you feel like writing. I have the magic J key when it doesn't strike my fancy.

Re: MyBlogLog Reacts to Boycott, Reinstates Shoemoney

beagooddad — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:11:48 -0000

I've never used mybloglog but I'm sure there are some kind of rules in the people agree to when they sign up. Is there anything mentioned in the rules about not allowing what Shoemoney did? If not, then they should take it as a lesson learned and change their rules.

Re: Google Gives-up Building Own YouTube Filters, Follows MySpace’s Lead

beagooddad — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:01:55 -0000

I have uploaded exactly two videos. One very short video of each of my kids. I used YouTube but I haven't uploaded anything since around Halloween or even really used any of the video sites except for the videos embedded in people's posts.

If I want to embed videos of the kids in my site in the future, I will probably use YouTube because I am familiar with it and I would rather use their bandwidth and server space than mine.

Re: Google Can’t Grow New Products, Hence the Acquisitions

beagooddad — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:05:29 -0000

Google Reader? Did they build that?

Re: Paid Video Out, Ad Video In

beagooddad — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:02:21 -0000

Ed, I agree with you, but there are plenty of videos from Netflix that have ads for other videos at the beginning that you can't escape from. If the ads are short and at the beginning so that they don't mess with the flow of the rest of the show, it would be bearable.

Re: eBay vs. Google, Round 6?

beagooddad — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:11:51 -0000

I refuse to take Checkout seriously until Google starts using it as an option to pay AdSense publishers. Why should I take it seriously if they don't?

Re: Who is Danny Hill, and What Has He Done with Danny Sullivan???

beagooddad — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:03:17 -0000

No wonder you didn't find anything when you searched for the three of you...the links are bad. :)

Re: Google’s Market Share Growth Stalls

beagooddad — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:11:47 -0000

Do they factor in things like Technorati, icerocket, etc. when they come up with those stats? I'm sure it would be a pretty small factor, but I'm curious if those are considered real search engines in reports like this.

Re: Google Upgrades Docs, Adds Folders

beagooddad — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:41:44 -0000

I love the new google doc interface. All google needs is a good ToDo/Tasks type of thing to use with the calendar and I will hardly ever leave the google.com domain.

Jeremy, The gmail limit is up over 2GB these days.

Andy, I agree with Brian about the labels/folder thing. What is the real difference between a label and a folder? I never understood. They are both the same thing to me. You add a label, then you click on that label to see everything with that label. I don't really see the difference except that it is easier to apply multiple labels if you really want to than it is to file something in multiple folders.

Re: eBay Making its Move with Firefox/eBay Browser?

beagooddad — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:32:03 -0000

I might finally get my mother-in-law to switch from IE. She runs a little eBay business now that she is retired.

Re: eBay Making its Move with Firefox/eBay Browser?

beagooddad — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:50:38 -0000

Does IE 7.0 use up memory like Firefox? I always thought that was a problem with having 27 tabs open. The data from those tabs has to be stored somewhere.

Re: A-List Google Reader Back-Slapping

beagooddad — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:16:20 -0000

I just made a list of blogs on my blog. But I was looking for other parenting blogs and asked the people that read my blog to add their own and the favorite one that they read. So it ended up being a nice little list of a lot of new blogs.

As for big lists of top bloggers making lists of all the top blogs, I never read them when they get posted. But I guess getting lists from people like Scoble would be good for SEO whether anybody clicks on the link or not.

Re: PBS Gears Site to Preschool Children

beagooddad — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:20:09 -0000

We've used the games on pbskids.org for ages now and the kids love it. The games, graphics and sound for the new site looks pretty impressive.

I have a couple concerns about this new project,though.

What is the difference between ads and a message from the sponsor and if they are taking money from sponsors it seems strange to also take money from users. But I guess that is a pretty normal PBS business model since they do that for their TV programs, too.

I also just checked and saw that this new pbskidsplay.org requires you to use IE on Windows and install some kind of executable. Not really a big deal but people not running Windows should probably be aware of that before getting their kids excited to go play the games.

Re: Email and Romance - A Survey

beagooddad — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:43:45 -0000

I didn't send an love email but I did send love blog posts since my wife was going to be stuck in the office all day. One each hour so she could check them throughout the day.

Also, I can't imagine people thinking it is okay to break up with somebody over email. I would feel pretty cowardly if I ever did something like that.

Re: Over 70% of People Surveyed Don’t Enjoy Shopping Online

beagooddad — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:42:39 -0000

Shopping for clothes online is horrible because of sizing issues but shopping for electronics, books, CDs, movies, etc where you don't need to poke it as much before buying is great. The search function of sites like Amazon is way friendlier than trying to find stuff on the shelves.

Mike's last blog post..Perfect Time For The First Snow On The Ground

Re: Google Chrome Improves Bookmarking Feature While Speeding Past Competition

beagooddad — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:48:13 -0000

I use Chrome for almost all of my browsing. I use Firefox just when I want to Stumble something. I use IE just for work's Outlook web email.

Mike's last blog post..Perfect Time For The First Snow On The Ground

Re: Google Reader Gets a Facelift

beagooddad — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:27:05 -0000

I am so looking forward to using the collapsible navigation on my Asus Eee PC. It was always hard to scroll through the little box on the lower left before the change.

Mike's last blog post..Dressing In The Dark

Re: Google Tasks Not Enough to Sour My Love for Remember The Milk

beagooddad — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:22:07 -0000

I can't believe it took them this long to come up with some kind of ToDo list. I've been whining about it forever too.

Mike's last blog post..Dressing In The Dark

Re: Apple Just Killed The iPhone

beagooddad — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:22:05 -0000

Is that the price without a wireless plan? Will it cost less when you sign up for the two year contract with whoever the cell provider is?

Re: Could a Mobile Phone Be Good for a Child’s Spelling?

beagooddad — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:16:48 -0000

Thanks for mentioning my site.

I've heard of the Firefly. My kids are 3, so I have a few years until I have to worry about it. One of the things I don't like about those kid targetted phones is they never have the ability to be turned into real phones. If I had a 10-12 year old that I wanted a scaled down phone but new that in a year or two I would be okay with them having a real phone, I would be hesitant to buy anything. I want something like a V-Chip for cell phones, I guess. Does anything like that exist yet?

I know that most people replace their phone about every two weeks, but I keep my phones for quite a while. The one I'm using now is about 4 years old and will only get replaced when I lose it or get the freebie when I renew my contract.

Re: Gallon Milk Jug Gets Redesigned For a Low Carbon World

beagooddad — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:06:58 -0000

Anybody know anything about the footprint of these things? Will they still fit in the fridge doors properly?