Disqus - Friends of boxtech

Re: Billy Fairchild's Microcast- Wednesday, March 26, 2008 5:31 PM

Joe — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:48:03 -0000

Sorry you have a migraine. They totally suck

Re: Disqus

Joe — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:11:37 -0000

Hurray! Disqus makes comment moderation a lot easier.

Not to mention the fact that disqus users can keep track of their comments and replies to them across multiple blogs, which is awesome.

Good choice!

Re: The Front Page? Are You Serious??!!

Joe — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:18:07 -0000

This is awesome. Congrats!

Re: Microcast Has Moved!

Joe — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:19:42 -0000

I love all the new options for podcasters, vodcasters, and everyone else in internet media. I'll have to check this out. Thanks for sharing the info.

Re: Twitter Local - Find Twitter Peeps From Your Area

Joe — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:05:48 -0000

Cool. Thanks for sharing this. Twitter is the bomb, and anything that helps me find interesting people to follow is cool.

Rural area too, so I doubt I'll get many hits. But hey, worth a shot.

Re: FaceBook is Getting Old

Joe — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:06:09 -0000

I think I know why you're lost interest in Facebook. Twitter does one thing and it does it very, very well. Facebook does multiple things, and it doesn't do all of them very well. It's a jack of all trades, master of none. Twitter is a lean, mean, Microblogging machine. In my opinion, programs that do one thing very well are much more useful that programs that do too much.

Just my devalued American 2 cents.

Re: Youmail Adds Transcriptions Beta

Joe — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:50:01 -0000

This sounds really cool. Gonna check it out.

On another note: The service is still in Beta, not in better. :p

Re: TweetTee's

Joe — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:51:50 -0000

Cool shirt. Gotta get one.

Re: Too many Facebook Applications.

Joe — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:53:12 -0000

Geez. This is part of the reason I think Social networking is dead. Bleh. I barely spend any time on facebook anymore. Much prefer the immediacy of twitter, pownce, and now tumblr.

Re: Track your links with LinkBlip

Joe — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:23:41 -0000

Um, I don't know that I'd want to use this. It seems a tad invasive. Is it really my business whether someone clicks on a link I send them or not? I can see lots of nefarious purposes for this. :-(

Re: Trolls Coming To Twitter

Joe — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:23:37 -0000

I agree, blocking is much better. Not only do protected updates keep people from previewing your updates, but it keeps them out of the public timeline, and I know I've gotten followers from the public timeline that I really like.

Re: Where Do You Find New Music?

Joe — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:23:04 -0000

I really like Musicovery, a music discovery radio service. A bit like Pandora or Last.fm, but you don't an account, and it shows you a neat little chart that moves based on music you pick, and you can pick by genre, by mood, or by both.

http://musicovery.com/

Re: Playing with Viddler

Joe — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:16:07 -0000

If you want to use that widescreen, go to Vimeo.com It has awesome widescreen support.

I use 4x3 right now, only because my cam doesn't support high def. Working on that issue. Thinking of buying a high def video camera just for video blogging and maybe vodcasting.

Re: Twitter Poll

Joe — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:56:47 -0000

Um, your poll question isn't a yes or no question. You asked "Should I change my twitter name to BillyFairchild or stay with tw3nty3ight?" That's two questions: Should I change my twitter name to BillyFairchild" and "Should I stay with tw3nteight." Not to be a Grammar Nazi (though I am, lol), but that question can't be answered Yes or No. (Well, it could be, but the answer wouldn't mean what you think it does. If I answer Yes, it means you should do one of those things (I don't care which) and no means you shouldn't do either. :p

Re: Where Do Your Readers Come From?

Joe — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:15:24 -0000

Arrgh. It's not compatible with firefox Beta 3. :-(

Re: Stalking on Social Networks

Joe — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:38:46 -0000

People need to be aware that their is a difference between public information and private information. If you post it in a public forum, than it is public information. That means Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, etc, etc, etc. No one has the "right" to privacy in a public forum. There is no expectation of privacy in a public place.

Re: What I Have Learned After 7,000 Tweets

Joe — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:30:06 -0000

Good lessons. I didn't know about Twitter Karma or Tweetscan. Checking them out now. Thanks for the links.

Re: Update on the Amazon situation.

Joe — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:47:33 -0000

Amazon has always had dynamite customer service. It's a shame you had to avail yourself of said service, but it's good that it exists. :-)

Re: Synchronize Your Firefox Bookmarks

Joe — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:59:04 -0000

I've bee looking for a replacement for google browser sync. Thanks!

Re: MacMerc.com: New Apple Store uniforms may cause confusion. We have the solution.

Joe — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:58:15 -0000

Hah. I'm planning a trip to the Apple store in NY this summer (I usually go to the one in the Palisades.) I've totally got to get one of these. I always get bothered by shoppers in tech stores, simply because I'm technically competent, and somehow, they pick up on that. I'll have to wear this shirt to every tech related store I shop at, lol.

Re: Sanyo Xacti cg6 Handheld Camcorder Review

Joe — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:23:07 -0000

I've been looking for a small camcorder. I'll give this one a try

Re: We All Have Favorites, Who Is Yours?

Joe — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:28:38 -0000

Great list. I follow a lot of these people. Glad to be on the list too.

As to my favorites, in no particular order except for the first:

@crazyed89 A hell of a nice guy and my partner!

@boxtech A great friend I made on twitter and on Livejournal

@gkneeisme A fellow gadgettes fan and all around sweet person

@carrie1982 She's hilarious!

@tw3nty3ight and @martinelli18 My favorite twitter power couple!

@Schmee I feel sorry for him too. LOL. Just kidding. He's a fun guy to talk to.

@nealcampbell Better known as Cali Lewis's husband. Neal and I have had some great conversations. And I never would have had that opportunity without Twitter.

Re: Disqus Gives The Shirt Off Their Back

Joe — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:02:44 -0000

Aw man, I WANT one! LOL.

Re: Features I Want In Today's Top Web Applications

Joe — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:34:21 -0000

Digg totally needs to fix both the shouts and commenting system. That's SO annoying. I would have to spend hours sorting through Digg pages if I wanted to track all my comments. It's just a pain the arse.

As for something I would like to see added to an app: I'd like to see Twitter add payloads like pownce. (So you could attach files to tweets for people that wanted them without having to host it somewhere and attach a link.)

Re: Did You Know You May Already Have A Link Blog?

Joe — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:32:48 -0000

Now that I've decided Google is the least of the search engine evils and I'm using their services again, I'll give this a look.