DISQUS

Of course not, Joanne. The post says it's for WordPress 2.0 and lower and that WordPress 2.1 and higher (this includes WordPress 2.5) has it built in.

Tomorrow when I'm more coherent, I'll redo the quote and not mention Dave. I'll find another reason for you to be a PITAB :)

Dude, so sorry if you were offended. I tried to find the quote but couldn't (it was awhile ago, and I'm sure I got it wrong)... Sorry...

I love Animoto. BlogPotomac rocked but the video made it seem way better. :) Thanks for putting it together.

You still don't get off the hook for Pain in the Ass Blogger though. You're queued up and will get featured. ;-)

I'll be there and blogging too - maybe live, maybe not. But I can't use the service that keeps the data in such a way that it can't be used *on my blog*. So I'll just do coveritlive or regular posts.

Hi Drew! Glad you like Lijit. Let me know if you need anything, since I'm working with them. :)

So... takeaways are... cold calling, blind pitching and addressing bloggers with Dear Site Owner. Right?

Do I get a raise now?

Thanks for the read, link and comment. The RSS feed is autodiscoverable. Plug the domain name into your reader, and you can subscribe. :)

@Christina is only going along to get along and not lose her job. :)

Granty R, FTW! :)

FAIL.

Bob-

Google said it was easy to use. Easy for whom? Python programmers? Great... it's easy to use.

Chances are if you're a python programmer, you have your own environment. Why do you need GFS?

This thing was marketed from the beginning of the announcement as being for people to have a low barrier to entry. It then progressed to low barrier of entry if you know what you're doing. Well, damn, does that really change the status quo?

That's what I'm getting at. I didn't miss the point and in fact, I'm dead on if you want to approach this from the perspective of an entrepreneur and not a developer.

Thanks for the comment, Mat. My beef about privacy is second tier to my beef about selling the world a bill of goods on scalable infrastructure built on Google. It's the same bill of goods that Amazon sold the world with S3.

Look, these service have their place. If you talk to the WordPress.com guys, arguably one of the most dynamic environments in existence, they will tell you that they use S3 for cold cache. That's about the extent of the benefit I think you'll see with GFS. Python is not trivial to learn, nor easy to use, but I'm betting there will be other libraries. However, that doesn't take the case in point out of the weakness in cloud computing. It is impossible, at this time, to have rich, and responsive apps built entirely on cloud. At b5, we have discovered what many others have also discovered - different environments require different optimizations. Serving images from a cold cache is one thing. They are binary and relatively static. Serving data rich dynamic scripting or data storage is a completely different ball of wax. On scale. and that's what they are touting.

I'll give Google the benefit of the doubt for a bit. Maybe they can make it work. My guess is that they won't though.

Welcome to 2008, Meagan. Check your timestamps

Great post, Nick.

Is there a reason that, given the opportunity to work with/on behalf of entrepreneurs in the region, you have declined to return my email on such a topic? I mean, if you all want to go at it alone, feel free. But we can probably do more together than apart.

I'm just saying.

I called you reluctant because I don't think you just set out to be in the position you are in and, if I understand you the way I think I understand you, it would never be your intention to be the rockstar that you are...

Hey Nick-

sounds like a great idea and a great opportunity for some entrepreneurs. LMK what I can do to help out.

Perfect reflection.

Thanks for the shout out, Micah. :) We're gonna crush those b5 buggers in bowling. Huzzah.

Looks fantastic, Dave. Thumbs up,

Mona that's only relevant if you're on a BES server.

I'm quite sure Facebook is out of line on this one. If I'm a judge (of which I'm not), I see this as classic "fair use". IOW, Gawker did not post the original work - the website - but screenshots thereof. It falls into the same camp as making a recording from the radio or photocopying a book. It's a copy of a copy and unless Facebook can show that Gawker's printing of the photo resulted in irreparable damage to Emily Brill.

Additionally, the argument could easily be made that Ms. Brill is a public figure, based on her father, (same as Chelsea Clinton or the Bush twins), and so the rules are (by law) different.

Nick, it's really simple. Companies CANNOT send data without user consent. It's that simple. Read my post the other day on privacy policies of these partner companies.

The only way to get user consent is to have the PARTNERS request information (e.g. email address used on FB, account username/password on FB, etc) of users. This is also defacto opt-in on the Partner side.

Apps request permission to access the profiles. The same should be the case of Beacon partners.

There really is no gray area here. It's very clearly defined what is acceptable and what is not and the precedent that is acceptable for this kind of program.

You rock, Carlos. Glad you're able to contribute!