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Re: How To Know What’s Viral

Steve — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:56:54 -0000

I was actually speaking specifically of Google's Video. I do apologize that your site was lumped in there. A correction for the sake of clarity will be made, because you really do offer quite a good service.

Thanks for reading!

Re: How To Make A Mobile Office, Part Two

Steve — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:16:25 -0000

I might do just that, except after this Google search I am a little less likely,

WelcomeToFree AutoSurf Monster Traff icExchange ! ... autosurfmonster.com is 100% Autosurf, NO MANUAL!! now you can seat back and enjoy the surf without ...

The lesson here my dear readers is, buyer beware.

[If anyone has had any dealings with this service and would like to report back, I\'d be happy to hear from you. I am making a judgement call based entirely on a Google search.]

Re: How To Make A Mobile Office

Steve — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:36:04 -0000

Yes. I\'ve been completely obsessed with mobility tools recently. It is becoming so easy to \'take your work with you\'. I am glad that you found the article useful!

Re: How To Fix iTunes 7

Steve — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 01:07:53 -0000

I suggest trying to first suggestion, turn your volume all the way up (in iTunes) and use your PC volume controls.

Also, did you install the newest version of Quicktime that came with your iTunes 7 install? I am pretty certain this trick will only work with the newest version of Quicktime installed.

Hopefully this helps. I'll look around for other suggestions and hopefully have an update for you soon. Please contact we me sbspalding at gmail dot com if you have a more detailed question.

Re: How To Fix iTunes 7

Steve — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:22:50 -0000

Here is yet another thing that you can try. In the Quicktime control panel, click on the audio tab and then select "Safe Mode". The second solution worked for me, but this also helps the problem. Also, make sure you have the newest version of Quicktime installed and the "Default Music Sythesizer" set to General MIDI.

I'm still looking around, I just can't believe how buggy this release has been.

Re: How To Stay Away From Video Blogging

Steve — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:53:55 -0000

That is actually an excellent point. Video is a great medium for conveying abstract ideas visually. However, there is still a major difference between "Trading Spaces" and someone sitting in front of their camera telling you how to do something.

When I said entertainment what I really meant was "entertaining" which has a much looser meaning. Something can be both highly educational and entertaining at the same time.

Re: How To Watch The World Go 2.0 Part 1

Steve — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 21:17:33 -0000

Thanks for dropping by Mark. If there is anything that I can do to help you achieve that goal, feel free to contact me.

Re: How To Go To The Gainesville Underground Technology Conference

Steve — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:24:31 -0000

It was a blast! Thanks for coming out.

Re: How To Celebrate Google Searchology Day

Steve — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:31:50 -0000

Thanks much, I hope you come back soon.

Re: How To Improve Your Traffic

Steve — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:45:55 -0000

Not a problem, I hope that they help.

Re: How To Support Top Commentors

Steve — Sat, 19 May 2007 05:29:18 -0000

Already did, already did. Have a great one!

Re: How To Support Top Commentors

Steve — Sat, 19 May 2007 13:05:51 -0000

No, I hadn't really thought about that. I'll take a look at it now.

Re: How To Buy Feedburner

Steve — Sun, 20 May 2007 15:49:28 -0000

At the very least it will make it easier for people to monetize their feeds, that's something I suppose.

Re: How To Learn About Wikipedia

Steve — Mon, 21 May 2007 18:37:18 -0000

That's absolutely true. Between collaborative efforts like this, and social networking rising in popularity our lives are definitely becoming digital.

Re: How To Write The Worlds Most Diggable Headline

Steve — Tue, 22 May 2007 01:52:50 -0000

Glad you folks liked it, it's a wacky Web 2.0 world we live in.

Re: How To Critique The Valley

Steve — Tue, 22 May 2007 09:34:56 -0000

Thanks so much for the kind words. I hope I can keep up with your expectations!

Re: How To Acquire Wallstrip

Steve — Tue, 22 May 2007 10:39:43 -0000

Absolutely true, I am all for capital. I always wonder what effect too much of it has on business discipline though. In this case, considering the cost of video it was probably necessary.

Re: How To Go To The Gainesville Underground Technology Conference

Steve — Tue, 22 May 2007 16:34:49 -0000

Go to GainesvilleUnderground.com, the next GUT conference will be announced there. The insider scope is that it will likely be in July.

Re: How To Critique The Valley

Steve — Tue, 22 May 2007 16:36:07 -0000

Send your contact information to sbspalding at gmail . com and I will put you on the list. Chances are the next one will be in July.

Re: How To Learn Why Google Tracks You

Steve — Tue, 22 May 2007 17:48:37 -0000

Most people do use Google purely as a search engine. These people really do not have any privacy concerns. The article is written for those who use some of the expanded features of Google and thus may have reason to fear for their privacy. Thanks for the response.

Re: How To Please A Google Spouse

Steve — Tue, 22 May 2007 18:32:28 -0000

Actually, they were Google's funds.

"Google just took a $3.9 million stake in a biotech company called 23andMe Inc..."

I wouldn't judge them unless it was corporate funds.

Re: How To Blog

Steve — Tue, 22 May 2007 23:48:37 -0000

Yep, most everything in this world comes down to marketing -- in my humble. You have to buy what you're selling and sell it constantly. Writing a blog is no different, you have to believe that you have as much knowledge about your subject as you want to convey.

Re: How To Critique The Valley

Steve — Tue, 22 May 2007 23:50:10 -0000

Thanks!

Re: How To Reposition Technorati

Steve — Thu, 24 May 2007 01:57:53 -0000

Yea, to be honest I can't see a good reason to go back anywhere. I can't even find my Authority ranking anymore, which is the only reason I go there.

Re: How To Dub Mike Arrington A Web 2.0 Tastemaker

Steve — Thu, 24 May 2007 23:07:57 -0000

By the way, if you or anyone else has suggestions please feel free to use the handy contact form. Thanks again!

Re: How To Get Banned From Digg

Steve — Sat, 26 May 2007 16:00:27 -0000

Yea, I really want to know how many things that end up on Digg's front page are really legitimate and how many are just democratized spamming.

Re: How To Use The D List

Steve — Sun, 27 May 2007 18:04:31 -0000

Exactly, I have no problem with people wanting to do a bit of SEO. All that I do care about is that they try to keep it within reason. Thanks for the visit!

Re: How To Make Your Name Web 2.0 Ready

Steve — Sun, 27 May 2007 18:08:57 -0000

I think I almost laughed until I cried there. We can only hope that Mr. Page would someday become a dot com mogul. Then he'd thank you.

Re: How To Take A Buzzdash

Steve — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:17:27 -0000

It actually seems completely useless but its fun.

Re: How To Pick Wordpress Plugins

Steve — Tue, 29 May 2007 01:16:21 -0000

I run SK2 and Akismet and I must just get lucky because the metric ton of spam I get seems to have mediated itself. If I am idly scanning my comments and notice a particular spamming "LOL" type one, usually I just remove the link from it and all is well.

Re: How To Blog

Steve — Tue, 29 May 2007 09:38:05 -0000

I tend to agree that Adsense can be a hard mistress, but I think that it really just has a steep learning curve. Depending on where you place your ads it can be completely useless or pretty great. Project Wonderful looks a lot like TextLinkAds, which is pretty slick. I'll check it out. Thanks Derek!

Re: How To Waste Time On The Web

Steve — Tue, 29 May 2007 09:39:22 -0000

Ha, yea, it's pretty addictive.

Re: How To Reposition Technorati

Steve — Tue, 29 May 2007 09:41:37 -0000

Yea, and it spent the next half a day in varying degrees of disarray. It looks like they are getting their act together a little bit better, but really there are a lot better ways to do an upgrade.

Re: How To Waste Time On The Web

Steve — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:35:22 -0000

Yea, it's purely for entertainment value from what I've seen. You have to admit, some of the stuff is pretty funny.

Re: How To Use The D List

Steve — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:44:47 -0000

Hey, I like the site. It was my pleasure.

Re: How To Watch Steve Jobs And Bill Gates Banter

Steve — Thu, 31 May 2007 17:32:40 -0000

Probably Steve Jobs only because he reminds me more of the classic movie super villian. I have this feeling that I would be treated to more interesting discussion on world domination.

Yea, going back to the super villain theme -- it does make him look like someone out of the Matrix.

The future is Steve Jobs.

Re: How To Launch Mahalo

Steve — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:19:26 -0000

Ha! I aim to please.

Re: How To Give Away Spock Invites

Steve — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:06:39 -0000

Sly was on the front page, and it seemed like he would at least be entertaining. I was sadly mistaken.

Re: How To Improve Productivity

Steve — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 14:21:25 -0000

Thanks I'm glad you liked the tips!

@Al Yea, depending on my mood I kind of like Goggle Reader for that but for the most I like the News Hutch.

Re: How To Blog

Steve — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:09:36 -0000

On some of the parts of this I tend to agree. Narrowly defining blogging seems to be the wrong way to go about doing things, however, this post was specifically geared towards people who want to become "A-list" bloggers in the classical sense.

Well, at least as classical as any concept that is less than a decade old can be.

In that case, I'm asserting that you must start placing a few boundaries around what "A-List" blogging entails.

Re: How To Understand Web 3.0

Steve — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:34:18 -0000

I think I might write something about Web 3.0 Advertising.

As for things going horribly wrong, I tend to believe that it's almost certain that it will at some point. It's not that I don't trust human nature, it's just that whenever you give people the ability to decide anything basically anonymously all the bad apples come out of the woodworks.

Thanks for reading and have a great one.

Re: How To Know Your Search

Steve — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:10:55 -0000

We have the technology...

Re: How To Pick Your Tastemakers

Steve — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:22:41 -0000

Man, I wish that weird guy would stop coming by my blog pretending to be Chris Pirillo. Heh. Thanks mate.

@7 and Everyone -- Thanks so much folks, spending all of this time writing is only really worth my time because I know I have such a great reader base. It's really nice to see your shining faces in my MyBlogLog widget everyday. Thanks again!

Re: How To Understand The iPhone

Steve — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:33:48 -0000

I have very little doubt the shelf will be empty of these things before we all realize they are even being sold. Take heart though, the first iPhone will be on eBay exactly 7.5467 seconds after it launches somewhere in Australia.

Re: How To Improve Your Traffic

Steve — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:31:19 -0000

Yea, Guy really was able to capitalize on his fame on that one. It's an interesting system, I must say.

Re: How To Open Source Your PS3

Steve — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:32:00 -0000

Thanks a lot for the help mate!

Re: How To Make Your Name Web 2.0 Ready

Steve — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:41:57 -0000

Ha, that's fantastic. Way to go on the successful SEO Katie!

Re: How To Use Craigslist

Steve — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:27:01 -0000

I have just found it to be an all around more entertaining service. It's more human if you will, and I am happy to support it.

Re: How To Understand Broadband

Steve — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:28:52 -0000

Thanks for the tips! Someone should really look into this further. If you find out anything interesting, please drop me a line.

Re: How To Understand Internet Archetypes

Steve — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 14:42:21 -0000

Great point, the web is very little more than a mirror of life on a fairly large scale.

Re: How To Improve Your Memory

Steve — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:31:30 -0000

Is there any particular element of the article that should be expanded upon? Thanks for the feedback!

Re: How To Improve Your Memory

Steve — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:38:09 -0000

Excellent critique.

Though I will say the list above misses the point a bit.

Consider this article meta-content. It contains a large amount of possibly superfluous information not only because people really don't gain a thing from reading dry 'top 5' lists, but also because it's just easier to remember because it contains elements of the ridiculous.

I guess it is a part of my learning style, if I read something entertaining I found that I retain the information more easily. That's why I like reading 43 Folders instead of just paging through David Allen's book. I find Merlin Mann to be the more entertaining communicator.

Again, it's just a question of how to learn. I did, however, provide a summary at the end for those who wanted to skip to the juicy parts.

Thanks again for taking the time to comment!

Re: How To Understand Internet Archetypes

Steve — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:02:45 -0000

fixed :)

Re: How To Speed Test Safari

Steve — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:59:40 -0000

I respectfully disagree :) Benchmark it, and post the details. We'll have a little faceoff!

Re: How To Speed Test Safari

Steve — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:07:17 -0000

Touche'! What a great resource, thanks Andrej!

Re: How To Get Paid To Search

Steve — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:08:07 -0000

Yea, and from what I've heard it's equally broken.

Re: How To Get Paid To Search

Steve — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:11:51 -0000

ChaCha has live guides, Mahalo is basically a search engine that amounts to that employees choice section in Blockbuster.

Re: How To See YouTube’s Potty Mouth

Steve — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:05:39 -0000

I imagined that something like that would exist, web developers be aware.

Re: How To Increase Productivity in 10 Minutes

Steve — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:53:33 -0000

Thanks a lot! I'm glad you got some use out of it.

Re: How To Learn More About This Blog

Steve — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:59:18 -0000

There is a reason that the site currently links to orangeply.com/blog/ and not the top level domain. Stay tuned Mark.

Re: How To Read Email

Steve — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:57:42 -0000

Not a problem at all, I hope it works out for you!

Re: How To Read Email

Steve — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:58:32 -0000

By the way, feel free to use some of the Social Bookmarking links available to help share the article. Thanks again.

Re: How To Hack Firefox

Steve — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:24:10 -0000

I tend to agree, fake Steve Jobs has a penchant for hyperbole.

Re: How To Get The AT&T Runaround

Steve — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:20:03 -0000

This is true, the real argument is whether they should make it easier for the people who do live in those states to find the deal should they try to look. This problem could have been easily solved if the support representative had simply said, "You're not in the right state". Or more easily if it was on their website in an easy to find location.

Whether they should offer it universally is a non-issue, whether their service was less than ideal is what is at issue here. I tend to believe it was.

Re: How To Get The AT&T Runaround

Steve — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:31:14 -0000

Good point. Personally, I take issue with AT&Ts; hiding the offer and then sending a customer around in circles as he tries to get some clarity. Excellent point though, and thanks for the comment!

Re: How To Get The AT&T Runaround

Steve — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:50:19 -0000

It's pretty slow by DSL standards, less than 1MBit.

What it boils down to is that AT&T; doesn't really want to offer DSL at the price the FCC set.

They have made it difficult to find (find out about it).

Confused customer gets thrown for a loop as a result, asks everyone, meets with customer service reps without the required knowledge, and then ends up feeling abused.

AT&T; would probably have solved this by making it clear that the $10 service is only offered in 22 states under "DSL Options" on their corporate website.

Re: How To Get The AT&T Runaround

Steve — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:14:53 -0000

Here is the link mate, hope it helps. $10 DSL

Re: How To Get The AT&T Runaround

Steve — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:40:54 -0000

The only other link that mentions the DSL service is here: $10 DSL

Unfortunately, a quick visit will get you this:

Due to technical problems, we are unable to process your order online at this time. Please contact us at 1-866-999-6181 Spanish is 1-866-772-6932 Monday through Friday, 8 am to 6 pm and on Saturday, 8:30 am to 5 pm.

If anyone has heard anything from AT&T; please submit something or comment here as soon as possible.

Re: How To Get The AT&T Runaround

Steve — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:06:25 -0000

Thanks a lot Pam!

Re: How To Get The AT&T Runaround

Steve — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:43:19 -0000

I'm not exactly sure what you're getting at, so let me summarize Mr. Magoo's argument.

He wanted to get the $10 DSL service that AT&T; said that they offered.

He could not get a clear answer to his question on the AT&T; website.

He decided to call customer service, and he did not get a satisfactory response from them.

He was then sent around to many other irrelevant services, leaving him annoyed.

Many, many, many other people share similar stories about either being led astray by customer reps, or outright lied to.

I am also not sure who is a Verizon customer, if you could be a bit more clear on that I might be able to help you out. I personally use Cingular (AT&T;).

One final clarification, this is not a "personal story". I am posting a message that I received as well as the stories of others who have had similar problems with AT&Ts; DSL offering. My main complaint is not that I think everyone in the world should get this deal, but I feel that AT&T; should be as clear about the $10 DSL offers as they are about their DSL options.

Thanks for the links!

Re: How To Get An iPhone Clone

Steve — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:46:15 -0000

Corrected, thanks nathan!

Re: How To Get The AT&T Runaround

Steve — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:49:17 -0000

I'm betting this is a plan for the "just over dialup" crowd.

If you are a power-user (or heck, even use Skype seriously) you would probably want something with more teeth. However, if all you do is check your email and watch the occasional YouTube video, the relatively slow downstream should be perfect.

Re: How To Get The AT&T Runaround

Steve — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:54:31 -0000

Yea. It is a clever little scheme they set up. I am really sorry to hear that, unfortunately there isn't too much you can do other than report any *real* problems you have with their customer service obfuscating the $10 deal to the FCC.

Re: How To Google Censorship

Steve — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:15:44 -0000

For a week or some such. I think people started going through karaoke withdrawal and they had to reinstate it.

Re: How To Explore Second Life

Steve — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:50:34 -0000

The question I have is whether the store looked like a lamp or was it just a store with a lot of lamps. In SL, you can never be sure. Thanks!

Re: How To Get A Nokia 770 Internet Tablet

Steve — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:59:51 -0000

It's true, but for $130? :) It's interesting mostly because of the great price. Not Nokia?

Re: How To Get A Nokia 770 Internet Tablet

Steve — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:06:23 -0000

Ooo, very slick.

Re: How To Explore Second Life

Steve — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:57:48 -0000

No I haven't, I'll take a look a little later today

Re: How To Afford An iPhone

Steve — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:48:52 -0000

That it does, from what I hear.

Re: How To Understand The Technorati Outage

Steve — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:29:40 -0000

Ian, I am just happy that you took the time out of your (I'm sure) increasingly busy day to tell everyone about this. Thanks again for the news.

Re: How To Increase Traffic Using Stumble Upon

Steve — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:25:03 -0000

Thanks so much, stumbled!

Re: How To Increase Traffic Using Stumble Upon

Steve — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:20:42 -0000

Fantastic folks, your sites have been stumbled and the articles that you have sent me have been stumbled as well. Keep the train going.

Re: How To Increase Productivity With Your Calender

Steve — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:25:22 -0000

No problem, have a great one!

Re: How To Increase Traffic Using Stumble Upon

Steve — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:29:47 -0000

Thanks, I just went by your site and stumbled it. Leave a few articles if you'd like me to do those as well. Pass the meme along.

Re: How To Increase Traffic Using Stumble Upon

Steve — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:31:22 -0000

Yea, stumble upon is quickly becoming my favorite. Great site as always mate, stumbled.

Re: How To Find Music

Steve — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:33:54 -0000

Jiwamusic is interesting, I was looking at it just a few days ago.

Re: How To Increase Traffic Using Stumble Upon

Steve — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:41:24 -0000

Traffic and conversions are entirely different questions. For a blogger traffic == exposure and ad revenue. For e-commerce you have to throw in percent conversion because traffic without conversions is just server load. Your site has been stumbled by the way.

Re: How To Increase Productivity With Your Calender

Steve — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:13:04 -0000

Ha, nice catch!

Re: How To Google A Law Suit

Steve — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:04:36 -0000

Both of you make great points. You can't blame content aggregaters for the content that they aggregate. I think Google has taken more action in this case than they should be required to. Asking for more borders on silly.

Re: How To Analyze The Five Stages Of Blogging

Steve — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:38:15 -0000

Absolutely right. I think that last point is probably the best of them. Never believe your own hype.

All of us who spend any amount of time in this media are at one part of the continuum of another. This blog certainly gets more traction than a fresh Wordpress install, and it gets orders of magnitude less traction than then anyone on the Technorati top 100.

The fact is, no matter what your penetration, if you are willing to help out those people on either side of the traffic totem poll then you have been successful. A lot of times I believe that as bloggers we think that we are blogging in isolation. If we can't make it to the top, then no one should.

This is simply not true.

The only way to make any headway in a medium like this is to understand there are a metric ton of people out there who feel like they are writing to the void. To understand that many of those people have great ideas and could use encouragement, and if possible give that encouragement too them.

Thanks for the response Kent. I'll be visiting the blog again soon.

Re: How To Write 8 Things

Steve — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:32:40 -0000

They...actually...have Paris Hilton baseball cards!?

Re: How To Write 8 Things

Steve — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:34:49 -0000

For anyone interested in these things, check out http://www.hollywoodzombies.com/. Thanks Heidi!

Re: How To Get Organized

Steve — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:53:22 -0000

Yes. That's the entire point. Once you have an idea of *where* you're supposed to complete tasks, and exactly what those tasks are supposed to be then the rest is really trivial.

Thanks for the comments!

Re: How To Embed Powerpoint Into A Blog

Steve — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:39:52 -0000

Thanks for the tip mate, it's a good guide!

Re: How To Search Web 3.0

Steve — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 03:56:04 -0000

I think they will grow, but my major concern is not scalability it is whether using an exclusively editorial model will produce the relevance and timeliness that a combination model could.

Re: How To Community Blog

Steve — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:52:58 -0000

Interesting indeed, its an issue definitely deserving of its own post. I'll explore it soon.

Re: How To Travel

Steve — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:40:51 -0000

Yea, that's the best bet. None of these sites are good for *every* trip, hopefully this provides a good place to start though.

Re: How To Comment Spam

Steve — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:33:28 -0000

Providing a link back was likely not the best thing to do. It least we know about them now, and I for one am going to look a bit more carefully at my comments from now on.

Re: How To Comment Spam

Steve — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:16:21 -0000

I am not at all surprised, in fact, I am surprised that there aren't a lot more companies like this out there.

Re: How To Irritate The Free Software Foundation

Steve — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:07:45 -0000

@Andrew corrected.

Yes, I imagine it will be something like that. More likely though, the entire mess will be buried by Apple's lawyers. This is the sort of thing they are paid for.

Re: How To Irritate The Free Software Foundation

Steve — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:31:36 -0000

The portion of K's argument that I will agree with is that it might be a telephone game, but quoting from Fake Steve Jobs',

"According to our legal team the complaint was prepared by lawyers from the Software Freedom Law Center. Gist of the complaint is that crucial pieces of OS X and Safari were originally designed by Richard Stallman or designed by others who turned over their copyrights to Stallman"

If this is false, then I guess I'm wrong. Chances are fairly good that the suit was filed, however. I'm open to proofs to the contrary.

Re: How To Irritate The Free Software Foundation

Steve — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:48:28 -0000

Yea, I usually prefere not to be called "crazy" but no matter. :)

The SFLC is the FSF's legal counsel, as quoted from their site in regards to GPL v 3.0,

"...The global process will be overseen by the Free Software Foundation with support from its legal counsel the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC). Free Software Foundation Europe will be coordinating the European activities closely with both organisations and contributing to the global communication effort."

Now whether the left hand knows what the right hand is doing, I do not venture to guess. However, I still believe that the SFLC is claiming that Stallman's works have been misused by Apple.

Thanks for taking the time to comment, I love a bit of debate every now and then.

Re: How To Learn More About InviteShare

Steve — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:03:23 -0000

Consider yourself invited mate. Good luck!

Re: How To Define Web 3.0

Steve — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:35:07 -0000

@Dustin, luckily this article was written over the course of several weeks. I warned you from the beginning that it would be a definitive guide. :)

@WiiFit Indeed, the web is going from what I consider a "hunter gatherer" mentality (Web 1.0) to a more community oriented mode (Web 3.0). The labels we use are less consequential than the concepts themselves.

Thanks for the comments!

Re: How To Blog

Steve — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:36:32 -0000

Ran over the article again and caught the mistakes you were probably talking about. Feel free to link to this article, it's a resource and I'm happy to help!

Re: How To Define Web 3.0

Steve — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 02:45:13 -0000

I think that is the best reason I have ever heard for why "Web 2.0" / "Web 3.0" is meaningless. That being said, the fact of the matter is that the web probably can't be strictly versioned, but like the difference between Modernism and "Post-Modernism" there are certain places in the continuum that denote major changes in basic behavior. These places require some kind of label.

Since the "Internets" is run by a techie crowd, we prefer monikers like "Web 3.0" for better or for worse (probably for worse).

I think The Semantic Web would be the best of show as far as real labels for "the new web" are concerned. Though, "The p0rn and pirated music Web" comes in a close second.

Re: How To Define Web 3.0

Steve — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:20:22 -0000

@desmus I tend to agree that there are certain "unpredictable" elements involved, and there are probably things that I missed. This article is a speculative tour of Web 3.0 based exclusively on technologies that currently exist.

As for microformats, I think that is an article in and of itself. I will try to tackle that sometime in the future. I completely agree that they will play a pivotal role. Thanks for the comment!

@andrew Thanks mate :)

@Aidan I'm so glad that you liked it, I'll be sure to check out the article. It's really fun to speculate on this sort of thing, I hear Sci-Fri writers get paid quite a bit for similar efforts.

Re: How To Define Web 3.0

Steve — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:39:34 -0000

@13 duly noted :)

Re: How To Define Web 3.0

Steve — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:52:01 -0000

Thanks for the opinion Skiz. I will consider cutting the "uber-nonsense" when next I post. ;)

Re: How To Define Web 3.0

Steve — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:05:24 -0000

The parts I agree with: Web 3.0 is a buzz word.

What I would like to point out is that while Web 3.0 or whatever you call it is a buzz word it seems to have obfuscated the entire point of the article. The point, for those who have taken the time to read the entire article, was to show that web technologies that currently exist foreshadow the web as it will be.

I wanted to highlight these technologies, show how they can be extended and dump them into a cluster which I called -- for the sake of argument -- Web 3.0. For those who care, find and replace all instances of Web 3.0 with "The Semantic Web".

I want to thank everyone who has given constructive criticism and all those people who have praised the article. Great discussion and I hope it continues.

Re: How To Define Web 3.0

Steve — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:49:48 -0000

@splat I'm pretty sure that's where speculation becomes science fiction, though I've heard that 3D imaging technology is progressing quite nicely (the good people at Carnegie Mellon are working on it).

As for a real replicator..well, take a look.

Re: How To Define Web 3.0

Steve — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:26:04 -0000

@Darren / Groovy thanks a lot :)

@adam I'll take the parts of that I understood as a compliment :)

Thanks guys!

Re: How To Define Web 3.0

Steve — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:25:24 -0000

Issue 1 - This is Web 2.1

This might be true, but as many commentators have pointed out the 3.0 moniker is sort of a "label". I agree that many of these technologies currently exist, in fact, I am sure all of them do -- that is why I choose them. However, I am of the opinion that Web 2.0 is crawling towards a natural conclusion even now. Technology follows an exponential scale, and even though Web 1.0 lasted for "quite some time" Web 2.0 might not require a decade to happen.

Though, it is entirely possible that this is Web 2.1. Only time will tell.

@steve Great name by the way :) The cultural implications of the new web is something I will try to explore soon.

@Luke I'll definitely get around to giving your question the thought it deserves. Not right this second though, thanks so much for commenting.

Thanks everyone, this has been a truly enlightening discussion so far.

Re: How To Have Grooveshark Invites

Steve — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:55:25 -0000

Consider yourselves invited :)

Re: How To Define Web 3.0

Steve — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:00:20 -0000

*chuckles* Headlines are hard Andri. Thanks for reading whichever part of the article that you did. :)

Re: How To Define Web 3.0

Steve — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:32:20 -0000

Clay I truly appreciate the kind words. This is exactly what I was trying to accomplish with this article. I didn't want to wildly speculate on where the web *could* head, I wanted to provide some insight into where it *was* heading based on technologies evolution.

Thank you so much for reading.

Re: How To Blog Effectively

Steve — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:43:25 -0000

The most interesting part of BeachBums comment is what he envisions my "image" to be. It's something that we don't often think about in terms of the online space, but I guess we should. Our interactions in whatever networks that we choose to interact paints us in broad strokes.

My question to you Beach is which part of this definition of myself does this post fail to live up to? I thought it was pretty prudent advice for bloggers so I offered it, as is my custom. Thanks for bringing up the point though, expand upon it if you like.

Re: How To Leak Harry Potter

Steve — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:58:40 -0000

Yea, as would I.

Re: How To Learn Your Phishing IQ

Steve — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:13:23 -0000

@Jonk Corrected, thanks mate. :)

@Markius I'm really mad about the MySpace one, should have seen the URL. I was so busy looking for other weirdness I missed it.

Re: How To Learn Your Phishing IQ

Steve — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:33:36 -0000

Nice work folks!

Re: How To Define Web 3.0

Steve — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:07:20 -0000

@John opinion duly noted. :)

Re: How To Define Web 3.0

Steve — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:09:15 -0000

The buzzword debate aside, here's my take.

I wasn't saying that Web 3.0 is here, or even close to here. What I was speculating on (and this is and was always meant to be speculation) was what Web 3.0 will look like whenever it does arrive. Unless I choose to draw ghosts from the air, the only way that I could do this is by using current technological offerings as a jump off point.

A few misconceptions that people seem to have is that I am saying *This is Web 3.0* and ignoring other obviously related technologies (like Microformats). I am not, they just did not make it into the article because there is a near infinite number of things that could be covered and despite the exhaustive nature of this post, there just wasn't enough space.

We aren't done with Web 2.0 quite yet, but it is interesting to speculate on where the web is heading. That was my primary goal, and at that I have been successful.

Thanks for taking the time to read and comment!

Re: How To Give Out Pownce Invites

Steve — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:11:06 -0000

You make a great point, I am not exactly why "women's" events always go for the cutesy style names. Someone really needs to step up and say enough is enough.

I was wondering where you ran off to, I was about to sic the search bots on you. Hope you're having a good one, I'll drop in soon.

Re: How To Get An iPhone Clone

Steve — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:56:16 -0000

I agree, OpenMoko has been around before the "iPhone" as he know it actually existed. However, media has touted it as an "iPhone Clone" because it has some similar features and functionality.

I tend to believe it is an interesting product in its own right, but just from the features and form factor -- it does closely resemble the iPhone.

Thanks for the comment!

Re: How To Give Out Pownce Invites

Steve — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:57:51 -0000

Thanks for the compliment, your invite is on its way!

Re: How To Learn About The Web’s Future

Steve — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:09:00 -0000

I agree completely with the first part, and as for the second part they are working on a robot that can do just that at the University of Florida. It can also be controlled over the web. I'll toss you a link when I find it.

Re: How To Use Firefox

Steve — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:28:15 -0000

Thanks for the compliments, any other plugins that you would recommend?

Re: How To Use Firefox

Steve — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:21:09 -0000

Good point mate, Adblock Plus is a lifesaver. It certainly would fit into the "productivity" section.

Re: How To Use Firefox

Steve — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:26:59 -0000

@Chris there are quite a few more plugins that are mentioned, but I do like the Flickr and "Gmail" ones quite a bit.

@Marc Thanks mate, most of the times when dealing with something like that to get the absolute best performance you want to get as close to the base two value as possible. Thus, there is speed in precision.

Re: How To Use Firefox

Steve — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:57:42 -0000

Great suggestions folks!

Re: How To Use Firefox

Steve — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:56:59 -0000

Good point Ben, thanks Fable!

Re: How To Find A Lawyer

Steve — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:49:39 -0000

Well that is useful. I guess if you're going to trust anyone to represent you, family is a pretty good bet.

Re: How To Define Web 3.0

Steve — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:15:28 -0000

Is that so? ;)

Re: How To Get The AT&T Runaround

Steve — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:16:32 -0000

Honestly I am not sure. If you find out anything about it, send me an email. That is a really good question.

Re: How To Make A Case Against Facebook

Steve — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:03:29 -0000

Easy Robert, it saturated its niche (college students). However, it still lacks the kind of mainstream appeal of services like AOL in the mid-90s (which is the closest proxy to Facebook's walled garden that I can come up with).

Even if you assumed that every person who uses MySpace is unique from those using Facebook (which they are not) and they all convert (which they won't) you would *still* have significantly less than 100 million people using Facebook. While these numbers are incredible by web app standards, they aren't that great unless Facebook manages to push some serious advertising inventory.

I have been using Facebook for 4 years now Robert and I have seen it through almost all of its major feature releases. I have yet to see a single one that proves that it is a piece of software ready to disrupt society at large (outside of the college/tech niche it embraces).

Re: How To Make A Case Against Facebook

Steve — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:54:53 -0000

We could have said the same thing about Second Life. While the story has not been fully told for the site, I would have to say that it is going to be written into history as the introduction to an interesting concept, not as the concept itself.

For the tech crowd (including the execs that you mention, many of whom are the type who want to be seen as being on the cutting edge of technology) this is still their early introduction to Facebook. Of course there will be many people who adopt it for the sake of adoption, and even use it for a time. A better question than rapid growth, however, is sustained retention over a period of *years*, not months.

How many of these same execs will be keeping up with their Facebook profiles in 3 years, when 50 new web apps come along to steal their attention?

Growth and influence can never be measured in a microcosm Robert, and it certainly can never be measured by the tendencies of early adopters. If you take a look at the trend of use of a typical college Freshman who starts using Facebook it follows a very particular pattern.

Interest. "Wow, what a neat thing. Friend, Friend, Friend!"

Obsession. "I have so many friends, time to manage them!"

Irritation. "Man, why do I need to keep updating this thing?"

And sometime around graduation,

Rebellion. "OK, enough is enough. I certainly have better things to do."

Facebook has every reason to want to grow their market segments because I am sure they realize that the second their users enter the "real world" (unless they work deeply in technology), they tend to stop updating.

I'll never convince you of any of this, but just think about it Robert.

Re: How To Transform The PS3

Steve — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:36:30 -0000

This is true, but when you're selling your Blu-Ray player for about 60% of the cost of the rest of your inventory, then you have to expect that it will do well.

Re: How To Eat Right

Steve — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:14:20 -0000

@2 You are absolutely right. I think my gripe is primarily directed at those who subscribe to the "pop science" version of Atkins that is glorified in the media. These are the people who eat fatty hamburgers sans the bun. I feel that this is...wrong.

@3 Also correct, carbs provide long term energy while refined sugars are only short term. The article is primarily geared towards short term energy boosts rather than long term dietary decisions.

If either if you want to do a write up how food can improve productivity, please send it my way. I would love to explore this topic more completely.

Re: How To Use Firefox

Steve — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:17:15 -0000

Click on this link.

Re: How To Transform The PS3

Steve — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:22:59 -0000

If they manage to change their marketing spin, then that might be very true.

Re: How To Learn About Blog Piracy

Steve — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:02:17 -0000

Yea, that's absolutely right. Google does that I know.

Re: How To Make A Case Against Facebook

Steve — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:31:37 -0000

I partially agree with you there. What I was trying to convey is that there are certain technologies with *wide* appeal, and there are others with very niche appeal. The technologies with niche appeal have a fairly low ceiling as far as their ability to scale.

I think that Facebook is a great theory, and an interesting product but I strongly question its ability to scale up to the level it would need to support itself 5 years down the line.

By support I mean substantially increase in revenue and some non-acquisition exit strategy.

Re: How To Blog Successfully

Steve — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 02:15:45 -0000

Thanks!

Re: How To Understand Silicon Valley Millionaires

Steve — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:34:28 -0000

I'm in complete agreement with you there. There is something about innovating outside of the warm, comfortable core of technology that just seems more exciting. To each his own, I guess.

Re: How To Pick The Best AV Tool

Steve — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:47:08 -0000

I have heard nothing but good things about it, though I think it is for Linux only at the moment.

Re: How To Be Used By Your Social Network

Steve — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:12:13 -0000

Thanks chuck, hope the entire thing got sorted out. Ha.

Re: How To Give Out Invites

Steve — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:37:20 -0000

Was that for the 2010 post or the Social Network one?

Re: How To Study Virus’ In World Of Warcraft

Steve — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:31:42 -0000

That's really funny. I dropped out of the MMORPG circuit years ago, but that really puts an entirely different spin on the article. Still does teach us something about group behavior patterns.

Thanks Athol!

Re: How To Get The AT&T Runaround

Steve — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:00:53 -0000

Even for a PR spin job it is pretty bad.

Re: How To Dig Through The Archives

Steve — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:43:04 -0000

Certainly not, and you're right they have been around for quite a long while. This is based on a site that I discovered last June (or so).

I pulled it out of the archives because its interesting that since this site came out a year ago, very few practical solutions have come out of gestures.

Thanks for dropping by.

Re: How To Dig Through The Archives

Steve — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:22:51 -0000

testing

Re: How To Get Back To Business

Steve — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:39:02 -0000

Thanks as always Andrej, glad that you like it!

Re: How To Get The AT&T Runaround

Steve — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:00:16 -0000

That seems to be the consensus among most of the people I hear looking for the cheap DSL. AT&T; runs them around in circles and then refuses to admit that there is any interest in the service.

This is the first time I've heard about needing a stand-alone line in order to get service. Tell me what happens after you call tomorrow. I'd be interested in knowing.

Re: How To Pitch Your Startup

Steve — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:23:00 -0000

Yea, at least two of them will be completely on fire as a result of the conference. It should be fun.

Re: How To Fix The Music Industry

Steve — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:50:03 -0000

Actually I haven't, tell me about it? I believe the study that I ambled across said something between 15-30 cents was the sweet spot.

It may require a restructuring of royalties for digital media but at the moment the industry needs to encourage volume if they are going to start achieving decent growth again.

Re: How To Review Notifir

Steve — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:36:08 -0000

No problem at all, I am certainly happy to provide any assistance that I can. If you ever need anything further, you can contact me here.

Re: How To Make Presently Viable

Steve — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:58:57 -0000

This is true, giving people a name will make it a lot easier for them to spread the app by word of mouth.

Google Docs Presentations just doesn't roll off of the tongue. I think I'll keep calling it Presently for a while.

Re: How To Critique The Techcrunch40 (Day Two)

Steve — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:02:59 -0000

Wait, you mean you can't? Good article by the way.

Re: How To Use Firefox

Steve — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:07:44 -0000

Fixed :)

Re: How To Learn About YouDeparted

Steve — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:07:01 -0000

This is an excellent point. The way I viewed the service it was for people who were "on the way out" but you make a great point, what if it is 20 years before someone flees the mortal coil?

The chances of this company even being in operation at that point are statistically unlikely. The chances of them being able to properly sort out where the URL should be sent, well...

I'll try to contact the people at YouDeparted with just this question. Good question Mike.

Re: How To Turn An iPhone Into A Brick

Steve — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:02:57 -0000

Only one plug per comment please. ;) Though the site looks interesting, I'll stop by again.

Re: How To “Upgrade” LinkedIn

Steve — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:03:58 -0000

Thanks mate, it is a good service but like anything else -- improvements could be made.

Re: How To Explore Internet Memes

Steve — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:32:22 -0000

From Wikipedia,

The phrase "o rly?" was used on the Something Awful Forums at least as early as August 2003.[1] The original "O RLY?" Snowy Owl image macro is based on a photo taken by nature photographer John White, which he posted to the newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.animals in 2001.[2] The snowy owl image was Photoshopped on 4chan after the word filtering of the word "repost" to "owl".[3] The owl image macro was posted or linked to on other websites, spawning many more image macros involving owls, notably those with "YA RLY" and "NO WAI".

My suggestion is that you change that, it looks like I'm not the only person confused. :)

Re: How To Invent

Steve — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:13:18 -0000

Thanks folks, I appreciate it. If you ever want to discuss any of your projects, drop me a line.

Re: How To Invent

Steve — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:51:53 -0000

I was specifically talking about a social network for actual -pets- that I was reading about a while back (don't ask).

A social network for people who love Dogs works for the same reason a social network for new moms would, it gives a platform to post sickeningly cute pictures of your obsession.

The problem comes about when you try to push this niche to include things that don't resonate with the people you are trying to attract. The example, a social network for pets.

Re: How To Rate The Web

Steve — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:34:29 -0000

First Yuvi, this is some amazing information. I am so glad that you sent it my way -- consider it Stumbled.

Ha, you made the list because you run a good site Rich. As for Mashable, you must admit they its easier than surfing the web yourself. :)

Thanks for reading folks, if you need anything drop me a line.

Re: How To Review Realtorclix

Steve — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:28:09 -0000

I just talked to Jarrod Morgan of Realtorclix, apparently that is a nasty rumor that is being floated. They certainly have not heard anything about it.

Re: How To Get On Techmeme

Steve — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:07:38 -0000

Jason, that one played against the basic human desire to rage against the absurd -- which I am sure you knew.

Thanks for sending me some great material for the day (kudos for the double-good 1984 speak), and good luck with all your projects.

Re: How To Define Web 3.0

Steve — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:47:12 -0000

That last paragraph may be the best thing I've read all month, excellent analysis!

Re: What You Should Know About Blog Traffic

Steve — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:49:25 -0000

I wrote this last night, and this morning Techmeme is ablaze with the debate.

Re: Tech Advertising, Best In Show

Steve — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:59:51 -0000

Will do, thanks for the comment.

Re: Adviewr: My Take On Online Advertising

Steve — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:21:02 -0000

It shows up in both. As a slightly resized version like you saw in this post. Send me an email for more information.

Re: How To Interview Sclipo

Steve — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:01:36 -0000

Actually, I don't believe he is. The Elance management team --

* Amy Robinson, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development
* Fabio Rosati, President and Chief Executive Officer
* Jonathan Diller, Vice President of Provider Network
* Murali Murugan, Vice President of Engineering
* Ved Sinha, Vice President of Product
* Beerud Sheth, Founder

Thanks for the comment!

Re: SKIN: Tattoos That Feel

Steve — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:18:26 -0000

Thanks so much!

Re: The Music Industry’s Uncomfortable Adolescence

Steve — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:29:24 -0000

I tend to agree. My only hope is that someone can nudge them in the right direction.

Re: What Is Web 2.0?

Steve — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:42:19 -0000

You could be right, but I think the difference between the old bubble and this new "thing" is the fact that all of the fun of the old bubble happened in the pages of publications like the WSJ and NYT.

This time around, things are a lot more interesting because we can actually interact with each other.

I think that is what changed this from a silly technological milestone to something a bit more.

Re: Requiste $15 Billion Facebook Polemic

Steve — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:21:51 -0000

That's the trick isn't it? Many of these sites seem to be created without any real market consideration.

If there is any real theme that all of the highest valued sites in this industry have it is that they *produce* something.

Right now I am having a hard time seeing what Facebook produces.

Re: What Is Web 2.0?

Steve — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:25:49 -0000

For a while, like they usually do. Hopefully in the interim we get some innovation to lead us into whatever is next.

Re: How To Analyze People Search

Steve — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:40:34 -0000

No problem.

That's exactly right. Things like Wink won't make it into the public consciousness until someone uses it to do something really bad. Then the public Forum will begin.

Re: Requiste $15 Billion Facebook Polemic

Steve — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:28:11 -0000

I did the math based on their monthly traffic data. They get about 24 Million users a month. So it is more like $600+ per user per month.

Or more relevant. About $600+ per unique ad impression in a month.

Re: The Internet: Then And Now

Steve — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:33:29 -0000

There is definitely a balancing act you have to draw between growing your business, and losing site of what you really are there to do.

Re: Major Site Maintenance And Request

Steve — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:24:14 -0000

Thanks a lot Bryce, it looks like things are back under control.

Re: How To Explore Internet Memes

Steve — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:36:53 -0000

Very cool, glad that you happened upon the site!

Re: Blogosphere: Then And Now

Steve — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:15:15 -0000

Thanks I really appreciate the compliment. If you ever need anything you know how to reach me!

Re: How To Make The Lonelygirl15 Finale

Steve — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:08:33 -0000

It really does look like a lot of entertainment is moving web-wards.

Re: How To Get On An Information Diet

Steve — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:05:27 -0000

@Anthony I feel your pain mate. I have more projects than I know what to do with. Sometimes I have to backtrack and read something I wrote when I was thinking clearly just to get my mind back in order.

@Sarah yea, the first step to getting your information back under control is definitely putting a cap on your feed reader.

I am glad the article helped!