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Re: HowTo: Coming sooooon!

dave — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:26:22 -0000

The lifeliner tool is totally not ready for you to use.

Wait until there's an announcement about it.

Re: Maybe it's time for personal servers? (Scripting News)

dave — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:48:41 -0000

I think UPnP is ubiquitous enough to develop on top of it.

I don't have any code to interface to it. Are there any simple-enough docs
to get me started?

Re: The worst things startups do

Scobleizer — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:39:12 -0000

Posterous is a customer of Rackspace, just like Techcrunch and Mashable are. Techcrunch, by the way, moved from a hosting company giving them free hosting to us who they are paying.

Re: The worst things startups do

Scobleizer — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:38:02 -0000

Jernej: the value of that list isn't the feed, but the list of companies. I'd love feedback on that.

Re: The worst things startups do

Scobleizer — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:37:07 -0000

For purposes of this article? A company that is less than two years old. But another way to define it is a company that hasn't hit their C-round of funding yet.

Re: The worst things startups do

Scobleizer — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:35:53 -0000

A site for pimping your blog.

Re: Maybe it's time for personal servers? (Scripting News)

dave — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:08:38 -0000

They do. That's how I get to River2 from anywhere. It's a web server running
inside the OPML Editor.

Re: Maybe it's time for personal servers? (Scripting News)

dave — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:51:54 -0000

A lot of the difficulty can be removed. Aside from that, I didn't make a
prediction, I asked a question.

Re: Maybe it's time for personal servers? (Scripting News)

dave — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:50:48 -0000

A server hosted at Rackspace that's yours that you pay for counts as a
personal server. It doesn't have to be in your house.

Re: Working on new editorial tools. (Scripting News)

dave — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:54:00 -0000

They're not handled -- links that go bad are bad. Look through the archive
on scripting.com, the further you go back, the worse it gets.

Re: Working on new editorial tools. (Scripting News)

dave — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:42:11 -0000

Good point. I'll make sure my tools don't make that assumption.

Re: Why the collection is important. (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:18:02 -0000

It's source code Bill.

Re: What is Twitter for? Pimping your blog!

Scobleizer — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:39:20 -0000

I don't own that feed so didn't pimp it. :-)

Re: Working on new editorial tools. (Scripting News)

dave — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:06:35 -0000

We'll have to do the best we can. It can't be any worse than it is now.

Re: The worst things startups do

Scobleizer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:00:12 -0000

Yeah, of all the points I made this one is the weakest. Good for pointing it out.

Re: The worst things startups do

Scobleizer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:49:11 -0000

I agree with you sort of. The point I was trying to make is that if a company is all executives and no workers you can smell that. Maybe the ratio shouldn't be 13:1, but the best companies I've visited are at least 4:1. FriendFeed is a weird one because that one company had superstars (one guy ran the teams that started Gmail, another Google Maps, another Google Talk).

Re: The worst question in social media

Scobleizer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:44:45 -0000

There are some jobs that simply aren't fun. I don't think anyone ever wants to clean toilets, for instance, but someone does. I'm very fortunate to have a job I absolutely love but there are plenty who don't. Usually when someone hands you a buck it isn't because they care whether or not you are having fun.

Re: The worst question in social media

Scobleizer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:34:12 -0000

I'm putting YOU on a list! :-)

Re: The worst question in social media

Scobleizer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:33:36 -0000

Bing! Fun is what it's all about. Well, until you start thinking about how to make money with all of this. Then the question turns less fun. Or does it?

Re: Working on new editorial tools. (Scripting News)

dave — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:04:37 -0000

Maybe -- I'm not worried about it. These are small files they won't cost
very much to store no matter whey they are.

Re: Working on new editorial tools. (Scripting News)

dave — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:18:22 -0000

Text styling is with HTML. No provisions for the other things you ask about.

Re: The Droid fails AS A PRODUCT when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

Scobleizer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:52:22 -0000

Yes, but it isn't on by default.

Re: The Droid fails AS A PRODUCT when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

Scobleizer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:50:34 -0000

Your dad might be very happy with the Droid. On the other hand, he might really not like how the whole package is put together. After using the Droid all week long I really find lots of little things that just piss me off. Of course on the iPhone getting dropped calls pisses me off too. On the Droid things that piss me off are more important than dropped calls (like not smooth scrolling, and hard to click links in Twitter apps). I just don't like the Droid and how it's put together AS A PRODUCT. That said, it is better than every other phone out there so at least your dad will be able to say "I have a better phone than all those Blackberry users."

Re: My world has changed (and I get to share with you)

Scobleizer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:22:03 -0000

That's just because no one has done that yet with list names. I wish that were here, though, too.

Re: Why I disagree with @Arrington about Droid

Scobleizer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:41:51 -0000

Like I said, this is Windows 3.1. It signals a shift is brewing in the phone marketplace. But we have yet to see the product that puts it all together. That's coming, I believe, but the Droid isn't it.