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Re: Partial Freakonomics feed = bad idea

Tom Fakes — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:11:03 -0000

I'm using NewsGator online, and their feed isn't updating at all. Until I went looking, I didn't know they'd moved. At that point, I realized that I didn't really care about reading them everyday.

Re: Partial Freakonomics feed = bad idea

Tom Fakes — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:45:50 -0000

Sam: In the brave new world of media, you should actually be giving some things away to keep people interested so you have a better chance of selling them something that you may not have done otherwise.

I see their blog as a way for them to keep readers interested between books, and the money to be made when they sell more books because people are hooked on their blog.

Now that I don't read their blog, I am less likely to buy their books, so they should care that they lost me.

Right now, they are getting paid for their blog as well, and it's so painful to read that they are losing readers, and losing the attention of their book buying public.

The wholistic approach is important, cover as many bases as possible to mazimize revenue over all outlets.

Re: San Francisco Advice

Tom Fakes — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:08:43 -0000

I just visited Monterey last week. Dress Warm! The fog can linger all day, and the temperature may never get above 60F - even in August, we were cold.

There is a good pub in Monterey across from the Marriot that has a good selection of beer and some decent pub food for when you start feeling home sick.

Re: Facebook Has Problems With Latest Release

Tom Fakes — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:42:19 -0000

Where to start!

Facebook completely broke all CSS for 20 minues site wide last week.

Then they have some servers that are mangling the CSS (this happened for 18 hours site wide last Friday, but is now intermittent)

Currently I'm seeing them try to scroll the Invite form into view. I have one page with the invite form at the bottom, and it scrolls that page so the user can see it (Forced Invite anyone?)

Re: Facebook Adds “Apps You May Like”

Tom Fakes — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:28:25 -0000

This looks like just renaming the tab 'Recently Popular'. How apps appear in the Recently Popular tab always seemed like black magic. I think they've been adjusting this list for a while.

My first tab still says Recently Popular - so perhaps they are A/B testing it to see how it performs.

Re: New Facebook Profile to Launch Next Week

Tom Fakes — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:04:35 -0000

I love this bit:

"Facebook has clearly prepped the developers"

It seems there is no PHP4 client library available yet, and PHP is the official, supported language of Facebook.

Also, how users opt-in for email is still an open question - 1 week before unleashing this on the world.

This is going to be interesting, sadly with a Chinese proverb definition of "interesting".

Re: Facebook Asks Developers to Agree to Social Contract

Tom Fakes — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:25:59 -0000

I read the new Platform Policy and it does say you can't use invites to unlock features - like get quiz results. At no point does it say you can't use them to earn points in a game.

We give points away for a variety of activities, including Invites, and the way the policy is written, it looks like we can keep doing that.