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Re: Is Cinch really better than Twitter and Evernote?

griflet — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:30:54 -0000

Hmmm, no reactions today? I guess that the post was a flop. I also suspect the previous post's interested depended on other factors external to this blog... Oh well. I guess it means more time for my thesis... I suppose it's better that way... :-)

Re: Cinch: better than Twitter, better than Evernote.

griflet — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:59:02 -0000

Twitumm looks nice, but I'm 100% content with Cinch for that matter. If I had tried Twitumm first maybe I'd have written about Twitumm, who knows? I'm also an enthus of Cinch due to the BlogTalkRadio technology. I first heard about it almost 2 years ago and thought it was the coolest idea.

Re: Cinch: better than Twitter, better than Evernote.

kevnewscience — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:26:08 -0000

I think Twitumm does what your after, Dug mentioned it below and it's quite cool!

Re: Cinch: better than Twitter, better than Evernote.

griflet — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:54:56 -0000

I wanted to post this as a reply, but I missed it. So here it is, delayed...
>@Kris: Cool, I like t-shirts =)

The API functionalities look nice. But what I really wanted is some "scriptable" way to upload an mp3 file, a photo and some text to Cinch. You know, like the twitter api... Possibly using email...

Re: My take on cloud computing

griflet — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:44:19 -0000

Hi, I decided to "upgrade" the disqus service in this blog because I wanted to show the reactions. Unfortunately, that was a bad move since it removed the comments this post already had. The good news is that the comments aren't gone. You can still follow all the previous comments here: [http://disqus.com/comments/moderate/webtopmania/]. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Re: Cinch: better than Twitter, better than Evernote.

griflet — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:30:27 -0000

Cool, Louis Gray just mentioned this post in his blog: [http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/10/cinchcast-puts-mini-podcasts-in-your.html]

Re: CinchCast Puts Mini Podcasts In Your Pocket

griflet — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:28:58 -0000

Louis, thx for mentioning my post. I appreciate :) Big fan of yours btw.

Re: Cinch: better than Twitter, better than Evernote.

griflet — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:14:47 -0000

Aw-shucks :)

Re: Cinch: better than Twitter, better than Evernote.

alan — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:53:03 -0000

you posted because you like the app and thats all anyone can ask for. If we build things that people like to use than we are successful. You are an early adopter and an influencer, thats the beauty of the social web. your post did get picked up by many influential bloggers. Good job from Portugal.

Re: Cinch: better than Twitter, better than Evernote.

griflet — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:39:59 -0000

@alanllevy: No problem, I write about what I like :) And I like Cinch, and BTR. Any plans for a phone number in Portugal? Would it be complicated to create one? I must warn that I'm an early adopter. I can't guarantee it will actually build momentum. Alas, this isn't Silicon Valley and I'm not Scoble :)

Re: Cinch: better than Twitter, better than Evernote.

griflet — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:34:24 -0000

@Dug: hey, thx for the tip. Will check it out ...

Re: Cinch: better than Twitter, better than Evernote.

griflet — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:32:21 -0000

@Kris: Cool, I like t-shirts =)

Re: Our online lives slowly leak away

griflet — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:02:43 -0000

I have some suggestions, if anyone cares to listen, that should help to quick fix part of the problem, though it's not an adequate solution, I agree.

I can reasonably say that I have triple backups (if not quadruple) of every tweet post and picture post that I have ever taken.

Here's how it works:
I use this service called tarpipe (just google it) that works like yahoo!pipes where you create workflows. But tarpipe, unlike yahoo!pipes, uploads your tweet and image to multiple services at once. I send one email from my iphone with my tweet and picture to a tarpipe email address, and then It redirects my tweet and picture to twitter, identi.ca, twitpic, photobucket, flickr, facebook , delicious AND *evernote* + it creates shortlinks to the picture in several url-shortener services such as bit.ly or gd.is. It's a bit complicated at first to create a customized workflow, but after that, it's automatic :)
They also have a nice bookmarklet that helps you share links from your browser to these multiple services. And there are good screencasts and tutorials that should help you out with the workflows.

I realize this isn't an ideal solution to the problem. But at least, it gives some extra maneuverability whenever one of these services go down (a year ago I was also back-up tweeting to jaiku and pownce). On the plus side, it backs up every single thing I share on Evernote, which happens to be a service that claims that will keep your notes forever (for whatever that's worth).

It's a very important issue raised here. I'm also looking for better solutions. Please do share whatever you do to safely backup your online activity...

Re: Glympse vs. Google Latitude in location sharing battle

griflet — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:49:23 -0000

Hello Robert,

It's cool that you like sharing your position. I'm an iPhone user and I've been experimentating to share my location with the wizi app for iphone (currently on closed beta -I'm a beta tester and friend of the wizi founders-, and releasing soon in the following months for the iphone). I'd like to try Glympse for iphone once it's available though.

Here's my location right now:
http://twitter.com/guillaume7/status/1851343240
;)

If I move with the app turned on, the viewer can refresh my position, live. It's pretty cool! I'd love to have you take a try on wizi. Please say something if you're curious.

Cheers,

Guillaume Riflet

Re: Will Google collapse by 2011?

griflet — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:50:53 -0000

@FrancisWakeboardingEquipments I am not sure of how one can keep track of the eyeballs, but the people at thinkeyetracking are pretty sure.
Keep in mind however, that the 2011 prognosis is kind of a caricature, and shouldn't be taken too seriously. To be more realistic, I wouldn't be too surprised if, in a couple of years, people get so good at googling their answers, that they won't even bother to look at the ads. This should result in lower paid-clicks, and thus, less revenue for Google.
Finally, I use the "feeling lucky" button a lot! I use it as a shortcut to instantly reach my gmail, my reader, my calendar, my delicious account, etc...

Re: Wordle: beautiful tag clouds

griflet — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:02:05 -0000

Thx for the praise. Will do. Cheers!

Re: Will Google collapse by 2011?

surfing — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:34:12 -0000

I agree with you on this!

Re: WebtopMania: How to send posts to twitter, jaiku and pownce all at once.

griflet — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:23:18 -0000

Hi Christian,

No I don't know how to do that. My advice is to find some sample code using the google gadget API and reverse it; i.e. read the code until you learn how it works. It's fun it requires "some" free time...

From what I've seen, I think you need to inject javascript in your html code. Something like the first couple of lines in this link.

something like

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" >
var prefs = new gadgets.Prefs();
var name = prefs.getString("name");
document.write('<form action="http://rest.receptor.tarpipe.net:8000/?key=' + name + ' method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">');
</script>

Hope it helps...

Cheers,
Guillaume

Re: Will Google collapse by 2011?

griflet — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:42:36 -0000

@Kiteboarding, yes, it's only a crazy thought. But it is a real behaviour. The more people get trained at googling, the quicker they get their answers, and the less they look around clicking on paid-ads. Of course, I don't expect to get to my answer each time with feeling lucky. Personally, I do use the feeling lucky button to reach to a lot of web-sites...
Cheers

Re: WebtopMania: How to send posts to twitter, jaiku and pownce all at once.

griflet — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:38:11 -0000

Hi Rowanrook,

What you request is beyond my script-fu I'm afraid :) I really wouldn't know how to do it quick-n-dirty. Maybe using some sort of greasemonkey script in the webshots thumbnail, that would inject the tag and post fields and button inside the page...

You know, I use Jing project, and I like it a lot to immediately post screenshots in web-services such as flickr. But it doesn't has an email option. If it had one, then you could send your image to a tarpipe workflow :(

Re: Syntax Highlighter

griflet — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:46:36 -0000

Ois Artur! Haverias de gostar de tê-lo no teu wiki também ;) http://bit.ly/5JUX
Abraços aí para Delft,
Guillaume

Re: The iphone 3G is a pocket satellite.

griflet — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:09:08 -0000

Hey, thx for the cheers! I enjoyed writing it for sure :)

Re: Tweeting Google Reader notes

griflet — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:30:10 -0000

I made a slight change to your pipe that I saved here

Now, each <title/> item has the following structure:
"Title": note.

Then, in twitterfeed, I make sure that only the title with the shortened url is twittered. I've also added the "RT reader: " prefix (available in the twitterfeed options).

That was a great idea you had and a great yahoo! pipe you made! Thank you @ppinheiro76!

Re: WebtopMania: How to send posts to twitter, jaiku and pownce all at once.

griflet — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:58:40 -0000

@trodrigues: Thanks. I've picked up your refactoring and re-refactored it. Now selected text gets inserted in the text field. You can check the refactoring here. I'd recommend to refactor the code there, then publish it here by posting a link in a comment.
Anyway, here's the code (no damn way to put it in a link due to the #$"#$ disqus overhead):

javascript:k='PUT_YOUR_KEY_HERE';
w='500';h='60';x='72';g='30';u='25';
s=document.getSelection();
t=document.title;
if (!s) s=t;
n=window.open('','Tarpipe bookmarklet','width='+w+',height='+h);
n.focus();
d=n.document;
d.write('<form action="http://rest.receptor.tarpipe.net:8000/?key='+k+'" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">');
d.write('Txt <input type="text" size="'+x+'" name="title" value="'+s+'" maxlength="140"/>
');
d.write('Tags <input type="text" size="'+g+'" name="body" value="'+t+'"/> ');
d.write('Url <input type="text" size="'+u+'" name="url" value="'+location.href+'"/>');
d.write('<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="pipe"/>');
d.write('</form>');

Remember to edit it and insert your tarpipe workflow REST key.

Re: WebtopMania: How to send posts to twitter, jaiku and pownce all at once.

griflet — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:01:50 -0000

Hmmm, I guess you could easily adapt an ubiquity command for that, Be my guest :) I don't play with Ubiquity for a few weeks now. It just hasn't grown on me; but it's really got plenty of potential.