Disqus - Latest Comments for imaginator

Re: Setting up Your “Office Stack”

Simon Tennant — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 06:27:01 -0000

Free CI is really interesting. I'm going to look into that. Thanks for the heads-up. And you point to what is a successful open source strategy: make great software (Gitlab is awesome), run it for me, (but don't lock me in). I like that a lot.

Re: Setting up Your “Office Stack”

Simon Tennant — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 03:57:17 -0000

It comes down to how we spend our time: We took the call that we should we be working on Buddycloud (which is open source) rather than working to keep our tools running which might or might not be open source. Everyone has to find their own balance. (PS: I've used Gitlab - it's nice. But diving in and spending 30 minutes doing upgrades for each new release and security fix is just too much time).

Re: Running buddycloud on Firefox OS

Simon Tennant — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:25:34 -0000

Yeah - as @bashlog pointed out on Twitter, it makes sense to also reuse our website work on mobile by working on the same repo.

Eventually it would be nice to see all this built around a lib-buddycloud.js

Re: buddycloud dev-preview released

Simon Tennant — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 06:29:17 -0000

of course: http://www.evilprofessor.co...

Re: buddycloud Summit v1.0 and hackathon

Simon Tennant — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:25:34 -0000

Excellent James. I'll send you a hangout invite when we fire things up.

Re: The 99% - a buddycloud talk at barcamp Munich

Simon Tennant — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:48:14 -0000

I totally agree. And I'm in charge of marketing.

We are working on a new page that describes buddycloud much more clearly. Feedback from outside the buddycloud-sphere is really useful. If you have a momemnt, I'd love to run it past you.

Re: Ben Nolan - Desaturated google maps

Simon Tennant — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 02:16:13 -0000

very nice - will add this to bc's new web bits on https://beta.buddycloud.com...

Re: Ben Nolan - Heroku or Linode

Simon Tennant — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:31:32 -0000

and a postgis enabled db.

Re: Ben Nolan - Heroku or Linode

Simon Tennant — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:31:04 -0000

I've got a spare virtual machine kicking around on the buddycloud cluster. happy to hook you up.

Re: No Your Service isn't "Open"

Simon Tennant — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:46:12 -0000

My bad. Fixed.

Re: Gillmor Gang 01.08.11 (TCTV)

Simon Tennant — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 09:14:25 -0000

+1 to audio podcast that is pre-downloaded to my iPod.
Happy to do it myself if you can send me video files.

Re: We are in the AOL days of Social Networking

Simon Tennant — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:28:55 -0000

Good point Jason, and I'll be sure to emphasize that we are talking about open systems (with open or closed clients and servers) in future posts. Indeed most of the examples pointed to as being the success of closed build and rely heavily on open systems.

Re: We are in the AOL days of Social Networking

Simon Tennant — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:31:54 -0000

Yes. Fixed. Thanks.

Re: We are in the AOL days of Social Networking

Simon Tennant — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:46:05 -0000

one thing at a time... first we build the protocol, server and client implementations, then we call Disqus about their error.

Re: We are in the AOL days of Social Networking

Simon Tennant — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:32:47 -0000

I think we have different ideas of lean. FB and Twitter have a huge burn rate that's not matched by their income.

Re: We are in the AOL days of Social Networking

Simon Tennant — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:55:50 -0000

The way I see it, Social Networking is too important to entrust the keys to the API and our data in the hands of one company.

Re: http://yieldthought.com/post/2579437760

Simon Tennant — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:39:24 -0000

+1 to using understandable symbols ☑ or ☒. Youtube has a nice thumbs up and down for videos you like and dislike.

Re: Diaspora-X now running on buddycloud channels and XMPP

Simon Tennant — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:32:23 -0000

MogileFS powers Livejournal and, judging by the mailing list, the media storage backend for many porn and video streaming websites. I'm pretty happy with it. It scales, and just sits in the background working... like a good RAID array. http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/

Re: Diaspora-X now running on buddycloud channels and XMPP

Simon Tennant — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:08:39 -0000

is there a reason why you didn't use mogileFS for media sharing?

Re: amack: XMPP Library for Android Developers

Simon Tennant — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:08:07 -0000

There were various non-feature complete versions of smack being used. Some would just handle chat, other's would do pub-sub only. A-smack is feature complete and is a drop in replacement for *ALL* xmpp things and will also do DNS SRV lookups and handle the TLS bits.

Re: Episode 1: Mobile Monday Silicon Valley

Simon Tennant — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:39:11 -0000

Nice work Ewan. Funny how ignored Nokia is in the Bay Area.

Re: Buddycloud Review (E71)

Simon Tennant — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:06:56 -0000

Drop me your Buddycloud and your Twitter username and I'll find out why this is not working. We really want to get you up and running and don't like it when things like this pop up. email - simon@buddycloud.com and I'll look at it right away.

Re: ‘And a 3.5mm jack’ – Why isn’t this a standard?

Simon Tennant — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:57:43 -0000

or an old-school 6.35mm jack? Agreed. 3.5mm should be everywhere. While we are having a go at the G1, the USB connector they chose isn't even proper mini-USB. It's some wierd USB with a corner notch cut out so you have to buy an extra expensive replacement.

And while in rant-mode, when will nokia let you charge off USB without selling you a different, although looks identical USB cable to do that?

Re: An idea about Mobile World Congress

Simon Tennant — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:03:17 -0000

No! I read SMS text news for it's unique angle of coverage. I could read others but like the personality that MIR brings to mobile. I see blindly publishing all pitches as a move away from this. Unless of course you are pre-screening pitches.

Re: How to identify the MIR team at Mobile World Congress

Simon Tennant — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:44:42 -0000

Nice jacket. All this talk of Mobile World Congress is putting heavy strain on my plans to avoid it this year. It was a blast last year. A real blast.