Disqus - Latest Comments for kosso

Re: Obvious next steps for Twitter lists (Scripting News)

kosso — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:14:33 -0000

I couldn't agree more that a list needs a description/explanation, just like a user has the 160 characters to do the same.

Re: Dave at 17 (Scripting News)

kosso — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:35:02 -0000

what's funny about this, is you appear to be furtively giving the bird! :)

Re: I want to divorce my iPhone (Scripting News)

newwws — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:24:07 -0000

Yes, I've tried one. And I'm happy with the way it works. There are not as many apps available as for the iPhone but it does everything I want a smartphone to do. 1) It's a really good phone, 2) It has a 5 megapixel camera that delivers great pics and a 640 x 360 pixel display, which is really helpful when you want to read a website without sideways scrolling and 3) I can use it as a as a Bluetooth (or USB) tethering device. And that is what Dave is looking for ;)

The only thing I don't like is the speed. The processor used is a bit slow for some applications. The new software (V12) made it a faster, but it still is a shame Nokia decided to use this processor. That being said, I don't think the relatively slow processor would make the phone worthless. It would have been a better great smartphone when a more powerful processor had been used, that's all.

BTW. I also like the built-in FM transmitter.

Re: HOW TO: Party Like Microsoft [Awkward Video]

kosso — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:12:55 -0000

Are these instructional videos for a swinger's Ann Summers party?

Re: I want to divorce my iPhone (Scripting News)

kosso — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:40:35 -0000

Have you tried one? I have. And if you've ever used an iPhone and try the N97, I have to say it's a terrible user experience.

The N900 will be what the N97 wanted to be.

Re: I want to divorce my iPhone (Scripting News)

kosso — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:21:55 -0000

Personally, I'm looking forward to the Nokia900. See http://phz.in/1o6b

Re: Touchscreen popularity fuels lots of startups

kosso — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:40:55 -0000

I think that the advent of HTML5 and CSS3 are going to play a massive part in the adoption of 'out of the window' experiences on the web and desktop. So relatively easy and cheap to develop for!

Re: Neill Blomkamp Wants Sharlto Copley To Return For District 9 Sequel

facebook-532765089 — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:59:06 -0000

District 9 : "The Prawn Identity" - District 10 : "The Prawn Supremacy"

VERY funny!

Re: Neill Blomkamp Wants Sharlto Copley To Return For District 9 Sequel

kosso — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:53:43 -0000

District 9 : "The Prawn Identity" - District 10 : "The Prawn Supremacy"

I think Christopher will return in 3 years - as promised - to fix Wikus.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/08/twitter-to-embrace-retweeting-releases.html

kosso — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:56:28 -0000

Yup. It's the Friendfeed 'Like' button.

"This tweet was retweeted by yadada, thingummyjig and 99 others..."

Re: SHORTURL SAVIOR: Bit.ly Swoops in to Save Tr.im

kosso — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:36:30 -0000

I agree. The only reason and place that Twitter should need to shorten a link is in a mobile SMS. The websites and clients (even the mobile ones) dont *need* to be under 140 characters.

But I would say that the community acquiring trim would be problematic. Who would run it?
When I built a shortener at urlb.at I found it got pumped and hit full of spam by countless bots all day every day.

I have all but given up on it.

But I have built my own shortener for phreadz ( phz.in ) - which ONLY points to phreadz.com post full urls. I have found this to be VERY useful, as it means I can change the url structure, if need be, and none of the short urls will break.

Re: Why Teens Don’t Tweet

kosso — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:51:38 -0000

Sorry, but considering that there are zero fields in Twitter for gender, age, race, income, education and offspring, whose ass did Nielsen and Quantcast pull these stats from? If it was a survey, where was it? How big was the sample?

Re: You are SO unfollowed!

kosso — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:11:06 -0000

I'm astounded you lasted that long on Twitter following so many.

When I now get a new follower who I see is following a gazillion, twillion people, I usually don't bother following them back, as they clearly dont really care what I have to say either.

Following too many people just reduces the value of Twitter imho.

And far too many people just seem to care about the numbers. As I overheard somewhere (can't remember where) this week : "you don't judge the quality of a chilli by counting the beans" :)

Welcome back Robert ;)

Re: Did VoloMedia invent Podcasting? (Scripting News)

kosso — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:40:23 -0000

"Previously on Scripting News...."

Arguably, even these comments are "Episodic Media" (just in text) which are being downloaded to my computer over the internet when I visited this page.

I say challenge this ludicrous patent claim - to the letter.

Re: With No Notice, Twitter Adds More Limits - Password Trouble Ensues

kosso — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:14:42 -0000

If developers are using the oAuth methods on an ad hoc basis without storing credentials, it needs to verify_credentials each session (or call, if sessions are not being set)

Re: Imho, the OPML Editor is not hard (Scripting News)

kosso — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:28:24 -0000

As your dad once said: "IPSTIQ : Idea processing saves time, improves quality"

The OPML editor is great and simple for that. ;)

Re: What Happens When Seesmic Kills Video?

robblatt — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:52:33 -0000

So when is the comment plugin coming? ;)

Well, if their server goes away, then in theory that's the content they wanted to have control over. It becomes more interesting when from your point of view, their "take my ball and go home" attitude by shutting down the server would partially break your service. I think that Disqus has a good thing going when they record a copy of comments to a WP blog and to their own servers to display on their site. In that regard, you'd be creating a "backup" of the users videos on their own server, with the originals on yours. That seems like an informational and logistical nightmare to me, and I don't even want to begin to think about how that would work.

Re: What Happens When Seesmic Kills Video?

kosso — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:59:34 -0000

another thing I plan to offer (it's actually already there, but not 'open') is the ability for users to to enter/store their own server ftp details, so that posts they record using phreadz get saved on their own servers - rather like blogger.com does with blog posts.

only trouble is: the save process can take longer (unless I create a post-post queuing process) - and if their server goes away, the conversations/threads would break too -> 404

Re: What Happens When Seesmic Kills Video?

kosso — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:55:00 -0000

oddly enough, I was telling brad last night about something I plan to do for phreadz eventually: offer a 'render/download archive' link for users to download all their posts in a format/way for them to be 'burnable' to disc with the ability to view their own recorded posts WITH the conversation/threads in place for offline viewing - and then link to the online posts and replies of posts from others or from other places (need to be online)

as a user of places where I've often wanted to backup/archive all my posts (before potentially deleting my account) I'd like to figure out a way to do this for phreadz users.

It's all 'codeable' ;) like most things ;)

Re: Seesmic, 12seconds and Social Video

kosso — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:58:48 -0000

Symbiotic Social MULTImedia Networking FTW! :))

Re: Confirmed: Second Life, online adult games to banned outright in Australia

kosso — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:36:51 -0000

Shocking! The ignorance of Conroy (and the government) knows no bounds!

All it will do is force people to find more ways around it.

There are whole sims dedicated to promoting Australia!

Re: Brad Fidler

kosso — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:08:48 -0000

cool.

just added it to phreadz here : http://phz.in/1k26 ;)

Re: Help I'm trapped inside the Tumblr API (Scripting News)

kosso — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:50:59 -0000

w00t! ;)

Re: Help I'm trapped inside the Tumblr API (Scripting News)

kosso — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:50:26 -0000

hmm.. very odd indeed. I just tried the exact same as you and it worked.

email=kosso1%40gmail.com&password=xXXxXxXx&type=regular&title=Hello

with no body or generator and it worked.

I'm staring at our requests... and staring.. and staring... odd. Trying to think what it could be.
maybe try setting up a new test tumblr to try a different account - just because you never know. (I would)

Are you definitely POSTing? (I'm pretty sure you are, as trying to GET the request gives a different error)

Re: Help I'm trapped inside the Tumblr API (Scripting News)

kosso — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:39:22 -0000

hmmm.. good test ;)

odd.

here's my request (with pw xx'ed out)

email=kosso1%40gmail.com&password=xxxxx&type=regular&title=test+with+no+body+param&body=&generator=PHREADZ