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Re: Who are you? (A little reader/twitter outreach)

mastermaq — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:02:02 -0000

Mack here from Edmonton, AB. I started reading you fairly recently. I'm a software developer, but also spend a fair amount of time blogging and tweeting about all things related to Edmonton. I try to do what I can to make it a more open city (and we had some success recently with the release of the GTFS data for Edmonton Transit). Enjoying your blog so far, thanks!

Re: New Twitter Code For Retweet

mastermaq — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:35:05 -0000

What's wrong with RT? I see no benefits to this, aside from being one character shorter which isn't going to make a big difference. I admit that it isn't immediately clear what "RT" means, but it's certainly better than some odd character. If I just saw this character, I'd assume either the user entered something invalid or Twitter has a bug (I'm on XP and just see a bar).

Re: Ping.fm / Blog / Where's My Ping.fm?!

mastermaq — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:03:16 -0000

Keep up the great work guys, you have a fantastic service!

Re: Making Twitter Smarter

mastermaq — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:15:30 -0000

So kind of like what Twitter Search already does with usernames (anywhere in the tweet) and hashtags. Why Twitter and Twitter Search aren't more in-line with one another continues to boggle my mind.

Re: Twitter and the Federal Election

mastermaq — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:12:32 -0000

Twitter is changing the game - last night was just a preview. CBC gets some kudos for at least acknowledging Twitter last night, but they have a lot of work to do for the next election. Enjoyed the discussions with everyone!

Re: Don't Shoot The Messenger

mastermaq — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:16:55 -0000

I agree with most of what you've said in this post, but I have to disagree with this: "If they shouted fire, it was in a private room not a theater." Right. Do you or they honestly believe for one second that it would remain private? Come on.

Re: StartupEmpire - New speakers and tickets are selling fast

mastermaq — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:07:25 -0000

That is a very impressive set of speakers, well done!

Re: No Tech In The Canadian Election - So Far

mastermaq — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:33:52 -0000

Great post. Would love to see some discussion of technology issues here in Canada, without taking a wait-and-see-what-the-Americans-do approach. At least Harper and Layton are now on Twitter: http://blog.mastermaq.ca/2008/09/08/canadian-po...

Re: Why I’m not in love with the new FriendFeed beta

mastermaq — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:10:14 -0000

I think it is all a matter of taste around aesthetics and layout as you say. I prefer the look of the beta, so it's been easy for me to make the switch! I never used custom FriendFeed tabs either, so I don't miss anything there.

Re: Getting cranky on Mashable

mastermaq — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:24:22 -0000

Congrats!

Re: Reaching milestones are a good boost

mastermaq — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:58:57 -0000

Congrats!

Re: Strands.com to Relaunch as a Lifestreaming Service

mastermaq — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:22:01 -0000

Being the next Twitter is so old skool. Louis is right, everyone is aiming to be the next FriendFeed now.

Re: YAAOF - Yet Another Article on FriendFeed

mastermaq — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:52:35 -0000

Great post! I am going to write about FriendFeed this week (for the first time) and I think I'll probably just skip the overview and refer readers here. Thanks!

Re: New release for the FriendFeed Comments WordPress plugin - remembering your details

mastermaq — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:55:50 -0000

Got it to work finally. Had to do a string replace in friendfeed-comments.php, to change "<?=" to "<?php echo", without the quotes obviously. Maybe this is because I am on Windows? Anyway, did that, deleted plugin data, and re-entered the settings and now it works.

Re: New release for the FriendFeed Comments WordPress plugin - remembering your details

mastermaq — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:13:23 -0000

I simply can't get this to work! Whenever I enabled the plugin, and go into the settings, it looks like this:

http://blog.mastermaq.ca/images/ffcomments1.gif

Then I click save, and the page goes blank, like this:

http://blog.mastermaq.ca/images/ffcomments2.gif

Any ideas?

Re: How to Find Local Twitter Users From Your City

mastermaq — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:19:39 -0000

Searching inside Twitter itself works well. Just type your city in the search box at the top and hit enter! My wish for that feature is to sort the results by last update date...I don't really want to see people who have not updated in over a year.