Disqus - Latest Comments for mdoeff

Re: The family tree is missing medical history

mdoeff — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:23:49 -0000

I think this would be vary valuable. Like you said, this is a bit of a hornet's nest when it comes to people overcoming their privacy concerns. I noticed that Geni is dipping their toe in the water with this. If you look at the Statistics page it gives you average life expectancy for male and female and longest lifespans for male and female. The Pro package seems to have some additional stats. Geni should definitely expand in this area.

I'm a big fan of Geni. We have a tree dating back to the 1500's.

Re: SONOS ZonePlayer S5

mdoeff — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:43:44 -0000

I really like how other music services are integrated into the Sonos - e.g. Pandora, last.fm, rhapsody and being able to synch what I'm playing across several different "zones" in the house. So it really depends on your listening habits. If you're mostly in one room and you mostly play your iTunes then Sonos is probably overkill.

Re: Google Wave’s unproductive email metaphors

mdoeff — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:34:40 -0000

Robert, does Rackspace have plans to implement Google Wave behind the firewall for internal projects and/or collaborative projects with customers? Seems to me that this would address many of the concerns that you have raised about noise, spammers, unknown users, etc.

Re: Ahead of the Curve - Monster of Folk This one... - bijansabet.com

mdoeff — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:12:10 -0000

FYI - Amazon MP3 store has a great deal on this - $3.99 and 48 hours before the official release. http://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Of-Folk/dp/B002O...

Re: Serve Well and Be Well Served

mdoeff — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:43:42 -0000

The opening sounds a lot like Coldplay - Viva La Vida

Re: The anti-community list

mdoeff — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:22:06 -0000

This Net at Night interview with one of the guys behind Mr. Tweet is worth listening to: http://twit.tv/natn80

Re: The anti-community list

mdoeff — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:59:52 -0000

Have you taken a look at Mr. Tweet yet? I haven't used it much yet but it seems to factor in other factors besides popularity.

Re: Hello, iPhone OS 3.0 beta.

mdoeff — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:54:01 -0000

Great to hear that they nailed the copy/paste function. I was worried that it would be clunky.

Re: Your NPR Name

mdoeff — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:51:42 -0000

I'm Maike Vindeln reporting from San Francisco

Re: On The Kindle

mdoeff — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:11:17 -0000

Good to know - thanks!

Re: On The Kindle

mdoeff — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:03:45 -0000

I have a bad habit of saving all kinds of stuff to Instapaper and then never going back and reading it. I like the idea of InstaPaper on the iPhone but, similar to your experience, it's not a very enjoyable experience. I'm still not so sure about the $360 price tag but you've just about convinced me that I need to get one of these things.

Re: San Francisco to be “Twitterfied”

mdoeff — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:51:13 -0000

I caught most of the livestream this morning. They talked quite a bit about how Twitter might be useful for local government but there were nothing was really committed to. Newsom said that he's been receiving tweets from people about pot holes and actually taking action on those requests (he made a disclaimer that he wouldn't be able to respond to every pothole complaint). He also talked about how Twitter could evolve into something like the 311 service and text message services that are currently in place. They also talked about how it could be a useful tool to do public opinion polls and use it as an emergency broadcast system. There was a funny moment where Newsom said that his staff freaked out when he told them that he had opened a Twitter account last month. they said "Don't touch that thing" but later agreed to him using it.

Re: Off the high speed grid

mdoeff — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:36:38 -0000

Enjoy your time off the high-speed grid. Nice to unplug every once in a while.

Re: Wicks Picks - A change in diagnosis One of the reasons I...

mdoeff — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:32:09 -0000

Very sorry to hear this Todd. Sending you and your family positive thoughts from SF.
-Mike

Re: Justin Vernon gets love from blogs but needs to give it too.

mdoeff — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:49:15 -0000

This is disappointing, to say the least.

Re: Wicks Picks - project management lingo

mdoeff — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:26:19 -0000

They also forgot one of my favorites: "long pole in the tent"

Re: odd time signatures » Blog Archive » The China Earthquake Twittered in Real Time

mdoeff — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:14:48 -0000

I did a similar capture with Track last fall when we had a mild quake in the Bay Area. http://www.mdoeff.com/blog/2007/10/30/tracking-...

Re: louisgray.com: Reno Bloggers Slam TwitterVoteReport After Limited Analysis

mdoeff — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:08:31 -0000

I noticed a few people spamming the #votereport hashtag on election day. For example, check out all of these tweets by (fake) @SarahPalin http://tinyurl.com/5w26cq

Re: "Gadget Reviewers Look Out"

mdoeff — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:35:00 -0000

This is great. By the way, your blog was my first source of info on the Outlook integration on the iPhone. I saw it here before WSJ, NTY, Time, etc.

Re: Is Twitter the next Netscape? (Scripting News)

mdoeff — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:03:20 -0000

I definitely agree that Twitter is very small in comparison to AIM, Yahoo Mail, and AIM. On paper, Google should be able to do to Twitter what Microsoft did to Netscape. They have GTalk, Jaiku, and Dodgeball but to date they haven't made any kind of serious threat to Twitter. Yahoo has continually fumbled their social networking efforts - Yahoo 360, Yahoo Mash (now shut down), and whatever their latest effort is called. Maybe Microsoft will make a move with Mesh but many people out there will never use MS products, which means that there will always be room for a strong #2. Facebook has had status updates even before Twitter and Twitter has thrived despite that. So who's left?

Re: Is Twitter the next Netscape? (Scripting News)

mdoeff — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:20:46 -0000

I think you're underestimating the stickiness factor that Twitter has. Many people have spent over a year cultivating their community on Twitter and that is a very difficult thing to replicate on a new, competing service. Switching to a technically superior browser is much easier because the switching cost is zero from a community standpoint. So far the pattern has been people experimenting with new Twitter-clones (Pownce, Plurk, Identi.ca, etc.) but ultimately returning to Twitter because that is where there community still lives.

Re: bijansabet.com | a tumblelog by Bijan Sabet | Sawdust Man - Ben Kweller Ok, clearly I’m still...

mdoeff — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:15:53 -0000

Great tune - thanks for sharing it.

Re: A Tale of Two iPhones - Sean Percival Official Website 1080

mdoeff — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:11:21 -0000

I'm ashamed to admit that I've been watching this saga unfold on Twitter. It appears to have been resolved with both phones returned anonymously http://tinyurl.com/68aqt6 But there is still something very fishy about this.

Re: Web 2.0 Is Not Dead

mdoeff — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:15:10 -0000

The people who are declaring that Web 2.0 is dead are reminding me of the people who declared that the web was overhyped back when the Web 1.0 bubble burst. Plenty of companies proved them wrong back then and the same will happen with this cycle. Yes, we're going to lose some of the weak players and there will be some consolidation but that isn't altogether a bad thing. The innovators will continue to keep their heads down and create outstanding products. And they won't need any VC funding to do that.

Re: bijansabet.com | a tumblelog by Bijan Sabet | Blitzen Trapper - Furr I challenge you to listen...

mdoeff — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:24:59 -0000

Glad you enjoyed it Bijan and thanks for the reblog!