Disqus - Friends of netvolution

Re: Nifty New Sphere Related Plug-in

Phil Glockner — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:03:49 -0000

Has there been any movement toward being able to define the color scheme for the sphere related content widget? I recently changed my theme from "blue" to "red" and I was hoping I could change the theme accordingly.

I have seen other sites such as TechCrunch with a modified pop-up, but of course they probably get more than 20 hits a day.. lol.

Re: Testing Windows Live Writer

Phil Glockner — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:36:20 -0000

Interesting. I use Live Writer and it only asked me once if it could create a temporary post, and it cleaned up after itself without a problem. However, I have forced a style update several other times and it didn't even ask.

It's been doing good for me so far. I will admit that what I normally do is have it save a draft on the site, so that I can add tags and SEO information before posting.

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

Phil Glockner — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:50:56 -0000

I’m not advocating putting all of your trust in a bookmarking web site. I definitely think considering what options the site has for regular export is very important. I know, for example, that del.icio.us has a full export to HTML with comments and tags.

No, my goal in this article was more to explain the social bookmarking phenomenon by showing that people are starting to see bookmarking more as a way of finding new and interesting content, and not so much for archival purposes.

Sure, being able to go back and find something you bookmarked a few months/years ago is useful, but what if you found a page that had content that really excited you, and you wanted to find more on that topic? You could go to google and search.. or, perhaps, if you bookmark the page with some relevant tags, Stumbleupon will find them for you.

By the way — how do you deal with link rot?

Re: Tell Me About StumbleUpon

Phil Glockner — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:26:58 -0000

Much appreciated, Corwin! I'm already seeing a positive flow of traffic to my little site. Hopefully other stumblers will see a review or primer that they will find useful.

Re: Off to Israel…

Phil Glockner — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:07:16 -0000

I agree with you about the 'friend divide' .. most of my friends barely use AIM, much less Facebook or something as exotic as Twitter. And even though I have over 100 contacts on LinkedIn, I can count the number of emails and InMails I have sent on one hand.

Re: bTittleTattle: A Friendfeed Desktop Application

Phil Glockner — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:10:54 -0000

I dunno.. that interface looks like it grabs a lot of real estate in the name of "cuteness".. Well, wouldn't hurt to try it!

Re: bTittleTattle: A Friendfeed Desktop Application

Phil Glockner — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:38:36 -0000

BTW, now that I signed up for Disqus, I think I'll add it to my site!

Re: wordpress install issue

Phil Glockner — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:23:11 -0000

I'm also with Dreamhost so I will have to put off Disqus integration until this issue is resolved.

Re: wordpress install issue

Phil Glockner — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:42:58 -0000

Ahhh.. ok, I had read somewhere that it had the same issue, but I'm guessing that info was outdated. I'll give it a whirl! Thanks!

Re: wordpress install issue

Phil Glockner — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:44:06 -0000

Oops, that was me.

Re: bTittleTattle: A Friendfeed Desktop Application

Phil Glockner — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:16:11 -0000

Ok, got it working.. it integrates really nicely with my site!

Re: FeedFlare, Disqus and gReader

Phil Glockner — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:25:41 -0000

Thanks for taking the time out to comment! I know what you are saying about gReader -- I recently commented on a post on Robert Scoble's site, then I went to see where the comment was ultimately being recorded. I ended up on this page.

But Disqus is a young product yet -- I think there is a lot of potential for pushing these comments back to their respective blogs.. for example if the blogs allow OpenID, Disqus is already doing some work in that area.

Re: FeedFlare, Disqus and gReader

Phil Glockner — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:40:30 -0000

I agree -- it would be great to see an integrated inline commenting solution for Google Reader. Without writing their own commenting system a la Disqus I'm not sure if it would be feasible though. Of course, if the existing comment communities had public APIs Google could build on them and allow their users to 'choose' which one they want to use.

I'm not sure if that is the case, though. Perhaps Google is simply watching the space and is seeing who turns out to be the strongest competitor.

By the way, thanks for the comment and the visit to my blog! Glad to have you.

Re: FeedFlare, Disqus and gReader

Phil Glockner — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:46:37 -0000

Oh, I'm a small blog with little to no comments, so no exception there. ;)

Re: Gridjit: A Visual Twitter Portal Service

Phil Glockner — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:50:28 -0000

I really like the twitter name-categorized view! Thanks for the link!

Re: FeedFlare, Disqus and gReader

Phil Glockner — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:56:53 -0000

This is very. cool. Thank you so much for taking some time to do this! I will get my site switched over to feedburner asap so I can play with this!

Re: Make Twitter A Crowd With Crowdstatus

Phil Glockner — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:07:38 -0000

Interesting. I didn't request an account, but looking at The First Crowd (through a link off of the home page), it appears that it only shows one tweet per twitter user in the crowd? Is that configurable?

Re: FeedFlare, Disqus and gReader

Phil Glockner — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:00:10 -0000

I just discovered a new trick that gReader is good for. I added a "Disqus- friends of eng1ne" RSS feed to Google Reader, but of course the comments come in all disconnected based on the article they are on. If I've read the article already, I simply click on the embedded gReader comments link and it brings up the whole threaded list in the sub-window! That way I quickly get all the comments in context.

Re: My Journey To Joining Mixx

Phil Glockner — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:41:48 -0000

I think you may have talked me into it!

Re: Team Disqus T-shirts

Phil Glockner — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:25:59 -0000

Nice! Wish I was going to StartupWeekend.. Is it enough to say that I met Andrew Hyde at SXSW? hehe

Re: Team Disqus T-shirts

Phil Glockner — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:25:59 -0000

Nice! Wish I was going to StartupWeekend.. Is it enough to say that I met Andrew Hyde at SXSW? hehe

Re: flipside.scribkin - HP 2133 Mini-Note

Phil Glockner — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:59:39 -0000

Nice -- Disqus slips right in. Beautiful.

Re: Twitter Poll

Phil Glockner — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:36:37 -0000

Why not both?

Re: flipside.scribkin

Phil Glockner — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:05:37 -0000

Thanks! The nice thing about tumblr is that you can do all the twiddling and immediately see your results. It's a lot of guilty-pleasure sort of fun, when I should be doing more content.

Re: Twitter Poll

Phil Glockner — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:17:02 -0000

Yeah, in other words.. get the other site and don't necessarily move all your eggs over there right away. Develop something new in that space. And if nothing comes of it, at least you have your vanity domain you can use as a personal news river or resume page.