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Re: The WordPress problem

rousso — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:56:39 -0000

I'm reluctant to go to another self-hosted solution. I guess this one requires a Windows host too! Where would I find some reasonable shared hosting for that?

Re: UseSubmitBehavior & GetPostBackEventReference

rousso — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:51:04 -0000

Of course it is. :-)
I think you missed the point of the post. The point is to hack a piece of generated code and prevent it from executing. That's the point. You can't stop it from being injected by the framework, so I prepend a return statement before it to prevent it from executing. And it's not about being smart to think about it or anything. It's about not having any other way to prevent this piece of javascript from being automatically generated by asp.net when it shouldn't. Thanks for reading my post It's been years since I wrote it :-)

Re: rousso's tumblings — I wonder if Seesmic Ping is a real alternative for...

rousso — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:24:59 -0000

Not really I guess. Unless if you want to post just plain text or a picture. But not for quotes or video or normal articles with a title and formating etc.

I wish Tumblr had a native offical app for the iPad.

Re: On the App Store model

rousso — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:35:56 -0000

I was just reading this related article on read-write-web: http://www.readwriteweb.com...

Re: We are moving! (to a new fan page)

rousso — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:42:28 -0000

No! Not at all! The Application is unaffected by this migration.

Re: A round-up on today’s attack

rousso — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:58:14 -0000

Yes this is a different thing. It has to do with HTTPS and a related transition that Facebook is doing. We are in the process of replacing the SSL certificate on our server and fixing some hyperlinks that should amend this issue. Thanks!

Re: A round-up on today’s attack

rousso — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:40:06 -0000

Actually Dimitris informed me a bit after I wrote this, that the warning had also started appearing on FireFox too at some point. He actually said he used FireBug on FireFox to find the problem. No surprises :-)

Re: A major new milestone: An exciting acquisition!

rousso — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:54:18 -0000

Of course not! Support is the first thing we focused on as new people joined the team several weeks ago. You probably already noticed Chris being very active on our GetSatisfaction community and Facebook Fan Page. He also recently added a support tab on Facebook powered by GetSatisfaction. We definitely place a lot of value in supporting our users and we will keep doing our best! Thanks!

Re: A major new milestone: An exciting acquisition!

rousso — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:40:17 -0000

Of course there is! But Google+ doesn't have an API yet. So for the moment we have to wait for Google+ to get ready. Then we will definitely evaluate the capabilities it offers and do our best to make the best of them.

Re: A major new milestone: An exciting acquisition!

rousso — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:59:07 -0000

Thank you Michael! It's an exciting and important day for us! Thanks!

Re: New Support Tab on our Facebook!

rousso — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:02:41 -0000

Hehe! We are monitoring Google+. Without an API, there is not much you can do with Google+. So we are waiting for their API to be released and then we will see what can be done with it.

Re: Facebook’s share button should not restrict sharing on Profiles only

rousso — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:12:17 -0000

I just discovered that Facebook has now added this feature! :-) Well done.

Re: On the App Store model

rousso — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:55:41 -0000

I was just reading this related article: http://techcrunch.com/2011/...

Like I said: "the App Store is just a way of hijacking the web". We now have two kinds of apps on the internet: the "web apps" and the so called "native apps". Native apps are built upon proprietary platforms. They add nothing to the common way forward. They are marketed as a shortcut to the future but they actually divert us from it in hope lock more and more people into using and buying proprietary platforms.

Re: Everything You Need To Know About Google’s +1

rousso — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:30:48 -0000

So the next thing we will likely see is Facebook's Like button in Bing results right?

Re: Why the Search Marketing Industry Must Adapt or Perish

rousso — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:14:02 -0000

I often say in discussions that I'm not sure if Google has done more harm than good to the Internet. I say that partly because SEO is an entire industry created on top of Google's inadequacies coupled with its success.

Google search might be our best chance for finding stuff on the web today but that does not mean it is any good. I argue that if Google was a truly innovative company, we wouldn't still have to use "search" for discovering information on the internet. We used search in the 90's. Time to grow up!

The bad thing about Google, its success and its dominance, is that it has put the Internet on an infinite loop. The more we depend on search, the more we need to use the biggest search engine. At the same time, they are doing such a poor job, that they set very low standards for everyone. Just about anybody can do a better job than Google on any project. I know that everyone will say that "GMail is the best web-mail" and that "Google Docs revolutionized the web", but that is exactly what proves my point. Google's products become poor standards due to mere volume. It's a nightmare! Let's move on!

I never paid any attention to SEO, not because it doesn't work, but precisely because it does work. It always seemed to me as nothing more than an opportunistic market and I always "feared" that I'm most likely going to waste my time with opportunists. SEO should not exist in the first place. It's there just because the world is stuck with Google for the moment. It's mere existence proves that Google is doing a profoundly poor job through years.

Of course SEO is a valid business and there is a lot of money in it. Still, I wish we somehow manage to outgrow search as an approach to content discovery and rid of the need to compete on tricking someone's stupid system in order to secure our mere "existence" on the web.

Re: Apple’s New Subscription Model & What it Means for Publishers

rousso — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:49:42 -0000

Apple behaves like a monopoly already. I don't know how 30% can be considered a commission for Apple's services. 30% sounds more like a partnership; only Apple doesn't get to risk anything. I wonder for how long they will be able to keep their rates so high.

Re: http://rousso.tumblr.com/post/1166428373

rousso — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:10:26 -0000

Update:

Yesterday, I sold my HTC Desire to a kind colleague and compatriot. He already had another HTC Android but he liked the Desire even better!

Yesterday I also ordered my new HTC HD7.

The whole Android experience cost me €70 in lost cash, but to some extent, the hands-on was worth it (or so I try to convince myself).

I seriously thought of buying an iPhone 4 (since I know that it is still a better choice than WP7). Nevertheless I dropped the idea because:
a) I already have an iPod Touch; so the iPhone would render it useless.
b) The iPhone 5 is coming out in a few months. I would neither wait for it nor buy a model that will be off the shelves very soon.
c) HTC WP7 was considerably cheaper than the iPhone 4.
d) I plan to buy an iPad 2 so enough is enough with Apple's gadgets.

Re: Temporarily disabling URL shortening with Bit.ly

rousso — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:34:36 -0000

IT should work now. We unwind all shortened or redirected URLs and submit the final URL to Facebook. This effectively bypasses the Facebook bug. In the meantime Facebook says they posted a fix for the issue. We are currently making sure there solution works and if it does we will revert to our original settings ASAP.

Re: Temporarily disabling URL shortening with Bit.ly

rousso — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:32:16 -0000

Yes. It doesn't have to be bit.ly. At the beginning we thought it was only bit.ly but in fact and shortened or redirected URL was causing the same problem. See details on the actual bug in this post: http://tumblr.com/xsy1cpowy4

Re: Why Google Needs Its Own Steve Jobs [OP-ED]

rousso — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 07:52:02 -0000

Leadership (especially in war, and even more so in conquests) is undoubtedly (and historically proven to be) extremely important. Nevertheless, maintaining top leadership (especially after success during the initial conquest phase) is naturally (and historically proven to be) not very realistic. "Painful as it may be, ability don't last" said Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction. And he's actually right.

Steve Jobs has been leading a successful charge over the past few years. It seems that sadly Apple might be losing its general in the middle of the battle. Balmer doesn't seem to be a match for Jobs as an inspiring leader. But Balmer is the defender here and as your graph points out, he doesn't seem to be loosing much ground so far. Google's change of leadership is significant to the awareness of the company that its growth has been slowing down and that many battles are being lost.

So where am I getting at with this? My point is that inspired leadership is not always needed. And that's a good thing because visionary leadership is so scarce. Although good management is no substitute of true leadership, the former is constantly required contrary to the latter. It all depends on what the current goals of a company are. So what's is Google's goal? What is Apple's goal? And what is Microsoft's goal?

Re: Apple Is Now Worth More Than $300 Billion

rousso — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:17:58 -0000

In which book "most valuable company" has the same semantic meaning as "company with the largest market capitalization"? Maybe you mean "has the most valued shares". But we (all?) know that the value of the shares a company trades in the public market does not necessarily correlate to the actual value of the company for a number of financial and practical reasons. Of course it correlates directly to the expectations shareholders have on the performance of the company. The company with the highest market capitalization doesn't even have to be the biggest company in the world. It can be anybody that manages to sell more shares on a better price than everybody else. So all this is nothing more than expectations. It doesn't mean Apple is the best. It doesn't mean Apple is the biggest. It doesn't mean Apple is the strongest. It doesn't mean Apple is the most valued. It's doesn't mean Apple will perform. It doesn't mean that those expectations are going to be met. It doesn't mean that those expectations are even reasonable. "Most valuable" by what standards anyway? So all you do with your article actually is capitalize on those expectations, create illusions and help drive Apple's shares even higher by building confidence in the expectations of others and so on, until one day shareholders will just start selling. That's how it goes. So what is this all about then? Yeah they sell a lot of shares in a high price. So?

Re: Microsoft Reveals Windows Phone 7 Sales Figures

rousso — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:27:31 -0000

I don't think the 1.5 million is impressive or has any significance. This is the number of phones that was sold to carriers and has gone in their stock. We don't know how many devices have been sold off of them and most likely not all of them. What I see is that even I (who wants to buy a Windows Phone), have a hard time finding it. There is no ads, no banners, no posters no shows no nothing. You pass by a phone shop here Stockholm, Sweden and all you see is huge iPhone 4 posters on the shop's window and maybe a Galaxy Tab alongside. If you go in and ask for a Windows Phone they have to order it for you or send you to a bigger shop even further down-town. They don't even have a dummy device to show you. Nothing! So, what I mean is, Windows Phone is not visible. How do they expect it to sell? Even if you want to get one like I do, you get discouraged since nobody supports the product. I don't understand why everyone including Microsoft just bury this device. It's crazy. Of course you can argue that it's not Microsoft that doesn't support the device enough, its Apple that made the iPhone into a shopping frenzy lasting for years. I might agree, but it makes not difference. WP7 is invisible. The ones who will get it are only the ones that are looking for it and know why they want it.

Re: Hotmail Gets Interactive, Runs JavaScript Within E-mails

rousso — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:43:46 -0000

The obvious first reaction is "is this safe?". On the other hand, nothing is safe. The JavaScript engine probably runs in a sandbox and does not have access to your hardware so yeah it can be as safe as just about anything else.

This is an interesting move. The point is that we need to build on e-mail. E-mail has been the same since it started. We only built fancy clients for it but the protocols and their usage has not evolved. But if you compare e-mail to anything else we got, the numbers are just staggering. Everybody does mail. And everybody has problems coping with it. Still, everybody uses it. So we need to build on it. Taking the content of an e-mail to the next level, further from treating it as just text and attachments, is a move in the right direction. I'm sure that everybody will building on e-mail sooner or later. I wouldn't feel that I'm exaggerating too much if I claim that it's quite likely that Web 3.0 will be E-Mail 2.0.

Re: HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Your New Android Device

rousso — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:49:22 -0000

Noooo! I had an Android BEFORE this holiday season! I just sold it and I'm getting an HTC HD7 Windows Phone! Yay!!!

Re: Tumblr Is Down

rousso — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:32:27 -0000

One of the funny things about tumblr being down (which it still is btw) is that many services including RSS Graffiti and most notably the superstar of them all Twitter, use tumblr for their status blogs.

So if you try to see Twitter's status blogs at http://status.twitter.com, it is currently down and Twitter wont be able to neither tweet nor tumble about it's status if Twitter itself happens to go down too....