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Re: Taking Over A Brand New Role

Zach — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:42:34 -0000

Congrats on the move man!

Re: Yeah, I’d Twit That

Zach — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:15:28 -0000

It's a bit sad to say, but I felt incredibly disconnected.

Re: Yeah, I’d Twit That

Zach — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:20:34 -0000

Coming up on 48 hours with no response -- not looking good...

Re: Yeah, I’d Twit That

Zach — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:51:26 -0000

Yeah -- it's been less than 24 hours and I already can't take it anymore...

Re: Aggregation services need to get smarter

Zach — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:00:03 -0000

Thanks for the comment Frank.

I tried my best to point out that this isn't a function of Tech Investor
News -- or any other single site for that matter -- but a result of the lack
of intelligent technology that might help weed out irrelevant and/or
inappropriate content more effectively. To my knowledge, the software
intelligence required to have a significant impact for aggregators simply
doesn't exist right now.

Keep up the great work

-z

Re: Get Spotify in the U.S.

Zach — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:26:03 -0000

Yes, a proxy should work ok -- and the OP suggests that a VPN service will
work 100%, of course, though there is a fee associated with VPN services. If
you find Spotify useful though, VPN is cheap enough.

If my connection dies, I'll give both options a try and report my findings.

Re: Get Spotify in the U.S.

Zach — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:56:03 -0000

Very true, though some suggest they've used it for more than 2 weeks without
a problem. If it dies though, a simple proxy app will bring it back to life
until Spotify can manage to launch in the US.

Re: Get Spotify in the U.S.

Zach — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:23:26 -0000

My pleasure, of course

Re: On Writing: Hacking Your Brain

Zach — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:48:29 -0000

I'll pre-order the hard cover.

Re: The Editor Dilemma

Zach — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:53:18 -0000

So - an Awesome Highlighter type service with a karma system perhaps? Readers could highlight an error or typo and if it gets xx up-votes the correction would be applied? iiiiiiiiiiiiiinteresting.

Re: The Editor Dilemma

Zach — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:22:09 -0000

I did a few searches to no avail but +/- 6 months ago someone posted on Hacker News about a web app they made that would certainly be of interest to you. You paste any text into a box and it analyzed it for both spelling and grammar. After a few short tests I was very impressed but still managed to lose the URL somewhere down the line. Corrected posts by the way, will have none of the slop you mention above as a problem with editing in Word.

Perhaps someone with better HN juju or a better memory can chime in.

Re: Boxee Invites

Zach — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:08:20 -0000

Just a quick thanks Fred. Your post about Boxee piqued my interest and I managed to get an invite without bothering you. The app and UI are very unique and show a lot of promise. Once Hulu content searching is implemented, I could definitely see Boxee seeing heavy use from me.

Re: Gizmodo’s call against the Beta is right on!

Zach — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:47:06 -0000

Yeah it looks like I should have broken my "no reading Gizmodo posts" rule before jumping to conclusions. ;)

I do stand by my initial response though. Holding back a product, hardware or software, means you're not making money on that product. Support is getting cheaper as is everything else and companies can't afford to leave sales at the door on account of development.

As for the linked article, I still haven't read it but I did skim it. To use the iPhone 3G as an example was just a horrible, horrible idea. Delay its release for software fixes? For real? Tons of people reported early issues with it, some major such as reception. Did those reports dissuade any substantial number of people from purchasing one? Of course they didn't. Did those issues result in escalated support costs for Apple and/or AT&T? Probably, but certainly not anything close to iPhone 3G profits during that time period. A low single-digit percentage of that figure at best would be my guess.

It's a very interesting topic for discussion, but the end result will always be the same - cash rules.

Re: Gizmodo’s call against the Beta is right on!

Zach — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:14:24 -0000

...and the lost revenue. Beta is here to stay - look at Google.

Re: Facebook Epic Email Fail - Loses Settings

Zach — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:28:23 -0000

Yessir. I stopped getting notifications in my BlackBerry app about 2 weeks ago. Finally logged in yesterday and found that everything was set to off. Seeing as I hate Facebook I didn't really care, but they definitely screwed the pooch for all the addicts out there...

EDIT: Oh, and I still haven't received any notification by email or on my page that they screwed up. Awesome policy fellas.

Re: A 500 quid Blackberry Bold and it can’t actually make phone calls

Zach — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:57:44 -0000

Sorry to hear of your problems but I've had one for a few months with no problems whatsoever. In fact of the many, many people I know with a Bold, this is the first I'm hearing of an issue like this. Sounds much more like a carrier issue than a handset issue, especially considering the same thing is happening on another handset.

Re: The Hype Machine

Zach — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:18:50 -0000

Really? I think what's great about it is that it's basically ALL music blogs
- wrapped up into one, much more usable package...

Re: File Destructor

Zach — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:36:09 -0000

Test

Re: Whiner Jerkins All Hands Meeting Powerpoint Revealed

Zach — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:36:26 -0000

Thank you for making my month. Simply, amazing.

Re: Favtape

Zach — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:04:54 -0000

Totally ;)

Re: A SWOT Analysis On America

Zach — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:44:09 -0000

Three cheers for Disqus' new comment reblogging. Definitely would have missed this one but it was a great read. Claim your profile and point us to your blog, Krassen!

Re: The iPhone Crapp Store? - RussellBeattie.com

Zach — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:22:07 -0000

You're absolutely right Russ. It's perfectly responsible to make uneducated blanket statements about people's work as opposed to posting something of substance. How self-righteous and nonsensical of me to think otherwise. After all, there was a question mark in the title.

With all of those handsets Nokia makes, the quality has to be really varied...

Re: The iPhone Crapp Store? - RussellBeattie.com

Zach — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:10:06 -0000

Not for nothing, but to say "From the descriptions of most of them, I'd say there's a ton of unmitigated crud flowing into the App Store right now" is pretty irresponsible. Aren't you a developer? You're declaring other people's work to be "crud" without even testing it yourself. I liken this to me writing a post about how "Mowser is crap" using a three-sentence description of Mowser as my source. No; I would visit the site, play with it for an hour or so, test the functionality and then reach a conclusion. Of course the subject of something being good or bad is entirely subjective but I personally would have preferred an educated assessment as opposed to a blind rant.

Beyond that, a good number of iPhone developers are flying solo with English as a second or third language. They're not marketing guys and they can't afford to hire someone to polish their copy. Perhaps some of them didn't efficiently express themselves in those product descriptions you're citing as your source for determining apps to be crud. Cut a guy a break.

Re: louisgray.com: So, By "Overnight" You Mean Something Else Entirely?

Zach — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:19:36 -0000

Sorry to hear about your experience but Overnightprints.com is a business like any other and they make mistakes. I've placed three orders with them over the years, two of which were over night orders. Both were shipped the day my order was placed and both arrived on time. The third arrived two days ahead of schedule. Their stuff is decent quality (for the price) and I based on my experience I would probably recommend them to someone in a rush or on a very tight budget...

Re: SiMo, a Retrospective

Zach — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:53:02 -0000

Thanks so much for the kind words Mike - much appreciated! I'll keep on blogging with the hope that I get pulled back in by Symbian as soon as possible...