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Re: Introducing myTeachable: A New Way to Access Teachable Schools

Sid Yadav — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 12:32:07 -0000

@Jean-Francois We're working on the resend button! For now, could you please send their email address to sid [at] teachable dotcom

Re: Introducing myTeachable: A New Way to Access Teachable Schools

Sid Yadav — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:04:21 -0000

Hey Jean-Francois, the other owner in your school should've received their own e-mail to convert. Conversions are done on an account to account basis, not school to school. Let me know if they didn't get it.

Re: Teachable Monthly Update March 2016

Sid Yadav — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:22:43 -0000

@Ren Zatopek : Agreed, our typography needs to look and feel much better. Thanks for your feedback!

Re: Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal, Prashant Bhushan debate Lokpal Bill with studio audience on NDTV ~ pundit comment

Sid Yadav — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:55:30 -0000

Please show your support for democracy:http://facebook.com/Democra...

Re: Despite state censorship, China’s Internet population crosses 450 million

Sid Yadav — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 13:33:31 -0000

Oops, right you are -- that should be 230. Fixed. Thanks!

Re: Facebook’s new login for the Web could ruffle feathers

Sid Yadav — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:32:12 -0000

I agree that autofill using Facebook data is fairly useful, but there's something murky about it not letting you change the data the same way regular textboxes in browsers do. If a site requires Facebook and a birth date, you have to give it your real birth date or not sign up at all.

Granted, I may be fine giving my real birth date to 90% of sites, but shouldn't I have the choice of not doing so when I feel like I don't trust one [and still want to sign up]?

Re: Exclusive interview: The teens who took over Twitter

Sid Yadav — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:30:43 -0000

Fixed. Pearce's name has been out everywhere in the news so I didn't think twice before mentioning it, but I guess our policy should stand regardless.

Re: Nike+ GPS for iPhone maps your runs

Sid Yadav — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:22:30 -0000

Ah, I guess I was referring to the WiFi version in the sentence. In any case, not the most practical feature for the device? :-)

Re: As Twitter grows up, it finds making friends easier

Sid Yadav — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:41:06 -0000

Paul, I'm aware that UberTwitter is still the leading Twitter app, that's why I only state that Twitter launched its own app "to displace market leader UberTwitter" -- and not that Twitter's app "has already displaced market leader UberTwitter".

Re: Memiary + Lessons of a Weekend Entrepreneur

Sid Yadav — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:48:02 -0000

Thanks!

Re: 1) That's an interesting idea. With the 'public diaries' feature, you'd be able to toggle specific items as being public or private, but I guess the 5 item limit would limit your use. Instead, I think what would make it work is an 'upto 10 item' limit as I suggest below, allowing you to click 'add another' 5 more items after you enter 5 items. Couple that with the #hashtags feature I'm working on, and you'd be able to enter 10 items, categorize each however you wish, and toggle their public/private status accordingly. How about that?

Re: 2) It's currently exportable in RSS (see RSS icon in Past pages), and I'm working on building export in the iCal format. Stay tuned!

Re: Memiary + Lessons of a Weekend Entrepreneur

Sid Yadav — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:41:57 -0000

Thanks for your suggestions.

The 'accessing associative arrays' thing has been fixed -- it was a simple case of error handling when no input is given, which has now been turned off.

Re: Number 1. There are a lot of alternative ways to do what you do with Memiary, but the beauty of the service are its constraints, not its features. Similar to the reason you'd want to have a blog AND a Twitter account to write more than 160 characters, I believe Memiary's "5 item limit" is what makes it work for what it is. If it were to be just one item and an "add another" button below, it would fail, because there wouldn't be a given standard to users so they would either be underwhelmed and enter just one thing ("um, I did this today. What am I supposed to write?") or overwhelmed ("how many things do I have to enter?!"). Either way, they would never use the service again because it is simply too broad.

But that said, there are plans in the future to extend the number of entries to 10. So below the 5, you'd have an "add another" button, and you'd be able to go to 10 entries. For most users, 5 should work, and for users who have much to say, 'up to 10' would be their canvas.

Re: Number 2. If you currently press enter after entering a memory, it should automatically jump to the next field.

Re: Number 3. Twitter integration is something I have been working on, but it likely won't be public (i.e. @memiary), because it's rare that you'd want to share your private memories with your Twitter friends. It would instead work through DM messages which is sad because it wouldn't have the viral effect you suggest, but then again, I created the service in the interests of the user in the first place -- not the service itself.

Re: Memiary + Lessons of a Weekend Entrepreneur

Sid Yadav — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:45:15 -0000

Thanks! The data is stored in an ecrypted MySQL database.

Re: Memiary + Lessons of a Weekend Entrepreneur

Sid Yadav — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:43:50 -0000

Thanks guys! I appreciate your smart responses.

Re: NowDoThis: The BEST. Boss. Ever.

Sid Yadav — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:28:57 -0000

I've added your e-mail to the list. :-)

Re: NowDoThis: The BEST. Boss. Ever.

Sid Yadav — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:16:12 -0000

Thanks. :-) All I can say is that it's based around the idea (or problem) of
sharing stuff on the web and elsewhere, and this may be a little biased, but
I see the idea's usefulness beyond social networks, FTP, e-mail, and crappy
file sharing websites. We're near completion and planning to launch sometime
this fall (Nov/Dec). Would you like to be included in the 1 week pre-launch
private beta?

Re: Why There Won’t Be a Google Killer

Sid Yadav — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:38:04 -0000

That's a good point, but I think the problem -- if this should happen -- would be in judging those search results. How would you know search results for x on Google are better than the results on GoogleKiller? And if you do happen to make up your mind on the other one, how long would it take for you to completely switch your habits, or would you come crawling back a week later? I'm not completely convinced that people would let go off Google so easily.

Re: Amazon S3 Has Outage (11:00PDT, 20 Jul)

Sid Yadav — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:49:41 -0000

Allen, don't mention it! What's the error say? I signed out of disqus and I still can't see it. Will try other browsers.

Re: Twitter Acquires Summize, Users See Light

Sid Yadav — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:41:41 -0000

I've always thought Twitter's had a great opportunity in data mining. Essentially, they know what people are thinking right now -- at this minute. And the best thing of all: their 'test audience' OPTS to give them data, and keeps growing and growing and growing.

Re: The money shot

Sid Yadav — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:51:36 -0000

ZOMG FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP

Re: Back at the dev ranch

Sid Yadav — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:20:17 -0000

OMG OMG OMG can hardly wait

Re: Mobaganda: For Simple and Minimal Events Organizing

Sid Yadav — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:01:34 -0000

You did not just rick roll me and my 2 readers ;-)

Re: Notches: The Open Reviews Platform

Sid Yadav — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:57:19 -0000

Ouch, thanks guys! The post was put up in an hourly commute on draining EVDO, so I do have a fine excuse, thanks. :-)

Re: Orgoo: The All-in-One Gmail

Sid Yadav — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:14:33 -0000

Welcome all to Orgoo! Unfortunately, I'm out of invites at the moment, but if the Orgoo folks would be kind enough, we'd love some more for our readers.

Re: DailyLit Creates a New Way to Read Books

Sid Yadav — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:54:36 -0000

Yes. Thank you, English teacher.

Re: DailyLit Creates a New Way to Read Books

Sid Yadav — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:56:36 -0000

That's a great point. Because most book reading is done at night/bed/free time and usually for a long period of time, this doesn't exactly looks sustainable on a mobile device or RSS reader. But content fitted specifically for this form may do well, as will things like daily bite-sized news.

Thanks for the comment!