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Re: Google Voice Gets Faster Phone Calls

tedroden — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:31:04 -0000

The speed problem that I have with iPhone is receiving phone calls. I've got GV set up to route to one phone and people constantly tell me it rang "forever" when I picked it up on the first ring. So it's taking a long time to get routed to me. To be honest, I'd rather have it faster on the way in than on the way out.

Re: http://ted-is-a-nerd.tumblr.com/post/704488762

tedroden — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:12:23 -0000

It runs in the console, it doesn't need X11 or anything. I installed it with brew, but I'm sure you can compile it by hand.

Re: Fancy Hands: Virtual Assistants, Aardvark Style

tedroden — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:39:13 -0000

Thanks everybody!

I know it took a bit longer than expected, but I did finally introduce a scaled down plan. Instead of subscribing for 3 months, you can now buy 3 tasks at a time. The subscription page has more details. Just go to the site to find it out: http://www.fancyhands.com/

We've had a pretty amazing couple of weeks. Tons of new users, tons of tasks have been handled. Honestly, the biggest request I've had to date? "I'm out of tasks, can I get some more?" (The answer to that is "yes, easy.")

Again, thanks everyone for your feedback. Sorry it's taken me so long to deliver this scaled back plan, but it's there now.

-Ted

Re: Fancy Hands: Virtual Assistants, Aardvark Style

tedroden — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:55:58 -0000

Hi Gary,

You're totally right. Making you commit to 3 months is a mistake. I wanted to make it simple and have one option for payment rather than a bunch of different things to choose from. I looked around at the competition and everyone else forced you into a year of it, so I figured 3 months was a good middle ground.

I will start offering the ability to choose the length of your plan by the end of this week. I hope you'll give me a try then.

On the flip side, when I wrote "no cancellation fee" I meant that you could cancel anytime. Looking at it now, I realize that's not clear at all. I'll change that text as soon as I can, so that it's more clear. If you sign up today, you can cancel tomorrow paying for only the first month. I have zero reason to keep you on the hook for longer than you want.

I really do thank you for your feedback. If you need anything else, you've seen the sign up page which has my email and cell phone number on it. Let me hear it.

-Ted Roden

Re: http://ted-is-a-nerd.tumblr.com/post/461581652

tedroden — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:55:40 -0000

I couldn't agree more. At the very least, they should be using ubuntu... which at least isn't fedora.

Re: Google Voice on the iPhone: Is HTML5 Good Enough?

tedroden — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:03:40 -0000

I'm pretty excited about Google Voice this year. I think this implementation pretty good, perhaps even "good enough." Although I'd love to see the phone integration work like it does on android, but even android lacks a good SMS integration... so I'm still waiting for a perfect GV/device fit.

I'm on my way to transitioning everything over to GV, despite my three main issues with it: 1) GV REALLY needs to support shortcodes. 2) MMS 3) International SMS. Hopefully they get these issues worked out sooner rather than later.

-Ted

Re: Open APIs and Open Standards

tedroden — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:44:11 -0000

What strikes me as the most interesting part of tumblr's addition is what it means for tumblr's dashboard. After several years of guarding the dashboard, offering no RSS/ATOM/API/any access outside of the web page, they've essentially opened it up.

More so than using the twitter API as its interface, I think opening up the dashboard could be huge. I've got my fingers crossed they'll start building real APIs so developers can get to the rest of the tumblr data and start building some really great apps... a feature that tumblr currently lacks.

Re: Google Wave Invites

tedroden — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:04:10 -0000

Awesome! Can't wait to get it! Thanks so much!

Re: Google Wave Invites

tedroden — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:17:44 -0000

would love one if you have a spare! tedroden @ gmail

Re: soxiam

tedroden — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:14:55 -0000

Yes! thanks dude. This is the kind of music I'm talking about! Stand in front of the speakers and air your balls out.

Re: Quantifying the TechCrunch effect.

tedroden — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:55:38 -0000

I agree. I didn't expect many signups, I certainly don't sign up for stuff that I see on TechCrunch, but I did expect to see some traffic spike. It was flat though. Totally flat.

Signups, were ever so slightly above average.

Re: Imindi: "We Accidentally Deleted All The User Accounts"

tedroden — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:31:07 -0000

This stuff is just nuts, magnolia too...

I'm a one man shop and manage to back up the site, the user accounts, everything, a few times a day. It's not hard.

Re: blog.enjoysthin.gs

tedroden — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:08:19 -0000

Looks like that is set up properly. After dragging "Enjoy This" to your bookmark bar, go to another website. What happens when you click on it from there?

Re: Still Shiny: 23 Apps We're Using One Month Later

tedroden — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:46:21 -0000

+1 for instapaper and tweetie. Those are pretty much the only apps I use on the iphone. Also, +1 for enjoysthin.gs, but I made it, so that doesn't count.

I've also recently really been getting into friendfeed. Something just clicked with me recently. It's not a new site, but still...

Re: Let me take off my blogger skirt and put on my biz-advice pantsuit ...

tedroden — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:08:08 -0000

You're exactly right. I used to work at a place that would say they had way more employees than they really did in order to ensure the client would trust them with their business... it always seems odd to me o lie to get someone to trust you.

Re: Can Amazon Run The Table On Cloud Services?

tedroden — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:45:58 -0000

I use AWS extensively both at work (http://nytlabs.com and vimeo.com before that) and for side projects (http://enjoysthin.gs). As far as I'm concerned, it's already game over.

Amazon won a while ago. Google is a non-starter because you have to live within google's development rules to get your app up and running, which means you can't easily take an existing app and move it to their cloud. With amazon, porting existing apps is very easy. I can get my app running on whatever server is easiest, and then move it piece by piece to the cloud.

I'm still kicking myself for not picking up AMZN when it was close to $30 a few months ago...

Re: blog.enjoysthin.gs

tedroden — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:29:03 -0000

Haha! Well said...

You are checking the blog though...

Re: seanahern - Gmail insists that each message sharing a common...

tedroden — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:32:28 -0000

You do bring up a good point that a lot of messages sent around probably shouldn't be email, but that's the problem with email, you can't control what people send to you.

However, I was complaining about standard messages in my inbox. Automated things like "Google Alerts" do it, but also common email subjects such as "Thanks!" or "Hello" or "Coffee."

Re: The Gong Show ~ by Andrew Parker

tedroden — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:20:18 -0000

Looks great, but you're missing one key addition: http://enjoysthin.gs/stickers

Re: College Humor stops by WLTV

tedroden — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:16:38 -0000

Really great episode. Very funny, still informative.

Re: How I Find Good Stuff on the Web

tedroden — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:27:55 -0000

I've been finding things via http://enjoysthin.gs

Sure, I made the site, but it's turning into a good place to find good things from my friends.

Re: A Twitter Add-on That I Need

tedroden — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:47:27 -0000

No sadly you can't get them via the api, which is why grablr doesn't realize they're just links. I just set it up to use my private RSS feed for the for: links.

Re: A Twitter Add-on That I Need

tedroden — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:11:27 -0000

I actually built something like that for me using grablr. It's not very impressive since I don't get a lot of for: and @ links... but you can see mine here: http://attn-ted.grablr.com/

Re: caitopps

tedroden — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:35:23 -0000

Another Swede! Glad to hear it!

My grandfather is from Smögen, which he seemed to like very much. However, when I asked a Swedish friend of mine, he told me it was like Datona... oh well.