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Re: FriendFeed Haters: You’re Doing it Wrong!

Wayne Schulz — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:37:43 -0000

I find Friendfeed a fancy way to pump data into Facebook - which as one of your previous articles commented - provides me with much more meaningful comments and two way interaction than I think Friendfeed ever will.

Friendfeed is going to be an acquisition for someone like Facebook who wants to use the technology to bring in content.

The Friendfeed site evolved into too much of a clique dominated by people with a LOT of free time on their hands. Goodness knows how any of them make money.

Re: How To Sync your BlackBerry Bold with a Mac (the only solution that REALLY works)

Wayne Schulz — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:40:44 -0000

I had the exact same experience with Missing Sync. I bought it about a week after they issued a press release stating that their product was now Bold compatible. The product flat out doesn't work. I had to perform the same workaround you describe - basically trash Missing Sync from my computer and go with the free Google Sync. I would avoid anything from the Missing Sync folks as the product just flat out didn't work for me.

Re: Denton shuts Defamer as stand alone site, now part of Gawker

Wayne Schulz — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:50:56 -0000

As feared as this guys seems to be -- it looks like he's usually a full 12 months ahead of blogger trends.

Re: Facebook’s redesign: Good concept, but not there yet

Wayne Schulz — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:31:23 -0000

If Facebook were a little faster with the updates (they seem to be having a few periods where nothing updates for half an hour) - I think they'd be getting less complaints. Already I see Facebook killing off Friendfeed rather quickly - RIP.

Re: Perez Hilton no longer writes the content on PerezHilton.com

Wayne Schulz — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:33:57 -0000

Not that big a deal in my book. Once a site gets to a certain size it's nearly impossible to do it all.

Re: Google Starts Venture Capital Fund

Wayne Schulz — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:37:08 -0000

This seems to be a great idea. Start buying while most in the market are too busy staying afloat. Already there seem to be about a dozen web 2.0-ish companies that would make great Google candidates -- services like Toodledo or Evernote come immediately to mind.

Re: Twitter makes vanity searches easier with Replies tab modification

Wayne Schulz — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:48:36 -0000

Been trying to work up some enthusiasm for these new features when they've long been incorporated in far superior interfaces such as Twhirl and Tweetdeck.

Now when Twitter figures out a way to present the full conversation so I know what someone means when they replay "I agree" to one of 20 tweets I've sent that day (difficult to tell which message they are replying to at a glance)....

Re: Sperm donation in China comes with a special touch

Wayne Schulz — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:16:59 -0000

Oh yeah - soon they'll stagger the fee so they pay less depending on length of collection process.

Re: Schulz Consulting offers free service update assistance to their support clients through 4/30/09

Wayne Schulz — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:10:28 -0000

Just an important reminder - this is only for clients currently active on maintenance (both for Schulz and Sage). We don't have the ability to download the updates if you're not active with your Sage Maintenance.

Re: The Good Nite Lite Review

Wayne Schulz — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:09:14 -0000

Yes $35 is a little pricey but I probably would have bought this when the kids were younger. It looks really useful.

Re: Facebook wants you to give credit where credit is due

Wayne Schulz — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:50:58 -0000

I'd be very hesitant about using something like this.

My overall problem is --- what happens if the recipient doesn't spend the credits? Is this like the "gift card" or "travelers checks" or "rebates" process where companies make as much (or more) money on the un-redeemed items as they do on the actual product.

I for one would not use this unless there was a bigger benefit to spending it -- for example you actually gifted some type of item or extended feature and not just "credits".

Re: Happy Birthday Joel!

Wayne Schulz — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:45:55 -0000

Joel have a great day -- and remember there are lots of things worse than turning another day older. Just none come to mind now.

Re: Name that Tune in One-Click! BlackBerry Gets Shazam!

Wayne Schulz — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:07:04 -0000

I'm not too keen on the BlackBerry App World listing these programs as free. With respect to Shazam you don't see anything about a 60 day free promotional period until you scroll down about 60 feet on the the BlackBerry App World or actually install the program.

Not cool.

The app on the other hand does seem to work and while I usually am not that curious about the song titles - my kids however always want to know...

Since the iPhone App Store has a similar program which is presently priced free (although some have commented that there may be some wording about the iPhone app going pay in the future) - I'm inclined to use the iPhone app.

Re: In London, bakery twitters you!

Wayne Schulz — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:39:13 -0000

An interesting use. I sort of dread the day that everyone jumps on board with this type of notification - meaning Twitter gets overloaded with lots of messages that "table for 2" is ready or "no waiting to ride It's a small world".

Re: Iri5′s Ghost in the Machine Series

Wayne Schulz — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:42:31 -0000

How do these get displayed/mounted?

Re: Twitter 2012

Wayne Schulz — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:32:40 -0000

The cracks start to appear (grow) in the Friendfeed armor...

FF just grew too irrelevant, too clubby, too cliquey, too much bacon, too many kid photos, cat photos, look at me posts, chit chat that stretched 100 (off-topic) comments, too clubby (did I mention that?).

I'm not sold a re-design will save FF. Instead I'd rather see Facebook incorporate their wide range of services that can be imported.

A big problem with FF is the "who the hell is this person" question that always went through my mind when reading posts/links.

One big thing which I believe Twitter will need to include is some type of authority for senders (similar to how Google has pagerank) -- as the service grows (and in many respects I wonder whether it has already jumped the shark) Twitter will become increasingly noisy and tempting for spammers to try to game.

Re: Friendfeed Beta Goes Live - video overview

Wayne Schulz — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:09:39 -0000

Sorry - I don't see Friendfeed Beta as anything more than a defense against Facebook's feed. It's an interesting concept and I mostly use it because you can add a Firefox browser link which will automatically post content to FF which in turn will automatically post the headline of what you just posted to Twitter.

As a standalone service I wish them much luck because I still don't see it.

Re: The New FriendFeed Looks A Lot Like Twitter

Wayne Schulz — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:43:16 -0000

Lot's of early chatter before the beta veil lifted about how FACEBOOK would be copying Friendfeed.

Now that the new design has been revealed -- I'm wondering what everyone was talking about. Hasn't Facebook been announcing (and trying to do) real time updates in the Home tab?

And this does look like Twitter - sorry.

The real time feed is very attractive to anyone who creates a story that gets a lot of comments. Those comments push the story up to the top forcing those who follow the story creator to read it -- and read it -- and read it.

This is where a lot of the Friendfeed hype is coming from. It's simply free advertising for those FF addicts who have built themselves a following.

Still don't see the business model here.

Re: New FriendFeed Beta: What’s Different

Wayne Schulz — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:01:19 -0000

Filters seem like they have the most potential if they could become real time. The ability to filter against all of Friendfeed is a plus.

Re: Welcome Jodi Uecker-Rust to Sage – why the Interim Leader title?

Wayne Schulz — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:07:24 -0000

Just received an email where Jodi Uecker-Rust was named as President Business Management Division as opposed to Interim.

A typo? Or maybe I missed the press release making it official.

Worth noting that Jodi's picture is not on the Sage executive page as of yet.

Re: BlackBerry EasyDialer brings relief (and unlimited calling) to some Google Voice users

Wayne Schulz — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:13:48 -0000

The one thing that still is inconvenient with Easy Dialer is automatic extensions. A fair number of my clients have gone to automated attendants so I need to remember their extension for direct dial.

Unfortunately when you dial into Google Voice there is a lag between when you push "2" to dial out again and when you are allowed to start dialing.

And that lag is variable -- so I'd have to put in a hard pause that required me to press a key to continue once I knew the system was ready to accept the phone number to dial.

Re: The New Friendfeed – who’s supplying the barf bags?

Wayne Schulz — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:14:44 -0000

What Kyle said!

(just don't say it on Friendfeed or you'll be run out of town)

Re: Friendfeed Beta Goes Live - video overview

Wayne Schulz — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:27:01 -0000

My yardstick on whether a service will be a hit is whether the masses will be attracted to it. With Friendfeed I just don't see it. There's a pretty loyal and addicted following which appears to be made up mostly of bloggers and wannabes - beyond that I'm unconvinced people are going to flock to it.

I mentioned FF to people like my mom and sisters and they're entirely uninterested. In order to participate fully you need to have two or three social media type services going already.

With Facebook you don't need that which is why I think FF will have a limited life as an independent.

Until the beta release today I actually thought things had slowed in there considerably - with a lot of people just using it as a feed generator for Twitter or Facebook (which is where I think FF really shines and probably will ultimately be purchased for)

Re: Captain Kirk’s Guide to Women – $5

Wayne Schulz — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:27:54 -0000

Captain Kirk's Guide to Women - soon to be a major motion picture...

Re: One simple tweak that made my iPhone Gmail retrieval lightning fast

Wayne Schulz — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:35:49 -0000

By removing check marks from the IMAP folders my phone is amazingly fast. You have no idea how slow the retrieval of Gmail was before I thought to check this...