Disqus - Latest Comments for Titan1x77

Re: Reboot RSS readers? Sorry, that train has left the station

Anthony C. — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:46:10 -0000

"What is dying is our RSS reading behavior"

I'm on the fence with this statement. With apps like Feedsquares for my android and my6sense, and hopefully Feedly soon. I get more then a shortened link to a story and a 140 character limit. Furthermore, opening these links in a tweet uses the mobile browser. Even the fastest mobile browsers like opera mini, its still much slower then a cached version of the feed.

Twitter (if filtered right) and to some extent Facebook, is much better then RSS with "instant" word of mouth. Like you suggested if an earthquake was to hit in your area you would be notified much faster then waiting for an RSS feed notification.

Companies like to get the word out on their products with ease and speed. Retweeting is easy and spreads the word. Sharing your RSS feeds hits a much smaller crowd of people (none of my closest friends even use Gbuzz or Greader), Anything I want to share in my reader get's sent to Twitter or Facebook. More companies will start to phase out rss feeds, which i hope doesn't happen. But you see it more and more.

I simply use both. I'm always looking for a way to put my social streams and RSS feeds together and have it do what I want. I've found a few programs where it's nice to combine all outlets for media in one or two programs, sometimes 3. Seesmic desktop 2 looks good, but still not what im looking for.

What I'd like to see done with RSS feed readers:

- Handle various video formats inlay for my video podcasts, Greader handles youtube and maybe a couple of others, but that's all.

- Live (realtime) stream with filters, I know google can pull this into reader. They use it in google search already.

- Desktop notifications of the chosen filtered stream or even multiple filters. Also a must is re-sizing of these notifications and display of them. I'm using a 1080p monitor and would like to be able to read them from my couch. Snackr had a great idea with a scrolling like news ticker, but it's so small, lacked filtering, or sifting thru manually, and wasn't realtime.

- AutoGroup all feeds with videos or audio enclosures. Then much like TV, start going from video to video looking for something to watch or listen to. This should use a different UI when started/clicked upon. Think Boxee's Friend stream.

I'm sure I could think of a few more ideas to make RSS more usable/enjoyable for end users, but it's unlikely it's going to ever reach the masses like Twitter and Facebook has.

RSS feeds is my newspaper and Twitter and Facebook are tools to communicate to the world.

Re: PC vs Mac: 1-0

Anthony C. — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:42:50 -0000

Why does Microsoft still not allow keyboards for gaming by now? PS3 supports it, this would be another blow to PC gaming.

for my 2 cents on FPS games, mouse and keyboard all the way... You simply don't have friends come over and play with or against each other. The only good split screen FPS game I've played with company was golden eye 64. And RTS only work with a system link or online.

The console could bridge that gap by adding 2+ HDMI output's.

So the PC will survive with RTS and FPS, with competitive players. Unless these consoles start adding multi-monitor support for connecting maybe up to 3 monitors, used independently or even a 3-wide screen...which BTW would be amazing to play any next generation FPS with.

And of course mouse and keyboard support for INGAME.

now obviously your not gonna turn your living room into a LAN party, but having a console that can do both, makes it a bit more attractive to the PC gamer.

PC gaming will be in trouble and it seems like Microsoft is trying to protect that. Sony's next console will most likely include the above mentioned.

Anyone remember a system called "the phantom" http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: Chatroulette fun

Anthony C. — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:54:07 -0000

Thanks for sharing the link. I'll update the post with new links as they come in. This is a great link too, ton's of images.

Re: Google Changes the Way You Read My Feeds – You Still Have no Control

Anthony C. — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:47:27 -0000

Great post! I'm curious about the algorithm myself. I'm new to the social scene, and have had some good thoughts/posts on Buzz, yet I feel I'm getting pushed to the bottom or lost in the shuffle.

Re: How To Enable Comments on Google Reader Shares In Buzz

Anthony C. — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:30:58 -0000

If my shares are public, anyone with a Google account should be able to comment....

Why wouldn't they just allow it to be the same as Buzz? If I post a public buzz everyone should be allowed to comment on anything I'm feeding into it.

I'm not willing to go through all my followers, this should be fixed. Now if i make my shares private, then I should select a group to allow posting.

What's the best way to contact Google about this?

Re: Google Buzz - Email based and Facebook's demise?

Anthony C. — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:34:34 -0000

Facebook has partnered with Microsoft to use Outlook on some level. I'll use it for family most likely (and if possible just import them into Gmail). I'll be sticking with Gmail as my default mail client regardless. If you'd like to try out Google Wave I can send an invite.

Thanks for reading.... time to get back to playing with flavors.me

Re: Disqus Comment System Beta 2.2

Anthony C. — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:32:19 -0000

add me to the non-clean look, but im going to work on fixing mine, totally new template to come when i have time, which is not tonight...lol

http://thetrendingtopic.blo...

Don't see anything different about it from my disqus comments on my blog, also no video option either. unless you just drag a video in?

Re: Google Buzz Reduces Power Users' Bumpage

Anthony C. — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:10:16 -0000

Give the users more control and I might use Buzz more often.

Re: Google Buzz - Email based and Facebook's demise?

Anthony C. — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:02:09 -0000

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Me...

Just as I thought.

Re: Sports

Anthony C. — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:35:43 -0000

Tiger Woods - If he would cheat on his wife, would he cheat in his sport? I'm not exactly sure how he would cheat in golf, but I'm sure there's some way he could gain an advantage.

Re: 5 Reasons Why Google Buzz Will Fail.

Anthony C. — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:35:11 -0000

#4 is already happening

my take on why it may or may not fail http://thetrendingtopic.blo...

Re: Google Buzz - Email based and Facebook's demise?

Anthony C. — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:32:43 -0000

* I'm aware Facebook is working on an email feature much like Myspace rolled out a while back. I think it will be a nice secondary email, but I don't see myself using this as a primary email.

Re: Announcing Yoono 6.0.1

Anthony C. — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:35:21 -0000

Nice changes, but using digsby, I can run this on my desktop instead of my browser, I all ready had shareaholic installed, but was a nice idea to include it in this release. The major thing I liked initially was the random page, I use to go to my bookmarks and generate a random page based on my bookmarks, I think this feature should of been advanced not done away with, I use Stumbleupon and love finding new pages, not just discovering them through the site I happen to be on...hope this returns, otherwise digsby suits all my needs all ready.

Re: My Podcast TV

Anthony C. — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:50:23 -0000

This was once a great service, but they had to take away the manual adding of feeds, does anyone know of a way to use something like this to show all my favorite podcasts?

I use Miro for my videos on my desktop, would be nice to see a Miro type widget for a blog.

Re: Titan's Blog: Under construction

Anthony C. — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:23:21 -0000

ok, new template

Re: Titan's Blog: Under construction

Anthony C. — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:25:14 -0000

posts arent updating the "0 comments" on frontpage nor the box above this. :(