Disqus - Latest Comments for aqualung

Re: Disqus V3 Is Live On This Blog

fredwilson — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:03:36 -0000

Sadly you still need advanced templates. Typepad is not making it easy to use disqus

Re: Disqus V3 Is Live On This Blog

aqualung — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:04:44 -0000

Do you still need to be using advanced templates to install Disqus? Would love to revert to using it for comments, but have dropped advanced templates to simplify life :)

Re: Working for on the weekend.

aqualung — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:54:37 -0000

This is a problem I've encountered for most of the past 25 years - the impression that creatives (mainly software developers in my case) aren't doing anything, or aren't "team players" because of their antipathy to meetings ... this is such a good explanation of the issue.

Re: Does Anyone Use Chrome?

aqualung — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:06:50 -0000

Possibly no way to answer this, but is the change in usage of browser over three years an indication that your then-existing community has changed, or that the larger/different community was using a different browser when we arrived here? A clumsy way of saying that maybe the community changed in size or make-up, rather than (or maybe as well as) the existing community changing its browser ...

Re: Reactions Now Available In The Comments

fredwilson — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:54:23 -0000

That issue is near and dear to my heart as I just tried to install disqus on a typepad blog for my brother in law and it was way too hard. I'm not sure if disqus or typepad is to blame for that but it shouldn't be that hard

Re: Reactions Now Available In The Comments

aqualung — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:06:57 -0000

Disqus is up to some good stuff, no doubt ... checking out the 'Tweet this' with this! Do we know if they're able to install to a Typepad blog without advanced templates yet? Daniel?

Re: Business Cards and Hacker Groups

aqualung — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:58:06 -0000

Lot of the geeks I follow use Moo cards (http://www.moo.com/products/business_cards.php); I use Hughcards (http://gapingvoid.streetcards.com/).

I think, for all our distaste for dead-tree products, in a forum where you may be meeting lots of new people in fairly rapid succession, something small and simple with your web identity (particularly at a web-geek show like RailsConf!) is useful, and honours other people's time as well as your own

Re: Dependency.

aqualung — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:06:01 -0000

Two things ... I often reflect on this bounty/dependence (and doubt I could now live without it); and second: no, politicians DON'T get it generally (particularly Senator Stephen Conroy here in Australia). I think even most corporations (who HAVE derived real and obvious benefits from comms technology) don't see the potential for their own employees to have better access from home.

Re: SocialWhois » Discuss with aqualung about socialsoftware

aqualung — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:44:07 -0000

This is an interesting idea ... fits into a bunch of other activity around attention, identity and authenticity ... I'll watch where it heads

Re: Data, AI, Web, Repeat.

aqualung — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:23:36 -0000

Sean - any plans for Australian property?

Re: The Joys Of Music Blogging (aka The Rural Alberta Advantage Is Awesome)

aqualung — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:10:35 -0000

Tell Amy I've bought the album (via eMusic) because of your recommendation (and yes - I DID wait for the next month's quota!) all the way from Australia ...

Re: The Joys Of Music Blogging (aka The Rural Alberta Advantage Is Awesome)

fredwilson — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:17:24 -0000

I don¹t think I need to tell her because she is reading this blog, or at
least this post!

Re: If you are seeing partial RSS feeds….

aqualung — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:10:28 -0000

Chuq ... Using Greader/feedly - now getting full feed and post title is 'clickable' ... all seems good from here now

Re: Top 10 Records Of 2008

aqualung — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:24:09 -0000

Can't pick too much wrong with this list (well - there'll always be arguments at the margins, but I've enjoyed most of these this year) ... Hometowns is an my 'next-month' list at eMusic

Re: Top 10 Records Of 2008

fredwilson — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:59:18 -0000

You won't regret that purchase. Amazed you have the patience to wait. I just buy extra downloads

Re: Topic vs Author

aqualung — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:33:19 -0000

Cheers, Shai ... this is an area where I think we all have a bit more to learn, and you are contributing to the teaching!

Re: When will Local truly be on the web? - RussellBeattie.com

aqualung — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:46:53 -0000

As it's only USA-based at the moment, I have no way of knowing how well it would work for you and your location, but have you tried outside.in (http://outside.in/) for your locale?

Re: roomatic - Roomatic

aqualung — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:04:18 -0000

very useful and interesting ... plenty of ways to put this to use

Re: http://www.disqus.com/aqualung - Roomatic

aqualung — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:54:44 -0000

So what happens when I add a comment here?

Re: Ruth and Lee

aqualung — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:35:23 -0000

thanks Mark ... I spoke at both funerals and it's hard to judge your own words. Thanks for the thoughts as well ....

Re: Event Firehoses On Twitter

fredwilson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:35:02 -0000

There has to be a more elegant way to do this than hashtags

My wife and kids won't know where to start with hashtags

Fred

Re: Event Firehoses On Twitter

aqualung — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:11:49 -0000

Fred - can't believe you haven't caught up with Craig Cmehil's eventtrack (http://eventtrack.info/) - it started with Twitter only, but Craig has also now aggregated feeds from Flickr, Jaiku and a bunch of other socnets ... follow Craig (@ccmehil) and/or @eventtrack on Twitter - or have a look at the link above; Oscars were tagged #aa08

Re: The Google Myth Rolls to Mobile - RussellBeattie.com

aqualung — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:28:12 -0000

Russ - the only issue I have with this eloquent rant is the comment "Carriers are willing to invest billions for the license and the infrastructure to enable next generation wireless services" - it was Tom Evslin that pointed out that it is worth that much to the existing telcos to stop any innovation:
"It’s worth it for at&t and Verizon and perhaps even big cablecos to bid high for these dangerous frequencies in order to protect their existing business. But they have no incentive to hurry to put these frequencies to use or ever allow them to emerge as the basis for competition to their lucrative retail businesses. The 700MHz frequencies are worth almost as much fallow as in use to them." (http://blog.tomevslin.com/2007/07/googles-good-...)

Re: Looking back on 2007

Andrey Golub — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:29:03 -0000

thank you for the comment back, Ric. I think there is still something to discuss for us two :)

about "your place" and "their place"- hm... I am not sure I understand what do you mean exactly under "my place". a your home page? a your OpenID page? something else "your"?
Lots of people have their own Personal Web Sites, where they put all their info- but it's not the same as an Online Identity Monitoring and Management tool as Spock, I believe, is gonna become.

on "your place" you could have all your references- all about you declared by you. OK. This could be your own home page or the place like SocialURL or Naymz- a mix of "my place" and SN.
but this your place- how will it help you knowing what the others have written about you? what the others think about you? So you'll anyway have to manage tons of google search agents, pools (? :lol:) and so on. now else you can realize your own "my place"?
I think also OpenID could become a Social Network, to allow Networking for its "own" users.

about Social Networks that Spock is no different from those- look, I am sorry but I do completely disagree :) maybe my experience is different from your- but where did you see a Social Network that wants ALL about you? I have my professional profile and professional endorsements on LinkedIn, where there are also my business connections, I have some funny pics, lots of poke-friends etc on Facebook where I relax and sometimes do some stupid things, I have my twitter buddies on twitter and we twitter all together :), I participate on 10+ Social Networks and so? Sometimes I do really forget which Networks I take part of!
and so on. I never put it all in one place- 'coz Social Networks are planned for Networking, each one has its "specialization"... and to be able managing all this- a META Network had to appear- and here is Spock, I am very happy- so why you aren't also? :)

Spock is a Search Engine + my digital identity aggregator. it's not similar to LinkedIn or Facebook, since its mission is to collect Web Links about me + collect the community opinion about me (tags) and so on. It's just an aggregated Digital Identity. Is Facebook similar to this?
Hm... I have a doubts.

Spock needs this info about you since it's a Search Engine, it will later perform search by all this META data of different kind- Web pages, SN pages, Web 2.0 tags (content, tags).
I do not know why you so much disagree with the idea to have a META data based search engine... I think it's absolutely logical- it's the next generation of Search Engines, since it's a META for all Web, it's a META for all Web 2.0 plus it's a community powered project.
hm... see not so much similarities with Facebook, honestly.

hope to have convinced you to participate actively, not only watch!
if not yet- I'll come back again later :)

Kind Regards,
Andrey Golub- a happy Spock user and Evangelist
http://www.spock.com/Andrey-Golub

Re: Never break the chain? ... sorry, but ....

aqualung — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:36:02 -0000

Jazz - no problem! Nice of you to drop by ...