Disqus - Friends of bentrem

Re: What To Do When Somebody Accepts Your LinkedIn Invitation or Invites You

dankeldsen — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:26:36 -0000

Zale - Ah yes, I find it very disconcerting to get no response other than a connection accepted when I'm reaching out to people. Particularly, when (as in most cases), I have done a fair amount of research to find out what it is that people are most interested in, and reaching out through a mutual area of interest.

I also (typically) supplement my use of LinkedIn with Plaxo, to make sure I'm keeping my contact info up to speed, and receiving it back from my contacts.

As with your previous post, I agree on improving both the quantity and quality of my contacts. As is said in the innovation world - there is nothing so dangerous as an idea when it's the only one you've got. Same is true for having a small network - with a larger, and more diverse network, the possibilities magnify dramatically.

Cheers,
Dan

Re: Thundercrack The Boss Is Back

dankeldsen — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:29:24 -0000

Wow, the Scorpions are still alive? Incredible. Saw them at one of the last "Monsters of Rock" in Pittsburgh at Three Rivers Stadium many many years ago.

Re: New Live-Action Speed Racer Film By The Wachowski Brothers

dankeldsen — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:47:53 -0000

The car looks good - hard to tell what the movie will end up like. None of the actors picked would've really been my first call for the parts.

The burning question of course is will the sound effects for all of the whacky features of the car still be as cheesy as they were?

That, and will they purposefully mis-sync the audio and the video, for the true authentic feel of "Speed Racer?"

Re: Facebook hearts Google

dankeldsen — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:25:30 -0000

"It's evil! Don't touch it!"

So, of course we'd all better hope that Google isn't actively peering into our raw Google Analytics tracks, although in many ways, as you say, there is no need, as they can turn our Googly trails back on us, and advertise the daylights out of us.

Seems to me that the contextual advertising of AdSense is becoming much more personally honed than "page-honed" if you follow me - so no doubt the algorithms are getting quite honed on us. Which is why I like to jump off and do some completely (ok, largely) random searches and web exploration, to throw the machines off! ;)

Re: Disqus And IntenseDebate – Two New Unified Comment Platforms

dankeldsen — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:39:48 -0000

I've found Disqus to be a bit obtuse in config and installation, and although I like the promise behind Intense Debate, and it installed easily enough, it now refuses to load a comment section on my blog. (!) In touch with the team behind the scenes, but wow, not good.

Re: The Daily Poll: R.I.P Web-Based Office Tools?

dankeldsen — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:47:57 -0000

You could kill the "heard of" once people are responding that they are using it, yes?

Not quite sure what you mean by "often use and desktop apps" - often use IN ADDITION to desktop apps?

Re: The Daily Poll: R.I.P Web-Based Office Tools?

dankeldsen — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:49:55 -0000

FYI - might want to look at Compete.com's writeup of adoption on Google Docs, et al.

See:
http://blog.compete.com/200...

I reference their analysis a fair amount.

Re: Shoeboxed Mail-In is Netflix for Receipts

dankeldsen — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:22:01 -0000

Well, this is funny, as in my daily working life, I run across people who think that scanning in receipts (and contracts, general business records, etc.) is one of the most ridiculously boring things they could think of basing a company around, or even doing... at all.

It's a huge business in actuality, that large enterprise happily (well, maybe not) pay hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to outsource to people who are very good at this.

Truly, I'm stunned to see this on Mashable. It's a nice twist, and novel, but would've never expected to see this here. Bravo!

I wonder if they'll experience the same sort of grief that NetFlix is now getting from the USPS (i.e., the envelopes gumming up the machines).

Re: AlphaDawg's 'mattic FeedDigest

dankeldsen — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:17:14 -0000

The options button and the up/down rating is kind of subtle. Didn't realize what was going on at first. Seemed like nothing much was going on...

Re: Creating a Network Around the Network

dankeldsen — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:59:07 -0000

Congrats John - I'm sure you're going to do even greater things than you already have! Sounds like a smart group you're going to be working with - looking forward to the updates.

Ciao,
Dan

Re: Shyftr: Feed theft or social news reader?

dankeldsen — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:36:32 -0000

Interesting problem - and could be tricky for copyright/IP purposes. It does concern me that part of the "social media" game is about rallying commentary in a single place (in theory), so that all can participate. Take that participation and fracture it into dozens (or more) of various reading/sharing services, and it's difficult to have cogent conversations.

Then again, commenting is largely broken on blogs - it is far too painful to track the threads you want, on most blogs. No doubt why you've integrated Disqus, and I've gone for Intense Debate.

Cheers,
Dan

Re: Shyftr: Feed theft or social news reader?

dankeldsen — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:53:48 -0000

I hear you - and if Disqus was easier (i.e., widgetized), I'd be wiling to give them a run for the money on my TypePad hosted blog.

The nice thing about the rate of innovation in social media these days, is that (with any luck) neither one of these issues should take all that long to work their way out as solutions.

And where is CoComment? Seems to be lying dormant..

Re: Mead Goes Green, with Mind Mapping. 1000 Invites for Mashable.

dankeldsen — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:47:14 -0000

Sure they aren't OEMing this from someone? The interface looks awfully familiar.

Re: Mead Goes Green, with Mind Mapping. 1000 Invites for Mashable.

dankeldsen — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:27:16 -0000

Hmm - thought it looked familiar. Hope it's licensed and not pilfered.

Re: Mead Goes Green, with Mind Mapping. 1000 Invites for Mashable.

dankeldsen — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:21:03 -0000

Ken - ah, there we go, comapping. That's definitely what I was thinking of.

All for seeing mindmapping making more inroads into education, business, etc. - and definitely interesting that Mead is moving in this direction.

I did a handful of mindmapping podcast interviews last year, including one with the current reigning world mindmapping champion. Still quite a bit of work to be done to bring mindmapping to the masses, so keep up the push, and we'll see what comes from it!

Best of luck,
Dan

Re: louisgray.com: Should Bloggers Open Up Their Statistics?

dankeldsen — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:32:06 -0000

Trust might be easier to come by with more transparency than less. Isn't that what we've learned both in the blogosphere and in the "real world" of Enron, Worldcom, politics, etc.?

Re: Dembot - Wisdom of the Crowd vs. Curator

dankeldsen — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:39:38 -0000

Right on - sometimes there is Wisdom, and sometimes Madness in the Crowd. The crowd isn't always a bunch of idiots though, Drew. Come on.

And not everything that Fark (or anyone else) does will appeal to the masses. 100% success isn't possible - so better to be satisfied personally with what you're doing, and get what success you can, rather than attempt to predict and fully ride the crowd meme. There's nothing wrong with a niche - total world domination and being loved by billions is not only overrated, it's near impossible.

Keep up the Fark!

Re: Disqus And IntenseDebate – Two New Unified Comment Platforms

dankeldsen — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:57:09 -0000

Most comments on blogs are tagged as "no follow" anyway, so they are somewhat screened out from crawlers by default. But yes, the javascript-based approach that most of these solutions mean that they are that much more likely to be invisible to search engines.

Re: Salesforce to Launch “UI as a Service”; Offers Glimpse Into LinkedIn Platform

dankeldsen — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:32:25 -0000

About time for LinkedIn to catch up to what Contact Networks (now part of Thomson), Interface Software (now part of Lexis-Nexis) and Visible Path (separately owned but part of the Enterprise 2.0 offering that SpikeSource started offering last year) have been able to do for 3-5 years now.

See recent aiimALERT on InsideView for more on these sorts of applications:
http://www.biztechtalk.com/...

Re: Are You Plurking Yet?

dankeldsen — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:52:59 -0000

Nice write up - not sure what to think of Plurk yet. It certainly is more stable, but finding it hard to deal with following comments. The roll-over/click/scroll method to find all the bloody things is a PITA.

Re: your monkey called

dankeldsen — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:45:22 -0000

Wha? I thought continuous parallel attention was all the rage. :) You have to admit. 4 videos is far more effective than 1. I mean, doesn't The Economist test the effectiveness of their marketing efforts?

Re: Thanks For Following, Now Click On My Junk

dankeldsen — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:27:47 -0000

Amber - Well, it sounds as though the world is divided into the "thoughtful followers" and the, hmm, politically correct term... "loose followers." To that I say, beware the extremists. There is plenty of grey space between.

I'll start by simply saying that I agree with Stewart Mercer (hey there, still enjoying your blips!). For newbies, they have no sense for netiquette. Of course we all have a different sense for netiquette. I jumped on the net in 1988. Almost everything ON the internet now would be blown to smithereens in the eyes of the old guard of the net. Times change - it's a bigger world of participation now.

I've been hearing similar "anti-follow" arguments since first jumping on LinkedIn many, many years ago. If I hadn't broadened my horizons by expanding my network out beyond only those I "actually knew" - I would've never been able to have breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks, or a walk around Copenhagen with people I previously only "virtually knew" and finally had a chance to meet in person halfway around the world.

There are MANY use cases, and neither you, nor I, nor anyone else has to agree as to what those are. Twitter, or LinkedIn, or many other things are simply works in progress for making connections.

You can always unfollow, you can always elect not to receive e-mail notifications of a follow, you can block, report, fold, spindle, mutilate, even simply ignore...

Personally, I'd rather follow first and rapidly unfollow if need be, then not have a chance to see what's flowing by in the tweet stream.

This is a difference between actively looking to discover new sources of input, or specifically seeking out an answer.

My use cases, for example, are partly driven by the need as an analyst/researcher, to get a sense for what's going on in the big wide world.

To be able to tap the big social well, why wouldn't it be perfectly valid to engage people in multiple media? If pointing out your own blog or business is bad form, why do people in engage in PR? Sales? Marketing?

I think we all have varying degrees of the idea of "personal online space" (as opposed to personal PHYSICAL space), and what may seem aggressive to some is completely normal to others.

BTW - solving the "[fill in the blank media] spam" problem is almost impossible. I covered e-mail filtering solutions for years, and have heard of hundreds of ideas for filtering spammers. None are perfect, most are far from perfect. At the crux of the problem... exactly what IS spam?

SOME of it is "obvious" - but most, is not. If it was, spam wouldn't work at all.

Twitter could use a bit of reputation filtering, as others have said here. In that regard, the "props" side of blip.fm has twitter beat, interestingly enough. There is no "thumbs down" however, which would lead the feedback to only ever spiral up... ah, the pros and cons of emergence!

The real short response - we're all figuring this out. The vast majority of the inhabitants of this planet have never heard of twitter, and never will. In that regard, we're all anti-social weirdos. :)

Cheers,
Dan

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Re: Working On The Streamflow: A Microstreaming Workflow

dankeldsen — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:43:20 -0000

Stowe - you might want to give Diigo.com a try. Delicious->Typepad broke on me about 2 months ago, and I couldn't determine what went wrong. Someone suggested Diigo as a replacement, which can easily serve as an intermediate aggregator of sorts. No bit.ly integration that I know of - still searching for a consistent short URL tracking service myself as well.

Re: Amazon Remembers What You Want to Buy

dankeldsen — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:09:13 -0000

Justin - Nice pointer to the Amazon app! Of course the irony is that I already had this app installed on my iPhone, but didn't remember it could use photos as Amazonian food. (Sigh)

Why in the world is all of the descriptive "text" on the page that Amazon provides, describing this app entirely embedded in a graphic? Do they not want people to use this? Bizarre!

Congrats on joining @chrisbrogan - you're in good company. See you in the Boston area sometime?

Cheers,
Dan

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Re: Long story short re: my TiVo Tweet

dankeldsen — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:02:22 -0000

Speaking of which - I notice that Comcast is teaming up with TiVo (again!) to offer the TiVo HD on a per month rental basis. Anyone know (I'm doubting it) if this offer supports Netflix streaming to the Comcast/TiVo beast? Given the state of customer service these days, I don't even want to bother asking this question by calling Comcast's 800#. They *might* know the answer, but then again... seems doubtful.

Horrible customer service is the norm folks - companies would rather fail while employing cheap incompetents than to hire those who want to make a difference and actually DO it on a day-to-day basis.

Thanks in advance for any insights on the Comcast/TiVo/Netflix front...

Cheers,
Dan