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Re: Backtype takes you where the pain is

brlewis — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:38:34 -0000

You're welcome. Backtype is definitely useful. I use it daily.

Re: How To Use Modern Web Sites: Do The Dumb Thing

brlewis — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:04:43 -0000

There's a tradeoff to be made between transparency and simplicity. I'm thinking about an advanced settings page and/or a wiki.

Re: Foliage Trip 2: Mount Morgan

brlewis — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:58:17 -0000

The GF1 looks awfully expensive. When I have that kind of money for camera equipment, I'll probably buy a decent automatic lens for my DSLR. (My good lenses are all manual.) Even the LX3 is probably more pricey than we're looking for. Most of our low-light/motion shots are kids in the house where the DSLR is hand, so the point+shoot can be cheap.

Re: Stop Abusing Robert Scoble for a Week

brlewis — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:55:20 -0000

In that case it makes sense for you to do the interview. You'll get growth information straight from the source, and know where to go from there. I bet he won't speculate about future growth, not even near-term, since that's not his style.

P.S. Don't thank me too much for this post. I'm already planning abuse for next week. :-)

Re: Which iPhone app is better, Dropbox or Pixelpipe?

brlewis — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:10:18 -0000

Pixelpipe sent empty values to OurDoings:

((media . "") (title . "") (message . ""))

I like it better when it's my bug, because then I can fix it. But in this case it appears to be a Pixelpipe bug. I'll report it to them. I'll also give feedback to Dropbox about handling the bunch-of-photos use case better.

Re: Which iPhone app is better, Dropbox or Pixelpipe?

brlewis — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:50:02 -0000

Sounds like Pixelpipe beats Dropbox for this use. I'll investigate what happened with the test Pixelpipe upload and get back to you by email.

Re: Inside the mind of a nervous friendfeed user

brlewis — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:50:53 -0000

Silly, isn't it? But what's really going on inside our minds when we worry about the acquisition? If the acquisition is bad, either the FriendFeed founders dissed us, or they made a mistake. And for them to make a mistake, they'd need something akin to brainwashing. That's what we're really thinking, isn't it? Silly or not, I think a detailed response from the founders on the "brainwashing" question is what would really help reassure us.

Re: Inside the mind of a nervous friendfeed user

brlewis — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:39:17 -0000

That's helpful to know. I tend to think I'm representative of others, but it isn't always true.

Re: Five Tasks in the Morning

brlewis — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:05:06 -0000

Chris, if you like dipping into FriendFeed, why not drop in on our FriendFeed meetup 5-6:45pm today at the Cambridgeside Galleria before webinno? Jesse Stay of SocialToo is visiting from out of town. http://friendfeed.com/massachusetts/b50998cf/bo...

Re: TwitSnaps jumps into competitive Twitter photo sharing space

brlewis — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:57:58 -0000

Robert, where's Posterous in your list? Posterous is going after twitpic with a vengeance. They're in all the major Twitter clients now. OurDoings isn't really shooting for twitter, much more for FriendFeed: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2009-05-27

Re: API worlds are quite wondrous indeed

brlewis — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:17:27 -0000

I've got a really cool API example, but can't talk about it yet. Give me a few hours.

Re: Real-time systems hurting long-term knowledge?

brlewis — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:52:41 -0000

OurDoings won't go out of business because it hasn't gone into business yet. I developed it and continue to build it as a side project. Also, the comments live on FriendFeed and Disqus, just like on this blog.

Re: FriendFeed: A level playing field for the real-time web

brlewis — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:05:44 -0000

A general explanation of SUP is at http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008/08/simple-updat...

A general explanation of XMPP: http://xmpp.org/tech/core.shtml

Re: Backups

brlewis — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:38:31 -0000

Right. I pass it through as an argument to the script (see the "$@" in the last line). Initially I wanted to use the script more cautiously.

Re: Backups

brlewis — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:28:13 -0000

Thanks, that's really helpful. So what I'll need eventually is an EC2 instance that can be the remote end of the rsync. It would only need to be up for the duration of the backup, so it wouldn't have to cost a lot. What I'll likely do medium-term is do this rsync once a week, and have the daily backup simply copy new files (via tar), so it won't have to navigate the whole remote filesystem to find things to delete.

Re: Why Should You Do Everything As If It Matters?

brlewis — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:01:56 -0000

Awesome post, Rah! Even the things you love will involve work you don't want to do. Developing a winning attitude will surely pay off.

Re: Flavio Piccioni, Robert Scoble, and Pavan Gunupudi, this is for you

brlewis — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:04:52 -0000

This was simply me taking Robert Scoble's advice. He has a lot to say about how to grow a service.

You're here because I took Chris Brogan's advice. There's a lot of great advice out there if people will just listen and do it.

Re: Be Naked

brlewis — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:57:16 -0000

Pranav, I totally relate to what you're saying. I'm an introvert too. Like most things, being social is something you just learn by doing it. You'll make mistakes along the way. Like Chris says, be ready to apologize.

I agree about too many tools being a problem. I've chosen to focus mainly on the one that clicks with me, FriendFeed.

Re: How To Make It Into My Inbox Without Getting Marked As Spam

brlewis — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:05:43 -0000

Now I'm jealous of StumbleUpon. Feedback this thorough and good can't be bought.

Re: New Yorkers: the coolest iPhone app I have seen is this 3D mapping app:

brlewis — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:30:43 -0000

Cool. Looks like something you'd find in a future-predicting magazine article.

Re: Now Available: Commenting with Twitter Sign-in

brlewis — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:39:40 -0000

You all do have a lot of features now. I'm having some trouble on the admin/settings page. I keep checking Hacker News and Reddit, then Save, but the option doesn't stick. The Twitter Sign-In option does stick. What I mean is, after I click Save, I see the green bar that says your changes have been saved successfully, and the boxes are checked next to Hacker News and Reddit, but if I select a different site (using the big select box at the top) and come back, the boxes are then unchecked.

Additionally, social media reactions seems to have stopped working for FriendFeed comments. Two days ago I was looking at http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2009-04-14 and there were lots of FriendFeed comments from http://friendfeed.com/brlewis/ea49a700/how-non-... but yesterday and today I don't see them.

Re: Why open formats are so important (Scripting News)

brlewis — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:59:16 -0000

You're making a great point. I hope companies start to understand this. As an example of the difficulty they have getting it, I vaguely remember what an Adobe exec said some time ago. They felt like they didn't profit enough from the open PostScript language they developed. The quote was something like "We won't make the same mistake with PDF that we made with PostScript" referring to openness. Of course, if PostScript hadn't been open, it wouldn't have been so widely adopted as a standard. Then Adobe wouldn't even have been in a position to decide how to profit from PDF.

If even the companies who succeed based on this principle don't understand it, what hope is there for companies like Facebook?

Re: A small note regarding Facebook Connect

brlewis — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:48:16 -0000

I set up Facebook Connect and did a test comment here: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2009-03-07

It didn't take away the name/email/website boxes and wouldn't let me leave them blank. Is that the way it's supposed to be? I thought Facebook Connect replaced filling in that info.

Re: Don't Be Evil, The Business Model

brlewis — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:51:09 -0000

People thought this was an April Fools joke. It wasn't. It's live now.

Re: Moved my 41400 Comments into Disqus

brlewis — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:43:16 -0000

You won't regret it. Disqus is great.