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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?

pgpd — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:25:47 -0000

Just to make sure, I removed the ourdoings pipe, created a new pipe url in ourdoings and then added back in pixelpipe; same behaviour.

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

jessestay — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:07:24 -0000

Yes Chris - I'd love to see you while I'm up here some time!

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

Scobleizer — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:46:39 -0000

I didn't think of Posterous. Interesting that in searches on Google for Twitter image sharing and Tweet picture and stuff like that it didn't come up, so they need to work a bit on their Google ranking.

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?

StephenPickering — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:55:15 -0000

OK, cool. I wasn't singling out Ourdoings, for instance. It looks great. I was just trying to make a general point to Robert that blogs maybe have changed and morphed, but remain a centralized hub of one's net identity. Actually, services like yours only help blogs by giving them more reach and connectivity with interesting products like yours. :-) I just thought a couple days ago he felt that blogs didn't matter anymore and to hinge everything one is doing kind of out there on the branches, when I felt the main trunk was still key. Just a philosophical thought. Thanks for your info though!

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: The question is wrong

Pickle Pumpers — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:11:56 -0000

Not to mention the person said they HAD two children which is clearly past tense but they also said one of them IS a girl so one of the poor person's children is dead but we have no idea of the sex and it would be insensitive to ask so I don't think we'll ever know!

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

pgpd — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:33:50 -0000

Glad I could help.. just one more thing (you probably know this but I'll mention it anyway). Rsync does not delete any thing on the remote side unless you give the --delete option. I noticed you were not using it.

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

alexwilliams — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:28:27 -0000

Absolutely true. Excellent advice; particularly on Friendfeed. It's an
excellent vehicle for me in learning what I need to know today. Keep up the
good work.

Re: Be Naked

pranavbhasin — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:12:46 -0000

Makes perfect sense. I've noticed that every time I stumble and acknowledge my fault, a new path opens up, and it in more cases than not leads to a better result.

Also I think informal discussions have the potential to give a lot of insights that you may not get if you are too focussed on an outcome. I just haven't figured out a way to make it work for myself yet.

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.