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Re: I Hate Fantasy Football

efliv — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:12:13 -0000

Sucks dude, I once lead my league in scoring and missed the (very generous) playoff cut. Blew out my W's, narrowly lost my L's.

Re: mills baker - One of the most famous of E.J. Bellocq’s...

efliv — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:21:32 -0000

I guess you're right, but my problem is that, without George in my ear, I wouldn't know what to search for!

Re: I Haz NFL Gamepass!

efliv — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:16:38 -0000

Hoops?

Re: mills baker - One of the most famous of E.J. Bellocq’s...

efliv — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:49:24 -0000

Strangely coincidental.

My fiance, sister and I went to Bess Bistro in Austin this weekend. I found the same photo hanging on the wall of the restaurant and they've clipped the image of the stockings to use as their logo. See www.bessbistro.com.

Also, I have the good fortune of attending George Schmidt's Christmas party each year. He definitely creates some truly amazing work, of which the significance and history go way over my head.

Re: Hat tip to Dave Winer

efliv — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:14:28 -0000

Here, here.

I started using Flickr-to-Twitter in Oct. 2007 and recently switched over to the official Flickr solution. One less middle man, you know.

But, it's so awesome that we've had this functionality nearly two years before Flickr got their act together.

Re: What Drives Consumer Adoption Of New Technologies?

efliv — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:47:24 -0000

Many of the points listed above are important, but don't forget about pricing.

Of the non-consumer electronics products you listed (i.e. web services), not one of them charge. At best Pandora operates under a freemium model, yet it still offers a compelling service for free.

If you focus on consumer electronics, I'd argue that only Rock Band is priced in the premium category. The iPhone was but has fallen to I wouldn't consider $200 (now $99) to be premium in the smart phone market. And the Wii falls well below its console competition.

Re: Gadget talk with Scoble (Scripting News)

efliv — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:18:10 -0000

Interesting discussion.

BTW, Roger McNamee has a Pre because his PE firm, Elevation Partners, is a major investor in Palm and has been heavily involved in the current turn-around attempt.

Re: Does Truth Exist Apart from Human Language?

efliv — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:12:51 -0000

Hey Mills, how'd you get the answer box? Is that a new Tumblr feature?

Re: mills baker - I had to color-correct the photos from our Grand...

efliv — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:11:02 -0000

oops, wrong post.

Re: Chrome vs Firefox (Scripting News)

efliv — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:27:13 -0000

Hey Dave,

I'm curious which browser plug-ins you "can't live without."

I keep a pretty lean browser, myself. The one exception being an interesting toolbar from a startup I'm working with.

Re: http://mills.tumblr.com/post/85681930

efliv — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:57:31 -0000

Funny you should ask. I'm headed home tonight for a wedding on Saturday. DM me on Twitter if you want to grab a cup of coffee or something.

Re: http://mills.tumblr.com/post/85681930

efliv — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:24:54 -0000

Mills, this photo is creepy and so cool at the same time. Wow, I thought I looked liked my dad.

Re: A Tumblog ...from the desk of edward f. lebreton iv

efliv — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:18:28 -0000

No matter how you spell it, I still hate them.

Re: Twitter Exchange with Neville on The Daily Mail's "xenophobia"

efliv — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:11:29 -0000

This is a perfect example of why Twitter needs threaded messaging.

Re: Citi to Integrate Corporate and Investment Banking - 10 Years Too Late

efliv — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:49:45 -0000

I'm a first year MBA student and I recently dropped a resume for a Corporate Banking internship at Citi. A few days later, I got word that Citi canceled the interview. I guess this explains why.

Re: tumblr.efliv.com

efliv — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:12:21 -0000

Thanks again Mills!

I figured it out right after I wrote that tweet. It was complete user error. I defined the class (photos) without naming the element (img) to apply the formatting. It's fixed now.

But it looks like I know who to turn to when I embark on a more thorough design overhaul. :)

Re: Tumblr Likes, what's the deal?

efliv — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:43:13 -0000

Thanks Mills!

Yeah, I wonder if that'll be included in the upcoming Pro features?

Re: Is 24/7 Media Impacting the Markets (and our sanity)?

efliv — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:55:11 -0000

There's nothing wrong with 24/7 media in theory. The problem lies with the advertising model, which incentivizes sensationalism to increase ratings.

Re: Why I like netbooks (Scripting News)

efliv — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:33:22 -0000

I recently attended a presentation by a senior level marketing manager from the Windows group at Microsoft. He said that Windows 7, or some variant thereof, is being specifically developed for netbook hardware. If Apple thinks the market is "nascent," Microsoft clearly does not.

I find it hard to believe that Microsoft and Apple truly see such a difference in the potential of the netbook market. Likewise, I have to believe an Apple netbook isn't too far off.

Re: Tumblog Integration

efliv — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:46:21 -0000

Hey Fred,

This reminds me of a similar syndication/aggregation issue I currently have with Tumblr. I've emailed Tumblr support and Marco directly with this suggestion. Perhaps hearing it from you will get the ball rolling.

I'd like for Tumblr to offer a second RSS feed that contains ONLY a users posts that are not imported from other sources (i.e. direct submissions to Tumblr and reblogs only). I'd use this feed to avoid double posting when syndicating my Tumblr activity to other all-encompassing social aggregators (primarily FriendFeed and Facebook), where I already import the feeds I throw at Tumblr (my blog, twitter, and select flickr photos).

Due to this double posting issue, I DO NOT syndicate my Tumblr activity anywhere, which greatly reduced the utility of Tumblr and, likewise, my inclination to use Tumblr.

This is a shame. Tumblr is a great service and I really appreciate the ease with which it allows you to share a variety of content. If Tumblr gave me a "Tumblr Only" version of my RSS feed for syndication purposes, my use of the service would skyrocket.

Re: Playing the race card (Scripting News)

efliv — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:20:48 -0000

Wait, I thought Sharpton had the race card... http://www.newsgroper.com/al-sharpton/2008/08/0...

Re: Styling Your FriendFeed Badge

efliv — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:54:57 -0000

Where'd you find the CSS tags for editing the widget? I can't find them on the FF site.

Re: What is whoisi.com? (Scripting News)

efliv — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:05:20 -0000

Interesting site indeed.

Given it's anonymous, wiki design, I'm interested to see if certain personalities get associated with negative search terms, for example "dickhead," "arrogant bastard," "douche," etc. It will also be interesting to see if the community reinforces these terms or keeps the profiles clean.

One could create a sister service for monitoring and cleaning up their crowd-sourced online profile. I wonder if changes to a user's "alias" set will be included in the RSS feed, once it's inevitably added to the profile pages.

Re: Losing A Phone - A Social Media Security Breach?

efliv — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:03:01 -0000

This is exactly why I use a pin on my iPhone. I originally used it when traveling to Spain & Portugal, worried that if the phone was lost/stolen, I'd be forced to pay some hefty roaming fees.

Once I got back to the States, I decided to keep the pin. I've stored far too many passwords in the browser to feel comfortable leaving it unlocked.

Friends laugh at it, but at least it's secure.

Re: Hyperlocal Has To Be Peer Produced

efliv — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:42:14 -0000

Agreed that the only way to scale local is with user generated content. There's simply too much data for a central body to produce.

Along the same lines, I've always thought that Facebook is really missing the boat here. I use Yelp occasionally and it's great, but Facebook (for now, at least) owns my social graph and those are the users who will generate the most significant local content/reviews/information for me.

We all know Beacon flopped because of privacy issues, but I think it also flopped because Facebook went after brands when they should have attacked local, small businesses. I realize that's a much more difficult market to corner, but I'd much rather know that a couple of my buddies love a certain Indian joint in the East Village over the fact that they used Blockbuster Video a few times.

I'm not really sure if this addresses your point on aggregation vs. production (perhaps it does in that FB's ownership of the graph could be used to create personalized aggregations of reviews) but it's a missed opportunity for Facebook that's been puzzling me for a while.