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Re: WYLIEMAC - The @eventvue “see who’s going” thingy is pretty...

joshfraz — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:02:55 -0000

Thanks. I'm glad you like it. Are you planning on attending boco? If so, you can actually grab the code to put the "I'm attending" badge on this blog. Just click the "get this for your blog" link at the bottom.

Re: The You, the Me, and the We – How I’m Changing How I Use Twitter

joshfraz — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:18:20 -0000

I agree. It sounds confusing. I'll be curious to hear how this works out for you.

Re: Comment Length

joshfraz — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:07:55 -0000

I agree. Often, less is more.

Re: Microsoft Releases Free Anti-Virus Software

joshfraz — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:55:44 -0000

What do I use to protect my computer against viruses? A mac.

Re: A question for DNS gurus out there in InternetLand (Scripting News)

joshfraz — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:43:30 -0000

Thus the "it won't help you this time" disclaimer. :)

Re: A question for DNS gurus out there in InternetLand (Scripting News)

joshfraz — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:36:05 -0000

Did you change the TTL on the records you added? The TTL will tell DNS servers how long to cache your records. You should set it at 300 to make your DNS changes go faster. It won't help you this time, but it's a good change to make if you are planning on making a lot of DNS changes in the near future.

Re: Lazyfeed + RSSCloud + PubSubHubBub = Real Real-time

joshfraz — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:50:18 -0000

Very cool news! Thanks for adding this.

There is also a WP plugin available to add PuSH support to wordpress.org blogs:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pubsubhubbub/

Re: The RSS channel-level image (Scripting News)

joshfraz — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:45:23 -0000

My concern is that since this is distributed you already have to deal with people resizing this image. There's no way to guarantee that people will respect the 48x48px constraint. Why not embrace it and let people use whatever image they want? Do we need to copy every detail from twitter right down to the number of pixels in an avatar?? Why not let people use whatever image they want and leave it up to each client to worry about how they want to display them? The algorithm we use at EventVue for making avatars square is to center a box that is 80% of the smallest side of the original image in the middle of the image (no it's not perfect, but it's not bad either).

Re: Compare The Old and the New Google, Side By Side

joshfraz — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:32:02 -0000

I wrote a search plugin for Firefox for anyone who wants to try it out on a more regular basis:
http://www.onlineaspect.com/2009/08/10/google-s...

Re: PubSubHubBub and RSSCloud : Adding Them To Your Wordpress Blog

joshfraz — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:07:07 -0000

Yes, they both work with feedburner.

Re: Make Your Blog Real-Time Now With the rssCloud Plugin

joshfraz — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:22:37 -0000

There is also a PubSubHubbub plugin available that I wrote:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pubsubhubbub/

We really need to get these all rolled into one plugin for all this real-time goodness.

Re: David Sacks PayPal Resume

joshfraz — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:17:48 -0000

I like the way he shares the credit with the team. It always bothers me when one people talk like they did somehow did it alone.

Re: WOW: Google to Launch a New Version of Google Search

joshfraz — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:22:57 -0000

I just wrote a Firefox search plugin for people who anyone who wants to make this their default search for a while:

http://www.onlineaspect.com/2009/08/10/google-s...

Re: Another brick in the cloud (Scripting News)

joshfraz — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:01:53 -0000

Full URL's seem like the best way to keep things truly decentralized, but I understand your goal of short and simple usernames.

Could we use aliases? For example, I could put my feed at http://www.joshfraser.com/status and include an alias field in my RSS called "joshfraz". Clients could store my alias enabling you to message @joshfraz, even though the full url is actually used behind the scenes. If you are following me, you would use my alias, otherwise you would use the full URL. There might be issues with collisions on the client side since there's no way to enforce global uniqueness, but we could address that by reverting to the full URL in those rare cases.

I admit it's not a perfect solution, but I'm throwing it out there anyway as an alternative way of thinking about things.

Re: rssCloud design issue (Scripting News)

joshfraz — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:58:49 -0000

25 hours feels really short to me. The fact that you have to resubscribe more often than most blogs on the internet are updated seems backwards. While I understand the desire to have built in garbage collecting, you now introduce people who would be resubscribing to thousands of feeds every single night. Wouldn't that cost you far more computing power than having a few unwanted feeds lying around? It seems like there's a better trade-off between convenience for the subscriber (I want to do it as little as possible) and having a way for clouds to handle garbage collection. Wouldn't a 30-90 day window be a better value to recommend?

Re: Snappy retarded answers (Scripting News)

joshfraz — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:09:48 -0000

The reason I care about this is that I've got a server polling tens of thousands of feeds every 15 minutes. That's the broken architecture we're all trying to fix. I don't care which protocol wins. As you pointed out, I'm not making any money on this. I'd love to see rssCloud take off & when it does I'll be first in line to support it.

Sometimes you have to pick a horse, but at the end of the day, we're on the same team.

Re: Snappy retarded answers (Scripting News)

joshfraz — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:45:47 -0000

This isn't about me. I'm just trying to clarify that PubSubHubbub (that's what we're talking about, right?) isn't owned by Google like you keep saying. Look at SuperFeedr. Look at the people in the Google Group. Brad Fitz even said in his presentation @ the Realtime CrunchUp "Nothing in this protocol hardcodes Google at the center of the universe. I hate that crap too".

Re: Snappy retarded answers (Scripting News)

joshfraz — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:10:15 -0000

The Leading Brand isn't owned by Google. It isn't owned by any one company. To reduce it to that is insulting to the growing group of people who don't work at Google and are still dedicating hours to seeing it succeed.

Re: They Growz Up So Fast!

joshfraz — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:12:29 -0000

thanks for believing in us. love the shout-out and the encouragement.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/pubsubhubbub-real-time-feeds-and-real.html

joshfraz — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:10:52 -0000

I wrote a PubSubHubbub plugin for WordPress that might be helpful to anyone who wants to add PSH support to their blog. Check it out:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pubsubhubbub/

Re: Google's Pubsubhubbub (Scripting News)

joshfraz — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:38:29 -0000

As Dave has pointed out before (see the comments here http://bit.ly/r9AGO) a lot of this can be solved using existing technologies like the change log from weblogs.com. Sure, it's going to take a while for the web to adapt to this new event-driven model, but that just leaves more of an opportunity for superfeedr.

Re: Google's Pubsubhubbub (Scripting News)

joshfraz — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:11:40 -0000

You now have a protocol that can be used to build a distributed twitter. Erick Schonfeld can have his posts show up in Google Reader faster. I get to shut down my extra server that does nothing all day but poll for new blog posts. The possibilities are endless. With blogger + feedburner supporting PSH, we now have a large percentage of blogs on the internet that are available with real-time notifications to anyone on the web -- that's huge!

Re: Superfeedr Blog : There is no such thing as Real Time Search

joshfraz — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:01:07 -0000

Definitely agree that the use cases look very different.

Re: There's a missing product (Scripting News)

joshfraz — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:53:28 -0000

EventVue is working to solve the first use-case you mentioned of knowing whether you are attending a certain conference or not. We've got a new product we're getting ready to launch that solves this way better than what you've seen from us before.

I'm not sure what a more generic solution will be. I try hard to look back through feeds / Google search before asking questions. I want to respect people's time and not waste it asking already answered questions.

Re: Michael Jackson Died in 2007, Says Google

joshfraz — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:15:46 -0000

But there are hundreds of people who share exactly the same name. How is Google supposed to know which one you are looking for? PageRank favors the person with the greatest online presence who has collected the most inbound links from reputable sources. I'm #1 in Google for my name because I've worked hard to get there. But I'll be the first to admit that there are plenty of other Josh Fraser's who probably deserve it more -- or at least are more successful or famous than myself. You can improve relevancy by adding in other details like occupation and location, but even then, you have no guarantee of having a truly unique key.