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

wyliemac — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:08:08 -0000

Sadly I won't be able to attend. Hope it's an annual thing.

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

jessestay — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:22:37 -0000

Josh, @JesseStay will be the firehose, but I'll expect you to participate.
:-)

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)

susanbeebe — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:46:13 -0000

TTLs are only helpful for DNS changes, not new domain implementations. For changes, set the TTLS low, e.g. 5.

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)

dave — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:42:23 -0000

It's a new domain

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

lazyfeed — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:52:31 -0000

Thank you Josh. Yes, the WP plugin is important, so I mentioned it in the post :)

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)

dave — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:03:19 -0000

BTW, if you want any indication that there's FUD going on -- Brad Fitz was invited to present at the Crunchup but who spoke for RSS and the "real time web." You think no one has an agenda here to own this thing? That sort of thing implies otherwise. Open your eyes Josh. It's easy for Brad to say he hates this crap, but actions are what matter not words.

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)

dave — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:13:30 -0000

Okay -- big companies like Google can't help but screwing with stuff outside
their control whether they want to or not, so guys like me will practically
hit back as a reflex -- to prevent the attack. However in this case, the FUD
was already flying. I'm not going to lay down. I make to make that really
really clear. I'm not trying to get anyone or stop anything, but rssCloud is
going to have a chance.

Why shouldn't Google step up and implement it? It's not like anyone but them
is going to make money off this stuff.

Aside from that, can you count the number of disclaimers in my post, and you
STILL took offense.

The disclaimer is in the title of the post!

It's retarded. Let's do this technology right and stop looking for shortcuts
just cause you get a paycheck from God, who hasn't even given you stock
options and we all know it.

I am not a lawyer so if you quibble with one word, you're the idiot.

We're all bozos on this bus.

Dave

Re: Snappy retarded answers (Scripting News)

dave — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:04:12 -0000

I hate it when people say this but it needs to be said here: RELAX

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".