Disqus - Latest Comments for khylek

Re: Another Mashup using IfByPhone and Yelp!

khylek — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:45:44 -0000

I have some background, but not a ton. What were you trying to do?

Re: Thank you Google! Thank you! Thank you!

khylek — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:53:36 -0000

Great post. It seems like a long wait and a lot of time and money invested, and I'm struggling to find the business benefit (even in the long term) for Google.

Re: Newspapers Should Leap, Not Stand

khylek — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:00:48 -0000

News used to be a choice between several monologues, and is now quickly becoming one giant conversation. As that happens, news starts to be more of a meritocracy, and the built in advantage that the news organizations one had is diluted. I think a side effect of this is that there is less need for a huge diversity in news coverage. You can get all the perspective you need via secondary sources that have shown merit.

Most of these arguments from newspaper people seem targeted not at the generic question "how do news organizations survive and prosper" but at the question "how do we keep as many reporters employed as possible?"

Re: Why I Don’t Follow Back On Twitter (And You Shouldn’t, Too)

khylek — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:21:12 -0000

I'm on a mac. I'll check out EventBox. Thanks.

Re: Why I Don’t Follow Back On Twitter (And You Shouldn’t, Too)

khylek — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:06:43 -0000

Luca - I started using TweetDeck, and it really helps me organize the flow of conversations by separating people I follow into columns (industry, personal friends, etc). I also like the feature that you can have a search and it will pop up all new tweets related to that topic (say ecomm).

Without it, the Twitter stream isn't nearly as useful. As you correctly point out there is less value in more noise.

Re: Looking For The Yawn

khylek — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:25:23 -0000

Congrats to the Twilio team on closing the round. I have a sandbox account, but haven't had the chance to play with their API. I would also encourage web developers to check out the company I work for, IfByPhone. We have a simple API as well, and you can build full on IVR using our GUI. http://is.gd/lBUY

There are a number of companies out there doing very interesting things with Voice (Jaduka and Jajah for example), and making it more accessible. Good luck to Jeff and his team in the future.

Re: FriendCast Sends Personal Voice Messages to Groups

khylek — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:37:00 -0000

In actuality, this is not the first Voice Broadcast app in the iPhone App Store. IfByPhone released one months ago.

Re: Facebook Users Can Comment On This Blog Using Their Facebook Profile

khylek — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:01:02 -0000

Ignore my simple ignorance. Must be Christmas Eve brain freeze.

Re: DISQUS and Facebook Connect under the mistletoe

khylek — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:28:51 -0000

I agree it ain't easy, and it'll be a while before I bother getting the API key setup. But IMO that's more on the Facebook side than it is on the DIsqus side. I sorta wish that the API Key would be handled similar to how FriendFeed does, which is to say, each user gets one, across the board. Instead of the goofy creating a dummy application thing.

Re: DISQUS and Facebook Connect under the mistletoe

khylek — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:18:29 -0000

A possibly stupid question, but how do I find my Facebook API key?

Re: 100 in 100

khylek — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:48:40 -0000

Did I see you ate a Veggie Whopper? What was that like?

I really dig PHP. I am close to finishing a screen pop for inbound phone calls via Twitter (and will shortly follow it with a Google Talk screen pop as well). Just need to get some more data uploaded to my database. Love PHP.

Re: A little love for Disqus

khylek — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:13:35 -0000

That's a common concern. I'm not really hung up on that, because I could lose the WordpRess comments to database issues or whatnot as well.

I love Disqus since it makes conversation easier. Plus, now I have one place where people can go to to see everywhere I've commented. I can find new blogs by tracking where other interesting commenters participate.

Re: Ribbit launches its web phone platform

khylek — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:24:23 -0000

Congratulations to Ribbit on coming out of Beta. Ribbit seems like an excellently run company. The fact that BT bet $105 million on them is a major vote of confidence not only in them, but also for the industry as a whole.

Also, it's great to see them offering a bring your own network approach. I work for IfByPhone, and I can tell you that we are very open. We have free developer accounts (http://public.ifbyphone.com/services/developer-api), and our API allows anyone who can write web applications to add voice to their arsenal. So a web developer could literally add voice to their application within a few days with no prior experience in voice.

If you check us out, I think you will be very pleased with our level of openness.

Re: Why Voice 2.0 is tied to Social Media

khylek — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:13:32 -0000

That really depends on what you want to do and your background. There are lots of companies out there that have or are in the process of providing APIs to front end their telephony technology.

If you are an enterprise company, you have all kinds of options. Smaller to medium sized businesses can look at IfByPhone - which has low price points, and easy integration. But like i said, it really depends more on what you are trying to accomplish.

Re: Community Organization Is A Conservative Notion

khylek — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:58:57 -0000

I grew up in a town slightly bigger than Wasilla. Our mayor had a second job selling furniture just to make ends meet. I wouldn't count Mayor of a small town too strongly as qualifications for backing up the leader of the free world. Just saying.

Re: Community Organization Is A Conservative Notion

khylek — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:55:05 -0000

Fred, that frustration you're feeling? That's *exactly* why she was picked, not just because of her looks. In one of my long ago History classes, I read a theory about elections from Elihu Root (a cabinet member for Teddy Roosevelt). It's not who wins the issues that wins the election. It's who defines what the issues are.

The longer we talk about Palin's vs. Obama's qualifications, the more McCain eventually wins that argument. McCain still wins the experience argument, so as long as we talk about that and not the issues Obama is strong on, the stronger McCain gets.

Re: Facebook Live Feed Kills Twitter & FriendFeed

khylek — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:18:03 -0000

Someone needs to make an AIR app out of this. Then it would be fairly interesting.

Re: IfByPhone’s Voice Broadcast iPhone Application

khylek — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:32:19 -0000

Keith, I talked to our developers. We're already at work on the problem - apparently it occurs when people have a very large number of contacts. We'll fix the problem as soon as we can. After it's fixed, generally there is about a 1 week delay before the change is uploaded to the iTunes store. We'll make sure to let you know when the change is put in.

I also wanted to mention that we have over 1,500 subscribers for this application, many using it regularly, so the problem appears to be unique to a small number of people.

Thanks again for the feedback!

Re: IfByPhone’s Voice Broadcast iPhone Application

khylek — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:08:37 -0000

Keith, thanks for your feedback. I wasn't aware that the application crashed when submitting that many contacts. I'm a little surprised, because I know people are using it to send out messages with many more contacts than you mention.

I'm passing the information along to our Support team.

Re: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2008/08/is-geek-tech-go.html

khylek — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:13:21 -0000

People are just beginning to catch on to these two services. More companies are popping up on Facebook (including mine, IfByPhone). We use Twitter as well to keep in touch with people interested in our services. Tying all these together with a services like FriendFeed and/or Disqus is a next step as well.

I think I knew Facebook was mainstream when my absolute non-techie wife signed up to keep track of her social net (even though she has no idea what that term means).

Re: The Lazy and Smarter Web

khylek — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:25:51 -0000

I know where you're going with this. And I like the Summize+Twitter combo as well as the efforts of your other hyper local company (forgetting the name at the moment). It's great for tracking reactions - (I thought it was easier to track reaction to the recent Ribbit/BT deal through Twitter\Summize for example).

Didn't really consider the following of places\concepts on Twitter. It's like FF rooms, but dynamic. Not as fool proof, but pretty cool. Maybe you have something here.

Re: A quick note on Personal Branding

khylek — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:48:25 -0000

I think non-techie and small business people generally do NOT search before a meeting unless they do a quick LinkedIn lookup.

I do find all kinds of interesting information about people though - things to bring up in conversation.

Re: A quick note on Personal Branding

khylek — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:46:36 -0000

Definitely an interesting concept in SEO\Personal Branding. I'll check it out.

Re: The Lazy and Smarter Web

khylek — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:22:56 -0000

This works well if you're a highly followed blogger or someone who is heavily invested (in the time sense, not in the money sense) Social Media. I'm not so sure the average Jane or Joe can use their social network to find Yoga Instructors in Brazil.

Can everyone benefit? I guess, but I'm not sure why a Summize search is more meaningful than a Google search at this point.

Re: Call him TINY

khylek — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:13:33 -0000

I'm done blog-geeking out btw