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Re: Tease! Tease! Tease! (Scripting News)

factoryjoe — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:31:03 -0000

Swell, thanks! Will read up.

Re: Tease! Tease! Tease! (Scripting News)

factoryjoe — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:05:42 -0000

Ah, I guess I wasn't asking for history so much as technical differences. Of course the problem with most technologies is interoperable adoption, so it'd be nice to either protocol gain adoption and enable a better P2P push-based infrastructure to rise up.

Re: Salesforce.com offers contact management for businesses of one

marcusnelson — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:22:49 -0000

Yes, it is different than the Group edition. Please refresh the page: http://www.salesforce.com/crm/editions-pricing.jsp and you'll see the revised editions and pricing. Thank you!

Re: APPLE TABLET: Ultimate Gallery of Concept Designs and Prototypes

factoryjoe — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:06:32 -0000

Sweet. Thanks for the change, Pete!

Re: What Spotlight search might look like according to... - the michael galpert tumblelog*

factoryjoe — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:42:47 -0000

Ha! Yeah, you're right. It was a 5 minute mockup -- it'd be cool to
see other people's ideas for an Apple search engine!

Re: Digg Stops Hijacking Your Twitter Links, Not Sorry About It

TheDudeDean — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:17:44 -0000

But he just came back from two weeks vacation, he didn't know! #FindsItVeryHardToBelieveKevinRoseDidn'tKnowWhatsGoingonOverAtDigg.

Re: Business models that your startup can use to generate revenue

marcusnelson — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:12:02 -0000

Hey SamRag --
Just so you know, at the time this was written (early June), UserVoice had just announced receiving funding - but, we had been utilizing the Freemium model since December '07. We were no more 'Big Boys' than anyone else. The point is just to pick a model you feel comfortable with and execute. If it doesn't pan out right away, tweak it a bit! Treat it all as an experiment till something sticks! :)

Re: Joomla Suppporters Club | Joomla GPS - brian.teeman.net

marcusnelson — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:19:57 -0000

@brianteeman -
Good to be here - Not sure what the immediate use was for, but it was inferred that it was going to be something more long term, oh well. :)

@Helio -
At least they know we're here. There's been some good integration recently with a UserVoice module for Joomla, especially Single Sign On -- check it out here: http://bit.ly/wWEFo We're pleased to be a part of the open-source community and can hope to be as much a part of Joomla as we are now with http://rails.uservoice.com and http://openid.uservoice.com

Re: Microsyntax.org: A Messifesto

factoryjoe — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:46:07 -0000

Tiny URLs are the zip files of Twitter. I doubt we'll see much more compression than that!

Re: Why Didn't PubSub Become Twitter?

factoryjoe — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:57:56 -0000

I completely, 100% disagree.

SMS is still the only universal API for getting data from any phone into web services... and furthermore, is the only API that stands up when WiFi/Edge/3G networks go down or experience service interruption.

It's also increasingly necessary from an international perspective (that is, I might tweet by SMS when roaming, but I'm certainly not going to roam on data).

While it's true that phones are becoming more capable as publishing tools, I think that the network is still a great limitation on what we're able to do with these devices.

Re: Why Didn't PubSub Become Twitter?

factoryjoe — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:10:02 -0000

Yeah, I'd agree that SMS penetration is what made Twitter. Laptops are too clunky to get out to post 140 characters — but using a phone is perfect — especially since everyone has one. Once we finally got to the point where everyone could use their phones to send text messages did the preconditions for Twitter to exist.

Oh, and it was no longer just a nerdy thing to use online social networks, likely thanks to MySpace making it culturally "cool" to have a web profile.

Re: Tag Synonyms

factoryjoe — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:09:31 -0000

Sure. I totally get that. You can't totally prevent spam, but the difference with just abusing hashtags is that it doesn't define anything — it still requires people to follow the spammer or search for the hashtag.

Let me put it another way... I presume that tag equivalency and linking will allow me to search for "#pigpox" and get results tagged with "#swineflu". That seems really useful! However, unless there is a reliable method to prevent abuse, prevent incorrect linking, deal with words with multiple meaning (i.e. is "trade" related to #stocktrade or #baseballtrade, etc?)... it seems that this could cause some confusion?

That said, I think curation is the right way to approach this — by creating system-level admins that can do this linking... and if you have a system that learns over time, perhaps explicit mappings will be primarily useful for emergent trending words (that a computer can't deduce as being related to something else) or for terms that should be related but aren't yet. And so on.

Eager to see how this is implemented though!

Re: The Man Behind the Hat: Colonel Tribune

TheDudeDean — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:38:14 -0000

Getting people to drink the digital kool aid is a pain at times.

Re: How To Do Guerrilla Marketing On Twitter. - Re-posting The Marcus Nelson Interview

marcusnelson — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:04:57 -0000

Hey Pete -
Happy to have helped! Great to hear things are working out - would love to have your "testimony" for posterity sake ;)

Send me a note if you can! marcus @ uservoice

Andrew - Thank you for reposting this. Part of me feels like I should not have shared the secret sauce, but then again - this is going to help people. So there ya go! Take care, hope to buy you a round soon!

Marcus

Re: betaworks - See, the people who populate Facebook are largely...

factoryjoe — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:02:19 -0000

I would agree with this, and yes, by "people who populate Facebook", I largely meant the employees and developers of Facebook, rather than its userbase.

That said, while they may not pay any attention to the moral argument between openness and proprietariness, I think that there is an implicit assumption (represented through behavior) that there is more value in being generally open and transparent than in being private, and that's because privacy and things like DRM get in the way of sharing and spreading information.

Openness and transparency is simply easier for folks who don't care about the technology, and care more about what technology allows them to do [with their friends].

Re: R.I.P. Ma.gnolia

factoryjoe — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:29:09 -0000

;)

Also watch next week's episode of theSocialWeb.tv, featuring Larry! ;)

Re: Facebook and Twitter, OpenID (Scripting News)

factoryjoe — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:46:55 -0000

I host my own OpenID on my blog: factoryjoe.com. That said, there are many more people who will choose to delegate or use an OpenID provided by someone else, just as they do with their email and their credit cards.

It's not a binary decision: what works for some folks may not work for others, but the technology should support the emergence of an ecosystem of solutions.

Re: Facebook and Twitter, OpenID (Scripting News)

factoryjoe — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:53:12 -0000

Hey Dave, thanks for the post.

Wanted to address the confusion that you mentioned about the OpenID Design Workshop.

The event is not a closed event per se, but we are creating the event to strongly favor the participation of folks with design, user experience, usability, a/b testing and similar skills. The OpenID community has historically lacked participation and coordination among people with these skills, and it's high time that we remedied that situation by creating a dedicated space for them to do what they do, and facilitating the transfer of their knowledge back to the community at large.

Therefore, given our limited space, we're asking that people strongly consider what they can contribute to a purely DESIGN conversation before attending. All of the results of our work will be published and summarized after the fact.

To your question about representing open source project, personally I will be presenting the work that I've done on the DiSo Project (an open source project which maintains the OpenID plugin for WordPress -- for which I've done most of the design) and we're reaching out to Aza Raskin from Mozilla to see if he can make it. If you've implemented OpenID in an open source project and have done a great deal of innovative work on the desire of the sign in process, then I believe that you could contribute something to the event.

I also definitely appreciate your concerns about open protocol development happening transparently. Design, however, is of a slightly different nature than source code. Design is inherently subjective — but should nonetheless be informed by statistics and quantifiable metrics. We are looking to bring together designers to share their experiences, expertise and research in areas that relate to OpenID, but there will be opportunities to focus on code and protocols later.

Indeed, given this conversation, it would seem that a follow up workshop on "Implementing OpenID for Developers" would be a good idea. We'll definitely take that into consideration!

Re: Apple iPod Touch large: I want one

factoryjoe — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:36:11 -0000

No worries. You're not the first. ;)

Re: Brynn Evans Profiled

factoryjoe — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:51:42 -0000

Dude, I wouldn't want to break it. (!)

Re: Thinking that it'd be supercool to have a Wayback Machine for Google Earth. #lazytweet

factoryjoe — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:41:54 -0000

I'm thrilled to find this!! This is excellent -- very cool!

And yes, man, I do wish Twitter would hurry up with OAuth already. It's painful to think about how many different web services out there have people's Twitter credentials.

Re: Three Rules of Why Coworking Sucks

missrogue — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:51:09 -0000

Well, collaboration does happen...not constantly, but it happens quite a
lot. But I think the point to be made is that even though coworking may not
be for you, it works for many others. Whatever floats your boat.

T

Re: Three Rules of Why Coworking Sucks

missrogue — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:36:58 -0000

Love you both. xo

Re: Open, to Some

factoryjoe — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:20:29 -0000

That would be ideal! And remember, BarCamps have been run successfully everywhere with the purpose of bringing folks together to mingle on these topics! No reason you can't organize your own events and then bring back your ideas/suggestions to the mailing list! ;)

Re: MySocial AIR

factoryjoe — Sat, 24 May 2008 13:08:28 -0000

FriendFeed should just implement OAuth already.

http://groups.google.com/group/friendfeed-api/b...