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Re: Twitter

mattshaulis — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:34:49 -0000

I apologize for telling you to get TweetDeck. :( hehehe (what a CPU/Memory hog that beast is) Although, I guess it's the lesser of many evils... Native support for groups in Twitter itself will really be nice if and when we get that. *fingers crossed*

Re: Hello world!

mattshaulis — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:39:09 -0000

My pleasure. :) Anything I can do to help or any other custom WordPress theme/plugin work you need, hit me up.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

mattshaulis — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:20:27 -0000

This is a great point about Wordpress that I fear not enough people take advantage of, however this limits you to one author, one tag, on one blog. With the Shyftr Publisher someone is free to mash up the feeds of more than one of their blogs and create unique and interesting filters including multiple authors and/or topics of interest (or disinterest if that's the case) without relying on formal taxonomy of posts. For too long RSS feeds offered by publishers have been limited, not by the imaginations bloggers, but by the technology available to them. Along with a brilliant community of talented publishers we are hoping to help change that. :)

Re: /socnets: BackType Beats Disqus to Implementation on Social Media Reactions

mattshaulis — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:54:04 -0000

Another thing that nobody seems to address with BackType (unless i'm missing it somewhere) is that it is far too easy for *anyone* to leave a comment on a blog using your name and your URL, essentially "posing" as yourself. There is no authentication going on ... so if someone made BackType a fixture on their public facing website it would be way to easy to deface said website. For a lesser known person (like me) it would hardly make much difference because nobody would even notice the defacing... but for more well known personalities (like you, or scoble, or any of the other slew of top bloggers out there) having BackType content displayed on their own site would pretty much make them an instant target for trolls (see: the skittle twitter saga). While the concept is honorable and the work they have put into their system is something to tip my hat to, I just see it being too risky to ever become an integral part of one's blog.

Then again... it's not like there are any people with bad intentions on the web, eh? (end sarcasm) ;)

EDIT: I am aware that you can moderate... but sometimes the damage is done... and you can't moderate all the different places that the data is passed via RSS.

Re: TweetDeck Plugs Memory Leak; Launches Facebook Integration for All

mattshaulis — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:53:38 -0000

Ah... that was a good explanation. Thank you. When you put it like that it makes perfect sense. I suppose time will tell on TweetDeck. I don't leave it open all the time so I never noticed the problem to begin with...

Re: TweetDeck Plugs Memory Leak; Launches Facebook Integration for All

mattshaulis — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:53:43 -0000

Shouldn't a memory leak fix do nothing but improve performance? Kind of the whole point? Is there an instance where a memory leak being fixed had an adverse effect on performance? It's almost like saying "I hope losing weight doesn't make me heavier." But I don't know... I'd love to take this opportunity to learn something new. :)

P.S. the group management in Seesmic Desktop is atrocious, leaving everything to be desired save the feature itself.

Re: /blog: Does Sitepoint Endorse Splogging?

mattshaulis — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:36:20 -0000

I think you are right this time, Mark, even though Duncan's comments about negative comments are understandable. The fact that you were given a "final warning" while, meanwhile, she was adding yet another Splog for sale is inexcusable and spotlights an obvious and remarkable flaw in SitePoint's ethos.

I will boycott SitePoint now (though I've only bought books from them, and never a website... I won't be buying *anything* as long as "do-gooders" are treated like trolls). (And being that Josh Catone no longer writes for them will make that boycott possible for me. :) Before hand, sorry, I could not have missed out on his blogging. Hehehe. You understand, I'm sure.)

Re: And then there was three: JS-Kit acquires SezWho

mattshaulis — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:23:17 -0000

HA!! "biggest shakeup to hit the commenting 2.0 space so far" ... What?? Not hardly!!

Automattic acquiring Intense Debate was a *MUCH* bigger shakeup... Facebook recently announcing a product of their own in this space: that's also a much bigger shakeup. Hell, Disqus getting funding from UnionSquareVentures is even bigger, bolder, more "shake it up" news that anything coming out of JS-Kit's camp. Also, [predicting] FriendFeed will release a competing product this year... possibly before Q3, that will also be a bigger shakeup but still not the biggest, mind you. [ Just trying to spare us the hyperbole when that announcement finally does drop, hehehe. ;). ]

P.S. There are "3" ... but JS-Kit is not one of them... if your talk is to include JS-Kit then there are more than 3.

Re: Google says hello to Twitter with a stream of 1s and 0s

mattshaulis — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:34:23 -0000

Check this site out for example, so we can all look smart now just like some Googler has done. (Wikipedia takes too long to go back and forth the "ol fashioned" way and Gabe's way is damn near worse than the old fashioned way... lol... )...so without ado: http://www.roubaixinteractive.com/PlayGround/Bi...

Re: Making blog posts even more worthless

mattshaulis — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:49:53 -0000

You have a typo in the first line of your lunacy infused rant. "...invaded but the most..." should read "...invaded by the most...".

Not that I expect an author at The Inquisitr to to do anything about unprofessional grammer/typos... (or even blatant uber-fails speckled all over the whole article as we see the "CEO" guilty of here: http://www.inquisitr.com/16941/15-years-later-b... even when alerted to it in his own comment section he does nothing to correct the article. I think a screenshot of that page should go here: http://www.inquisitr.com/extra/category/fail )...

Back to the point however... do I think spewing all that Twitter noise into one's RSS feed is a moronic thing to do? Absolutely... (If they want to put it on their page.. that's fine and you should not give two craps about it... the RSS Feed is a different story and you should have stuck to that.) but for every part of me that agrees with some of your minor points it was the overall surliness and high-and-mighty-tone-combined-with-grade-school-typos that leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. So if any blog gets my un-subscription vote for the day, it's this one.

Re: Why is MC Hammer Suddenly All Over Social Media?

mattshaulis — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:50:53 -0000

DanceJam is not exactly new anymore either... I'm sure I am not the only person (who pay's at least a shred of attention/does a little homework) that is not at all surprised to see Hammer's Twitter account growing at the rate it is (and happened to notice before today that Hammer was "all over social media" ...

In other words... what do you mean "suddenly" ?

Re: Winklevoss twins made $65 million on Facebook “copycat” settlement

mattshaulis — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:23:31 -0000

"PHP drives a very large % of the best websites out there"

Yeah... and do you know why that is? "...this is PHP code, not exactly hard-to-write stuff..."

P.S. (Because that's my motif for this thread): "a stupid throw away statement" ... hmm... pot, meet kettle.

Re: Winklevoss twins made $65 million on Facebook “copycat” settlement

mattshaulis — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:21:51 -0000

Not to mention... The point is now how awesome Facebook is or is not... it's the fact that the litigation between ConnectU and Facebook resulted in a sweet 65 million bones! Screw the billions... I can think of more than one way to enjoy the life with $65,000,000.

P.S. A.) what is a reasonable plan and B.) do you sit in on the board meetings and know that they don't? C.) no less than 1/2 (possibly 2/3 depending on how you slice it) of the IP issues were just solved to the tune of $65MM... D.) CEO's get replaced all the time (not to mention they said the same thing about steve jobs once.... once.) E.) Yes.

:)

Re: Facebook proves how lame it is – steals from Twitter and FriendFeed

mattshaulis — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:53:50 -0000

Agreed... A site adding a feature as innocuously generic as "Like" hardly seems something worthy of getting offensive about.

Re: Facebook and Twitter: There’s blood everywhere, but no one is dying

mattshaulis — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:47:37 -0000

"But it's got some Labrador in it."

--From 'Up In Smoke'

Tommy Chong speaks these famous words to cult icon, Cheech, while they smoke a contraband cigarette containing dog feces. Cheech had not realized (until that point) that excrement was involved. Hilarity ensues.

Re: Facebook and Twitter: There’s blood everywhere, but no one is dying

mattshaulis — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:36:15 -0000

I, however, *do* entirely disagree.

Facebook is actually the opposite of "a little young" (especially in the company of Twitter and Friendfeed). Also, Facebook apps are like the blogosphere... some of them are top quality (see: VentureBeat, for example), and others are "Me Too" garbage that probably oughtn't be taking up hard-drive space anywhere (see: most other blogs, with a handful of exceptions). Fact remains, Facebook created the platform, not the application... the platform is king and sometimes the applications are awesome... most of the time they suck, just like blogs... but the platform is justified by the value-adding, top-quality apps. You can not blame Facebook for your bad chicken experience... blame your stupid "friend" who thought it appropriate to send a flipping Super Chicken to you, of all people. I don't even know you and already I can ascertain that sending you something called a "Super Chicken" is a baaaad idea.

Re: Latest release of Internet Explorer 8 Accelerates browsing

mattshaulis — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:23:36 -0000

Shutting down the IE project would be the best improvement over IE7. ;)

Re: Latest release of Internet Explorer 8 Accelerates browsing

mattshaulis — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:57:14 -0000

Shilling for Microsoft much?

With the exception of "Compatibility View"* there was not a single original feature introduced by ie8 to the browser community at large... as with most things Microsoft, they have simply lifted the most logical features off of their competitors...

"Accelerators"... well that's just Microsoft coming up with a proprietary name for an already ubiquitous process ... in other words: processing of microformats AND/OR extensions. Old hat and nothing MS deserves any praise for FINALLY allowing into their crap browser.

"Web Slices" ... hmmm, seems to me that Safari 3 introduced this functionality with OSX Leopard long ago. What? Windows stole a feature from OSX?? Unheard of... Also, "you can receive updates whenever you get a new email" .. uh... I don't know about you but I don't need ie8 to tell me I have an email... haven't for years... so that bit was a little strange.

*Compatability View??? Let me see if I have this straight: The IE team is getting praise for sucking so bad in the past that they need to program a safety net into subsequent products?? No Comment.

The worst part of all of this, however, is that you really seem to honestly believe that it's too bad you can't put this shit product on a device built specifically to protect you from the eternal headache that is "dealing with a Microsoft product"! You should be falling on the ground and thanking god in heaven that you will never have to put up with ie8 on your Mac. (Do you forget what drove you to Mac in the first place?)

** Oops.. I guesss I forgot to give the IE team credit for their new anti-phishing protection... No browser "allows" XSS, lol. This is just MS fixing a flaw in *their browser* that has been brought to the table for years without any effort by MS to fix it... now they have... again, let's be careful not to praise MS for simply sucking less.

wait a second... you wrote this whole thing without even trying the browser?

Re: Breaking: Steve Jobs Steps Down as Apple CEO until the End of June

mattshaulis — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:04:37 -0000

Hmm... are you sure "stepping down as CEO" was the most accurate verbage? (vs. the most sensational, the facts notwithstanding.) ... According to Steve Jobs' own internal email: "As CEO, I plan to remain involved in major strategic decisions while I am out." Pretty sure that statement asserts the fact that he will indeed remain CEO during his medical leave. Just saying...

Re: Is TweetBacks getting spammed already?

mattshaulis — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:24:54 -0000

"released too soon" is unfair this day in age... not to mention "Early adopter-ish" type of tools are meant to be "released too soon" in order to get the most valuable feedback up front... not every developer has Google's R&D department and can mull application ideas around in private for eons while the idea is "perfected" for the critics. The guy got his stuff out there so you gotta give him credit for that. :)

Re: louisgray.com: Does Anybody Care About Non-Blog Commenting Anymore?

mattshaulis — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:25:38 -0000

Murky area for bloggers, app developers, and users ... yes. But having heard from the horses mouths exactly what IP lawyers think about this very subject I can say with utmost confidence that their opinions are anything but murky. I think we can all admit (and going from the words of people like Tony Hung back in the spring) that 1100 characters is a bit much.

Something Shyftr did not do when we got pulled out on the carpet on this is claim that we were following a "fair use" policy of some kind. We were simply syndicating the data as it was provided in the feed. Our original intention was to be sure to not tamper with the content in any way. Knowing that many publishers chose to advertise in their feed, it felt wrong to us to truncate that content even a little for fear it would appear as though we were trying to usurp a publishers ad (something we would never ever want to do).

When we were presented with the other side of the coin it became clear to us that we needed to change our policies and we did so quickly and we moved on. I would be remiss to advise you on what an appropriate fair use policy would be for Social Median... I can only share my opinions and my scars and hope that you will find yourself capable of quickly addressing the concerns of the people who work so hard to give the blogosphere all of it's wonderful content. I've always kept the bloggers at the forefront of my concern because I love reading blogs and only ever wanted to make that a more communal experience for everyone... I could never express to the community enough how much it hurts to have so many bloggers hate me now because they think I was out to "steal" from them or otherwise undercut them somehow... was just never our intent. :-\

Re: louisgray.com: Does Anybody Care About Non-Blog Commenting Anymore?

mattshaulis — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:21:55 -0000

1100 characters seems well outside what one would qualify as fair use. I'd be interested to know a world class IP attorney that would agree with you on this. Any "leading copywrite[sic] lawyers" would err on the side of caution... so I'm not exactly sure I believe you. (Either that, or your lawyers pulled one over on you as far as being "leading lawyers in the world".)

Re: Jesus sighted in a coffee cup [exclusive]

mattshaulis — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:04:40 -0000

The frothy beverage also contains the likenesses of a house cat, a pan-seared fois gras, and the Philippines... miraculous.

Re: Judge to Apple’s Papermaster: Thou shall not work

mattshaulis — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:28:32 -0000

Oof... that's harsh... I think non-compete clauses are stupid and just aim to ensure an employers right to treat their employees like property. I'm rooting for Papermaster all the way on this one... screw IBM.

Re: louisgray.com: Twitter Planning to Implement OpenMicroblogging Standard

mattshaulis — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:24:51 -0000

Wow, good eye, Jesse.

This, when implemented, will be a really big deal. I'm thrilled at the possibility of Twitter playing in the OMB playground. Thanks for bringing us this buried little gem of news. :)