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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

MarinaMartin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:58:37 -0000

You can customize a WordPress RSS feed by author and keyword, too... either subtracting certain ones or including certain ones. Of course, not with Feedburner active ;)

Totally see the value in what you're offering, just want to point out that if you have WordPress (and are not running Feedburner), you can already do this.

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

golda — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:29:26 -0000

Moderation is done at the account level i.e. a comment wouldn't hit RSS, FriendFeed, Twitter etc unless you approved it first.

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: /blog: Does Sitepoint Endorse Splogging?

rizzn — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:55:18 -0000

I like how you said "this time." You know what they say about a stopped clock. :-p

Along these same lines - I know the activity of buying and selling sites isn't common, but I really don't know of very many marketplaces that have the level of activity Sitepoint does. I know of DigitalPoint, but it's about thirty times more difficult to navigate and find anything of relative value.

RE: Josh - I agree. I've always liked his work, and I generally will follow him wherever he lands in his writing journeys.

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

rlaksana — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:15:36 -0000

LOL ... I'm loss in word here. My first thought when I wrote the comment was that there are a lot of misconception about memory leak. Most user assume that high memory consumption is memory leak. It might not be memory leak that causing large usage but just caching to decrease memory swapping. So instead of explaining to regular user about the complexity of programming term and algorithm. They just announce that the memory leak is fix and usage is down and capped.

I believe that TweetDeck developer are a great programmer and they must have a reason to program something that accumulate 1.5gb overtime. I used an app to do a simple call to garbage collect memory in tweetdeck and in a short time the memory goes back to 1.5gb.When I run it for instance in Firefox where real memory leak happen it never go back up as fast as TweetDeck. So I'm "guessing" they use the memory to cache something. So by caching, their intention must to improve performance. Thus the reason why I hope it does not degrade performance with the memory leak fix.

I hope the explanation is good enough. We are talking based on my assumption and I don't think that it is going anywhere without working knowledge on how TweetDeck is implemented.

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

parislemon — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:02:00 -0000

Ha ha, thanks Matt

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

StevenHodson — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:18:12 -0000

I wasn't being offensive in the least.

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

eldon — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:31:41 -0000

Thanks for the backup, Matt.

Nick, you seriously think Zuckerberg personally wrote Facebook code to scale to 150 million users (many of whom come on the site every day) while he was prototyping profile pages or whatever for ConnectU?

Give me a freakin' break.

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

msandler — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:37:01 -0000

Platforms may be king but content wears the Crown. Chicken Apps are at a low level of Abstraction ! Hamlet Survives will the promoters of chicken app's ! Thanks for the reply !

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

--From Hamlet (III, ii, 239)

Queen Gertrude speaks these famous words to her son, Prince Hamlet, while watching a play at court. Gertrude does not realize that Hamlet has staged this play to trap her and her new husband, King Claudius, whom Hamlet suspects of having murdered his father. She also does not realize that the lady who "doth protest too much" is actually herself, as the Player King and Queen represent King Hamlet and Queen Gertrude. The former will be poisoned (in this play within the play) by the king's brother, as in reality (Hamlet suspects) Claudius killed King Hamlet. Gertrude's statement is in response to the play-Queen's repetitive statements of loyalty to and love of her first husband.
"HEH "
half laugh, semi-cynical connotation, used on IRC by those too cool to say lol or roflmao

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

multisystemuser — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:46:07 -0000

have you even used it? I use it, firefox, safari and very very rarely chrome. They're all fine.

And anyway, who really cares who copied what from who?!? Everyone, EVERYONE, has copied something from someone. at the end of the day I just want to use my machine. It works. end of story.