Disqus - Friends of mona

Re: Museum Theme - Installation and about Museum

Paul Papadimitriou — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:41:34 -0000

The best theme around. Thank you so much for creating it. (photo commenting would be nice but I see where their absence comes from).
Keep up the amazing work.

Re: jeffrock.com

Paul Papadimitriou — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:57:57 -0000

May I ask you what you mean by custom URL not supported ? Having multiple Tumblrs on custom URLs, I want to be sure I'll be able to use your app before downloading it. Thanks so much.

Re: Ping.fm / Uploaded Image from Andrew Shuttleworth

Paul Papadimitriou — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:26:36 -0000

Darn, I was just not able to get a good pic of the tower of light with my DSLR... This is really cool.

Re: jark: What happened to mobileinjapan.com? Seems the site died and is in a perpetual state of being set up. Anyone got ideas?

Paul Papadimitriou — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:17:59 -0000

Sorry, Ning had some issues this weekend. The site is back up !

Re: Ping.fm / Uploaded Image from Andrew Shuttleworth

Paul Papadimitriou — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:55:52 -0000

I know a bunch of non-techie people that would love having such a tool at home.

Re: Ping.fm / Uploaded Image from Andrew Shuttleworth

Paul Papadimitriou — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:25:46 -0000

Wow! Great view, should visit Yokohama end of January, you'll have to give me some tips.

Re: If you only had one social site

Paul Papadimitriou — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:26:21 -0000

Thanks for the poll, Lance.

The most annoying thing with Twitter and many services is that "friend" thing. Why on Earth isn't it possible to add features like "trusted friends" (Brightkite), separate pro and personal (Plaxo), mute some specific thread (Friendfeed, Rejaw), unfollow specific trends (Profilactic) without having to go to the pain to customize everything like on Facebook?

Anyway, rant over. Facebook is the one I would miss the most overall, for it brings both it-savvy people and others. My vote did go for Friendfeed, since it's where I love interacting the most.

Re: Poll: Who Do You Twitter With?

Paul Papadimitriou — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:26:35 -0000

Thanks for the poll. Twitter is great to follow trends around your interests. Follow industry trends, day-to-day chatter. even if it can be useless ego-trips sometimes.

Too bad some people use it only to advertise their own blog post, I don't need another RSS feed :-) However, in the end, Friendfeed works better for me for interaction. That's where the discussion is happening for me.

Re: If you only had one social site

Paul Papadimitriou — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:55:20 -0000

I think we should each draw our micro-blog/status posting map somewhere and create some kind of a best practice. We're all doing that in a way, but have taken different routes.

Re: If you only had one social site

Paul Papadimitriou — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:00:27 -0000

FF is the best tool around, it even replaced my daily reading of RSS to a certain extent. I know many people are saying Twitter does this, but without a tool like TweetDeck, the noise-to-signal can be way too high to actually be using it without losing too much time.
Twitter should learn a page from FF in many fields: grouping (the Twitterlator Pro app on the iPhone just released something like this), hiding posts, best-of-the-day,...

I'm actually thinking of setting up a "shadow" (i.e. not linked to my name) Twitter account to just follow the most relevant people. But that would be my third account and I'm running out of tools to follow them on my Mac & iPhone :-)

Also I forgot to mention that even if Facebook is the site I would miss the most, I mainly use it for personal networking. I'm trying to separate my personal and professional life online, but it's a real pain sometimes. Still, Facebook is the closest to an ideal solution, as I can create lists of people with what they can see/not see.
To be complete, FB should add more importing tools to integrate with the fact that you might have many blogs for instance.

Re: If you only had one social site

Paul Papadimitriou — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:22:54 -0000

Well, that's in the pipe, Lance. More next Tuesday :-)

Re: Poll: Do You Ever Get Frustrated By Twitter?

Paul Papadimitriou — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:14:53 -0000

Don't really care about SMS, this is so "passé" :-) Threading is a must, a groups (room), grouping (creating your own stream of people to follow, Twitterlator on the iPhone has implemented this, but it multiplies the API calls), there should be a third reply way: @ goes public, DM between people interconnected and another option, like PM (private message) between people not connected (maybe with day limit to avoid spam).
OAuth should be also implemented to avoid giving password to external twitter services.

Was great talking about this and other social media strategies with you two yesterday, Andrew and Lance.

Re: Poll: Do You Ever Get Frustrated By Twitter?

Paul Papadimitriou — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:16:18 -0000

Mmh, why not. Using the "Find people" option is great if you do maintain well your address book (I think it's very important nowadays).

Re: Starting a Social Media Forum & How Talk About Money Heats It Up

Paul Papadimitriou — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:52:30 -0000

Money is key, that's certain but was it the only incentive to participate in the conversation you launched? The phrasing of the post was what got me.

Walk the talk, take back the web, get your hands dirty. That's where you got me.

Re: Starting a Social Media Forum & How Talk About Money Heats It Up

Paul Papadimitriou — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:49:26 -0000

I'm also not sure if it's sustainable or not, but let's try and see what comes out of it.

Re: Should President Obama Continue to Use Social Media?

Paul Papadimitriou — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:59:17 -0000

I know it's going to sound "passé", but he should also be on Friendster, still a huge community and very active in Asia (even if it's not Obama's primary concern, marketing the Presidency abroad has proven effective with his campaign)

Re: Should President Obama Continue to Use Social Media?

Paul Papadimitriou — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:00:21 -0000

You're right, I should have been more precise. I was writing with my iPhone on the train ^^

In South East Asia, I would say that Friendster is a leader, even if MySpace and Facebook are obviously very present. Friendster has opened offices in various southeastern countries (Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore). Hearing that it is still kinda strong in Japan (ok, nothing compared to Mixi), even if it's fading against newly-comer Facebook.

As for China, Facebook has had some good successes. There is a government-approved SNS (the name eludes me right now) that is growing rapidly. Same as Facebook: it started as a student thing.

In Europe, Bebo is popular amongst english-speaking people, i.e. mainly UKI, even if it offers translations. I've read somewhere that people do not engage as much on it, they tend to quickly check it and then go.
Netlog has been growing in other european markets (well, bar my french friends, they're crazy on Skyrock), as its localization services are well done and engage teenagers not yet able to speak the international language. I think it's one to closely watch.

The other one that it's often forgotten is hi5, a network I'm not even on I think (what a shame). It works well in the south of Europe, Africa and Latin America (bar maybe in Orkut-land, Brazil). In Asia, Thailand comes to mind, but I don't know about other countries over here.

I don't see the Obama administration actually considering all these options. Far too time and money-consuming for external PR. They will certainly go the Facebook road. Now, if they want to make friends in some of the parts of the world where some anti-US feelings were high at times, they should think about the chatter on some other SNS.

Re: The New Twhirl (preview release) for Team Seesmic-Twhirl

Paul Papadimitriou — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:59:21 -0000

Great work. Made me come back to Twhirl. Praying for some grouping functions in the future ^^

Many thanks

Re: Japan's Social Media Mavens

Paul Papadimitriou — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:29:56 -0000

I still look like an inflated alien on this one ^^

Re: Ping.fm / Uploaded Image from Andrew Shuttleworth

Paul Papadimitriou — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:51:25 -0000

Nice one. Would love to see the Fuji-san like this!

Re: louisgray.com: FriendFeed Friday Tips #1: Five Ways To Use the Hide Function

Paul Papadimitriou — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:42:11 -0000

Thank you for all these very useful tips, helping setting some best practices on FriendFeed. The noise-to-signal becomes more manageable.

Re: Ping.fm / Uploaded Image from Andrew Shuttleworth

Paul Papadimitriou — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:51:44 -0000

And how do you implement that? That's great!

Re: Ping.fm / Uploaded Image from Andrew Shuttleworth

Paul Papadimitriou — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:09:51 -0000

Well, I won't be using that. Erasing all my contacts/calendar? I'm using MobileMe as my central hub and just want to sync, not replace my hub :-)

Re: Ping.fm / Uploaded Image from Andrew Shuttleworth

Paul Papadimitriou — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:53:37 -0000

I had read your blog entry last year :-)

My Mac address book is my central hub. MobileMe allows me for a great sync between the iPhone for both the contacts and the calendar.

The Google sync with Address Book was sketchy at best. Maybe now that they've implemented some changes, it will be better (the suggested contacts were poisoning the sync, the mapping was not done correctly, since Google was not standard, etc.).

You see, going through my contacts in Address Book is still way faster than the Gmail contacts. And yes, I want/need my contacts on the desktop, if only for back-up (which I also do with Plaxo: the sync with Gmail was also sketchy there, btw).

Don't have that much time now, will certainly play with all these tools once more to see if I can master a good sync plan once and for all.

Re: eNik » Blog Archive » Twittering and Memory Leaks

Paul Papadimitriou — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:06:15 -0000

TweetDeck is still RAM-hungry on the Mac as well. Love it, but I have to switch it off from time to time.