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Re: Twitter Chairman confirms turning down $500 million Facebook offer

nickobec — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:09:17 -0000

How much of it was real money and how much was it in over-inflated facebook stock? $500 million facebook stock at facebook valuation is really worth ???

Re: Did Your IT Dept. Ban TWITTER Yet? | My Philly Network

Solacetech — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:16:58 -0000

That's really encouraging! What's killing our network is when everyone streams music. They realized bringing a radio in from home isn't needed anymore...

Re: Did Your IT Dept. Ban TWITTER Yet? | My Philly Network

nickobec — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:10:00 -0000

Not in our office. I am in charge of blocking port80 traffic and if is was not for 50 public access computers, nothing would be blocked (we do block most porn sites).

Our management encourages the use of social networks, I was even asked to build a facebook app. A number of our staff (including senior management) use facebook, a few use twitter and other social networking sites.

Re: Is Kwippy yet another microblogging service?

nickobec — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:12:29 -0000

I like the threaded commented on Kwippy, however, the IM interface does do not do enough for me.

Re: Optus fails to deliver on Australian iPhone plans

nickobec — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:47:53 -0000

Duncan, it appears that Optus and Vodafone are not sharing the their network everywhere. According to their websites in WA Vodafone's 3G network only goes as far south as Cockburn, while Optus claims as far south as Rockingham.

And that huge 700Mb is for traffic in both directions.

Re: The Problem With Leaving Twitter

nickobec — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:53:47 -0000

Like most I experimented with Jaiku, Pownce, Plurk, BrightKite etc and each time I returned to Twitter, because of the community.
I have strayed to FriendFeed and stayed there, I am involved in a quite different community there. I use Twhirl with both Twitter & FF windows open, if Twitter is no responding, I wil concentrate of FF.
I do not agree with the Windows analogy, I use Windows at work, Mac OsX on my laptop and Ubuntu on my home desktop. I can live without any one Os and have easily (even my Mac) for any length of time.
The bar analogy is better.
If twitter loses the community I will be out of there.

Re: louisgray.com: Is Your Web Getting Filtered? What's Blocked or Unlocked?

nickobec — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:38:40 -0000

I work for a large public library and look after proxy which allows/blocks access to sites for the 100 public and 200 staff computers. Another team are the firewall nazis who block access to any outgoing port except 80 and 443, so no ftp, imap or pop email, ssh etc.
The censorship discussion is interesting and passionate in libraries. When the proxy responsibility got move from a Govt IT department to the Library. There was a good debate before it was decided to block porn because the public machines are in a public area and there have been some "incidents" in the past and "hacking" sites to protect the public machines (if you want to hack those public machine you need to read up at home). All the other typical restrictions SNS, webmail etc was removed.
We have just implemented free wifi in the public areas, without these restriction through a third party. (only limitation is speed 128k).
Most other Govt departments here block a big number of sites, including social networking, webmail and the like. I have known of one in the past that blocked all flash content and another that now blocks wikipedia.
One Department I use to worked for blocked a large number of sites and services. However, staff could get an exemption via their manager if they needed access to one of these sites for their work. Last I heard over 400 of the 700 staff had blanket exemptions and could access all sites with a number of different protocols.
I prefer my current environment were management trusts their staff to do the right thing.

Re: How Did Zillow Get To The Top Besides $87m In VC? They Ask For Links

nickobec — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:07:29 -0000

Ask nicely and you will receive sometimes.

I would say definitely a SEO strategy and why not. You are already mentioned them by name, so they ask you to link to their site. Far better investing the time to contact you and ask nicely, even if it does not work than buying link ads.

It is probably Whitney's job or a good chunk of his time to search out these mentions of Zillow's name and request links. And yes it is good strategy.