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Re: Dating the ginormous MySpace breach

Richard Cunningham — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 06:48:39 -0000

I had two accounts, I might have deleted the first email, due to it having a cleartext password in it. The first marketing emails I had were

14 Jan 2009 (probably created November 2008) on the first account

23 March 2009 (probably created shortly before this date) on the second account

Re: Sony FE 70-300mm review by That1cameraguy

Richard Cunningham — Sun, 08 May 2016 14:29:31 -0000

Not to mention buying quite a expensive lens with his own money, he's not likely to make much of that back though advertising.

Re: (SR4) Sony will announced six more new FE lenses within 2016

Richard Cunningham — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:28:44 -0000

I guess you're all right. The 50mm and 100mm a-mount macros didn't get an updated at all since the Minolta designs. So probably not high on their list. 50mm/f2.8 most likely option to push people who really care about it to spend the money on the 90mm macro. Plus e-mount APS-C macro is 30mm.

50mm/f2.8 would double up as a cheaper prime for those who don't want to pay the money for the 55mm.

Re: (SR4) Sony will announced six more new FE lenses within 2016

Richard Cunningham — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:51:21 -0000

Some more affordable lenses around the price of the 28mm:

85mm f2/f2.8
90mm macro f4?
28-135mm f3.5-5.6
70-300mm f4-f5.6

or just put a AF motor in the LA-EA3.

Re: (SR5) Tamron will launch the new 85mm f/1.8 and 90mm f/2.8 macro A-mount lenses on Monday!

Richard Cunningham — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 14:49:37 -0000

The 85mm could be good option for A7 users, current autofocus 85mm options look like this:
Sony GM 85mm f1.4: $1800 (£1500)
A-mount Sony 85mm f1.4: $1700 (£800) - requires LA-EA4 for focus motor
Batis 85mm f1.8 : $1200 (£900)
A-mount Sigma 85mm f1.4 $970 (£620)
A-mount Sony 85mm f2.8: $300 (£190)

I'd say there is gap in the market for 85mm f1.8 if it is significantly cheaper than the Batis.

Re: And now also Tamron teases tow new (A-mount?) lenses!

Richard Cunningham — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:38:32 -0000

Canon and Nikon have the same number of platforms - both have mirrorless mounts too.

Re: And now also Tamron teases tow new (A-mount?) lenses!

Richard Cunningham — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:34:00 -0000

The prices are almost the same on both the US and UK Amazon sites. On US Amazon $1997 vs $1998 for body only. The price of the Nikon to me suggests they having problems shifting them. I don't see why Sony would want to place the A99 below the pricing of the A7II, since that's where the future is.

Re: Buffer October Update: $2,388,000 annual revenue run rate, 1,123,000 users

Richard Cunningham — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 07:34:48 -0000

Do you filter out people who've recently signed up from the active number?

Re: FriendBinder Shutting Down 26th October

Richard Cunningham — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:18:46 -0000

I'd say Hootsuite is the most well known one and it's raised most money too.

Re: Woz: Apple Almost Launched A Phone In 2004, Android Will “Win The Race”

Richard Cunningham — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:33:55 -0000

The phone he talks about sounds a lot like the Motorola Rokr, that Apple partnered on, released in 2005: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_ROKR_E1

Re: Posting status to Facebook + AJAX notifications

Richard Cunningham — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:38:43 -0000

Do you mean on a Nintendo DSi? Are you using FriendBinder or for something else?

Re: My Android problem and a case for proprietary over opensource. (UPDATED: With solution)

Richard Cunningham — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:09:57 -0000

That problem sounds pretty bad, though, I think they mean Motorola customer support or your network. Open source doesn't necessarily mean you have no support, the company you buy the phone from should provide the support. If you buy a Linux distribution with support, the company that makes the distribution provides support - also if you don't like the support you can switch to very similar product from another supplier. With Microsoft, if they won't fix the problem no one else can step in.

I doubt Microsoft will do support directly either and they often leave bugs in their products for years. For example Microsoft Outlook performs very badly as an IMAP client and has done for a number of years, Microsoft stopped developing Internet Explorer for 5 years at the height of it's popularity and the growth of the Web - leaving 1000s of bugs unfixed.

Re: We Need an Open and Federated Social Network. Even Facebook’s Paul Buchheit Said So.

Richard Cunningham — Fri, 21 May 2010 06:30:24 -0000

What we really need is for a lot more of the smaller social networks to start implementing Activity Streams, AtomPub & PubSubHubbub like Google have been doing with Buzz. That would make it much easier for people to make social network clients that support 100s of different social networks.

Re: Turn Off the Tweets, the Third-Party’s Over

Richard Cunningham — Sat, 01 May 2010 17:52:02 -0000

I work on FriendBinder which does Twitter/Facebook/Flickr in one place, whilst it's not a android app, it does work on the mobile web so might solve your problem

Re: Never Hire Job Hoppers. Never. They Make Terrible Employees

Richard Cunningham — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:44:25 -0000

Even if they are exploring, they are poor at picking jobs, so chances are they're not picking the right one this time either.

Re: Phones, 'Pads and Platform Plethora Pain

Richard Cunningham — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:12:35 -0000

My comment wasn't really that you'd got it wrong. My comment was really that there are already too many platforms to survive. I note for example, neither FourSquare or Gowala have Nokia/Symbian apps, despite the Nokia having quite a few popular phones with GPSes in them and even pre-date the iPhone in having a GPS.

Re: Phones, 'Pads and Platform Plethora Pain

Richard Cunningham — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:00:13 -0000

The fact you didn't even mention Nokia, illustrates how much of a problem this is.

Nokia has 52% market share worldwide, 31% in Europe but is overlooked by American companies, presumably, because it only has 4.5% market share in North America: http://stats.getjar.com/sta...

People need to write for the web, otherwise it's going to limit competition.

Re: How to Design the Perfect Lifestreaming Content Reader

Richard Cunningham — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:13:21 -0000

We do some of this in FriendBinder. On the front page of our search feature we show the most popular links from your friends and who linked to it. This includes tweets, delicious, Diggs and Facebook shares from your friends.
There are some screenshots at http://friendbinder.com/tour/ (3rd one down)

You can also drill down to see what your friends said about the links and search for what your friends said about any topic recently e.g. "iPad" and of course that searches their tweets, Facebook, Diggs, delicious etc.

I'm working on an improved version of this feature which will do more with filtering down your incoming stream to filter out some of the noise.

You can find at http://friendbinder.com and I'd be very interested to get people's feedback on what we've done.

Re: Lifestream Blog Turns 3 Years Old Thanks to You

Richard Cunningham — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:33:28 -0000

Congrats!

It's funny your first post was the same month I started working on FriendBinder. Even though FriendBinder was always about consuming content and reducing noise from the start, I've enjoyed reading about the various lifestreaming sites.

Re: Coming soon: the disruptive molecular age of information

Richard Cunningham — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:46:02 -0000

I suspect the answers to most of your points is that Twitter and streams have only been popular for a couple of years and the idea of have a full API also is pretty new, but all this stuff is coming I expect. In particular:

1. I expect a client will do this at some point (or already does), but I doubt Twitter or Google will do this themselves for a long time
2. The clients you mentioned are just getting starting and bet they will have this a some point, though you may have to look wider than the most popular clients
3. Isn't this the same as 2?
4. http://FriendBinder.com does this except Yelp and Buzz. Buzz needs some more features in their API before it can work
5. Wordpress is opensource I expect someone could do it
6. Isn't this the same as 2 & 3?
7. http://smidgn.com/ will do this I think
8. Lots of social networks have comment systems that would do that, however people seem myopic over Twitter and won't switch to platforms which innovate on stuff like that.

Re: Seesmic’s Web App Now Does Threaded Twitter Conversations

Richard Cunningham — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:51:33 -0000

Are they assuming that each tweet in the conversation only gets one reply? because that is often not the case as I've notice in the implementation we've had in friendbinder for a while now:
http://blog.friendbinder.co...

Re: Scripting News: Must-have features for Twitter-killing

Richard Cunningham — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:10:16 -0000

I imagine it will cross-post to Twitter, probably with a link back the source, since that's a no brainer.

I don't think building in a Twitter client will work, unless they can make it significantly better than the best of best Twitter clients that exist now which would include supporting multiple networks, not just Twitter and Facebook. I think the future of the social web is people being able choose their own client, like they do now with email and mobile phones.

Re: Scripting News: Must-have features for Twitter-killing

Richard Cunningham — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:34:17 -0000

They could add all those features but I don't think it will make it a Twitter Killer. For one Yahoo Meme, Status.net, Yammer, Pownce, FriendFeed, Plurk all have tried variations of those features. Google even had it's own in Jaiku

Any one starting a social network now needs to realise that they need to be in the social network clients, e.g. TweetDeck, Tweetie, Seesmic, Twitteriffic etc. (or my own FriendBinder) otherwise they will get forgotten by the early adopters.

Re: More iPad thoughts. (Scripting News)

Richard Cunningham — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:42:28 -0000

The Mac has always been half closed anyway, you can't run it on hardware of your choice. There is an obvious gap in their product line for a user serviceable single CPU box at a reasonable price and they refuse to make one. Also there is no cheap laptop. There is already a lot of expense to develop for their platforms.

Of the three major platforms as I see it Windows, Mac and Linux it's easily the most closed already

Re: I was wrong about full-text feeds

Richard Cunningham — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:43:10 -0000

I switched to use FriendBinder to read my RSS in late 2007 (from Google Reader) and I read Twitter in the same stream, also I particularly didn't like having an unread count in Google Reader - though I am biased because I develop FriendBinder. This works pretty well - though I can see why people are going down the pure Twitter route since they can pick from a wider range of clients as a result.

However on the subject of doing this with Twitter, Dave Winer's post, yesterday, on this is a bit worrying: http://www.scripting.com/st...