Disqus - Friends of sol

Re: Rails 1.0: Party like it's one oh oh!

Damon Clinkscales — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:09:00 -0000

Congratulations all!

Re: Rails 1.0: Party like it's one oh oh!

Damon Clinkscales — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:09:00 -0000

Congratulations all!

Re: The verdict is in: The Pownce API kicks Twitter's ass (Scripting News)

Damon Clinkscales — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:30:18 -0000

Hello Dave, I wanted to tell you about an app I wrote called SnapTweet ( http://snaptweet.com/ ). It is sort of similar to what you built for yourself I guess, except it only tweets your latest when you tell it to. Please try it out sometime if its of interest.

Thanks, Damon

Re: How to post images to Twitter and Flickr at the same time from an iPhone

Damon Clinkscales — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:37:13 -0000

SnapTweet is a service which combines Flickr and Twitter. It allows auto-posting via Flickr tag or via direct message to @snaptweet. It doesn't try to create another photo store or a new friend network, it just hooks up two services that we all love.

Please give it a go sometime. Thanks.

Re: Twittering Photos

Damon Clinkscales — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:01:25 -0000

Fred, I know you are aware of SnapTweet, but I just wanted you to know we've recently added auto-tweeting based on a Flickr tag like Twittergram has. Best.

Re: SnapTweet – a Twitter photo service review

Damon Clinkscales — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:28:37 -0000

Thanks for the writeup and review of SnapTweet, Sol. As you can imagine, I am with you philosophically on the "right way" to join these two services.

As for the problems you had with tagging, it has always worked for me, so I don't know what issues you ran into there. Sounds frustrating! Another neat feature that Flickr offers is to have default tags set on incoming emails. This removes the need to have to put the tag into the email. Of course, this assumes you want to lifestream every emailed Flickr photo to Twitter. I guess many people do roll like that.

The timing issue can come up with direct messaging. You have to make sure that Flickr has actually received your post via email. With the tagging method, I can see how if you are expecting real-time, you may be a bit anxious. But once you've used a service successfully and trust that the pics will post, then just tagging them in your mail to Flickr and moving on will probably work for most people, imho.

Your two emails method works of course, but I'd rather just store my photos in one place. I've considered offering a mail-in service which then forwards on to Flickr and only temporarily resides with my service. Perhaps some folks would still like something like that.

Feel free to let me know if there is something else you'd like to see.

Thanks!

Re: SnapTweet – a Twitter photo service review

Damon Clinkscales — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:13:47 -0000

@willie on Twitter pointed out you can set up Flickr auto-tags for email. A nice feature that obviates the need for putting any tags in email for SnapTweet to pick up your emailed pics.

Re: SnapTweet – a Twitter photo service review

Damon Clinkscales — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:30:41 -0000

Hey Sol!

I agree. I don't use it that way either. But I've learned in recent days that some people do.

Also, the tagging works. I did an example the other day when we were chatting.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalnomad/2402626666/

Re: SnapTweet – a Twitter photo service review

Damon Clinkscales — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:16:24 -0000

No, but that Flickr link shows what I typed into the email. This page on Flickr also shows how to do it.

SendPics sounds useful, but I'm not jailbroken and don't plan to. I'm sure come June sending fullrez photos from your iPhone with true iPhone SDK apps is going to be easy to do!

Re: Millennial job hunting - Q&A

Damon Clinkscales — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:10:12 -0000

Hey John

I am liking what I am seeing from you in following you online. Keep up the energy. Hope to meet you sometime soon.

Re: Walkandtalk meeting with Austin Mayor Will Wynn

Damon Clinkscales — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:42:08 -0000

Nice.

Re: Privacy+Disaster+At+Twitter%3A+Direct+Messages+Exposed+%28Update%3A+GroupTweet+Is+Likely%26nbsp%3BCulprit%29

Damon Clinkscales — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:06:23 -0000

Twitter isn't culpable here. At all. They have an open API and a pretty darn good one. And I am thankful we have it.

The application user in this case made a mistake, but it was made much worse by the app reading historical messages.

GroupTweet should have used the since_id parameter to only "read and rebroadcast" new messages. That would have limited exposure and it would have been figured out quickly if a mistake was made.

Making the UI more clear would probably help, but it's a little bit like those "Are you sure? Are you really sure?" dialogs.

Re: People to meet in Austin / set meetings with

Damon Clinkscales — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:53:29 -0000

I like the fact that you've published this big list. I'd suggest you use a strikethrough as you meet with each person and update the blog post accordingingly. That way, we can follow your progres.

Re: How much has money contributed to your happiness? - Dusty Reagan

Damon Clinkscales — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:38:31 -0000

wrt the post...

I'd link up your LinkedIn posting on "asked LinkedIn friends a question" in case people want to jump to the whole discussion right now.

At the bottom, where you say I encourage you to "ask questions on LinkedIn", I'd link that to the primary page for LinkedIn Answers in case people want to check it out. My $0.02.

Re: @Garyvee, ruler of his context, live in Austin

Damon Clinkscales — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:50:51 -0000

John Erik, it was great!

I've got the videos up on my site now.

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk - When do you know you have a community? Stop...

Damon Clinkscales — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:43:03 -0000

Thanks for that reminder Gary. Great concept. Vids are up from your Austin visit. Thanks for making the trip!

Peace

Re: @Garyvee, ruler of his context, live in Austin

Damon Clinkscales — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:33:46 -0000

btw, that's @robertetaylor, not robert e kelly

cheers

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk - A new mission and why we are keeping the wrong...

Damon Clinkscales — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:48:41 -0000

word.

Re: Ruby Conferences and Tracks

Damon Clinkscales — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:02:00 -0000

Thanks for gathering these up, Gregg!

Re: Ruby Conferences and Tracks

Damon Clinkscales — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:02:00 -0000

Thanks for gathering these up, Gregg!

Re: jQuery Parallax Scrolling - Build your own 1980's video game! - Squeejee

Damon Clinkscales — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:39:00 -0000

Very nice, Wynn. That’s cool!

Re: Would you hire this guy for your marketing/PR/video/social media campaign?

Damon Clinkscales — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:53:33 -0000

Unless you're starving, hell no. :) If they didn't hire you for you, then what's the point. You're a "youth culture" consultant for crying out loud. You're not their employee (fortunately).

I mean what's the big deal, cut your hair, get the gig if you really want it...it's ok.

But it seems particularly perplexing given the reason they hired you and could be a warning sign to run the other direction from the project.

In general I would say you want to look for clients which "get you and your style" rather than those who don't. I'm sure you'll find some.

Re: How to build a really successful web 2.0 service on top of another service and screw it all up

Damon Clinkscales — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:30:00 -0000

Probably not a surprise, but I agree. :)

Re: Coworking, Conjunctured, Startup District Q&A

Damon Clinkscales — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:00:05 -0000

Nice article!

One idea I had while reading it is to take your Rolodex and start inviting Austin startups to demo at Conjunctured. Do this weekly at the same time each week. Open up Conjunctured to the public to come into these talks. This will serve multiples purposes.

1. It will shine a light on Austin companies and what they are doing, giving them press and also introducing them to potential hires or consultants.

2. It will widen the net of people who are interested in working at or at least learning more about Conjunctured.

3. It will help help establish Conjunctured as a hub for startup activity.

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk - You can have both….Jobs. Way to many people out...

Damon Clinkscales — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:33:11 -0000

Hear hear, Gary!