"Snowl is an experiment to answer that question. It’s a prototype Firefox extension that integrates messaging into the browser based on a few key ideas" - Ken Yarmosh
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""Subscribers is not computed for browsers and bots that access your feed."
http://www.google.com/support/......
(btw, this was supposed to follow in response to the above comment but it got placed at the end of the thread)" - Ken Yarmosh
""Subscribers is not computed for browsers and bots that access your feed."
http://www.google.com/support/......
(btw, this was supposed to follow in response to the above comment but it got placed at the end of the thread)" - Ken Yarmosh
"A technicality here, although I agree with your overall premise. Here is how FeedBurner (Google) describes "Feed Subscribers" for a single day subscriber total:
"FeedBurner’s subscriber count is based on an approximation of how many times your feed has been requested in a 24-hour period."
The key point is the 24-hour period. You will probably notice that the RSS subscriber one day count still drops on the weekend.
So, while I agree that reach is more important than subscribers, I think it is a bit much to say that the subscriber count is "basically useless." You can also look at your subscriber count over 7 / 30 days / all time, which then shows average subscribers during that time period." - Ken Yarmosh
"A technicality here, although I agree with your overall premise. Here is how FeedBurner (Google) describes "Feed Subscribers" for a single day subscriber total:
"FeedBurner’s subscriber count is based on an approximation of how many times your feed has been requested in a 24-hour period."
The key point is the 24-hour period. You will probably notice that the RSS subscriber one day count still drops on the weekend.
So, while I agree that reach is more important than subscribers, I think it is a bit much to say that the subscriber count is "basically useless." You can also look at your subscriber count over 7 / 30 days / all time, which then shows average subscribers during that time period." - Ken Yarmosh
"Definitely like the UI better than fftogo (not to take away from fftogo, which has been awesome). Also, the "Post photos from your phone" appears to be an interesting feature...but I would prefer something like following and/or search." - Ken Yarmosh
From article, "'The most likely new TLDs to be pushed into the Icann process are those that have been under development for some time now - the geo-TLDs such as .cym for Wales, .sco for Scotland, .ldn for London, .nyc for New York and so on,' explained Marcus Eggensperger, of Lycos Webhosting." - Ken Yarmosh
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From article, "Later this week I will be driving my kids to their camp and not picking them up for about a month. What I wonder about is how not having daily access to the Internet will effect their mindset and the mindset of the their friends also at camp." - Ken Yarmosh
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From article, "The lesson seems to be this: as long as there is news, people will try to share it. And new technology promises to turn the process into a tide that can swallow us up, good intentions and all." - Ken Yarmosh
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"Students using social networking sites are actually practicing the kinds of 21st-century skills we want them to develop to be successful today," - Steve Rubel
i studied something similar to this effect in a CS class. the power of many weak connections is still rewarding. - Paul Stamatiou
Humans crave appreciation - even weak links add to your appreciation meter. It would be very very interesting to conduct research on how many weak links = a strong link. Any social anthropologists about? - Craig Thomler
The interesting part of the study is not about teaching kids 21st century skills, which is dubious at best, but rather how social networks lessen the socioeconomic digital divide for the youth of America. For another perspective on these types of issues, read The Dumbest Generation. - Ken Yarmosh
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The power lies in networks and interactions - both virtual and physical. At the end of the day we are all human. - Vic Podcaster
I remember quite clearly when a professor in middle school made it a class assignment to become a pen pal (via snail mail) with another student in another country. The goal was for all of us in the class to introduce a new perspective into our lives and studies. In college, I had the benefit of having access to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter... where I could become virtual pen pals (via wall posts, tweets, etc) with thousands of people around the world. It was my most important experience in college. - Amanda Mooney
Been saying this since people started going private on Twitter - The most beneficial 'friends' are probably the ones you don't know about yet. - Charlie Anzman
Malcolm Gladwell touched on this in The Tipping Point. Weak connections, particularly out of your 'usual' network, are amazingly powerful. Getting different perspectives from outside your bubble can be transforming. - AJ Kohn
"9. "Until recently I had to suffer working for a manager who used phrases such as the idiotic I've got you in my radar in her speech, letters and e-mails. Once, when I mentioned problems with the phone system, she screamed 'NO! You don't have problems, you have challenges'. At which point I almost lost the will to live."
Stephen Gradwick, Liverpool " - edythe
Haha: 21. "I am a financial journalist and am on a mission to remove words and phrases such as 360-degree thinking from existence." - Mark Trapp
leverage (#42), drill down (#48), and one not on the list - abreast. As in, "Let's keep abreast of this low-hanging fruit!" no no no! - lisa-k
In my business, the phrase "best practices" is used wayyyy too much: "According to best practices, you should do X." or "Best practices tells us that we should do Y." We've actually had a client ask us "best practices: is that a book? Who wrote that?" - Mark Trapp
"touch base," "offline," and "sense of urgency" make me want to punch somebody...sorry, I have pent up anger - ♫ Rahsheen™
You don't have problems, you have challenges - Noooooo, oh yeah, she finally left, sigh.... - Victor Ryden
I showed this article to my boss earlier this week. He is now making a conscious effort to stop saying "going forward." I'm so proud of him. - David Worrell
I've hated the phrase "action items" from the very moment I heard it as well as anything uttered by bureaucrats:( More funny is that the bulk of these esoteric phrases and words originated during and after Wall Street's woes of the late 80s. - Roney Smith
I was once denied a promotion at a restaurant because the assistant manager said I didn't have enough "sense of urgency". He could never define it, but watching my co-workers, I think it means "looking busy whenever someone was watching and then having to redo things that you messed up while in a hurry." There are still days when I dream of slowly lowering him into the deep fryer foot-first. - ha3rvey
granularity; drill down; let's touch base about that offline; low hanging fruit; it all hurts - Ken Yarmosh
@lisa-k: gagggggg! @Harvey: that sounds suspiciously like you didn't have enough...flair? :) - edythe
Why can't people in offices just talk like regular people? WTF books are they reading that have them speaking this retarded language? - ♫ Rahsheen™
Not a phrase, but just as bad - I hear the word (non-word!) 'irregardless' get thrown around sometimes. Maddening. - lisa-k
No mention of my personal favorite -- "open the kimono"? Also when the network is down you are having "network opportunities," not "network problems." - Tödd Nëmët
My pet peeve: knowing I have used many of these phrases in business conversations in all seriousness, without irony. I also can't stand "ize" on anything: "prioritize" a classic offender but the latest big one is "monetize'. "Minimize brain damage"; "The C-Suite, or C-Level" and "ABC": always be closing. - Cathleen Rittereiser
My #1 enemy office phrase is "please advise." Yadda yadda yadda about a very important action I've been handed that needs to happen asap or the project will fail. Please advise. Sincerely, your co-worker. Please advise pretty much means "ball's in your court now, a**hole." Plausible deniability for the office place. "Hey, it was out of my hands. I was waiting for JoeBob to get back to me with information." I need to setup a rule in my email client that responds "out of office" to msgs w/ this phrase. - Jim Stanger
Haha, Jim. There's also the "long-winded-story-about-how-something-bad-happened-but-it's-not-my-fault so..........." where you're expected to finish the sentence and thus take responsibility for the decision and any possible problems thereafter. - Mark Trapp
Jim S.: I use "please advise" to close every now and then but only for a couple of people on our pseudo-rival team. Because, yes, it's not quite but almost rude. ;) - edythe
Almost all the the phrases mentioned here were introduced to me my Consultants. Very expensive Consultants. Best practices was a great way to get something past a reluctant manager, but it could not stand up to followup questions. - Russellreno
best practices - arrrgggh. what we mainly hear these days is "let's stay focused on maximizing shareholder value." - edythe
From article, "So what can we conclude? Yes, the iPhone 3G will cost you $160 more than the original iPhone over two years. If you don't need 3G at all (or GPS), you might not need to upgrade if you've got an old one. Otherwise, $160 is a small price to pay—for us at least—over the course of two years to drastically increase your email and browsing speeds." - Ken Yarmosh
Will be reviewing this book shortly. Some good thoughts coming out lately, including The Dumbest Generation - How The Digital Age Stupefies America's Youth, which I reviewed on the blog a couple of weeks back. - Ken Yarmosh
http://www.plurk.com/user/bwan... I'm there to try it out. I like innovative new things and the timeline/response mechanism is something refreshing. It takes some getting used to. The IM interface is average when it works (it's down now). I like what they've done, but it's no Twitter replacement in its current form. - Bwana
http://www.plurk.com/user/adap... Like Bwana, I'm trying it out. Besides the timeline, which I find interesting, I like how they apply the karma concept. Things I don't like: the problems of IM (it hasn't worked once for me) and the errors of the email importers. Let's hope it's a matter of time, some of the features seem great. - Andrés David Aparicio
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@directeur - Unless you're already a Mac fan when you're choosing to write software you typically want to target the largest potential audience first. That happens to be Windows users when you're choosing an OS/platform. It's just a matter of getting the most return on your effort. - Lindsay Donaghe
at one point in time i would be willing to accept that Lindsay, however in this era that is just laziness--if you are going for a large audience of users then you will allocate the resources necessary to provide for the fastest growing segment of the market (recently published figures sugggested that 66% of all laptops sold last year were Macs) - Nathan Eckenrode
OK, so Fluid on the Mac, and Mozilla Prism on Win/Mac/Linux and now Bubbles (Win only). I guess SSB are going to be the next best thing on the Internet. I love Fluid FWIW, and I use Prism on my Ubuntu box with mixed results. - Michael Ramm
@Nathan - Agreed that more people are on Macs now, but that doesn't mean that there aren't still more people using the Windows OS. I have a Macbook Pro as my personal computer and run Windows in Bootcamp on it about 99% of the time. And there's nothing saying software companies won't make a version for the Mac, but it makes a lot more sense, if your resources are limited, to make a Windows version FIRST and then worry about the other OSes if your software become profitable. - Lindsay Donaghe
Lindsay: There are technologies and ways to make multi-platform apps, doh! :) Look, firefox! :) - directeur
i fear this is an early adopter problem, not neccisarily a mainsteam problem. 95% of the people i know prefer to be contacted exactly one way: mobile phone (either txt or call). most of the rest prefer facebook. - Chris Hollander
I see this becoming a trend, I'm privy to information from O2 and participated in a questionaire this afternoon where they mentioned something similar! - Joe Dawson (beta)
This sounds like a tall order which even IF the carriers "buy" into it, I doubt that most folks are. My university can't even get most faculty/staff to use "unified messaging" for much more than just voice mail! - Thomas Ho
@Chris @Thomas Our preferred methods of contact change over time. - Kevin D. White
i derive great satisfaction from not answering my phone. plus, it sounds a nifty idea, and here's the main problem i see with adopting the niftitude: control. i give certain people my home phone number, i give others my cellular, others my email, my IM, or some combination. i don't want MS to decide who can have access to me and how. now, i realize, this isn't insurmountable. people could adapt, MS could provide various options, and mostly i don't know what i'm talking abt; just a possible issue. - hisherness
Don't eliminate phone numbers. Just further unify existing communication channels. Part of Gates' quote hits it. - Ken Yarmosh
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Seemed to only touch on the community and self aspects. I was drawn to the idea but the general theme appeared to address how this was a different work/life balance approach. - Ken Yarmosh
Where's the XMPP interface to Adocu? Where's the Adocu API? Can we block Adocu spammers? Does it have a "Something is technically wrong" screen? :) - Morton Fox
From article, "We are well into the development process of Windows 7, and we're happy to report that we're still on track to ship approximately three years after the general availability of Windows Vista." Read: We still don't know how to quickly develop an innovative and relevant OS. - Ken Yarmosh
Swap out the "your query" with relevant search terms and you can see that FF probably offers the most comprehensive live web search. Be sure to add it to your Firefox search plugins. - Ken Yarmosh
