"If they specifically blocked the ads when you are using your account, that’s ridiculous and deceitful. I would have to assume they gave you enough credit to do exactly what you did, and that they didn’t expect you to check in was nuts."
- Ryan Petty
"So how should they handle the situation in the screenshot where you see “Fort Hood”, #FortHood and #FtHood? Should that be one topic or three?"
- Ryan Petty
"A successful service is a combination of great technology and a great community. FriendFeed has excellent technology. FriendFeed has an excellent community. To trash either at this point is ludicrous. It’s unfortunate the service never got the chance to reach its full potential. Maybe it was born too late."
- Ryan Petty
"Job changes are emotional and personal, whether they are a surprise, deserved, one person or 800. Don has a great opinion on this, and I think he should. I’ve admired Don and his work ever since I caught the Web 2.0 and blogging bug several years ago. He was a mainstay on my blogroll, back when that was more commonplace. I am sure that with his talent and connections, he will end up somewhere great that is lucky to have him soon."
- Ryan Petty
"Robert, that was my point, Twitter is great to get the word out, but I'm a paying customer and like Jesse was unaware of the issue until Jesse raised it in the blog post. Now, mind you my blog isn't "mission critical" by any stretch of the imagination, but a personal touch would be nice. Of course, I don't think I'm paying for that level of service, so I'll have to check the SLA again. I will monitor Twitter more closely and should probably have Rackspace tweets hit my mobile. That said, I couldn't be happier with Rackspace overall. Great products and great service."
- Ryan Petty