I ordered some last week, I will let you know how they look. While it is great to be able to put on photos, I was disappointed that they had so few font and layout options. - Aura Mae
Just went through the order process now to create cards for the company. It was a nightmare we had to re-upload the 50 images for each staff member , no way to reuse the images previously uploaded. Plus as Aura says we were disappointed by the lack of layout options. Hope they print nice though now we've been through that - Jon Dillon
It won't load my images at all. Moo.com is dropping the ball. It's too bad - Thomas Hawk
As a graphic designer, i'm going to check into these, thanks for the link! - orionstarr
but if only their website actually allowed you to order cards. sigh. - Thomas Hawk
I had no issues ordering some last week. Thomas, might it be they have a hard time supporting your collection of photos since there are so many? - Dave Cohen
@Dave -- The problem Thomas and ScottBourne were having was that the load time on Moo was just hanging because of their large Flickrstreams. I emailed them about it and got this response: "The size of the flickrstream shouldn't affect the load time. possibly if you had thousands of sets it might affect the sets tab, but otherwise it's loaded in pages." Tom also got this response, so I emailed them back and await another response. - Matt Donders
They told me the same thing Matt. I think they are lying. I emailed Richard Moross their CEO earlier today, we'll see if he writes back. Hopefully we'll be able to order some Moo cards someday. - Thomas Hawk
“Testing on big new SmugMug feature going well. Looking solid for a release tonight (*knock on wood*). Don't have PR, so who wants to cover it? Robert? Mike? :)”
I've always felt that your users/customers should be your biggest evangelists - why not let us shout about it from the rooftops? Give us a nice blog post/screencast to point to, and you'll have saved all that money on the PR firm ;-) - David Sifry via twhirl
+1 to Mike Doeff. Post it on friendfeed. It will get around, no press needed. - Erica Baker
Any guesses what it could be!! Something BIG?? - Satya
Don, from now on, give it to Mark Bennett and he'll give it to me. :-) - Louis Gray
I vote Friendfeed too! Inject the news here and it can go viral through the conversations in the blogging community. - Larry Kless
Interesting idea. Wonder if it'll work? Won't everyone be asleep soon (or is already asleep), then we'll get lost in all the noise overnight? Hmmm... - Don MacAskill
@Shawn Nope, bigger than that. The logo, btw, is changing to be more a more typical subtle transparent grey logo ala broadcast TV. sorry about the green. think it's quite a bit smaller too. - Don MacAskill
@Shawn we can't get rid of the logo entirely because we believe it'll break our business model. Sorry about that, but it certainly shouldn't be intrusive like it is. That's our bad. - Don MacAskill
Sleep is for the weak. Gimmie features features features! ;) - Evan Sims
I'm looking for an excuse to move my 35,000 photos off of Flickr and onto something a bit more... not Yahoo. - Pat Hawks
@Don Sounds like fun, I'd take you up on the offer if I was in the valley. - Larry Kless
@Pat Just curious to see if our new feature will be of interest or not. dSLR helps. But a big dSLR, like a 1DS or 5D or something, would help even more. We'll see - hope you'll love it. - Don MacAskill
@Evan Sims, I found Migratr to work extremely well too. Smugglr didn't quite seem up to the task for me. Once you move over I reckon there is little moving back. I still put the best 1 or 2 shots each week on flickr as I still want more people to see my photos. That is the bit I miss at smugmug - the feeling that fewer people are seeing my shots - maybe that is just an imagined thing anyway.... - David Pascoe
Whew. Stupid legalese almost tanked the release tonight. We just deleted the offending passages. Hope that's ok. :) Testing resumes... last few bugs in sight, I hope? - Don MacAskill
Can I get an invite, please? mkoeneker@gmail.com Thanks in advance. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker
Robert is correct. I have sleep issues as in I forsake it all too often. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker
I need to get some sleep cause I have to be up early for our WorkFast.tv show in the morning. Hey, Don, I'll give you guys a shout-out on that show if the feature gets done tonight. - Robert Scoble
Hi Don, continuing our conversation from yesterday, who are your target audience for Smugmug? Any section in particular? - Palin Ningthoujam
@Palin Anyone who places value in the photos they take. Families, travelers, serious amateurs, Pros, etc. You name it - as long as they think their photos are worth paying something to save and keep. - Don MacAskill
@Don, and they should be internet users, not necessarily active internet users or social media users? - Palin Ningthoujam
@Don, all the best on the new feature release. I'll check out your FF room. - Larry Kless
@Palin They need an internet connection, sure, but other than that, nothing else is a requirement or a target for us. We're certainly not targeting social networking or hardcore geeks or anything like that, if that's what you're asking. - Don MacAskill
I liek Smugmug, and I liek the company, but I shoot a fair amount of glamour / nudes and the "big brother" aspect is too intrusive. - Soulhuntre via twhirl
@Soulhuntre I'm not sure what's "big brother" about requiring family-safe images. We're not spying on you or anything, we just want you to put them on some other service. - Don MacAskill
Man I love this company. California's still going strong at 2am, testing all the corner cases, and our European employees are just rolling in to help. Awesome. - Don MacAskill
What an interesting conversation! I know, a like sums up that sentiment, but a like and a similar comment do the trick better :) - Eric Florenzano
Dang, we're wiped out. California SmugMuggers dropping like flies. I'm next. We'll pick it up after we catch some Zzzzzs. Party at SmugMug HQ in a few hours? :) - Don MacAskill
Congrats and thanks for the fantastic app! - J. Phil
Amazing. Obviously the best first round of Google employees (gmail, reader) are moving on. It will be interesting to see how the company adapts / evolves. - Brandon Werner
Really bummed to see you go Chris, but congrats. - Mike Yang
Good luck and thanks for your work in making GReader so awesome. - Dana Franks via twhirl
Thanks for your work on GReader. It's an essential part of my daily workflow. Good luck! - Chris Baskind
Without Google Reader, I would be so much more productive. And also more boring and less knowledgeable since I'd read fewer feeds. Thanks for all the hard work and good luck for the future! - Tony Ruscoe
Wow, thanks a lot for your great work on Reader. It's really changed a lot of peoples' lives (including mine). - Jake
Definitely thanks for your work. It changed my life so much that I decided to build one. - Elias Torres
I wonder what Googlers realy mean when they congratulate other Googlers when they announce their plans to leave.... - Bindu Reddy
Bye Chris...THANK YOU... gReader is my friend and you made that possible :-) - Susan Beebe
@Bindu I suspect its "Take me with you!" ;) j/k - Erica Baker
Google Reader -- one of my top 5 favorite programs of all time. - Sean McBride
"I want to recognize all of you for the unbelievable commitment and energy that you have demonstrated over the last several months as we continue to fulfill our strategic objective..." How inspiring -- I've always dreamt of fulfilling strategic objectives :) - Paul Buchheit
Paul: my strategic objective is to do a killer interview of Salesforce.com's CEO tomorrow. :-) - Robert Scoble
Scoble is doing his best to give me a big, big, fat head. - Kevin Fox
Promoting the things you really like is an art. Scoble knows what he's doing. - Louis Gray
Don't worry, Kevin...your head looked just fine in the video. - Trent Olson via Alert Thingy
Just wait until Scoble has the Appleokia 1250N iPhone. You know, the one that forces you to honestly and fully answer each of his questions. That might bring the Internet to a halt. - Ranjit Mathoda
Maybe its my Mac but the audio of these (and most other) cell phone video stinks. more VOLUME please. - Geoff Longman
It's not you, the audio sucks hardcore for me too (On any PC I've been on). I really like some of these interviews, but some of them you should really take the time to get a real camera/mic setup. I know many are just happening on-the-go and that is cool, but preparation and better equipment for some would actually make me want to watch these (I've tried in the past, but the audio was not tolerable. Some worked ok though, like your first FriendFeed interview which was great ) - Bartek Gniado
It doesn't solve a lot of problems, though. Now I'm getting even more duplicates (don't add a comment to something you've already shared, for instance, it'll send two out). It also doesn't add commenting like you see here on FriendFeed. It also doesn't fix some of the other UI problems that Google Reader now has, thanks to its additions friend networks, etc. - Robert Scoble
Robert's right on this. I got it shared twice by him (including with the note). But what this does do is avoid the centralized comments controversy we saw not too long ago. - Louis Gray
Louis: centralized comments are going to win anyway. Look at everything happening here on the World Wide Talk Show feed. - Robert Scoble
The bookmarklet also seems to make Shared Stuff a little more irrelevant, doesn't it? In fact, it's starting to look just like Shared Stuff. I could use a bit more convergence between Google's sharing features (e.g., Shared Stuff, Notebook, Google Bookmarks, and Reader). - mrshl
Cool. I thought that was missing a long time ago. - TranceMist
"During several recent appearances on The Alex Jones Show, Palfrey also said that she was at risk of being killed and that authorities would make it look like suicide. She made it clear that she was not suicidal and if she was found dead it would be murder.
Palfrey had threatened to release the names of well-known clients of her upscale call girl ring in the nation's capitol, and had indicated that Dick Cheney may be one of them.
"No I'm not planning to commit suicide," Palfrey told The Alex Jones Show on her last appearance, "I'm planning on going into court and defending myself vigorously and exposing the government," she said." - Paul Buchheit
It's surprising that most mainstream media accounts of her death are laveling it as a probable suicide and ignore her repeated public statements that she would never commit suicide but that she felt it was likely that she would be killed and her death framed as a suicide. - Kevin Fox
The New York Times article presents a different perspective: "Dan Moldea, a Washington writer who befriended Ms. Palfrey while considering writing a book about her [...] recalled a conversation over dinner last year when the subject of prison came up. “I will commit suicide first,” he remembered her saying." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05... - Tudor Bosman
Dan Moldea? That sounds like a Romanian name. I'm seeing Romanian names everywhere these days. :-) - Raoul Pop
Something is rotten in Denmark for sure. This is flat out corruption. - Ginger Makela
Marilyn Monroe anyone? history repeats itself - Susan Beebe
And, suddenly, off in the distance, one can hear Oliver Stone beginning pre-production. - Rob Reed
I'm just speculating, but wouldn't any (smart) "I might be suicided" philosophy be accompanied by a backup plan to make sure that some smoking gun/black book is released to [someone] in case just her dire prediction comes true? ... Something like a journo saying "if I don't get back safely, my editors will find a copy of this on their desk..." - Erik Dafforn
Is it wrong that 16 people "Liked" a story about someone's death? - Ryan Kaisoglus
