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DISQUS WITH FRIENDFEED QUESTION: Those of you who have FriendFeed comments pulled into your blog article's Disqus stream... How long does it take for new comments made on FriendFeed to populate within your Disqus stream?
Anyone have any insight on this? I just embedded the code into my site, posted an article on FriendFeed and commented on it, myself. This was eleven minutes ago. I'd figure it would have showed up on my Disqus by now. What do you guys think?
- Brad Williamson
@Andriamirado I use Squarespace to drive my blog, so my implementation might be a bit different from what you need to do. I used the following link to guide me through the process... http://wiki.disqus.net/Squares...
- Brad Williamson
It doesn't really work with me. I think the feature needs some more work. You mean the native "social media comments" feature in Disqus, right? Even if it does work (like on mashable.com or scobleizer.com) I don't like the implementation. Would have liked the same interface as FF uses itself, like in feedly. I hope I made some sense :-)
- TobiasVerhoog.com
I'm still having this issue with my latest webisode. It's been three hours since my post appeared on FriendFeed and none of the 20+ comments have shown up on my Disqus thread yet. What gives?
- Brad Williamson
Okay... It's now been 24 hours since my latest post was published and I still don't have my FriendFeed comments posting on my site's Disqus. I understand it's supposed to take a while to register, but this is taking a bit too long. Gianni... if you're around the FriendFeeds today, can ya help me understand this? I'd like to have a better understanding of how long IT SHOULD TAKE for these comments to register. Thanks.
- Brad Williamson
@Brad The first time it does take awhile, but after that, in a couple of hours, you should get them. I have never had an issue after the first time I integrated the services.
- Shevonne
@Shevonne So you're saying that as I publish with more frequency, Disqus will be more prompt in the registering of the social media activities surrounding the post? This is my second go-around with the service and it's taking longer than the first. But, it's still early in my overall use of the service, so I guess I should anticipate better results in the near future???
- Brad Williamson
No, just the first time took a day or two, and then after that, they started importing in. Are you using Wordpress? Did you install the plugin, and choose that integrate option they have?
- Shevonne
I'm actually using Squarespace, which is an approved Disqus CMS to use. Surely that wouldn't play a part in the delay, would it?
- Brad Williamson
Social Media Tracking Sites and Statistics
It’s not all about the numbers, but having the numbers helps. Here’s a recap of tracking sites worth the bookmark, several articles on the topic and a measurement/ROI discussion forum. http://scoopdog.wordpress.com/2009... .
This weekend I got a chance to visit my father in Chicago and one of the things we talked about was Iran and Twitter. My father knows nothing about Twitter. He's only learned of Twitter's existence from newspapers like The New York Times. He was born in Iraq and lived there until his twenties. So while he doesn't know much about Twitter, he happens to know a lot about dictators. He lived under the regime of Saddam Hussein. I'm less inclined to believe that social technology is making us smarter after having talked with my Dad. But I still believe we are becoming smarter through the use of blogging, Twitter, and the vast number of social networking sites. Social technology, at its core, enables, encourages, and expands collective intelligence. And so, it may seem like splitting hairs, but the real argument is that collective intelligence trumps individual intelligence. Social technology does not make us smarter; we are already smarter in large groups.
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"Participants in the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference walked away considering fundamental questions about what is and isn't semantic technology. The relevance of this post's title will hopefully become clear by the end to those of you mischievous readers who may have stumbled upon it with other ideas. The conference was a great and well-organized affair in San Jose, California. One of the highlights was the Semantic Search Keynote panel, with all of the major players on stage (Ask, Bing, Google, Hakia, TrueKnowledge, and Yahoo!), as seen in the picture below."
- Seth Greenblatt
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"Different markets have different needs for marketing products or services. We all know that much. But that doesn’t take away the weirdness of a company like Google advertising its core product (online search) by using ink that was printed on paper."
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In Ohio, insurance companies are permitted to choose to insure just the healthy, leaving insurance either unaffordable or even unavailable for others. "Cherry picking", also known as "segmentation," is a common insurance industry practice designed to protect themselves against covering individuals with health risks or perceived health risks. AARP Ohio believes that health insurance coverage should be meaningful and available when people need it. It should be affordable and must not be based on, or constrained by, actual or perceived health status or history of health care services use. But paying claims costs insurers money, so they have a powerful reason to protect themselves against covering individuals in less-than-perfect health. Access to treatment is critical for individuals with chronic conditions, and a permanent fix to Ohio's law regarding preexisting exclusions is crucial to reforming our health care system. Early intervention and adequate treatment for those with chronic conditions is vital.
- Bill Hannigan
Everyone's comments are written as if our health care system is great as it is. The big picture is our current health care system is dysfunctional, wasteful, inefficient and unfair. Patients, doctors, hospitals, etc. get strong armed by private insurance. Insurance companies are often in the driver’s seat in making medical decisions and people are suffering from those decisions. And their profits and surpluses more than doubled the increases to health care cost over a 5 year period. So the cost of health care is still going up, but the profits by private health insurance companies are rising significantly faster. Private insurers tactics include selectively insuring the lowest risk enrollees (risk segmentation) , not covering certain diagnoses, slow-walking claims payments so they can earn interest on every premium dollar, prohibiting insurance portability, denying coverage for existing conditions, policies criteria that can exempt them from paying on claims, denying as many claims as...
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- Bill Hannigan
Here I am. Twelve months and 60 posts later. I managed to do it. This is not the first time I start a blog. I did when the “blog” term was coined and then a second time when I thought I had something to say. Third time is the charm, they say. There are many times when bloggers will think about quitting their blogs because it makes no sense to continue writing for 40 people, or because they’re making pennies or less per month. This post will tell you why I haven’t quit and what worked this time. I will also share some data about the blog’s progress in traffic and revenues.
- Jorge "JungleG" Escobar
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60 is a good start. Call me when you get over 2,000. :)
- Louis Gray
Louis and gang: thanks so much for the good wishes. I promise I'm stepping it up and will call you when I get to 2,000
- Jorge "JungleG" Escobar
great! so how do you get in? (did you get an invite code?)
- Franc ☺
So far I have been satisfied. The analytics are decent.
- Will Ponder
Franc: i was sent an invite code but im not sure how or on what time frame they are opening the service up. I have noticed some things can been quite buggy so its definately is a genuine "private beta" not just a marketing play.
- Anthony Feint
Anthony: I was lucky I used the invite code 'suprbeta' and it worked .. quote"I have noticed some things can been quite buggy" have you had any trouble with adding url shortening to your website? that's is the part that interests me most.
- Franc ☺
I actually haven't tried adding the url shortening to my site yet (as we already have another custom tool) but from what i've heard, lots of people have been having trouble with it. That part of the site is an alpha feature
- Anthony Feint
TangoCMS 2.3.0 “Dolphin” launched – another open source PHP/MYSQL content management system competing with the sharks - http://www.mytestbox.com/news...