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Comment from Daniel Andrlik on Diigo: A Feature-Rich Service That Puts The Social Back In Social Bookmarking

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:56:20 -0000

Maggie,

Thanks for stopping by! As I’m sure you can tell from the review, I’m very impressed by this service. I’ll definitely take you guys up on the alpha testing.

Comment from Maggie on Diigo: A Feature-Rich Service That Puts The Social Back In Social Bookmarking

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:34:04 -0000

Daniel,

Thanks for an excellent review. Glad that you found Diigo useful. Diigo is continuing evolving quickly. We will sure to invite you for alpha testing of our API

Look forward to your active participation in the Diigo community!

Best,

Maggie

Comment from Daniel Andrlik on Diigo: A Feature-Rich Service That Puts The Social Back In Social Bookmarking

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:31:44 -0000

I should also add that Diigo also has the common features of posting directly to your blog if you are using one of the common pieces of blog software. You can either post links individually as needed, or you can set up a scheduled task in Diigo to post recent links to your blog at an interval that you choose.

Comment from Daniel Andrlik on Quick Post: My Pownces, Let Me Show You Them

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:25:08 -0000

But of course, Django is delicious!

Comment from MostlyLisa on Quick Post: My Pownces, Let Me Show You Them

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:50:25 -0000

you know Django? dreamy

Comment from Daniel Andrlik on Lakota Sioux have NOT withdrawn from the US

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:49:13 -0000

Ismail,

I don’t have any way of helping you there. Maybe someone else will come along who can point you in the right direction.

Comment from Ismail on Lakota Sioux have NOT withdrawn from the US

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:51:04 -0000

I am doing a research about Lakota tribe. I am very much interested in this subject and I wander if I can find anyone with whom I can work.

Ismail

Comment from Daniel Andrlik on Sudan - Freeing of Slaves | Creepy Sleepy

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:11:30 -0000

No problem, man. Just happy you got out of Sudan safe and sound!

Comment from Dan Patterson on Sudan - Freeing of Slaves | Creepy Sleepy

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:24:45 -0000

Hey, thanks for maintaining my shite while I was in Sudan - in Dubai now and will catch up with you as soon as I can access Skype.

Thanks again!

Comment from Daniel Andrlik on HOWTO: Record Skype Conversations In Linux

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:26:30 -0000

@De Jonge I’m sorry to hear that.

I haven’t had any luck since I switched to x86_64 Linux, so I can’t really provide much help on this front anymore. I didn’t write the script, I just used it for a long time. I think we’re at the point where we need a brand new solution. I haven’t had time to work on one as yet, I’m too busy with other projects, but I’m keeping an eye out for new solutions.

Comment from De Jonge on HOWTO: Record Skype Conversations In Linux

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:55:24 -0000

I downloaded the OSS version (1.4.0.118-oss) and tried to use the skype-rec script, but it didn’t work.

I tried several combinations of changes, in both /usr/bin/skype-rec and $HOME/.skype-rec/skype-rec.rc, like…

require $ENV{‘HOME’}.”/.skype-rec/skype-rec.rc”;
$STEREO_MIX = 0;
$CLEANUP_TEMP = 0;

…and so on.

But nothing seems to be recording. And the .au files that are generated are all 1048 or 0 bytes. I get many of these errors:

$date $time: Converting conversation
$date $time: Not mixing, /home/$user/skype-recordings/remote-20080303214330.au appears to be empty

Anyways, the script is not working for me.

Comment from Daniel Andrlik on Quick Post: Pownce API 2.0 Now Available

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:18:20 -0000

Yeah, that’s kind of what I’m thinking too. The API is really good, and when you couple that with the ability to send files, interestingness begins to appear. I don’t think Pownce will kill Twitter or anything, but I think Pownce may become a much bigger player in that space.

Comment from Dan on Quick Post: Pownce API 2.0 Now Available

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:58:31 -0000

Of late, I’ve been giving Pownce a second chance. Twitter is successful because of it’s minimal feature set, 140 character limit, open API, and most of all, community.

Pownce, however, has a rich feature set, and no character limit. The community WAS there, and I think they would return were Pownce to really step up to the plate.

Comment from Daniel Andrlik on Facebook, Identity, and OpenID

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:07:41 -0000

@simonc: Sorry to hear you had problems setting up OpenID on your server. Am I correct in understanding that you set yourself up as your own provider as opposed to delegating to an established provider in your headers? Because at this point that can be a little complicated (I find the PHP libraries particularly tricky to work with for OpenID). However, it is ridiculously easy to set up your site via delegation. For example if you have an identity profile at a provider, you can have your site delegate to it in two lines of HTML code. I think that’s pretty easy, and setting up consumption for OpenID on this site was pretty easy, mostly thanks to Simon Willison’s Django OpenID Consumer. However, you are correct, we need more and more awesome tools and libraries like that to help spur adoption.

I tend to agree that there are a lot of sites that require logins for no reason, although if sites really want to provide customized experiences for users it’s really the most practical way to go about it, which is why I like OpenID. I agree though, I hate sites where I need to login just to leave a simple comment or have base interaction with the product. I prefer value-added logins. For example, I don’t require a login to comment here, but if you do use an OpenID account I give you the watchlist to better track your conversations (plus maybe some future features I’m still thinking out).

Thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughts.

Comment from simonc on Facebook, Identity, and OpenID

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:54:12 -0000

Can I suggest that for any of these to be ‘easily adopted’ into ‘simple quality products’ it should be easy for the developers to add. For example I’ve just tried setting up as an Open ID provider, adding an account, then pulling details from a successful post info a web page. - sounds easy but it ended up being very time consuming!! - like days not hours!!! Who ever makes it the easiest to get integrated will win as they will be the ones splattered all over the internet - take apple ipods as an example - simple and everywhere so everyone uses them however in the old days they were not the best product out there. In general people are sheep and will use whatever is most convenient - at the moment it’s still having 50 different logins and passwords (or 1 / 2 that they use everywhere on the web). - Another thought for half of these sites - are you sure you need users to login????