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Comment on apocalyp.to – an rssgarden site by sull

sull — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:08:12 +0000

hey Boris. thanks for taking a peak.
you could create a newItem to post something.
i don’t know. part of user testing is to catch the confusion, bugs and feedback and think on it
btw, i checked xmlns.inreplyto.me and you should be able to login.
i think it was initially set to moderate new users and locked the user account but i unlocked it a while ago and disabled that setting for future users.

how’s rsshero going? i will provide feedback at some point. it seemed to work well with my goog reader import.

Comment on apocalyp.to – an rssgarden site by Boris Mann

Boris Mann — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:57:59 +0000

I created a new user. But I’m not sure what to do next?

BTW, my account on that inReplyTo forum never got approved, either??

Comment on [InReplyTo] “Death of the checkin 1.0″ by Adrian Chan by Will Lee

Will Lee — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:09:39 +0000

With social networks becoming more localized, for my Masters Thesis at NYU, I am focusing on location-based services (LBS). The study aims to understand how the three key factors—practical functions, fun & games, privacy risk—affect the adoption of location-based services applications. Please do a good deed, fill out this short and completely anonymous survey (https://www.113.vovici.net/se.ashx?s=13B2588B58E0782D). Please email me if you like a copy of this study. Thanks. Will Lee (wkl209@nyu.edu)

Comment on Is Hulu a solid company? More comments. by sull

sull — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 04:44:59 +0000

hulu is a bad investment:

http://blog.bobbyrasul.com/technology/hulu-is-a-bad-investment

Comment on Is Hulu a solid company? More comments. by sull

sull — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:40:47 +0000

More supporting thoughts here:

“Will The Real Hulu Please Stand Up?”

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=146578

Comment on Will Twitter Raise the RSS Shields? by sull

sull — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:34:52 +0000

Another possibility is that Twitter itself provides a feature for importing RSS just like many other services do such as Tumblr. This would if effect largely make Twitterfeed etc unnecessary or even violators if Twitter were to add new terms that prevent 3rd party services from importing content on behalf of other users. Twitter may include a curation/filtering layer and of course a volume control to its own RSS import functionality.

Comment on Clash Of The Twitters by sull

sull — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:50:09 +0000

Well, the fierce competition I mention in this post are indeed here.
Why did Twitter suspend UberTwitter?
http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Twitter-suspend-UberTwitter

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/02/18/itsAboutTheUsersDummy.html

http://gigaom.com/2011/02/18/interview-bill-gross-talks-about-twitters-clampdown/

etcetera.

Twitter’s true light shining bright today. #fail

Comment on RSS Garden by Tweets that mention RSS Garden | sull is vocally active -- Topsy.com

Tweets that mention RSS Garden | sull is vocally active -- Topsy.com — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:18:40 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Brian Hendrickson, Vocally. Vocally said: RSS Garden http://blog.vocal.ly/GnyZ2 – By @sull [...]

Comment on inReplyTo.me by Tweets that mention inReplyTo.me | sull is vocally active -- Topsy.com

Tweets that mention inReplyTo.me | sull is vocally active -- Topsy.com — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:13:47 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Michael Sullivan, Vocally. Vocally said: inReplyTo.me http://blog.vocal.ly/Gp0vH – By @sull [...]

Comment on Is Hulu a solid company? More comments. by sull

sull — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:09:26 +0000

(not so) surprising news about Hulu – http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2011/01/hulu-may-rebrand-as-cable-like-tv-bundle-provider.ars

Comment on NearbyChat.com by sull

sull — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:13:26 +0000

An interesting project might instead be a Chatroom Tracker. Rather than just build a chatroom service, let any other service ping the tracker whenever a new chatroom is created. The Chatroom Tracker would list all active and archived public chat rooms and chat logs. Geolocation would be passed to the tracker as well so essentially a user could lookup nearby chats and see what service they are on and what app you may need to download as well as how many people, when started etc etc. Seems smart.

Comment on What i’m seeing by sull

sull — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:18:44 +0000

hey Robert. good to see your eye show up here again

Comment on What i’m seeing by Croma

Croma — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 03:17:11 +0000

We’re seeing it too. Tis the Magic Hearth.

Beautiful.

Comment on Is Hulu a solid company? More comments. by Marc Cuban’s Eye of Sauron — Lucas Gonze’s blog

Marc Cuban’s Eye of Sauron — Lucas Gonze’s blog — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:19:08 +0000

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Comment on Is Hulu a solid company? More comments. by sull

sull — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:27:14 +0000

Hulu CEO Jason Kilar on Hulu Plus, IPO, Content Owners [Video]

http://gigaom.com/2010/11/17/hulu-ceo-jason-kilar/

Comment on Is Hulu a solid company? More comments. by sull

sull — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:31:25 +0000

A brief post from RWW on the Hulu Pro price drop offering – http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hulu_plus_price_drop_just_799.php

Comment on conversations in the cloud by #Swat0 and a Salmon-like flow for RSS – Brian Hendrickson

#Swat0 and a Salmon-like flow for RSS – Brian Hendrickson — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 06:54:20 +0000

[...] source tr.im replacement. Before the rssCloud meetup, Michael Sullivan (@sull) wrote a post “Conversations in the Cloud” and came up with the idea to use my domain name to create an RSS conversation namespace [...]

Comment on conversations in the cloud by sull

sull — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:45:09 +0000

wow, that all sounds sweet. def keep me looped on these developments. thnx for the comment.

Comment on conversations in the cloud by Brian Hendrickson

Brian Hendrickson — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:37:28 +0000

Hey I never chimed in here! Just like me. So, yeah, I’ve come back and read this post a bunch of times over the past year, remembering your idea for in.rp.ly/to and trying to figure out federated comments. I’ve been using textInput (both mailto: and http:) to create a salmon-like upstream flow for replies, while also using StatusNet’s conversation metadata and Activity Strea.ms semantics. before i explain my solution I wanted to get my http://openappstore.com project ready — it’s a place for open source apps [with each app having separate ipad, iphone and desktop versions all-in-one] pretty interesting It’s working ok now so I should be able to publish my SWAT0 flow this weekend. — Brian

Comment on conversations in the cloud by Andrew Davis

Andrew Davis — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:12:21 +0000

It may be beneficial to compare nudg.es to the salmon protocol

http://www.salmon-protocol.org/

I’ll be thinking on it. We will chat at #ovc10

Comment on Pondering The RealTime Web and Rapid Intelligence – Collecting Thoughts by Datasift – Realtime Twitter Query & Curation for Developers | sull is vocally active

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:54:23 +0000

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Comment on Stocks and Flows and The Real-Time Web by Datasift – Realtime Twitter Query & Curation for Developers | sull is vocally active

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:50:20 +0000

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Comment on A Social Network Comprised Entirely of Conversations? by sull

sull — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:08:18 +0000

Hey Raymond. No I have not seen this Clay Shirky video. Will listen now. Thx.
Yeah i’m still *struggling* with the lack of social intimacy on the interwebs these days.
Its an interesting observation and occasionally I will touch on it. It does not effect me personally but since it is a difficult question, i like to ponder the answers.

Comment on A Social Network Comprised Entirely of Conversations? by Raising the cost of communicating « Don't Lose the Question

Raising the cost of communicating « Don't Lose the Question — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:24:40 +0000

[...] I also read Michael Sullivan‘s blog post “A Social Network Comprised Entirely of Conversations?”. I’ve been wondering what it would be like to have a social network where the only messages were [...]

Comment on A Social Network Comprised Entirely of Conversations? by Raymond Kristiansen

Raymond Kristiansen — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:35:28 +0000

I like the “God message” idea, meaning the beginning should be something with weight. Not everyone responding on something like “I just saw Nicholas Cage!” or “I wrote a new blog post, go read it now!”, but something more substantial, more grounded. The discussion would indeed be chaotic, but it could in fact also be very interesting. Have you seen this by Clay Shirky? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2GyPniW2eM#t=10m51s – the Cost of communication – if heightened – could change things. What if there was some screening, or randomness, as to who got to have that God’s message that day/week? Would our message be more considered?

Comment on deadpooled a few projects by Raymond Kristiansen

Raymond Kristiansen — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:50:01 +0000

I have let quite a few domains lapse myself, and actually the last days I have been thinking a lot, something along the lines of your “Keep experimenting!”. Btw, vocal.ly is a great domain-name, keep that one

Comment on Ode To The Gillmor Gang by sull

sull — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:30:08 +0000

need to work on SEO. building43 does has not climbed to first page results yet. http://j.mp/bGNOWB

Comment on Ode To The Gillmor Gang by sull

sull — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:34:23 +0000

Noted, Thanks Steve.
Audio-Only option. Great.

Sull

Comment on Ode To The Gillmor Gang by Steve Gillmor

Steve Gillmor — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:25:27 +0000

go to building43.com/realtime. thx for the smoke.

Comment on Time for “Check In” Rehab? by papyromancer

papyromancer — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:54:39 +0000

I’ve found that Google Buzz is the best geolocative service of the bunch. You get long and short posts from people near your location without any of the gameness of foursquare. It’s a great way to meet the locals because it’s just like overhearing them chatting a coffee shop or the like, butting into the conversation is encouraged.

BTW… to access this great feature, you have to use the mobile site. And I haven’t figured out how to access that from a standard browser without some user agent fu.

Comment on Access Request to my Crowdfunding Wiki by sull

sull — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:56:28 +0000

there, smudged email address in screenshot. took me 2 minutes. no excuses

Comment on Access Request to my Crowdfunding Wiki by sull

sull — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:51:04 +0000

i probably should erase the email address in that email. my bad.

Comment on inspiration to blog by sull

sull — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:43:47 +0000

hey Lucas.

also worth noting is brevity. i like your blog because you are not wordy yet get the point across.

Comment on inspiration to blog by Lucas Gonze

Lucas Gonze — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:56:11 +0000

One reason I have kept at blogging is that longer writing doesn’t belong on social networking sites.

Another reason is that blogging is less structured. You have more power over the form, especially the markup.

Also, I think of it as something like hosting a party. Sometimes I go to other people’s houses, sometimes they come to mine.

Comment on Where Is the Real-Time Web Message Bus? by sull

sull — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:35:59 +0000

I don’t like the perspective here nor the conclusion/prediction.

Comment on Just realized that the comment feature h… by sull

sull — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:23:04 +0000

ah, why did i think Akismet was automatically integrated into wordpress? i double-checked and realized it was a plugin. so now i have it enabled! take that spammers!

Comment on Just realized that the comment feature h… by sull

sull — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:19:00 +0000

wow, that opened the spam floodgates! enabled moderation. aye!

Comment on finally fixed the WP hack for making tit… by sull

sull — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:25:24 +0000

if i’m really motivated, i’ll go back and fix all the links i’ve been adding here. no automated way to do it. maybe tomorrow

Comment on Dark Clouds Wanted by sull

sull — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:48:36 +0000

Every rsscloud blog post i come across, this guy posted a link to his blog post. motivated squirrel!

Comment on Fever° Red hot. Well read. by Twitted by Vocally

Twitted by Vocally — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:13:57 +0000

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Comment on i’m finding this p2 theme to be too bug… by sull

sull — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:33:22 +0000

btw, my random category will have more spelling and grammatical errors than elsewhere. its a sloppy category. thats the way it should be. i dont self-edit much at all anyway. technically i dont have time to blog. but i’m doing it in my spare moments. banging shit out. i’m not a friend to capital letters. and a write how i think. so, that might not be very consumable to many but this is no formal blog and i’m not here to impress. just getting stuff out of my head or passing along a link.

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Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:09:53 +0000

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Comment on go.vocal.ly by sull

sull — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:08:28 +0000

i was wrong about the plugin not going back and generating short urls on older posts. looked at the database and their are new urls for every post i previously made before installing the yourls plugin.
just wanted to correct my statement.

Comment on When Did Facebook Remove RSS for Friends’ Status Updates? | Stay N’ Alive by Twitted by Vocally

Twitted by Vocally — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:59:40 +0000

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Comment on go.vocal.ly by sull

sull — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:48:10 +0000

the plugin properly tweet’d this post with a short url that worked. nice

the tweet:
http://twitter.com/vocally/status/3729004310
or rather….
http://go.vocal.ly/y

Comment on ok, since i’ve talked about yourls so o… by sull

sull — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:58:49 +0000

my bad. i overwrote the htaccess file. woops. now it works in the go subdir. will try it in root dir again now.

Comment on ok, since i’ve talked about yourls so o… by sull

sull — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:53:28 +0000

turns out this is not too ideal when trying to run on same domain as your blog. at least not as i have mine setup. trying a subdirectory as vocal.ly/go and the urls are not redirecting properly. might go with a subdomain. errrr.

Comment on feedburner was an appropriate name by sull

sull — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:23:47 +0000

I left this comment on
http://www.businessinsider.com/feedburner-is-googles-biggest-f-up-2009-9#comment-4a9f2838913ac80224f28a4f

RSS is crucially important to the web. This does not mean that a viable business can be based off of being the primary controller of it, as Feedburner had tried to do.

Feedburner was never necessary. But a few things made it appealing. People love stats. People are lazy.

Instead of learning how to manage and own your RSS feed(s), publisher’s instead chose to use the hip service that would take care of the voodoo. In return, the publishers got to use a poorly designed interface loaded with stupid feature names and cluttered with gimmicky gadgets for stats that was more of a novelty fix than i in depth analysis of reader and traffic patterns.

Google may have thought it wise to swallow Feedburner. And let’s face it, $100million is nothing to Google. Even the nearly $2billion for youtube was an easy transaction for Google. So they can kill an acquisition and not feel like a failure about it. Often, that is why they acquired a company in the first place. Kill momentum. Control momentum. Re-invent and re-ignite momentum under the Google brand.

Google may even want to kill RSS. They may want to forge ahead with Atom + PubSubHubBub and the Wave Protocol and see RSS as a distraction. I don’t know.
but Google has a calculated strategy for everything and what seems like a mistake is not necessarily one. I’m sure that in some cases, disorganization is a factor as well. But we should not assume.

Look on the bright side of the Feedburner debacle. For all I care, FeedBurner could burn down. And in place of that is what should have happened to begin with…. RSS controled, owned and managed by the publishers themselves. It’s not difficult, folks. And it’s good to learn about RSS.

Also of interest is some fun experiments going on with http://rssCloud.org to make RSS move a little faster (like PubSubHubBub).

Comment on I need a wordpress plugin that works dif… by sull

sull — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:07:58 +0000

screw it. i’m just adding a tweak to the template instead – “tweet this” – i’ll just use that. light-weight solution. heh.
man, wordpress is not that fun for me to use. hoping what i gain by using it balances all that i displike about it. it feels like a struggle right now. i know eventually i’ll write some new blog script and use that instead.

Comment on conversations in the cloud by sull

sull — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:11:07 +0000

dealing with fragmented discussion….. just wanted to include a reply to dave winer over on friendfeed:
Dave Winer:

Namespaces are your friend!!

i replied:

They are my friend so i’ve learned. I use them often, sometimes reluctantly. A project for an employer was a perfect case for using the SMIL standard. But my argument failed and we started with an RSS namespace instead which devolved into a hybrid DTD based off of XSPF. Our stuff works, but I have this drive to leverage existing specs especially when functionality can neatly fit. I am all for using namespaces. But I cant help myself and enjoy the debate for what can be considered, oddly, the underdog (the standard spec). Here is a thread of interest from 2003 that I just found – http://keithdevens.com/weblog/archive/2003/Jun/14/CommentsRSS