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Re: Paul Carr's piece is rubbish (and disgusting) (Scripting News)

twitter-15650210 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:44:31 -0000

I read that piece today too. And it was one big WTF? after another for me.

And what's with TechCrunch suddenly vying for Ralph Nader of the Internet after its past sordid pimping of ... well, everything?

I'm glad someone called them on it. I wasn't going to bother. The guy seemed to be content to be deaf.

Re: Paul Carr's piece is rubbish (and disgusting) (Scripting News)

Shlok — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:41:02 -0000

Agree in full.

Re: A social namespace (Scripting News)

jessestay — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:38:30 -0000

Dave Facebook does support lists - they have for over a year now. It's all available via their API.

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

Joshua_Whalen — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:26:10 -0000

TMobile is European based, so they're cheese eating surrender monkeys and don't get the hype machine going like a good old Murkan mega-corp does. The moral: Don't eat cheese. Also, don't offer customers the flexibility and cheap rates tmobile does. People might start to get the idea big business is supposed to work for them, and not the other way around.

But honestly, it's probably because once you get out of the city center, they don't have coverage worth a damn. I couldn't get any signal in Columbia County, NY, for example, and that's hardly the styx.

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

dave — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:14:51 -0000

Buzz is a funny thing, it might have been luck or the ads or Motorola. Timing matters too and the sense that it's going to be a while before Apple ships an exciting new iPhone

Re: Introducing listbrowser.org (Scripting News)

dave — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:11:13 -0000

Click on the name of the list at thetop of the page

Re: Introducing listbrowser.org (Scripting News)

twitter-711303 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:03:28 -0000

Dave, I love Listbrowser. Is there any way on the site to see the tweets for a list?

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

twitter-16993554 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:00:49 -0000

Welcome in the Android World.

I wonder why the very first phone which came with T-Mobile had not THE buzz Verizon makes now. Android is +1yr old. Got many improvements over the time. But there is nothing revolutionary in the new releases imho that would deserve the buzz. The devices might be a bit better but ... I don't get it.

PS: I am Android user from day one.

Re: archive.org's S3-alike service? (Scripting News)

twitter-16993554 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:47:16 -0000

Well, it should be a near-term goal for every hosting company (Typepad, Flickr (Yahoo), Wordpress (Auttomatic), Google, etc.) to preserve and organize the data, 'for the record', after the owner is dead. And it should be clear who the owner is, and what rights are attributed.

If I want my my blog content and flickr content to be preserved, fine. But whats with the rights, and the administration of all the content? I have certainly the right that the future earnings of my intellectual works may go to a person of my choice.

Hello Google Books deal. People should learn from past mistakes. It is good that Internet Archive is picking that issue up. But whats with other 'not for free' content, Creative Commons Attributions?

Wouldn't be a consortium/federation be the best thing to start, and formulate a cohesive mission, vision, objective and plan this thing out for future petabytes of data? And is Amazon cloud as only storage place safe enough for the future of all our content? The idea behind 'future-safe archive' is more complex imho than one organisation can carry the idea forward to success.

Re: A social namespace (Scripting News)

tommorris — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:26:53 -0000

Prior art: FOAF/SIOC, XFN, vCard/hCard, PortableContacts.

pius is right (hey, pius!): FOAF+SIOC - you can reuse the RDF ontologies inside OPML as XML namespaces.

And some recent prior art that shows how to REALLY do it wrong: TweepML. I wrote up a page the other day explaining what's wrong with TweepML - http://gist.github.com/223649

Re: A social namespace (Scripting News)

pius — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:16:55 -0000

I believe this fits right into the sweet spot of the SIOC (Semantically Interlinked Online Communities) ontology: http://rdfs.org/sioc/spec

Re: A Droid newbies site (Scripting News)

ickledot — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:25:03 -0000

Really interesting thanks, but please don't avoid doing something just because you feel you are too old!

"If I were younger I might try to transition my codebase to run here. But unless someone ports the OPML Editor to this environment, I don’t see that happening."

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

CoachDaBoss — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:18:04 -0000

You have to attach the USB cord, then on your notifcation bar, youwill see the USb symbol, drag the bar down, then click on USB conneted, it will ask if you want to mount to disk. Click mount, you can now use it as a removable disk. In windows i creat a shortcut to it and drag my files there.

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:31:55 -0000

Thanks! I just added you as an author -- which means you can create posts and publish them. Please write some cheat sheets and howtos! I'll continue asking dumb questions. :-)

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

twitter-14119419 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:16:27 -0000

jturmel [at] gmail [dot] com

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:50:31 -0000

Oy. It turns out I need your email address not username. Sorry for the runaround.

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

Joshua_Whalen — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:45:29 -0000

Does it support python? That is, can I write a simple little app using an AJAX gui and a Python back-end? This is, form me, the holy grail of smart phones. I realize you may not have gotten that far yet.

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

twitter-14119419 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:56:50 -0000

Yes, I'm joshturmel on Wordpress.com

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:18:53 -0000

Here's the site.

http://droidie.com/

If you have a wordpress.com account, let me know what it is and I'll set you up as a contributor.

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

fiyahstotah — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:21:03 -0000

really, ok thats great to hear because i think t-mobile is getting the HTC HD2 and i really want that phone more than any other phone thats out there (if it turns out to be as good as they say it is) here's a link to the phone im talkin about:

http://www.htc.com/europe/product/hd2/overview....

Re: Peek was worth a peek (Scripting News)

michaelbuckbee — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:05:51 -0000

Stumbled across this today and thought it might be a better fit for what you are looking for, the "ZipIt" - http://www.zipitwireless.com/ - (beware of the autoplay music).

From their FAQ:

The Zipit Wireless Messenger 2 is a Wi-Fi device and will connect to any wireless Wi-Fi router that supports the 802.11b and 802.11g standard. Any typical home wireless router that is connected to a high speed Cable or DSL connection should work. It will also work in thousands of public hotspots around the country. Wireless routers can be purchased at any retail location.

The Zipit Wireless Messenger 2 uses it's existing wi-fi technology to allow you to send text messages to cell phones. To start texting you first create an account on your Z2, this account is created the first time you turned your Z2 on (see Getting Started). Once you create an account a unique identifier is associated with your account and your Z2. In order to send a text to someone you have to enter them into your MyFriendz list as a cell phone buddy. Once you add a cell phone buddy you can then text them and it works just like a IM chat. The Z2 supports texting for the following service providers;

Hope this helps.

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:56:36 -0000

Okay, let's work on this.

I'll set the site up right now.

Dave

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

twitter-14119419 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:55:49 -0000

Definitely, sounds good to me.

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:45:29 -0000

If I started a Droid blog on wordpress.com, would you be willing to post
that stuff there?

Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News)

twitter-14119419 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:43:53 -0000

I might start putting some of this stuff together in one location, so far it's just been helping people out individually on Twitter or replying to blog posts.

I just put one together for setting up tethering through USB for Mac. http://jturmel.blogspot.com/2009/11/tethering-y...

Were you able to get the HTC IME keyboard I DMed you to work? I haven't had a chance to try it on 2.0 since the Droid is the only phone with that OS so far, but it's definitely superior to the stock Android keyboard.