Facebook changing "Fan" to "Like"
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/03/29/facebook-users-will-soon-like-a-page-to-become-a-fan-not-become-a-fan
I wish they would just stick with something and stay with it.
And from http://www.insidefacebook.com/
Facebook Threatens App Developer – TechDirt reported this week that Facebook was claiming trademark infringement over an app that cleans up the Facebook live feed by removing app notices. The script Greasemonkey was originally called Facebook Purity, changed to Fluff Busting Purity after Facebook complained, but apparently Facebook is still unsatisfied. This is even interesting, the report noted, because Greasemonkey is a user script that lives in a user’s browser, something Facebook has no control over.
Ha Ha - yeh I'm sure Facebook didn't like it...... but there isn't jack that they can do about it.
Did you think Beacon was dead now that Facebook paid the $9m fine? Nope they just waited 2 years to try again;
Pre-Approved Third-Party Websites and Applications. In order to provide you with useful social experiences off of Facebook, we occasionally need to provide General Information about you to pre-approved third party
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=32427
Hmmm opening the door x 3 for a competitor if you ask me......
Cheers,
Dean
Monday, March 29, 2010
www.LiveAFLchat.com is now live
Look what snuck on to the production server today;
http://www.liveaflchat.com/
Sorry we blew it for the first weekend. Hopefully you can forgive us.
Thursday is the first live game chat - http://www.liveaflchat.com/CHurl/03-29-2010/3062/2383
Brisbane Lions Vs Carlton
Help spread the word by becoming a Facebook "Fan" at
http://www.facebook.com/pages/LiveAFLChat/254965633406
Cheers,
Dean
http://www.liveaflchat.com/
Sorry we blew it for the first weekend. Hopefully you can forgive us.
Thursday is the first live game chat - http://www.liveaflchat.com/CHurl/03-29-2010/3062/2383
Brisbane Lions Vs Carlton
Help spread the word by becoming a Facebook "Fan" at
http://www.facebook.com/pages/LiveAFLChat/254965633406
Cheers,
Dean
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Looking to sell http://www.MyPostButler.com
As some of you here know i started http://www.mypostbutler.com/ to help me auto follow people chatting on Twitter about Baseball teams for my work on http://www.livebaseballchat.com/
I've been selling this application for the last 8 months to people who had a similar use on Twitter and wanted to take full advantage of the API but i'm just so flat out on http://www.livechatconcepts.com/ work that i dont really have time to market it properly apart from a few blog posts here and there when i first launched it.
As such I'm looking to sell http://www.mypostbutler.com/ to anyone who wants to make me an offer.
Basically looking to sell the source code, website, both domains/url, twitter username/password all rights to the name etc
So far there are about 400 users out there over the past 8 months I’ve been selling the code (as MyTwitterButler originally).
Original developer is available in case you want to add to the software/make any changes but basically it’s written in .net so anyone can modify the code using Visual Studio 2008.
Email me if you have any questions otherwise get in touch with an offer.
Cheers,
Dean@Cognation.net
I've been selling this application for the last 8 months to people who had a similar use on Twitter and wanted to take full advantage of the API but i'm just so flat out on http://www.livechatconcepts.com/ work that i dont really have time to market it properly apart from a few blog posts here and there when i first launched it.
As such I'm looking to sell http://www.mypostbutler.com/ to anyone who wants to make me an offer.
Basically looking to sell the source code, website, both domains/url, twitter username/password all rights to the name etc
So far there are about 400 users out there over the past 8 months I’ve been selling the code (as MyTwitterButler originally).
Original developer is available in case you want to add to the software/make any changes but basically it’s written in .net so anyone can modify the code using Visual Studio 2008.
Email me if you have any questions otherwise get in touch with an offer.
Cheers,
Dean@Cognation.net
Thursday, March 25, 2010
BarCampNYC5 is go
The free tickets for BarCampNYC5, Sat & Sun - 17th-18th of April, have just been made available.
Register here - http://barcampnyc5.eventbrite.com/ - be quick though as they will get sold out soon.
The url for this years BarCamp is at http://barcamp.pbworks.com/BarCampNYC5
If you’ve never been to a BarCamp before check out these photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampnyc4 Or one of my many BarCamp blog posts e.g. http://blog.collins.net.pr/2007/11/barcamp-mobile-nyc2.html
If you come, be prepared to give a 30 minute talk.
If you come, be prepared to come for the full two days.
If you come, be prepared to fully participate.
If you come, remember this is an un-conference, what happens here happens because of your participation.
Cheers,Dean
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/deancollins
Linked In - http://www.linkedin.com/in/deancollins
Register here - http://barcampnyc5.eventbrite.com/ - be quick though as they will get sold out soon.
The url for this years BarCamp is at http://barcamp.pbworks.com/BarCampNYC5
If you’ve never been to a BarCamp before check out these photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampnyc4 Or one of my many BarCamp blog posts e.g. http://blog.collins.net.pr/2007/11/barcamp-mobile-nyc2.html
If you come, be prepared to give a 30 minute talk.
If you come, be prepared to come for the full two days.
If you come, be prepared to fully participate.
If you come, remember this is an un-conference, what happens here happens because of your participation.
Without a doubt BarCamps are still my favorite tech event of the year, I have never left a weekend where I didn’t learn about at least 3-4 things I had never heard of before. If you are smart, funny and prepared to be involved I hope to see you there.
If you are going here is my mugshot, be sure to come up and say hi.
Cheers,
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/deancollins
Linked In - http://www.linkedin.com/in/deancollins
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Is Sprint wimax an option in New York?
More awesome'ner' than an iphone @mashable HTC EVO 4G: Sprint's First WiMAX Phone (time to dump my droid?)
http://mashable.com/2010/03/23/htc-evo-4g-sprint/
To be honest not being GSM is a PITA for when i travel overseas but i bought a spare gsm handset when i moved to Verizon CDMA to get onto the awesome android platform so wimax couldn't be much worse (eg isolated).
Anyone know what the Sprint coverage in New York is like?
Cheers,
Dean
http://mashable.com/2010/03/23/htc-evo-4g-sprint/
To be honest not being GSM is a PITA for when i travel overseas but i bought a spare gsm handset when i moved to Verizon CDMA to get onto the awesome android platform so wimax couldn't be much worse (eg isolated).
Anyone know what the Sprint coverage in New York is like?
Cheers,
Dean
Kinkos is the smoking gun
Lol, without a doubt Kinkos is the smoking gun.
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/03/broadcast-yourself.html
I guess the marketing agencies should have paid out of petty cash rather than receipts (or whatever otherway YouTube found out about this).
lol, who knew that Viacom in the end would be their own worst enemy about ensuring DMCA is enshrined into law forever and ever without a chance of it ever being overturned.
The court will still take a while to rule but basically this fight is over.
Cheers,
Dean
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/03/broadcast-yourself.html
I guess the marketing agencies should have paid out of petty cash rather than receipts (or whatever otherway YouTube found out about this).
lol, who knew that Viacom in the end would be their own worst enemy about ensuring DMCA is enshrined into law forever and ever without a chance of it ever being overturned.
The court will still take a while to rule but basically this fight is over.
Cheers,
Dean
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Business Insider and pissing off your web visitors
you might be running a free website but if you dont think your customers are adding value with their mindshare then dont bother asking them for comment (or reading any further).
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This morning i was reading an article about startup visas on Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-the-startup-visa-is-actually-a-really-bad-idea-2010-3?utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SAI_Select_032310
I posted the following comment
“Wait until these visa recipients find out about the “Heart Taxation Act”, they might change their mind. I’m leaving the USA before 2014 unless it’s repealed before then because of it”
- expat
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Unfortunately the Business Insider spam filter felt something i said was spam?? They have this complicated process where you need to send an email with your username, the article url and your comments then they manually approve it. PITA
I wrote a little snipe basically saying - what could possibly be wrong with my statement above for it to be considered spam.
To which i got the following email from Dan Frommer the editor of Business Insider;
Hi Dean,
Your comment has been approved. Obviously, the inconvenience sucks, but since your comment was left, we've successfully blocked more than 800 spam comments. I'm very happy with a <1% false positive rate. FYI, we use the same Akismet antispam filter everyone else does. But we'll try to keep improving it.
Thanks for reading!
df
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To which i replied
Dan,
This is the fourth comment I’ve had blocked personally.
I wonder how many of those 800 you blocked were people who just gave up…… and never bothered to send the follow up email?
Think your making up stories here (running my own websites I know you cant confirm one way or the other – don’t brag if you cant prove it and if you are reading the spasm then why not have someone post the false positives automatically instead of asking us to send an email) either way heads up this is the last email I’m sending – get a false value next time I’ll keep my thoughts to myself – if you don’t feel I’m adding value to your website I’ll keep my thoughts to myself.
Cheers,
Dean
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I guess the reason i'm writing all this is when someone writes a complaint to me about one of my websites i see it as a mjor gift to me personally.
They could have kept it to themselves and not taken the time to complain.
Instead they chose to gift you with some feedback to help you be successful 100 times over. Love and cherish the feedback, and never ever try to justify that you are right and they are wrong.
Otherwise next time they'll probably just choose to take their readign eyeballs elsewhere and your advertisers will surely follow sooner rather than later. No one is too big to say no to even a single customer.
Cheers,
Dean
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This morning i was reading an article about startup visas on Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-the-startup-visa-is-actually-a-really-bad-idea-2010-3?utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SAI_Select_032310
I posted the following comment
“Wait until these visa recipients find out about the “Heart Taxation Act”, they might change their mind. I’m leaving the USA before 2014 unless it’s repealed before then because of it”
- expat
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Unfortunately the Business Insider spam filter felt something i said was spam?? They have this complicated process where you need to send an email with your username, the article url and your comments then they manually approve it. PITA
I wrote a little snipe basically saying - what could possibly be wrong with my statement above for it to be considered spam.
To which i got the following email from Dan Frommer the editor of Business Insider;
Hi Dean,
Your comment has been approved. Obviously, the inconvenience sucks, but since your comment was left, we've successfully blocked more than 800 spam comments. I'm very happy with a <1% false positive rate. FYI, we use the same Akismet antispam filter everyone else does. But we'll try to keep improving it.
Thanks for reading!
df
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To which i replied
Dan,
This is the fourth comment I’ve had blocked personally.
I wonder how many of those 800 you blocked were people who just gave up…… and never bothered to send the follow up email?
Think your making up stories here (running my own websites I know you cant confirm one way or the other – don’t brag if you cant prove it and if you are reading the spasm then why not have someone post the false positives automatically instead of asking us to send an email) either way heads up this is the last email I’m sending – get a false value next time I’ll keep my thoughts to myself – if you don’t feel I’m adding value to your website I’ll keep my thoughts to myself.
Cheers,
Dean
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I guess the reason i'm writing all this is when someone writes a complaint to me about one of my websites i see it as a mjor gift to me personally.
They could have kept it to themselves and not taken the time to complain.
Instead they chose to gift you with some feedback to help you be successful 100 times over. Love and cherish the feedback, and never ever try to justify that you are right and they are wrong.
Otherwise next time they'll probably just choose to take their readign eyeballs elsewhere and your advertisers will surely follow sooner rather than later. No one is too big to say no to even a single customer.
Cheers,
Dean
Sunny "social media"
Stumbled across this via B&T
Innovative? exceptional marketing? or social media masturbation?
Is the ROI trackable at even the highest macro levels?
How many of the 40,000 facebook fans are in the target audience eg. their store carries Sunny Eggs and they made a conscious decision to chose this brand over X brand?
Discuss.
Cheers,
Dean
Innovative? exceptional marketing? or social media masturbation?
Is the ROI trackable at even the highest macro levels?
How many of the 40,000 facebook fans are in the target audience eg. their store carries Sunny Eggs and they made a conscious decision to chose this brand over X brand?
Discuss.
Cheers,
Dean
Monday, March 22, 2010
Why Location Marketing Is New Point-of-Purchase
Why Location Marketing Is New Point-of-Purchase
http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=142902
Forget Foursquare or Gowalla: Soon every website and service will be able to tell where you are, opening up the floodgates for location-based marketing and blurring the budget lines for advertisers.
Yeh but....
yes you can rely on a high price purpose built app to tell you when your users are in your store....however - dont forget QR codes located "within the store" from which a customer can snap an image "land on a mobile page" (changed daily so they cant just save the landing page) and receive something of value in return for their participation is the perfect way to combine mobile and location. Still dont know what a qr codes is? check out http://www.Cognation.net/QR for a 60 second overview.
Cheers,
Dean
http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=142902
Forget Foursquare or Gowalla: Soon every website and service will be able to tell where you are, opening up the floodgates for location-based marketing and blurring the budget lines for advertisers.
Yeh but....
yes you can rely on a high price purpose built app to tell you when your users are in your store....however - dont forget QR codes located "within the store" from which a customer can snap an image "land on a mobile page" (changed daily so they cant just save the landing page) and receive something of value in return for their participation is the perfect way to combine mobile and location. Still dont know what a qr codes is? check out http://www.Cognation.net/QR for a 60 second overview.
Cheers,
Dean
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Burton does Alice
Tim Burton is a genius.
I know i'm not the only person who will say it this week but i dare anyone who watches his mindtrip interpretation of "Alice in Wonderland" not to agree.
Mia Wasikowska as Alice is a relatively unknown Australian actress but she handles her scenes like a pro; there is just something about her that was just so perfect and honest.
Burton is so much more CS Lewis and insanely crazy than Disney ever could be, so it's much more adult orientated and the fashion is just so sexy and outrageous (alices short skirt outfit when she's in the queens parlour) - who knew both Alice and the White Witch could be so hot and Anne Hathaway was so "je ne sais quoi" i've almost forgiven her for "Rachaels Getting Married".
The 3d effects were so much better than avatar (eg used where suitable instead of obvious like avatar), almost like avatar was the training movie and they are actually getting skillful at it's use now (though i really wonder how many people know this is anti piracy rather than effects).
If you have kids you should see it, if you are on a date you should see it. I guarantee someone would have already seen this movie while tripping and had the best experience of all.
Cheers,
Dean
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