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Posted by
u48998 on Monday September 26, 2011 @03:22PM
from the webwanderings.wordpress.com dept.
http://webwanderings.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/the-minimum-cost-of-blogging-with-wordpress-com/
This is not a link-bait, I am genuinely wondering. The link takes you to a simplified summary at my blog. I am curious what people think in general about this as this was not the case with Wordpress.com just a few years ago. The thought came to mind as I notice Tumblr's success and the failing of other blogging platforms (let's also not forget the merging of Microsoft's blogging space with...
Posted by
u48998 on Monday August 22, 2011 @12:56PM
from the ox.ac.uk dept.
I think it is obvious by now that the world is not moving over to Google Plus. This service is most likely going to be on the same route as Buzz.
Why support 800 pound gorilla? I am all for supporting under dogs and small but substantive social services.
Thx. Well, one thing is common here that I too have a lot to say on many topics and one common denominator (either Facebook or Twitter or whatever) is not a suitable choice (hence I use different platforms for different topics but I know its not totally effective).
It's an ideal concept to sort various different interests of a single person interest into separate containers based on target audience. I think Google+ came close but their naming policy sucks. I wish they'd allow different identity/per-Circle, which could help resolve this issue. But in perspective, I should be able to target my audience based on their interest as I know best and vice-versa. Twitter is totally ineffective here to most degree.
I'm actually not following what Subjot does (can't understand via the text blurb) and I'm not enthusiastic about logging in on any new service via Facebook/Twitter. So I'll wait for now.
I'm a looking for a social network which would let me tweet longer post (don't want to tweet longer via an isolated blog). Google+ does not and I'm already starting to hate Google+ (out of protest for their naming policy).
Could someone help identify why Firefox saves and keeps such a ridiculous number of Cache folders in \\Application Data\...\Profiles\... They're all 0, 1, 2...and then 01, 0A, 0B. I mean, what's the point here?
Not everyone know how to name their photographs. The proper photograph naming scheme is simply the biggest missed opportunity since the dawn of digital cameras. Using the naming scheme of Dates Pictures Taken, along with a word or two of the event, people can save themselves from aggravation in managing their thousands of digital photos.
Generally, photos are taken of an event and on a particular day. You may have multiple events in the same day, so you can further nest by time as well. But that's as far as an average user go.
It should be user's own responsibility to manage their naming schemes and sorting. You can then upload folders to any web service (or don't even bother if you use Sugar Sync or Dropbox etc).
I manually sort my photos by Date Pictures Taken into their own folders. I don't see a big deal about this as a separate service.
Give me something that opens my eyes.
All I see at the site is: "beautiful goat", "measuring beard", "10 year old hot model". That's a crap as one can get!.
I don't understand why would you not use Adblock. Perhaps there should be a poll for this question.
Google can instantly solve this problem by providing users the ability to select different avatars/names for different circles.
Before you use a password which is 9,999 in length, make sure the site you're providing this password is even compatible beyond 8 characters. There are password field boxes out there which would fool you by taking your long password until you realize later that they only took 8 to begin with.
The Keepass I remember was too much and too crowded for a simple need of password storing. I then switched to PasswordSafe and realized that it isn't compatible with Linux, so I went to PasswordGorilla. I have tried all types of simple methods but none defeats the simplicity and compatibility of Gorilla. You just need to keep your database file on dropbox or sugarsync or whatever you use to backup. The term "advance password manager" is an oxymoron, I think.
Yawn! I'm on TB, so don't care.
Wouldn't that be like controlling how people should comment? Smells quora to me.
So basically users are happily swimming in the sea of advertisements with content they don't own or create.themselves. Nice business!
Well, what would Amazon be doing with their 5 gig free? People will be uploading their files, are they going to check if they're all legit?
Dropbox could provide audio player for private files.
If Dropbox has picture viewer, why can't it have audio player?
I feel like back in 1999 with this Amazon Cloud Storage/Player. Any case, Amazon is like a giant grocery store which is always selling something. It feel creepy to house my files at their store.
Amazing when HN generate so much comment on services with no About section.
That minimal CD wouldn't be as same as minimal install, would it?
I'd agree. I'm a windows user for many years (XP) with couple of old machines laying around. I have recently tried PeppermintOS, Joli, Lubuntu. I think I have found Peppermint to be better than all of them and I think there is a market growing for lightweight Linux distros. With a lot better software manager, file manager, windows' look-alike environment and simplicity, I think it is time for a linux comeback with all these distros competing with each other.
I don't give a you know what for karma!