cruel to be kind

It is one of those ideas where you say ‘yeah right, why did no body else think about this”.

TC reports about Backtype, a Twitter for comments:

They’re a blog-comment focused startup – founders Christoper Golda and Michael Montano are for the first time aggregating all comments from millions of blogs into a single, searchable, parsable stream. Think Twitter for all comments on the web.

A quick check shows that yes indeed they scraped a lot of websites. Which I don’t remeber agreeing on.

I left the following comment on the article (instead of rearranging the same sentences here i copy and …

Windows Live Writer gets automated linking, how to fake import and export of those and some links to useful plugins.

Have you ever restrained yourself not to mention a person or company in a blog post because you did not want to go through the hassle of linking to it, because it was additional work? Did you ever find yourself wondering why you needed to do this over and over again although your computer can learn other things when you repeat them? Excactly.

If you get used to how tools work and what features they provide, you are disappointed when you encounter …

Most of the times I do not bother installing facebook apps of services I am using because they have the tendency to do ‘more’ stuff than the original intent. Also I try to be very careful about what I do to my profile(s) and set up ‘information flow rules’ in how I put information somewhere.

Friendfeed is a collection of your streams, or in my case the streams I find ‘worthy’ enough to be displayed as mine. Meaning I will not give you my every Upcoming entry, nor Amazon wish list entry etc, and I will heavily try to avoid duplicates. Up …

Until now I used Thunderbird as my Gmail-Backupsytem on my laptop to have offline access to my mails. But recently it started that instead of downloading in one or two batches all new messages, it only would go for 2 messages at a time. Anyone with an idea what this is about?

Perhaps a limitation of Thunderbird not being able to handle the amount of messages to index (1,5 GB of messages, quite a few of them in there)? My other accounts work fine, it is just this one huge which does not work.

I rather have them in Thunderbird because I …

The tool
Via Mail I received a link to TwitThis:

TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website. When visitors to your website click on the TwitThis button or link, it takes the URL of the web page and creates a shorter URL using TinyURL. Then visitors can send this shortened URL and a description of the web page to all of their friends on Twitter.

Let’s give it a try:

MY thoughts on it
First: Great and easy thing, I do like the coloring. Has a popup and a direct posting to twitter.

But: I …

This is a very nice idea of grouping current services and applications around the topic of social software and digital identity.

And best of all: You can play bingo with it! Print it out, mark every service you are using and see if you got a hit in every square! (You are a geek if you do, but that is a different topic …)

Via André Ribeirinho.

Tag(s): Digital Identity, social software

The current session is supposed to show me “One Day in the Life of an Office 2.0 Worker“.

From what I can see on the screen this means basically a) waiting for your net connection to come up b) hope that the application runs (we had a gmail server problem earlier) and c) mostly having to use a web application without the benefits of MS Office in efficiency and feature richness as well as ‘known’ and well designed UI.

I still have to have somebody to set up the system for me and make it usable because for the basic users everything …

I am trying to upload and then edit the rest of my PME photos (you remember, the PC people have no easy possibility as iphoto which developers of flickr should know about but obviously do not care …)

and encounter strange error messages today …

First it told me my name is Crys:

You’re currently logged in as Neezee, but it looks like you’ve got more than one Flickr account.

You logged in to the Uploadr as Crys, so you’ll need to re-login to the Flickr website under that account to process your photos.

and now it refuses to send pictures:

The batch was cancelled, …

Yuk. Yesterday and today my Gmail was a very slow. And if I say slowI mean slow!

Also I wondered about the few e-mails I was still getting … it just was not enough. Not that I really want to have more e-mails but just by looking at it I could judge that there was something wrong with Gmail. Until I noticed that I was not getting a comment notification I thought “maybe it is a slow news day …”. After that I knew my mails where being deferred.

Since then I have been waiting for the rushing in of all …

This is my first test recording with my new toy Dragon NaturallySpeaking — after the Microsoft speech recognition software didn’t work out so well I had to try something new.

When I saw on eBay an auction for the software, I was unhappy about the fact that it was a German version. To my surprise, there where also auctions with “Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred” in a US version available. Needless to say that this was my preferred choice.

This sentence was supposed to display house. Out Dragon PDAs over Microsoft’s speech-recognition

[This sentence was supposed to display how superious Dragon is over Microsoft's …