Debating Migration?
I’m debating the possibility of migrating from Blogger to TypePad or WordPress. I’m leaning towards WordPress since they offer an import feature, plus like Blogger, it is FREE. This all said, this has nothing to do with Blogger or its features, just I like some of the themes provided by WordPress and some of the client applications offered for Palm OS. Well I’ll ponder longer and make a decision in the next week weeks.
Feedburner feed reset
Well that didn’t last long…. didn’t like the results and now I’m back to the traditional feed at feedburner…. I’ll have to continue looking into the best way to mash it all together.
Change of Feed Link
For a while now I’ve been using FriendFeed. The nice part about FriendFeed is that it allows me to aggregate all my various online entities into a simple single feed. So today I’ve decided to try feeding that feed as my primary RSS feed. What I am trying (which may work or may not… we will see) is create a FeedBurner feed out of my FriendFeed Lifestream and I’ve changed the site feed redirect link of my Blogger blog to that feed. My hope is that this way when people decide to subscribe to my blog, it will give them an entire stream of all my feeds. This said, I’m not sure if it will confuse the system when trying to track various posting and also confuse users when some content the see in their RSS feed is not traceable on my actual blog. Well I figure I’ll give it a shot for the weekend, and if seems to be going nuts, well then I’ll switch it back. So lets see what happens.
Browser Support for HTML 5
I get a kick out of all this talk about the new draft of HTML5. Wired posted an interesting article about Browser support for HTML5, it give the lead to Opera. Well the truth of the matter is, ‘who cares’, by the time HTML5 is finalized all Browsers will support it and the bulk of web developers will still be programing in HTML4 and all its addons and server-side services. The only reason I say this is because for the most part, most web users will still be using older browsers in the beginning that either don’t fully support all the aspects of HTML5 or any at all. I have flash backs to the reason I quit developing web pages in the first place. When I was learning to develop web pages it was back in 1996/1997, back when HTML4 was released. Back then you not only had to deal with the new tags of HTML4 but also with completely different implementations between browsers and back them it was before Microsoft was playing ‘nice’ and they had their own set of tags. It was also the same time that Java was growing popularity and the whole write-once-run-anywhere idea was so appealing that the ideal of having to develop static pages with browser dependent tags was just crazy talk in my mind. Thankfully over the years the web has begun to standardize and it has become much easier for developers to reach broader audiences. Anyways… I’m partially diverging from topic.
My bigger question is not for which browsers will be made ready first but more in which developers will be ready first. I can easily see where many of the big names like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others it that level will be ready, but what about the other what 90% of developers and pages (no the 90% is not factual, but when you think of the size and makeup of the web… the big boys are really just search engines for the rest of us little guys out there). So my guess is by the time the bulk of developers make the move to HTML5, one it will only be after the version is finalized, and two, it will be after the browsers are ready to support it, so … does it matter who is first? I know to the browser developers it does, but to the users? I personally think what ever browser is considered the safest will be the browser most flock to and stay with.
Anyways… enough random blabbing…. just mostly thoughts in my head that really don’t matter. And besides the point… I’m really looking forward to HTML5 and I can’t wait till it is finalized. I’m in the process of re-teaching myself web programming, stating with Web-services and AJAX. So my hope is that my self-education keeps in pace with the finalization of HTML5 so that I’m ready as soon as it is released.
HTML 5 Support by Browser: Opera Continues to Lead the Pack | Compiler from Wired.com
Hurricane warnings coming to Google
MIAMI — Americans in the hurricane danger zone may soon be able to use Google to find out if their own home is threatened by a dangerous storm surge, the director of the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday….
Watch Out FriendFeed: Socialthing! Is Even Easier to Use
There is a new social aggregator out there. Socialthing! officially goes into private beta today. It is kind of like FriendFeed or Pulse, but a bit different. It is only in beta, but it is a good start, missing a number of services but it is new so I’m assuming in time others will be added. In comparison to FriendFeed, I see FriendFeed more as a way for me to share with others and SocialThing as a way for me to keep track of others. We will have to watch and see how it evolves.
Coincidental timing
Mixx To Cluster Related Stories – Digg Should Have Done This
The above link is for a story posted at TechCrunch about Mixx adding a feature that yesterday I complained didn’t exist in Digg. So I guess I’m not the person who had this complaint.
Well anyways… I took a swing by Mixx to take a look. While yes they now have the option to mark related stories, they are missing the main feature that is why I’ve stayed away from StumbleUpon and Reddit. The feature I like from Digg is the ‘Blog this’ feature. Basically rather than have to post to a share site and then post to my blog, I can choose to post from with in Digg. Now yes there could be improvements made to the blogging client, but it is there. Maybe they all have this feature, I just haven’t been able to find it. Oh well I guess no app is perfect….
Digg and story duplication…
As I’m sure you all can see, I’m becoming a regular user of Digg. Not to find new stories but to share stories I read about and to post them to my blog. I know I could simply link and blog news articles to my blog using the standard ‘BlogThis!‘ feature, but I feel with Digg, I can share with a larger audience. One of the features I like about Digg is that I can then also see who else is reading and sharing the same stories. This all said anytime you post a story, it first checks if anyone else has posted the same story and if not… it lets you post it and then it asks you to verify that it is not a duplicate. Now here is my ‘issue’ do you say it is ‘original’ since the particular story is not yet posted or do you say it is duplicate since a very similar story is already posted. Better yet, if you know a story was provided by the AP/BBC/Reuters/etc… but you read it on your local post or source, is it original or duplicate…. I guess this is one feature I’d like to see Digg incorporate… story ‘grouping’. Basically while a story may be ‘original’ since the particular link has yet to be posted but if it is the basically the same as another story, group them. I see this having two affects… 1: users will be able to find others that have dugg similar stories (or the same under a different name) and 2: help users find other news/information sources based on those that are ‘grouped’ to story they just read. Now this all said, I don’t think that Digg should combine Digg scores, I think the count at a particular source is valuable information, I just want to see other stories in my ‘group’.
Follow me on…
Last week I posted an update to my blogger template, what I didn’t mention was anything about the buttons up top. On the top you’ll notice a number of links: ‘photo’ is my flickr page, ‘music’ is me on Last.FM. If you like and belong to one of those services feel free to connect to me. As for the others… well you’ve got Twitter, a great service to keep track of my goings and comings and other microblog like things I wish to post (also sync’d with my status on Facebook and Plaxo). That said, there is my Plaxo public profile, which also has a running Pulse of my various blog/twitter/bookmarks/etc combined in one. If you are a Plaxo member check me out and connect, if not take a look. Along the same lines as my Plaxo profile, check out my Friendfeed page. FriendFeed is another great service similar to Plaxo Pulse except that is doesn’t integrate all the other feature that Plaxo is founded on like contacts and calendar. FriendFeed is strictly a way to combine all your feeds into a single feed for sharing with friends. The nice part about FriendFeed is you don’t have to be a member to follow me, it provides a simple RSS feed, but kind of like Twitter, you can add friends and see all there post integrated with yours or just integrated together. So if you belong to any of these services… look me up.
Links:
http://twitter.com/nickc321
http://friendfeed.com/nickc321
http://nickc321.myplaxo.com
http://flickr.com/photos/nickc_321
http://last.fm/user/nickc321
if you didn’t notice the pattern…. nickc321….. as in http://nickc321.blogspot.com
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Yahoo Mail acting up: Error Code 5
I’ve been a Yahoo! Mail customer for years… probably as long as they actually had an email product…. Heck a few years ago, I even decided it was time to upgrade to Yahoo! Mail Plus…. again in support of a great product. But recently, coincidentally around the same time that Microsoft announce they buy out bid for Yahoo, my mail has been acting like shit. If I’m lucky, I can actually access my email 1 a week without getting this stupid ‘Error Code 5′ crap. If I could actually access my email I’d post a copy of the responses I’ve received when I’ve contacted them.
This is actually the full message I see when I try to long into my mail:
You know temporary issues only last for a short time, and they should be happening every day for weeks at a time. From what I remember of the responses I’ve received from my contacting customer support, basically they said that it is typically caused because of an external reader issue, and that basically I must be accessing the email from either 2 computers or the Web and a client at the same time… okay then what is the point of offering POP access for plus members??? I use the POP support to check my email from my PalmOS Treo. Anyways… just to humor them, I disabled mail from my phone about a week and a half ago (mind you, I’ve been using a mail client on my phone for over 6months…), and the problem still remains….. well Yahoo! get your act together or I’m out of here…. you are quickly loosing a customer that has supported you for years….
April 5, 2008 Posted by nickc321 | commentary, web2.0 | | 10 Comments