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Comment on Why I?m disconnecting Twitter from Facebook by mt

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:39:13 -0500

umm. duh!YEs, this is quite obviously a problem that anyone who links the two services has faced. The facebook twitter app, switchabit and other such services are excellent tohugh!

Comment on Do Sony Vaios really suck, or is it just me? by Dave G

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:08:05 -0500

The Vaio is an okay machine, but Sony's support is a serious disappointment, particularly compared to how Dell support was on my previous laptop.I purchased onsite support, expecting them to send parts and repair the laptop...onsite.Of three incidents in the last two years--one physical damage by a car crash, one a bad mouse, and most recently overheating (probably a broken fan), for two of them they've told me "you have to send the laptop in to our depot", and that onsite support won't cover it.I read the contract (vague enough to give them the ability to do what they want to, but no different from the other vendors), and my only conclusion is that they don't really want to offer onsite support. Otherwise, they wouldn't tell me that a likely bad fan is a "safety issue", until after they replaced it onsite. Other comments:--It took them two times, and my diagnosis, to replace the motherboard when the video controller was flaking out; we lost the laptop for more than a month in repair time, plus the time that was spent getting and configuring a temporary system...not quite sure why they couldn't diagnose it over the phone though.--Their drivers/software to control the lan/wan/bluetooth power are flakey. Uninstalling them increased my system's stability.The system is pretty, but for the lousy and frustrating support alone, I won't buy another Sony. I'm sorry to say that, I was excited to get it originally

Comment on Why I?m disconnecting Twitter from Facebook by mark

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:42:56 -0500

My reason for keeping them separate is, I fly my geek flag on twitter.. and normal social life on facebook:)

Comment on Why I?m disconnecting Twitter from Facebook by Ben Drawbaugh

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:56:14 -0500

For the most part I agree, RT should not be reposted on Facebook. I also catch myself not tweeting something because I don't want it on facebook or just going and deleting it after the fact. The other thing I do is to disable the connection during trade shows etc when I know I'll be tweeting alot.I see some people use the #FB tab, which makes it post on facebook, but I'm not sure which app they use for this.

Comment on Why I?m disconnecting Twitter from Facebook by Jeremy Toeman

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:44:00 -0500

@Brent - yes, my facebook friends are at least 2/3 people I know outside of technology, many of whom are not interested in Twitter (yup, still).@James - based on the variety of well-sourced articles, there just aren't that many people who use twitter for purely personal reasons with purely personal groups...

Comment on Why I?m disconnecting Twitter from Facebook by James Geluso

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:29:30 -0500

"Few-to-none of a twitterers followers are real-world friends."Ah, but really? There is a disconnect, I think, between people who use Twitter professionally, following thousands, and people who use it personally. The main difference, I think, is that professionals are networking and following it on the Web or on other computer applications; lots of people, though, use Twitter on their phones. I follow 28 people, and maybe 10 of them I have on my phone. If someone puts their Twitters on their Facebook, I shut them off my phone feed; why do I need to see their statements twice, one of which involves pulling out my phone.

Comment on Why I?m disconnecting Twitter from Facebook by Brent Billock

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:18:31 -0500

Facebook should be ignoring all of your @ replies, but it is up to you to chase down and delete any retweets that you think are interesting only to your Twitter followers and not your Facebook friends.Are your Twitter and Facebook audiences so different that the former would be interested in links you're retweeting, but the latter would not?

Comment on Why I?m disconnecting Twitter from Facebook by Khalid

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:15:59 -0500

Good post JT. I thought about that myself when I hooked up my Twitter stream to FB, but I don't tweet that much (not even 1x per day), so I decided it was easier than having to double-post to both Twitter and FB. Of course, I could use ping.fm to update my status *everywhere*... :-P

Why I?m disconnecting Twitter from Facebook

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:52:36 -0500

About a week ago I decided to hook my twitter stream up to my facebook status updates. I figured it’d be an easy way to get the same messages out to more people, and with more places for conversation/interactivity. But I pretty much completely forgot about the following attributes of my Tweets:Much of the time [...]

Welcome GDGT!

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 00:11:59 -0500

I just wanted to take a second to congratulate my friends Ryan Block and Peter Rojas for launching gdgt.com. It’s a new site/resource/blog/community/social network/thing… words don’t describe… they should’ve sent… a… poet! Ok, just kidding. It’s a new site designed to really help people get the most out of their gadgets, whether by finding peer-based [...]

How the Web Picks my Movies for me

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:39:13 -0500

Back in the day…It was all Siskel & Ebert or the guy with the crazy hair + mustacheThe papers told you how long a movie’s been in the theatersYou had more than a week to decide if you were going to see a movie or not before it disappeared to DVDIf you missed it in [...]

Am I too old a dog to learn a new trick?

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:44:32 -0500

My music collection appears frozen in time somewhere in the mid-90s.Despite knowing a boatload about them, I rarely buy new gadgets, almost never replacement gadgets (which is fitting in quite nicely to my shift in living a more sustainable lifestyle).I use Office XP/NeoOffice (OXP is much, much better, but I don’t quite feel like booting [...]

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Okay Facebook, it?s time to do the right thing?

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:07:04 -0500

You remember that feeling when you’ve done something kinda wrong, and you kinda get caught doing it, and everyone yells at you for doing it, and instead of just shrugging your shoulders, admitting you goofed, and moving on, you back yourself into a corner and fight tooth and nail for it? As far as I [...]

Thoughts on? Dell Buying Palm, Facebook Vanity URLs, Building43, Project Natal, Content Consumption

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:07:22 -0500

Kinda enjoying the “wrapup” post concept. I feel less pressure to blog, and take a bit more time to collect my thoughts (instead of jumping on board any given meme as it happens). Would definitely like to know from my reader(s?) if this is harder content to consume than more frequent, shorter posts.Dell Buying PalmThis [...]

How I?d Build a Search Engine

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:20:12 -0500

Over the past year, we’ve seen no fewer than three major attempts to compete with Google come to market, with mixed results. Cuil’s disastrous launch last Summer all but killed their chances of success. Wolfram is in murky waters trying to remain distinctly not a search engine. And Microsoft is presently trying to buy their [...]

Five Random Thoughts: Beatles Rock Band, Social Gaming, beeTV, CrunchPad, Palm Pre

Sat, 6 Jun 2009 12:27:01 -0500

I’ve been told I’m a ‘long format blogger’ - most of my posts are fairly long (typically overly so). As a result my posts tend to take a while to write, which means I need to block out (too much) time to get them up. And I seem to have less and less free time [...]