unalone

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by unalone 18y ago
But they break it up into ugly little bits and the web player they use is dreadful. TC is overreacting (big news?) but this is a great piece of news for a fan.
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by unalone 18y ago
That's why I've never understood the Apple-hate. I mean, yes, I understand that it's great to have open things to fiddle with. At the same time, though, open-source applications are almost never the top-notch apps in their field. I think th
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by unalone 18y ago
That's what I think Lulu's marketing edge is, actually. It's free for you to publish, and the quality is surprisingly decent. I don't like thinking of it as self-publishing (I do intend to try my luck with agents and publishing houses, thou
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by unalone 18y ago
It's on Lulu here: http://www.lulu.com/content/2609902 It's moving to Amazon hopefully tomorrow, which is why I didn't link to it anywhere. I'll probably post it to reddit tomorrow at some time. Nonetheless: the book is very high-quality,
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by unalone 18y ago
Really? I just made one with Lulu and I was pretty impressed with it. It was very well-done.
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by unalone 18y ago
I just heard about Plurk. Funny. Looks like it's a new thing. I don't think it's going to last. Its problem is that it adds on complex, unneeded features to a simple idea. That's what made Twitter so huge: its astounding simplicity. It lost
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by unalone 18y ago
This is a wild guess, but from what I've seen Tumblr is picking up a lot of momentum. It's started to attract a pretty smart community and it's building steam. I don't know if it's a REPLACEMENT for Twitter, but it serves the same purpose b
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by unalone 18y ago
I think it's referring to how Firefox removed Live Search from the default downloads set.
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by unalone 18y ago
What this doesn't state, what really matters, is that if you're going to do something that's been done already you NEED something that makes your service unique. If you're pulling a Zooomr and just copying a feature list then you SHOULD lis
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by unalone 19y ago
That was a more personal initiative, though. As in, a user created the reddit again after people were allowed to make their own.
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by unalone 19y ago
True. I'm not much of a coder but this seems like it might be easy enough to try out. I might give this a go, if it's not done by the summer (which is when I have free time again).
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by unalone 19y ago
I'll check it out. Why is it so hardcore? What do the systems actually entail?
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by unalone 19y ago
I'm a writer. When I write, I try to avoid things that have already been done for precisely that reason. I would hate to show somebody something that wasn't new and stimulating for THEM. For me, a part of the fun of making art is creating t
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by unalone 19y ago
That's an interesting concept, treating product design as part of the marketing. It's a type of marketing that's actually useful to the end user.
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by unalone 19y ago
"The Facebook" was the original name of the site. thefacebook.com still links to it, actually.
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by unalone 19y ago
Here's something that nobody talks about: people writing articles from different points of view. We don't get this often. We dont' have one person talking about a product's design and another person about its performance and a third person
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by unalone 19y ago
I think it's because so many sites rely on very simplistic log-in systems for the sake of simplicity. Sometimes it's easier to just make a basic thing on your own than it is to use somebody else's system.
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by unalone 19y ago
MSN's is nice (I'm not a huge fan of Google's, though I like its being integrated throughout search results), but I think Yahoo!'s is the most broad-minded. They really take advantage of their various hundreds of sites to give you relevant
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by unalone 19y ago
I think you actually just nailed the three biggies. The reason is that each of the three works in the same way: it gives you a list of "things to get done," and in two of the three cases that list goes on for a long ways. (Email does too, I
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by unalone 19y ago
Are there any GTD books you'd recommend? I've heard a lot about GTD and it sounds very interesting, but I've never actually figured out what a good starting point would be.
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by unalone 19y ago
That's actually a valid point to make. It's a perfectly valid theory that if you don't have a point to make with your art, that you're not doing anything worthwhile. But apparently you've got an idea or two, so it wouldn't hurt for you to t
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by unalone 19y ago
I remember coming across one a year or two ago, but I didn't bookmark it. It was either open source or very cheap (10 dollars or so). It sounds like an interesting sort of thing to base a project around, though. Out of curiosity, what exact
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by unalone 19y ago
It's something that applies to most art forms. The more you tell somebody what something is, and the less you show them, the more time it takes for them to comprehend it, and therefore the less it actually has an effect. Of course, in creat
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by unalone 19y ago
You have a point, but at the same time: Apple is only able to get away with their particular brand of marketing because their products work in ways similar to the manner broadcasted. Case in point: the iPhone commercials, which were extreme
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by unalone 19y ago
I wonder, though, if Google was planning on that already, or if they instead started working on that when PowerSet started releasing such hype?