Worst consumer electronic product ever made March 31, 2008
Posted by geoffwolfe in : Off Topic , add a commentThe Linksys WRE54G had great promise but it fails miserably. I have one working after hours of effort. A second one (the same release and firmware) just refuses to work. In fact, it destroys my network setup and I have to reset everything when ever it is turned on. Just search the web for similar sentiment and you’ll see what a bomb this thing is!
Sent from my iPhone
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MessageDance - Express Yourself across your Social Networks March 27, 2008
Posted by geoffwolfe in : On Topic , add a commentHere’s an introductory video on how to use MessageDance. It explains the simple way you can send messages and share rich content with your friends.
See the other videos on my blog for more advanced features like directly sharing a YouTube video to Twitter and sending iPhone photos into your Facebook Photos section.
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YouTube Share isn’t playing nice March 26, 2008
Posted by geoffwolfe in : Off Topic , add a commentThere’s a problem with the YouTube Share feature where videos never make it to your destination. At MessageDance, you can share a video directly from YouTube.com and have it go to your (and your friends’) social network sites including Twitter. We’ve noticed a problem where some videos that have been sent never show up.
Thinking at first it was our issue, we’ve found that the message doesn’t reach our servers at all. Through trial and error, it seems that there is some limit to the amount of text you can put in the “Message” section of the Share feature — somewhere around 80 to 100 characters — but it’s not consistent. Now you’re share-aware.
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MessageDance - iPhone photo to Twitter, Facebook, WordPress March 19, 2008
Posted by geoffwolfe in : On Topic , add a commentHere’s another installment of our instructional videos on using MessageDance features. Let me know what you think. More to come.
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What is a User in Web 2.0? March 19, 2008
Posted by geoffwolfe in : On Topic , add a commentWhile we’re in private beta, we’ve been limiting the amount of users into MessageDance so we can gather good feedback from a semi-controlled group. When the time is right we’ll open it up and start to count users to demonstrate traction. In doing research as to what a “user” is in Web 2.0 services, it seems to be a very squishy term. It’s pretty clear that some companies count pretty much anyone who types in something into one of their webpages as a user. How else could a comment-enhancer for blogs have 325,000 users (back in June 2007)?
I got a chuckle out of Vimeo’s claim of 7 billion users which has to be an attention-grabber number only (it worked) since there are a couple billion less people on Earth. Wikipedia has them at a more down-to-earth number of 275,000 users.
It’s a wild time in Web 2.0 where many user numbers I see out there don’t pass the snicker-test.
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MessageDance - YouTube to Twitter March 18, 2008
Posted by geoffwolfe in : On Topic , add a commentWe’ve gotten a lot of feedback that videos really are key in people understanding the value MessageDance brings to social media. Look for more coming soon!
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Changing tires while going 80 mph March 14, 2008
Posted by geoffwolfe in : On Topic , add a commentYour website is your business. When it’s down, your business is down and you look like a rookie. It’s especially true when you have a consumer website and then it’s all or nothing — if your site doesn’t work, no one gets to see the value of your offering and they may never come back. No second chances for a first impression here.
It’s very frustrating when so much is really out of your control. Our hosting provider has been having issues lately and there is this nagging problem of proxy errors when pages are accessed. It’s not our technical issue but it is our issue. You would think that YouTube is a sturdy service but there are constant problems where sharing a video just goes out into the ether somewhere never to be seen again; it never reaches our servers. Again, not our issue but it is our problem.
Another area where you run into problems is pushing changes to your production system. When you do this, you have to bring down servers to reinitialize some services that have been changed. When you don’t have that many servers yet, you’re bound to have accessibility issues by some users. When is the best time to do this? In the enterprise world, you know when most people are off the system (or you can just kick them off), so it’s no big deal. In the global consumer world, people are on all of the time, so picking the right time is not really possible. You just do it and hope people are minimally affected.
What we really need is a guy like Guido from Cars the Movie who can change four tires in 2 seconds.
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From Facebook to my blog as a post March 11, 2008
Posted by geoffwolfe in : On Topic , add a commentand then to Twitter? All from Just One Email? Come on.
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Startup Mashup March 10, 2008
Posted by geoffwolfe in : On Topic , add a commentPlugandPlayTechcenter has a great thing going. We see improvements to the services (and the facilities) they offer to startups everyday. 
Someone in this building is going to hit it big. I hope to witness it firsthand. Sent from my iPhone
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Sometimes it really is this easy March 7, 2008
Posted by geoffwolfe in : Off Topic , add a commentCreate a blog entry with MessageDance by email — just as this post was done. Send in pictures too.
It will be released soon. Just giving it a test now.
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