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Re: When did you last check for vandals?

PMP Cert — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:17:35 -0000

Martin Luther King Jr. was vandalized with racist images and messages on Monday's national holiday. The Facebook page for the legendary civil rights leader ...

Re: Record and release free music without copyrights. by Aaron Dunn — Kickstarter

Greg — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:08:24 -0000

Great stuff indeed! For those of you based in the UK, similar crowdfunding services are available at www.sponsume.com

Re: Google sets its Sites on Intranets

Metal File Cabinet Dividers — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:49:59 -0000

That's the great article! I just pass 'n read it, two thumbs up! ;)

Re: Blue Anjou built with Concrete 5 by Dirk

Dirk — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:36:37 -0000

Thanks for the nice write-up.

Haha ... yes, I've also thought it turned out a little more congested than I would have liked (sometimes difficult to visualize in first concept all the info needed to actually 'run' the business). But that's the risk you run of a "fixed" height/width design. Also, I am not a designer by trade, so I always have that excuse to fall back on. ;-)

That said, I will be doing some post-launch clean-up during the next few weeks to try to give the homepage a bit more 'space', but all-in-all, I like how it turned out. Especially that virtually everything is editable from within C5.

Note: this design also utilizes the "global scrapbook" (5.3.2) to make the Image Slider identical on all pages, but only requires one-time edits in the Dashboard to propagate changes to all pages. Very useful and overlooked featured of the Concrete Team's latest release.

--Dirk

Re: Beautiful Balance

Shawn — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:13:37 -0000

Hey Phil, glad you're enjoying the site. Stay tuned, we'll be launching some great features in the next few weeks as we move toward public launch.

Re: Sprout mixing it up with brands fans

Joey Mucha — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:43:22 -0000

Hey Phil,
Great post on Sprout and thank you for mentioning our newest product. We are very excited to unveil a creative engagement marketing platform. I agree that it will be interesting to see when entertainment brands are able to utilize the full power of our platform. The first to act will be the most bang for their buck, that's for sure.

Let us know what you are up to and we'll do that same.

Cheers,
Joey Mucha
Marketing Manager, Sprout

Re: Wikia Search

Teri Barr — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:51:05 -0000

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Re: Where Does All The Time Go?

Edison Thomaz — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:21:42 -0000

Hi - We've recently introduced a new version of our time and activity analytics solution, Slife v2.0. It's now available for Mac/Windows and you can extend it to multiple users with Slife Teams.

http://www.slifelabs.com
http://www.slifeteams.com

It's similar to RescueTime in some ways. Give it a try - the Slife client is free. We would love to know what you think.

Re: Semantic Web comes a step closer with Ubiquity

Eugene — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:26:26 -0000

Now everyone is talking about the American economy and eclections, nice to read something different. Eugene

Re: Google Charts – Now With Maps

Jay — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:15:26 -0000

Hi,
I just put up a page using the Google Chart API to highlight countries/states on a map.
You can see it here
http://www.29travels.com/trave...

Re: Flexible Drupal Theming With Tapestry

Phil — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:43:01 -0000

Hi Al,

50% fail.

Loose isn't lose, but there again neither is site sight. Poetic types tend to intend homophones and even resort to asinine assonances.

For bonus points tell me the source of this quotation.

`I don't know what you mean by "glory",' Alice said.

Re: Clearspace – First Impressions

Mark — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:00:11 -0000

ClearSpace definitely looks nice. Something about it kind of reminds me of Plone.
One problem I see is that the markup syntax isn't quite as flexible/powerful as most wikis. Us wiki power-users are hard to convert.

Re: Flexible Drupal Theming With Tapestry

Al Nonymous — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:08:23 -0000

You're giving advice, but you don't even know the difference between "loosing" and "losing."

I guess that makes you a "looser."

LOL

Re: eBay’s Dilemma

lumcinturff — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:59:55 -0000

I have been reading a lot about e-bay sellers going on strike through out weeks of February. I believe that in addition to this, that e-bay sellers should also start instituting changes to the way they handle business.

For example: E-bay “encourages” buyers to contact sellers prior to purchase. This is not enforced and certainly all questions would be answered as the Seller would then perhaps actually put hands-on to the item in question to best answer. For myself, as a small seller, I would like to TURN AWAY customer’s who do not contact me first. Having them contact me first would ensure that if they were not satisfied with what they have received that they would also then contact me again prior to leaving any form of negative feedback for customer satisfaction resolution.

When a person writes to you, you are then able to click on their feedback to see if they have negative’s on THEIR feedback ratings; at which point in time you can also turn them away and / or add them to your blocked listings.

MONEY: Should PayPal deem that money is to be held for a certain amount of time for any buyers, that is when the transaction would go to dispute resolution by Seller in that if PayPal and E-bay feel this would be a risky transaction, I should also, with the transaction being STOPPED and the money refunded; which PayPal would have to do if the Transaction is no longer in play.

It would not be enough to boycott or strike at e-bay if we too, are not putting PayPal in their place. In the past six months I have had money held by PayPal for clients who have a PayPal account but do not have more than one back up resource such as a credit card to back up the money which is within their bank. When I contacted PayPal about holding these money’s they gave me the above definition. So a person who actually has money in their personal off-line bank makes a payment of cash which PayPal HOLDS for 7 days prior to releasing because that person does not have a credit card also on file. In these days of recessive economics; what person wants a credit card? Lets put PayPal to the same task that we are putting e-bay to and hold them accountable.

I believe that there are other ways we can unite to protect ourselves as sellers from the viscious attacks of buyers who know that if they can complain simply to get a partial refund or an additional item. In as much, the seller then becomes enslaved to the stroke of the Buyer’s whim.

I would like to see an open forum of suggestions towards this end, that would inspire Sellers to Unite in way’s that would follow as well as create POLICY & STANDARDS that better protect us within our online existence.

Re: issuu™ – design without limits

Infohuntr — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:22:23 -0000

This is a nice critical review, great insight and details. It made me want to try the site - although I already have :) Def recommended.

Re: Ajax Through the Looking Glass

Phil — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:01:06 -0000

Note to readers - there are actually two different Phils in this conversation. I'm not talking to myself. (At least ... not here.)

Re: Ajax Through the Looking Glass

Phil — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:55:30 -0000

Re: PHP generated Jaxer content.

I've not used it myself yet, but Aptana's description of the Jaxer page lifecycle (http://aptana.com/node/150) is pretty clear.

"The HTML document starts life on the server, either as a static HTML file read from disk, or as a dynamic page generated by PHP, Ruby, Java, etc."

From what I understand, in this case, Jaxer acts as a filter processing the output of the PHP script before passing it on to the web server which in turn sends it to the client.

- Phil

Re: Ajax Through the Looking Glass

Phil — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:36:47 -0000

Hi,
Do you know or see any example of PHP script generating JAXER content?

"Jaxter files themselves can be dynamic pages generated on the fly by PHP, Ruby, Java etc."

The only reference to PHP I see on the JAXER site is the PHP script returning JSON data to the HTML page.
I want a PHP page generate JAXER, perhaps by Smarty template.

Cheers, Phil

Re: Feeding Your Facebook

Luke — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:58:59 -0000

Wiliam will be making updates to the Facebook RSS reader very soon that will allow multiple feeds.

This has been requested many times to us and no one else seems to be doing it.

I believe that we might also be letting people set how often it polls the feeds. (but this only creates bandwidth problems on the servers for us!!)

Luke
GM - Wiliam

Re: When did you last check for vandals?

Phil — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:54:41 -0000

Another location to check is the Wikia Search mini article for your business name. Run a search on your company name and look at the mini article text at the top of the search results.

Re: Feeding Your Facebook

Luke — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:25:25 -0000

I agree with you - I use this Blog RSS Feed reader from Wiliam and it's a great application.

I've also read in their forums that they are about to launch it so you can have multiple feeds, which makes this the best RSS reader for Facebook IMHO.