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Re: Exclusive: Amazon MP3 Widget Preview

Sethx — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:31:09 -0000

Here: http://blog.sethx.in/2008/05/new-amazon-mp3-cli...

Re: Exclusive: Amazon MP3 Widget Preview

Sethx — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:30:43 -0000

Even I added one. Really cool

Re: Voice Blogging With Snapvine

VladZablotskyy — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:21:03 -0000

Case, the Disqus is great. I am answering your comment straight from my
Gmail account.

As far as Snapvine is concerned, it is really easy to use (but I think they
are limited to US customers), I can't get any good quality out of it, every
time I record something it sounds like I am in a fish tank. Thanks for
stopping by.

Re: Voice Blogging With Snapvine

Case Stevens — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:42:52 -0000

Hi Vlad,
Just arrived here to check out how you implemented Disqus and then saw Snapvine again (visited earlier).
Proves again you're an innovative guy. Love that.
Going the check both systems out.
Thanks.

Re: Taking The Carousel Widget For A Spin

TrishaLyn — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:56:43 -0000

I was going to but with the feed problem of my website I need to export all my posts, reinstall wordpress, and re-import them. So I was planning on testing it out in a post but haven't yet. Thanks for the info... I'll keep you updated to my experience once I use it.

Re: Taking The Carousel Widget For A Spin

VladZablotskyy — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:48:07 -0000

TrishaLyn,

I am not sure if you still follow this, but I was wondering if you have had a chance to give the carousel widget a try.

I think it takes very long time to load and it's hard to navigate from the page it is on. I wonder if you had anything similar happen.

Re: Voice Blogging With Snapvine

VladZablotskyy — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:17:16 -0000

Thanks, Sam. I actually think that podcasting might be much easier for me on Ubuntu, comparing to video editing. Audacity should work well for recording the podcasts. Look forward to your post or podcast.

Re: Voice Blogging With Snapvine

samharrelson — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:12:51 -0000

Cool idea, Vlad. I'll try to put something together and let you know.

Re: Voice Blogging With Snapvine

VladZablotskyy — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:34:01 -0000

Sam,

Thanks for the heads up on cinch. I think they are very similar. Snapvine voice quality like talking in the fish tank- to use Scott Jangro's words.

I may actually enjoy podcasting more than video.... Since you are a pro, which podcast service would you recommend? I notice many of you use Podango. Do they offer to host your media files? I am really interested to learn more about podcasting. Would appreciate if you can direct me to some sort of guide to podcasting.

Re: Voice Blogging With Snapvine

samharrelson — Sat, 03 May 2008 03:48:55 -0000

hey vlad... i love cinch from blogtalkradio (i think it's cinch.blogtalkradio.com). very cool if you're into RSS :)

Re: Voice Blogging With Snapvine

VladZablotskyy — Sat, 03 May 2008 00:45:03 -0000

TrishaLyn,

I have never done a podcast before, so I was intrigued but the option of
podcasting straight from the cell phone. I do think though that I may enjoy
podcasting more than making videos. We'll see if I stick to it... :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Re: Voice Blogging With Snapvine

TrishaLyn — Sat, 03 May 2008 00:24:26 -0000

I've been using Snapvine on my MySpace page for almost a year... it's okay, but I prefer the way I've started doing podcasts - using a free software called Audigy and the PodPress plugin for wordpress. Good stuff though!

Re: Taking The Carousel Widget For A Spin

VladZablotskyy — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:37:03 -0000

TrishaLyn,

I also wish the widget had more configuration option. I believe the smallest
size is 400x150 but there is a choice of other "tower" sizes for this
widget, maybe those can work for you.

Thanks for stopping by.

Re: Taking The Carousel Widget For A Spin

TrishaLyn — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:19:11 -0000

Very cool analysis... It's a huge widget and that's been my beef with it. not sure where to really put it. But I think I have an idea that I'm going to test out.

Re: StumbleUpon Spring Cleaning: Accounts Banned

VladZablotskyy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:00:03 -0000

Maurice,

I think some of use may get caught up in this "social media traffic" fix. No
matter how do we twist nothing can beat natural search from big 3 (G, Y,
MSN) and the PPC on these three as well.

Thanks for stopping by on my new blog.

Re: StumbleUpon Spring Cleaning: Accounts Banned

Maurice — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:43:01 -0000

Hey Vlad,

Interesting. I guess like many marketers that means I have fallen foul of the TOS myself - but they do have a "marketing" category which is where most of my stumbles end up. If a user Stumbles something to promote a third party website that is commercial in nature but in which they have no financial I don't see the logic of labeling them as an "abuser" of the system.

I know self promotion is frowned upon but I've stumbled several of my own blog posts in the past if I think they are deserving of the exposure. I don't do it to excess. The thing is, where do you draw the line? The Internet is commercial in nature, so by the anti commercial/marketing crowd's standards, any website or blog carrying even one advertisement should be banned from places like SU along with any person who thumbs that site up? Ok I'm exaggerating, but we're discussing illogical reasoning and that is a logical opposing argument.

There are too many haters on SU nowadays and too many people who seem to feel that nobody is interested in any kind of commercial or money making online ventures just because it offends their own strange sensibilities. It's a shame, but it's going the way of Digg and after seeing one particular attack on a female internet marketer involving truly unpleasant verbal abuse it made me wonder just what kind of people would want to play in that environment. After all, if you're not interested in a site it takes a fraction of a second to pass on to the next.

I don't think if I ended up with a ban that I'd lose too much sleep over it. Most SU users spend less than 30 seconds on my site so I can only conclude that my content is not what most SU users are looking for.

Re: What Do You Do On Sundays?

Webhosting Reality — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:42:43 -0000

I am guilty. I blog on Sundays. I should not blog on God's rest day. Thanks for the spiritual insight.

Re: WordPress.com Is A Heaven For Faceless Cowards

TrishaLyn — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:39:47 -0000

Ah ok, my bad with Igor. Sorry Igor! :p

Re: StumbleUpon Spring Cleaning: Accounts Banned

VladZablotskyy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:02:03 -0000

I don't mind the SU traffic at all, I have benefited from it in the past and
still do. But I think the fact that they offer PPC is inconsistent with
banning some of us who stumbles a page that has purely commercial goal...
Again do they expect me to pay for clicks to pages about my cats and dogs?

It should be noted that I have written above post in a wave of emotions. :)

Re: WordPress.com Is A Heaven For Faceless Cowards

VladZablotskyy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:58:02 -0000

I did contact the "Spam Department" but I receive no response from them.
Technically the post is not a spam. In fact as Teli had mentioned above,
the post itself may is not libel.... But it clearly refers to posts on
Yahoo! Answers. Those posts were taken down by Yahoo.

The reason I am calling out Matt is that I feel that I have exhausted other
option to bring attention to the issue at hand. There is much more to this
story, but at the end of the day I need to defend my name. And if that means
I need to get attention of "#1 Matt on the Internet" I am kicking and
screaming for his attention. ;)

As far as Igor is concerned, he has left valid comments in the past. I am
actually wondering if he by a chance intended to leave this comment on one
of my other posts.

Re: StumbleUpon Spring Cleaning: Accounts Banned

TrishaLyn — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:34:54 -0000

I've found that SU traffic is good only in the sense that it gets people there. For someone like me who's mostly looking for exposure at this point, I don't mind casting a wide net to catch only a few fish :)

Re: WordPress.com Is A Heaven For Faceless Cowards

TrishaLyn — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:30:57 -0000

Vlad I think Igor is a comment monkey - don't feed the troll :P

Anyway, reputation management is rightfully high on your priority list and it's really disappointing to see that the person who can actually do something about it isn't responding.

Isn't there anyone else at WordPress you can contact without going straight to Mullenweg? Maybe the problem is that he has passed off your issue to someone else more involved with day-to-day issues (or should have passed it off to someone like this).

Re: WordPress.com Is A Heaven For Faceless Cowards

VladZablotskyy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:54:56 -0000

Igor,

I was not able to follow this.... can you give me the link to Arrington's post?

Re: WordPress.com Is A Heaven For Faceless Cowards

VladZablotskyy — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:43:32 -0000

That is an interesting way to look at that story Matt. ;)

Re: WordPress.com Is A Heaven For Faceless Cowards

Lord Matt — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:27:36 -0000

I now have it on reasonably good (anonymouse though it shall remain) authority that this is likely to be a case of one man being too busy. Also I am told word-press have always sucked at the support side of things.

With that in mind I think the story of the man who wanted bread springs to mind. It's a bible (parable) story from the NT that you may be aware of.

Man gets visitors late at night and is customerily expected to feed them but he has no food to feed them with. So he knocks on the door of the guy next door. The same set of customs hopefully working to have the guy next door help out. The guy next door is, however, in bed and so is the rest of the family.

"Go away" calls the man next door, "we're all in bed."

But the man does not go away and eventually his next door neighbor gives him some bread to shut him up.

Possibly this might apply here.