http://www.cocomment.com/comments/fbpubteam Copyright 2007 coComment.com 2009-11-23T10:16:18.830+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/images/logo4rss.gif http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=fbpubteam&conv=604296&comment_id=11612880 rick Ouch. That hurts. Re: Gibson, his writing never really clicked for me. I always admired his ability to write about the future with prose that would make perfect sense to someone _in that time_, but to me, always seemed jarring and difficult to internalize. Maybe it's just me... but in his books, the future always felt disconnected from our present (which I know is part of the point - but that made it harder for me to latch on to). With Daemon, part of what's so effective is that it's effectively set in the present. Consequently, stuff that seems futuristic is in fact already happening, which creates a sense of foreboding. The conclusions he draws are unsettling, and fascinating. So... I'm not a particularly good guy to compare Daemon with Gibson's work. But I'd eagerly put it into the same league as Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson. 2007-04-05T19:36:51.237+02:00 2007-04-05T19:36:51.237+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=fbpubteam&conv=604296&comment_id=11602090 rick Danielle - Good call on the pen name. You might be on to something. :) As to your second question, I think you will get it. While some of the topics are rather sophisticated, Zeraus does a great job explaining the concepts behind them without turning it into a dry textbook entry on the subject. I think the hardest thing to do for an author is make it seem realistic to the non-expert, and credible to the expert. Zeraus pulls that off (or at least I think he does - would love to hear your thoughts after you read it). I'm probably going to end up writing more about the book shortly. It's still with me a few days later... I'm eager to find out where the story goes next (things do not get all nicely wrapped up by the end of Daemon), and each day I see something in the news that resonates with one of the primary themes of the book. I'm also anxious to talk about the book with others who've read it! --Rick 2007-04-05T16:19:37.637+02:00 2007-04-05T16:19:37.637+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=fbpubteam&conv=594315&comment_id=11344870 Rick Klau An anecdote for the ages... thanks for sharing, I am sharing that smirk! 2007-03-31T18:46:29.749+02:00 2007-03-31T18:46:29.749+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=fbpubteam&conv=583354&comment_id=11090454 Jake Parrillo Hi There Hartley, Glad you're utilizing our "FeedMedic" alerts. Our service can only tell you when something is wrong with your source feed. We look to your source feed periodically to ensure that we're delivering the most recent content, so if during one of those intervals, your source feed goes down, we can notify you. We think it's a great way to tell you that we can't access your source feed. We love feedback, so if there's anything we can help on, don't hesitate to give us a shout. Jake Parrillo Publisher Services Team FeedBurner 2007-03-27T16:51:16.026+02:00 2007-03-27T16:51:16.026+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=fbpubteam&conv=562802&comment_id=10674184 rick Chris - Netelligence seems to be solving a problem I don't perceive I have. I sync my phone with my PC regularly - so everything on the phone is backed up on my PC. And I'm not looking to Twitter as an SMS-only service; I see it as a group communication platform with multiple points of access: SMS, IM, http. So Netelligence seems like an entirely different application, geared to do something fundamentally different than Twitter. Or am I missing something? 2007-03-19T19:27:22.766+01:00 2007-03-19T19:27:22.766+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=fbpubteam&conv=562640&comment_id=10671429 Rick Klau I'd just start using the name as synonymous with the opposite of leader: Nagin (na' gen) noun A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people. (I stole the definition from 'sycophant' in case you were wondering.) 2007-03-19T18:08:21.908+01:00 2007-03-19T18:08:21.908+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=fbpubteam&conv=499034&comment_id=9083284 Rick Klau @Jeremy: The desktop product is entirely independent of the data we reported on today. Google Desktop is not included in the data reported by Google, nor are the views/clicks data we included today affected by Google Desktop. You're right that GD will auto-discover feeds on sites that you frequent in your browser, and those subscribers may or may not actually interact with your content. It's that reason we felt it important to go beyond subscriber number when analyzing the growing importance of feeds - by looking at actual feed item views and feed clicks, we're able to better gauge how engaged the subscribers actually are. Hope that helps. 2007-02-22T22:34:52.066+01:00 2007-02-22T22:34:52.066+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=fbpubteam&conv=499034&comment_id=9083016 Rick Klau @Narendra: The reported number of subscribers from Google includes both Reader and Personalized Homepage; the views data is exclusively from Google Reader, as PH does not render HTML from the body of the feed item. Views are incremented only when that HTML is rendered, so the only views data we're capturing is from Google Reader. @Brent and Josh: Since My Yahoo! does not render HTML from the feed items, there's no way for us to independently capture how many items were "viewed" by readers. As noted in the report, a view would indicate that someone read the feed content; with My Yahoo!, the user experience is to click on a headline and return to the site where the content originated. @Jason: Marking a feed as read in Google Reader is not the same as us capturing a view. In the former case, you're indicating to Google Reader that the item is no longer "new"; in the latter, you're actually viewing the feed item content in your browser window, resulting in the rendering of HTML in that feed item, which results in an item view captured by us. Let me know if this helps clarify the information. --Rick 2007-02-22T22:31:49.196+01:00 2007-02-22T22:31:49.196+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=fbpubteam&conv=474226&comment_id=8583921 rick Steve - I have looked at Sugar in the past. It's a phenomenal SFA tool - much more than we needed when we got started with Salesforce. At the time we started we had just 3 people hitting the app, and we've now grown to a dozen or more. That said, we need basic contact management, account assignment, etc. - and when I looked at Sugar, it was really overkill for our pretty simple needs. If we were a more sophisticated shop, I think it'd be a great alternative to Salesforce. --Rick 2007-02-13T06:07:49.309+01:00 2007-02-13T06:07:49.309+01:00