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Gmail Chat FAILs with Ping.fm GTalk Enabled

dgw 2009-03-03 - 17:15 2014-05-22complaints, errors, Gmail, Google, Google Talk, internet, technology, tools 3

Image via CrunchBase Last night, I found a chat in my Gmail account that I’d never seen. It was sent an hour after I left the public library on February 26, while I was offline, but never showed up in my Inbox. It wasn’t even labeled as sent while I was offline. I was baffled completely until I realized this afternoon what I’d been doing that night at the library. February 26 (a Thursday, the day of #snowmageddon here in Minneapolis/St. Paul) was the day I discovered that Ping.fm—my very favorite social networking tool, second only to Twitter—had added support…

FeedBurner Migration Troubles on feeds.swrobotics.com

dgw 2009-01-20 - 23:40 2009-10-31FeedBurner, Google, hacks, internet, My Websites 0

Image by rudolf_schuba via FlickrI didn’t exactly blog about it outright, but I do remember expressing a reasonable amount of uncertainty when I that I moved my FeedBurner account to Google’s servers. Yes I am an early adopter; the deadline may not be until the end of February, but do you really want to make something of it? Apparently Google did. As part of the migration process, I had to ask the DNS administrator for swrobotics.com (I wish I could do things like this myself, but I can’t) to change the entry for the feeds subdomain from feeds CNAME feeds.feedburner.com.…

Feed Address Changed [Maintenance]

dgw 2009-01-16 - 21:20 2009-10-31FeedBurner, Google, internet, My Websites, technology 0

Image via CrunchBaseFor those reading this site via the feed, this is just a heads-up that the feed address has changed due to my FeedBurner account being migrated to Google. Email subscribers are unaffected; all that’s changed is the link I have here on the site, in the sidebar, for new subscribers. If the address you subscribe to is on this domain (i.e. has voyagerfan5761.blogspot.com in it), you’re all set. If you subscribe to the one on feeds.feedburner.com, you’re set, too; but I don’t know how long Google will keep the redirect up, so change feeds to feeds2 just to…

Comments On Google Changes

dgw 2009-01-16 - 09:05 2015-10-29Brightkite, FeedBurner, FriendFeed, Google, Google App Engine, internet, Jaiku, opinion, technology, tools, Twitter, YouTube 0

Image via WikipediaOn Wednesday, Google announced changes to or shutdowns of several services. Google also shut down Lively, the 3D chatroom that I always looked upon as a rather silly Second Life knock-off, beginning January 1—just a few short weeks ago. (“Reasons Google should kill Lively” was actually a topic in my to-blog list for several months, but it looks like I didn’t have to blog about it for Google to see that it wasn’t a good fit with their other projects. Nice work saving effort there, self. 😛 Anyway…) I’m rather unconcerned with the fate of Google Catalog Search,…

Badly Designed Websites: Improvement Sighted

dgw 2008-09-05 - 22:10 2009-10-31internet, opinion, w00t 1

Yes, I know this post is short. It reflects my most recently added constraint: Time. I just don’t have much of it these days. It makes me sad that I can’t blog as much as I’d like, but I’ll do what I can. Image via Wikipedia Remember I made last October citing www.mcool.org as an example of a badly designed website? Say hello to their redesign! Yes, it’s true! The site has been completely redone since the end of last school year, and it now features a great deal of improvements. Not the least of which are bookmarkable URLs (no…

Would I Ever Use BlogBurst?

dgw 2008-08-23 - 08:02 2015-10-29internet, opinion 0

I wrote this post in late April, before I , and initially scheduled it to publish the morning of April 25. It was replaced by something else because I wasn’t sure about it, but reading it again now I think it’s pretty fine. I’m writing a big post to be published in the next week or two, so this looked like a good post idea to use in the mean time. I don’t remember how I initially heard about BlogBurst. It’s one of those many sites I just got in my head somehow but can’t trace. There’s been a post…

How Should I Respond to Copied Photos?

dgw 2008-08-17 - 09:24 2009-11-02complaints, copyright infringement, internet, opinion, photography, questions 7

Update (2009-11-02): I had the content removed this summer. Pretty fast, too; Facebook’s DMCA team had both offending albums deleted within about 24 hours. All right, it’s time to get this issue out there. I tweeted it a few times before, many months ago, but last night I was just reminded of the issue by an entire Facebook album of photos uploaded by someone I went canoeing with last summer — but represented as original works. No credit, no acknowledgment, not even anything about the fact that someone else took the photos! Fine, I did upload the photos to Picasa…

Hampton Inn Internet Issues

dgw 2008-08-15 - 23:32 2009-11-02complaints, hotels, internet, opinion, technology 0

Image via Wikipedia All right, so obviously I managed to get online. But it took about half an hour. Let me begin the saga… (And this was after something of a disappointment at the NHSI Musical Theatre extension’s presentation… but I don’t think I’ll blog about that.) We checked into the hotel around 22:00, then got up to the room. I set up my computer and started looking for clues as to how the Internet access was delivered (RJ-45 plug or Wi-Fi). I finally figured out that it was wireless (the amenities book gave the impression that it was wired)…

Google, Please Don’t Disrupt the Continuity of Google Page Creator Sites

dgw 2008-08-09 - 07:00 2014-05-22complaints, Google, Google Sites, ideas, internet, opinion, tools 1

Don’t worry, I’m working on a post about my summer at Northwestern University. It’s just a lot of writing, thinking, and recalling, so it’ll take some time. Meanwhile, this post has a very important message I wanted to get out. All right, someone needs to think. Hard. Someone at Google, that is. Why? Because a lot of people, including me, will be potentially made unhappy when Google Sites takes over for Google Page Creator. Google Blogoscoped published “Google Slowly Closing Page Creator” a few days ago, which got me thinking. How much do I use Google Page Creator? For its…

Twitter’s Problems: Getting Worse

dgw 2008-06-27 - 13:30 2015-10-29complaints, internet, Jaiku, opinion, Twitter 3

I once told myself I’d never write about Twitter‘s downtime, because everyone in the tech blogosphere writes about it. Today I’m going against that. The problems have simply become ridiculous. Back when I first started using Twitter, it was very responsive. (I tried to find my first tweet as an example, but there’s currently a paging limit of 10 which blocks everything but the 200 most recent tweets.) Posting was nearly instantaneous, the API allowed 70 requests every hour, one could get replies to one’s own tweets using a convenient tab on the site or simple call to the API,…

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