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Enterprise Ireland seem to be funding a Template Monster clone, which is linked into Digiweb. Why should tax payers be paying for another Eoin Costello project? If it's commercially viable shouldn't it be able to stand on its own two feet? And does the world really need another template monster?
Why would anyone in their right mind pay that kind of money for a such a horrific "design" when so many free site building tools would do as good a job if not better?
Ammado are a very odd business. Judging by what people have been saying this morning it looks like they spammed quite a few bloggers this morning (Justin Mason, Donncha O Caoimh and Damien Mulley that I know of). I have an account with them, so while I thought the email looked dodgy I wasn't going to complain to them formally.
Twitter has been down more than up over the last few days. If anyone wants an invite to jaiku I have a few.. If you want to see what people are blathering about check out Twit.ie (love the name!) which pulls in the latest posts from both jaiku and twitter from an ever growing list of Irish based users.
UPDATE: Justin has blogged about Ammado and also points out that they're signed up to Habeas!
UPDATE 2: Someone from Ammado has posted an "apology" in the comments on Justin's blog. I'm beginning to see a pattern emerging here..
UPDATE 3 - Looks like quite a few people weren't that impressed with being "targetted" by Ammado: Alexia, Maman Poulet, Damien,
One of my pethates (I seem to have a lot!) is blogs that aren't
actually blogs. All they seem to have is the person's Twitter updates
and maybe their latest saved links.
Either blog or don't.
I don't mind if you don't post that often, but if I wanted your Twitter updates I'd just subscribe to that instead.
Either blog or don't.
I don't mind if you don't post that often, but if I wanted your Twitter updates I'd just subscribe to that instead.
I've got a few invites to Hellotxt and Jaiku available if anyone wants them.
Hellotxt is a nice little idea.
Their description sums it up:
Hellotxt is a nice little idea.
Their description sums it up:
HelloTxt is an aggregate of microblogging services through which the user can insert their messages on all main microblogging services in a simply and simultaneous way.Of course the downside to it is that it makes it all that much easier to spam the universe with your microblogging messages!
I signed up for a StumbleUpon account nearly 3 years ago. Of course I lost the login details and ended up creating another account last year, which I then forgot about. Bernie was inviting people to connect with him earlier this evening, so I dugout the original emails...
While I can appreciate that StumbleUpon is free and useful it's got some really annoying UI / "user experience" glitches.
Why does the main page invite me to "join" when I'm already logged in?
Why does the "invite friends" screen insist on sending emails to people instead of actually searching for them? There is an option to find people via their email address, but it's well and truly buried.
The invite friends email isn't particularly well crafted either. Instead of sending you to a page to join OR login it forces you to signup, so Bernie's emails earlier this evening will probably have frustrated a load of other people (unintentionally on his part).
Jaiku has been offline for most of today, which is a pity. It looks like they're having hardware or database issues again. Pity, as its interface is so much nicer to use than Twitter.
Travian UK have restarted server 1, so hopefully I'll fare a bit better. I'm currently being slaughtered on the speed server :(
While I can appreciate that StumbleUpon is free and useful it's got some really annoying UI / "user experience" glitches.
Why does the main page invite me to "join" when I'm already logged in?
Why does the "invite friends" screen insist on sending emails to people instead of actually searching for them? There is an option to find people via their email address, but it's well and truly buried.
The invite friends email isn't particularly well crafted either. Instead of sending you to a page to join OR login it forces you to signup, so Bernie's emails earlier this evening will probably have frustrated a load of other people (unintentionally on his part).
Jaiku has been offline for most of today, which is a pity. It looks like they're having hardware or database issues again. Pity, as its interface is so much nicer to use than Twitter.
Travian UK have restarted server 1, so hopefully I'll fare a bit better. I'm currently being slaughtered on the speed server :(
Several months ago I wrote about Twitter.
I've since started using Jaiku and I really like it.
Yes there are server issues from time to time, but the user interface is quite intuitive and you can actually follow a conversation.
Twitter really sucks.
The user interface is simple. Simply awful!
There's an API. Wow!
While twitter could be useful it's lack of basic functionality, such as threading, renders it totally useless unless you've only got a limited number of contacts.
With Jaiku if someone posts something you can reply to their message and it displays in a logical manner ie. linked to the original message. If someone else replies you get a thread. You don't need to make much of an effort to follow the conversation.
Twitter on the other hand doesn't seem to have any concept of "conversation". It's just lots of people yelling at each other. Sometimes their yells might make some kind of sense, but for the most part they're completely disjointed.
There isn't as much boring junk on it as previously, but it's still completely overrated.
Jaiku is a lot saner!
I've since started using Jaiku and I really like it.
Yes there are server issues from time to time, but the user interface is quite intuitive and you can actually follow a conversation.
Twitter really sucks.
The user interface is simple. Simply awful!
There's an API. Wow!
While twitter could be useful it's lack of basic functionality, such as threading, renders it totally useless unless you've only got a limited number of contacts.
With Jaiku if someone posts something you can reply to their message and it displays in a logical manner ie. linked to the original message. If someone else replies you get a thread. You don't need to make much of an effort to follow the conversation.
Twitter on the other hand doesn't seem to have any concept of "conversation". It's just lots of people yelling at each other. Sometimes their yells might make some kind of sense, but for the most part they're completely disjointed.
There isn't as much boring junk on it as previously, but it's still completely overrated.
Jaiku is a lot saner!
