From the comments there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system)
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I love that despite it being a simple app for a simple problem, you’ve really thought about the UI and design. It does what it says on the tin, and does it well.
I would have liked an extra step after submitting my @users—a list of the users with their full name, their twitter icon, and whether or not they were already following me. This would give me a chance to confirm my choices and correct any mistakes.
Also when I submit a garbage ID like @cyvubinjsoidjajwld I am told “You are already following these Tweeps.” rather than that they don’t exist.
Good job :)
You can request an alpha invite here: http://my.jolicloud.com/account/invitation?next=%2Fregister
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Firefox has served me well over the last few years but seems to grow ever-slower on my Macbook while playing with Chromium is like a breath of fresh air.
Next week I’m going to try using the built-in Developer Tools to see how they stack up against Firebug, but what I’ve seen thus far has been pretty encouraging.
It would look at my subscriptions tagged with "discussion" and where the difference between now and the "published" date was over a certain period it would automatically unsubscribe.
You could probably do some neat stuff with using different tags to specify the length of time you wanted to subscribe for, etc.
I’ll update here if I ever get around to it, but I wouldn’t hold your breath. If anybody else takes the idea and runs with it I’d love to see some code.
[1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/WebService-Google-Reader/lib/Web... [2] http://code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleReaderAPI
Interesting that T-Mobile has already started offering iPhones to select customers though: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/03/t_mobile_i_phone/
I’ve bookmarked the site and will definitely use it for my next project—I always find picking a name and domain a pain.
[1] http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...
Does anybody familiar with the company know what the process for getting apps added to their library is? They’ve made such a good job of the implementation—I particularly like the fact that they use virtualisation / sandboxing to protect the host system—I’d be interested to hear what rules they have in place for app additions.
Wikipedia has some mention of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_glove#Impact_of_gloves_o...
Here is a related article I’ve found useful recently: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
I can’t say it particularly bothered me—I just had to click one button to get rid of the e-mails—but it doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in the service.
At any rate, mistakes happen; I hope it doesn’t cause too much backlash for them. I certainly don’t intend to cancel my account.
GMail just pips Yahoo to the top, both making up about 1 in 3 users each.
Hotmail seems to just magically disappear e-mails at random; they never end up arriving with our customers. Yahoo frequently “defer” delivery until later which can be very annoying when sending out verification e-mails. We’ve never had any problems with GMail delivery at all.
Following the advice on the pages below has helped resolve some of these issues, but if I were a user of these services I’d rather receive the odd spam e-mail or it end up in the junk folder instead of having to wonder if e-mails were occasionally going missing.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/basics/post...
http://analytics.blogspot.com/2008/10/more-enterprise-class-...
* Search should be above the fold. On my MacBook I have to scroll down to see the input field. Also on the results page I’d put a search box at the top, auto-focused (a la the Google homepage) so I can quickly perform another search.
* "You may have better luck with an account :)." - Why not tell me how many domains I could see if I did sign up instead? I’d be much more likely to fork over $14.95 if I knew what I was getting in advance.
I’ve been meaning to make the time to try out a project using Dean Edwards’ [1] base2 library [2]. If you’re worried about being abstracted too far away from the underlying language this might be a good fit…
Because this library is standards-based it means that you don’t have to learn a new API. It uses standard (DOM, ECMAScript) properties and methods throughout which also means that there is no need for a lot of accompanying documentation.