Great idea and def a needed option but since the google update it's useless and if its not going to be monitored and adjusted to maintain functionality throughout google's updates there is no point in adding it in the first place. Not worth the time or trouble for now, but check back at a later date and maybe there will be some changes.
Showing posts with label google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label google. Show all posts
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
REPLIES+MORE FOR GOOGLE PLUS
Great extension! and the creator is really great about updating and continuing to make additions to make it even better. Def worth an add and a "donate" of a cup of coffee to keep the guy awake and going....come on now guys you need him awake to keep improving the extensions you want, even if it's for your own self preservation....JUST DO IT!
REPLIES+MORE LINK TO CHROME WEB STORE
REPLIES+MORE LINK TO CHROME WEB STORE
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Review of the Review Reviewed by Reviewer is Wrong but is it ever Right?
Firstly i'll quickly give you my take on the title, I bring the whole issue up because of the issue google experienced in the article I posted link to which talked about bloggers being hired to write posts about the google chrome and some linked back to the chrome download page which violates the terms of google's own agreement depending on your interpretation. Back to why I felt the need to post my own little disclaimer......
Basically, in my opinion, as morally driven, honest, trustworthy, and someone who truly is a man of their word, in some way or another your going to be biased one way or another if your being monetarily compensated. The good ol quid pro quo. The backroom deals, simple handshake or the old fashioned "greasing of the palm". (that one has a different connotation nowadays so you probably want to skip using it if your talking to my generation. Whether your just omitting a bug that you noticed and only occurred that one time 2 months ago or your making a completely false statement when you review a product as excellent and go on to explain how great each aspect was, your not giving a fair assessment to your readers. When you have users that are spending their time by reading your blog post, newspaper article, magazine etc because they value your opinion, need advice, looking to make comparisons between 2 different brands or whatever.
Coming from someone that writes a blog and hopes someday to even have half the viewership that many of other blogs you get initially directed to when you search keywords I find it disgusting and really question not only their moral integrity but it leaves me wondering where else they have no problem compromising their morals.
My point in all of this is that I put a lot of effort into picking and choosing the topics and articles I write about for my blogs because I have a responsibility to my readers to give them the best of what I have. Now saying that, everyone shares differing opinions, that's what makes us who we are. Just because we don't agree on a topic doesn't mean that I don't want you reading or commenting anymore and I hope you don't want to stop reading or posting because we are on different sides of the fence on something. I want this to be a forum for anyone and everyone who is looking for an opinion or review of something. We all don't have to agree, the only rule that I ask everyone to follow is to all be respectful whether it's agreeing or disagreeing.
Lastly, and I want to make this 100% crystal clear.....I HAVE NOT, AM NOT AND WILL NOT EVER ACCEPT COMPENSATION FOR MY OPINION ONE WAY OR ANOTHER ON A PRODUCT, STORE, BRAND, WEBSITE OR WHATEVER ELSE. If someone would like me to review their new site they created i'm always more then happy to do that.....but be aware, you are going to get an honest accessment of your site and items, the sword cuts both ways. Feel free to ask my opinion off the record and i'll check it out and just email you back myself, I don't mind at all.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/03/google-paid-link/
Basically, in my opinion, as morally driven, honest, trustworthy, and someone who truly is a man of their word, in some way or another your going to be biased one way or another if your being monetarily compensated. The good ol quid pro quo. The backroom deals, simple handshake or the old fashioned "greasing of the palm". (that one has a different connotation nowadays so you probably want to skip using it if your talking to my generation. Whether your just omitting a bug that you noticed and only occurred that one time 2 months ago or your making a completely false statement when you review a product as excellent and go on to explain how great each aspect was, your not giving a fair assessment to your readers. When you have users that are spending their time by reading your blog post, newspaper article, magazine etc because they value your opinion, need advice, looking to make comparisons between 2 different brands or whatever.
Coming from someone that writes a blog and hopes someday to even have half the viewership that many of other blogs you get initially directed to when you search keywords I find it disgusting and really question not only their moral integrity but it leaves me wondering where else they have no problem compromising their morals.
My point in all of this is that I put a lot of effort into picking and choosing the topics and articles I write about for my blogs because I have a responsibility to my readers to give them the best of what I have. Now saying that, everyone shares differing opinions, that's what makes us who we are. Just because we don't agree on a topic doesn't mean that I don't want you reading or commenting anymore and I hope you don't want to stop reading or posting because we are on different sides of the fence on something. I want this to be a forum for anyone and everyone who is looking for an opinion or review of something. We all don't have to agree, the only rule that I ask everyone to follow is to all be respectful whether it's agreeing or disagreeing.
Lastly, and I want to make this 100% crystal clear.....I HAVE NOT, AM NOT AND WILL NOT EVER ACCEPT COMPENSATION FOR MY OPINION ONE WAY OR ANOTHER ON A PRODUCT, STORE, BRAND, WEBSITE OR WHATEVER ELSE. If someone would like me to review their new site they created i'm always more then happy to do that.....but be aware, you are going to get an honest accessment of your site and items, the sword cuts both ways. Feel free to ask my opinion off the record and i'll check it out and just email you back myself, I don't mind at all.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/03/google-paid-link/
Monday, January 23, 2012
Mirror.Me+Reflection
joshua hastings | mirror.me
I wasn't referred by a friend to the mirrorme site, I didn't hear about it from anyone either, I just stumbled upon it when I was searching for something else and i'm glad I did. I was really confused at first because there was not much of an explanation at that point, even now they are still in beta. However, they are doing a great job of expanding the list of users daily so that more and more people are able to get an accurate view of their true "REFLECTION".
You are probably wondering what a reflection is right? Your reflection is a list of the different things you write about in your social networks with all of the words varying in size dependent on their perceived importance to you.
When you get to the page, sign in using your twitter id and if this is your first time visiting it will take less then 5 minutes usually for your "reflection" to be compiled. Go ahead and go back to what you were doing for a little bit and then when you go back and refresh the mirror.me page you should see what they came up with. Once your able to see your reflection your able to adjust your topics size 1 by 1 to show their true importance to you if you think the formula got it a little wrong, or even delete a topic off completely.
Google+ is the other social network that your able to sign in with at this time. As I stated earlier, while they are still in beta and adjusting things to users preferance and trying to get it just right not everyone has been added yet. So say you sign in with google, it may say you have 924 friends and you actually have 4,000 in your circles, DON'T FREAK OUT, eventually you'll see a change. When I signed up it said I have around 300 friends and a week later it changed to now somewhere around 3,500 and i'm actually at about 5,500.
What i've talked about so far is just the beginning though. Check out the different labs available to some and have some fun. You can see your different groupings of who else has your same interests, look at pie charts to see how your followers break down or how who you follow breaks down, it's some pretty cool stuff and everything is free for now for everyone. I'm sure that will change eventually but while I don't think i'd pay no matter how low the price is over maybeeee $1 because I don't really NEED it, I think a lot of the options would be useful to certain types of people and businesses. I've had great interactions with the staff so far, and think they are one of the best companies i've dealt with on a personal level.
Hopefully, some of you give it a try. As always, I GET NOTHING OUT OF DOING THIS FROM THE PLACES I REVIEW. MIRROR.ME HAS NOT OFFERED TO COMPENSATE ME NOR KNOWS THAT I HAPPENED TO CHOOSE TO REVIEW THEM, I OFFER A COMPLETELY UNBIASED OPINION AND MY OPINIONS ARE JUST THAT, MY OWN PERSONAL TAKE ON USEFULNESS OF A SITE, APP, PRODUCT, BUSINESS OR SERVICE.
UPDATE:After reading the comment below from Jenn (from mirror.me) I stand corrected in regards to changes coming in the future to a cost format, she stated they don't plan to use anything currently available to be changed to a available for a fee type which makes the site posssibilites in the future that much better. The best kind of product? THE FREE KIND OF COURSE. Just want to note, from my post of a review it only took a few short hours before I noticed the comment. That just shows me yet again how onpoint they are with their users. Positive or Negative i've seen firsthand just how quickly everything is handled and it really is impressive, Keep UP THE GREAT WORK JENN AND EVERYONE ELSE AT MIRROR.ME.
I wasn't referred by a friend to the mirrorme site, I didn't hear about it from anyone either, I just stumbled upon it when I was searching for something else and i'm glad I did. I was really confused at first because there was not much of an explanation at that point, even now they are still in beta. However, they are doing a great job of expanding the list of users daily so that more and more people are able to get an accurate view of their true "REFLECTION".
You are probably wondering what a reflection is right? Your reflection is a list of the different things you write about in your social networks with all of the words varying in size dependent on their perceived importance to you.
When you get to the page, sign in using your twitter id and if this is your first time visiting it will take less then 5 minutes usually for your "reflection" to be compiled. Go ahead and go back to what you were doing for a little bit and then when you go back and refresh the mirror.me page you should see what they came up with. Once your able to see your reflection your able to adjust your topics size 1 by 1 to show their true importance to you if you think the formula got it a little wrong, or even delete a topic off completely.
Google+ is the other social network that your able to sign in with at this time. As I stated earlier, while they are still in beta and adjusting things to users preferance and trying to get it just right not everyone has been added yet. So say you sign in with google, it may say you have 924 friends and you actually have 4,000 in your circles, DON'T FREAK OUT, eventually you'll see a change. When I signed up it said I have around 300 friends and a week later it changed to now somewhere around 3,500 and i'm actually at about 5,500.
What i've talked about so far is just the beginning though. Check out the different labs available to some and have some fun. You can see your different groupings of who else has your same interests, look at pie charts to see how your followers break down or how who you follow breaks down, it's some pretty cool stuff and everything is free for now for everyone. I'm sure that will change eventually but while I don't think i'd pay no matter how low the price is over maybeeee $1 because I don't really NEED it, I think a lot of the options would be useful to certain types of people and businesses. I've had great interactions with the staff so far, and think they are one of the best companies i've dealt with on a personal level.
Hopefully, some of you give it a try. As always, I GET NOTHING OUT OF DOING THIS FROM THE PLACES I REVIEW. MIRROR.ME HAS NOT OFFERED TO COMPENSATE ME NOR KNOWS THAT I HAPPENED TO CHOOSE TO REVIEW THEM, I OFFER A COMPLETELY UNBIASED OPINION AND MY OPINIONS ARE JUST THAT, MY OWN PERSONAL TAKE ON USEFULNESS OF A SITE, APP, PRODUCT, BUSINESS OR SERVICE.
UPDATE:After reading the comment below from Jenn (from mirror.me) I stand corrected in regards to changes coming in the future to a cost format, she stated they don't plan to use anything currently available to be changed to a available for a fee type which makes the site posssibilites in the future that much better. The best kind of product? THE FREE KIND OF COURSE. Just want to note, from my post of a review it only took a few short hours before I noticed the comment. That just shows me yet again how onpoint they are with their users. Positive or Negative i've seen firsthand just how quickly everything is handled and it really is impressive, Keep UP THE GREAT WORK JENN AND EVERYONE ELSE AT MIRROR.ME.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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