Comments for ScottRu http://scottru.wordpress.com Why, that is a large blue banner, thank you for asking Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:36:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on Whozat? - an early look. Ow, that hurt my eyes. by Chris http://scottru.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/whozat-an-early-look-ow-that-hurt-my-eyes/#comment-328 Chris Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:11:05 +0000 http://scottru.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/whozat-an-early-look-ow-that-hurt-my-eyes/#comment-328 Blocking here too - they're spamming mailing lists as if they're people too.. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.sensors/17158 Blocking here too - they’re spamming mailing lists as if they’re people too..

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]]> Comment on Whozat? - an early look. Ow, that hurt my eyes. by Mike http://scottru.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/whozat-an-early-look-ow-that-hurt-my-eyes/#comment-327 Mike Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:12:31 +0000 http://scottru.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/whozat-an-early-look-ow-that-hurt-my-eyes/#comment-327 Whozat peeps, you've been blocked. Whozat peeps, you’ve been blocked.

]]> Comment on Whozat? - an early look. Ow, that hurt my eyes. by Mark http://scottru.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/whozat-an-early-look-ow-that-hurt-my-eyes/#comment-326 Mark Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:37:32 +0000 http://scottru.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/whozat-an-early-look-ow-that-hurt-my-eyes/#comment-326 Well here's some feedback for you Whozat people: Stop spamming everyone! Sending out e-mails with cryptic subjects and the body stating "You are receiving this email because someone found you when searching for you or for somebody related to you on Whozat" is certainly a business practice that I will not tolerate. I don't give a damn if somebody "finds me" using your service, so stop pushing it into my face via unsolicited commercial e-mail (a.k.a. spam). Thanks. Well here’s some feedback for you Whozat people: Stop spamming everyone! Sending out e-mails with cryptic subjects and the body stating “You are receiving this email because someone found you when searching for you or for somebody related to you on Whozat” is certainly a business practice that I will not tolerate. I don’t give a damn if somebody “finds me” using your service, so stop pushing it into my face via unsolicited commercial e-mail (a.k.a. spam). Thanks.

]]> Comment on iPhone: the second generation is the first generation by www.scottru.com » Blog Archive » New Digs http://scottru.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/iphone-the-second-generation-is-the-first-generation/#comment-323 www.scottru.com » Blog Archive » New Digs Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:31:18 +0000 http://scottru.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/iphone-the-second-generation-is-the-first-generation/#comment-323 [...] the meantime, everything I’ve written - about gnomedex, the iPhone, tech, and other nonsense - is (and will probably remain permanently) at [...] [...] the meantime, everything I’ve written - about gnomedex, the iPhone, tech, and other nonsense - is (and will probably remain permanently) at [...]

]]> Comment on Snapvine, stockbrokers, and voice posting by Tom OKeefe http://scottru.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/snapvine-stockbrokers-and-voice-posting/#comment-322 Tom OKeefe Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:57:56 +0000 http://scottru.wordpress.com/?p=153#comment-322 WhitePages.com is believed to be very profitable with $70 million yearly revenues and 12 million monthly visitors. Enter those numbers in the Bizak Calculator and you get an estimate of almost $280 million with an EPV of $0.49. Plenty of capital to purchase Snapvine and others. WhitePages.com is believed to be very profitable with $70 million yearly revenues and 12 million monthly visitors. Enter those numbers in the Bizak Calculator and you get an estimate of almost $280 million with an EPV of $0.49. Plenty of capital to purchase Snapvine and others.

]]> Comment on Crowdsourcing bicycle commuting routes by Jeff http://scottru.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/crowdsourcing-bicycle-commuting-routes/#comment-320 Jeff Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:31:33 +0000 http://scottru.wordpress.com/?p=152#comment-320 Hi. Please join the Bicycle to Work! LinkedIn networking group. Members pledge that they will try to ride their bicycle to work or on an errand at least once a week. Although the benefits should be obvious, let me outline them here. Right now people in the industrialized world are facing two very grave problems: obesity and a growing scarcity of oil. Compounding this problem is the new food shortage brought about, in part, by the conversion of food cropland to bio-fuel crop production. Most people feel powerless to help, but there is one thing that we can do. Ride our bicycles to work. If everyone would agree to ride their bikes to work one day per week we could cut oil consumption by as much as 10-15%. No one would argue that riding a bike burns more calories than driving the car. Although popular politically right now, most bio-fuels consume more energy than they produce. We would be much better to eat those bio-crops then use our own energy to transport us around. So spread the word. Make it a movement! Bicycle to work one day a week and do your part to cut back obesity and the overuse of oil and precious cropland. Just go to my profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreylstevenson and you can click on the group to be included. While you are there, don't forget to ask to link to my network of more than 9,000,000 like-minded professionals. I accept all invitations and look forward to meeting you. Jeff Hi. Please join the Bicycle to Work! LinkedIn networking group. Members pledge that they will try to ride their bicycle to work or on an errand at least once a week. Although the benefits should be obvious, let me outline them here.

Right now people in the industrialized world are facing two very grave problems: obesity and a growing scarcity of oil. Compounding this problem is the new food shortage brought about, in part, by the conversion of food cropland to bio-fuel crop production. Most people feel powerless to help, but there is one thing that we can do. Ride our bicycles to work.

If everyone would agree to ride their bikes to work one day per week we could cut oil consumption by as much as 10-15%. No one would argue that riding a bike burns more calories than driving the car. Although popular politically right now, most bio-fuels consume more energy than they produce. We would be much better to eat those bio-crops then use our own energy to transport us around.

So spread the word. Make it a movement! Bicycle to work one day a week and do your part to cut back obesity and the overuse of oil and precious cropland.

Just go to my profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreylstevenson and you can click on the group to be included. While you are there, don’t forget to ask to link to my network of more than 9,000,000 like-minded professionals. I accept all invitations and look forward to meeting you.

Jeff

]]> Comment on iPhone: the second generation is the first generation by getluky.net » Blog Archive » Marketing via Myth? http://scottru.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/iphone-the-second-generation-is-the-first-generation/#comment-319 getluky.net » Blog Archive » Marketing via Myth? Wed, 28 May 2008 00:27:06 +0000 http://scottru.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/iphone-the-second-generation-is-the-first-generation/#comment-319 [...] a while now, this post by Scott Ruthfield has had me pondering how a company makes it customers feel like its products are living, adapting, [...] [...] a while now, this post by Scott Ruthfield has had me pondering how a company makes it customers feel like its products are living, adapting, [...]

]]> Comment on Whozat? - an early look. Ow, that hurt my eyes. by Alex Backer http://scottru.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/whozat-an-early-look-ow-that-hurt-my-eyes/#comment-318 Alex Backer Thu, 01 May 2008 21:35:30 +0000 http://scottru.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/whozat-an-early-look-ow-that-hurt-my-eyes/#comment-318 Scott, We listened, and acted. Please check out the all-new Whozat and let us know what you think. Thanks! Alex Co-founder, Whozat? Scott,
We listened, and acted. Please check out the all-new Whozat and let us know what you think.
Thanks!
Alex
Co-founder, Whozat?

]]> Comment on Stop Twitter Spammers with this Greasemonkey script by Scott Ruthfield http://scottru.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/stop-twitter-spammers-with-this-greasemonkey-script/#comment-317 Scott Ruthfield Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:51:48 +0000 http://scottru.wordpress.com/?p=149#comment-317 Wow, I've literally never seen that link before. I have no idea why an action is at the bottom of a navigation section, rather than being next to Follow/Following/etc. So yeah, that does seem like a bit of a waste of my time. In fact, I was going to add a link to the top of the page because I didn't even think there was one. Oh well! Wow, I’ve literally never seen that link before. I have no idea why an action is at the bottom of a navigation section, rather than being next to Follow/Following/etc.

So yeah, that does seem like a bit of a waste of my time. In fact, I was going to add a link to the top of the page because I didn’t even think there was one. Oh well!

]]> Comment on Stop Twitter Spammers with this Greasemonkey script by tODD http://scottru.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/stop-twitter-spammers-with-this-greasemonkey-script/#comment-316 tODD Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:43:22 +0000 http://scottru.wordpress.com/?p=149#comment-316 I'm sure you're happy with your almost-one-click solution (and you should be!), so this may not matter to you, but the process to block a spammy follower does not need to be as long as you say. Once you get your email from Twitter that someone is following you, you can then click on the URL to go to their account (I usually want to do this anyway to evaluate if the account is spammy, based on the URL in the bio and the content of the tweets; it is often not obvious based on the Twitter username). Once there, if you think it's spammy, you can click on "block <i>username</i>", which appears in the right-hand box, underneath the "Following" icons (assuming you're logged in with a cookie). Saves a few steps from the process you'd outlined. But either way, kudos for learning Greasemonkey to solve an annoying problem! I’m sure you’re happy with your almost-one-click solution (and you should be!), so this may not matter to you, but the process to block a spammy follower does not need to be as long as you say.

Once you get your email from Twitter that someone is following you, you can then click on the URL to go to their account (I usually want to do this anyway to evaluate if the account is spammy, based on the URL in the bio and the content of the tweets; it is often not obvious based on the Twitter username). Once there, if you think it’s spammy, you can click on “block username“, which appears in the right-hand box, underneath the “Following” icons (assuming you’re logged in with a cookie). Saves a few steps from the process you’d outlined.

But either way, kudos for learning Greasemonkey to solve an annoying problem!

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