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« on: June 11, 2009, 04:25 »
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A new info box has been added to the site, as I'm sure you have noticed.

Recently a few microstock sites have been posting good news tidbits / site down reports / tips etc. on their twitterfeed.  To keep better track of this and keep us udpated I thought i would put a live twitterfeed on microstockgroup containing the most relevant news items.  Personal messages - anything starting with an @ symbol - is culled out of the feed so we don't get as much 'personal twitter chat'.

The twitterfeed is retreived from the big 6 microstock sites, as well as those advertising on microstockgroup.


« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2009, 04:44 »
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Well done, thanks!

 ;)

« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2009, 14:16 »
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Can I turn it off? I am already on Twitter. It takes to much screen real estate.

« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2009, 14:29 »
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I would also like to disable it, or even be able to shrink it.

One day I will see what is the big fuss about Twitter.  ::)

« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2009, 21:12 »
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I would also like to disable it, or even be able to shrink it.

One day I will see what is the big fuss about Twitter.  ::)

It does need to be smaller or loose the sponsors up there.  I almost don't get any threads onto my screen when loading.

Yeah, twitter.  I think in a year or two we'll look back and say "140 characters?  What crackpot thought that all up?".   "I'm at the movies" "I'm eating cheese" etc....  Hard to pick out the wheat from the chaff.

« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2009, 21:35 »
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I would also like to disable it, or even be able to shrink it.

One day I will see what is the big fuss about Twitter.  ::)

It does need to be smaller or loose the sponsors up there.  I almost don't get any threads onto my screen when loading.

Yeah, twitter.  I think in a year or two we'll look back and say "140 characters?  What crackpot thought that all up?".   "I'm at the movies" "I'm eating cheese" etc....  Hard to pick out the wheat from the chaff.

I find facebook the same, I see its value for some people and it has got me back in contact with some old friends. But my 'wall' thingy just seems to full of 'I took the kids to school, nothing happened, now I'm back" - wow thanks for that.

« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2009, 00:54 »
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I would also like to disable it, or even be able to shrink it.

One day I will see what is the big fuss about Twitter.  ::)

It does need to be smaller or loose the sponsors up there.  I almost don't get any threads onto my screen when loading.

Yeah, twitter.  I think in a year or two we'll look back and say "140 characters?  What crackpot thought that all up?".   "I'm at the movies" "I'm eating cheese" etc....  Hard to pick out the wheat from the chaff.

I may make it so you can minimize it, but in the meantime if you click the 'home' link at the top of the thread (or the bottom link for that matter) NOT the one in the top menu.. you are taken automatically so the thread list starts at the top of your screen... so you skip all the top stuff anyhow.

« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2009, 00:57 »
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One day I will see what is the big fuss about Twitter.  ::)

Sites like Dreamstime actually put useful info in there, such as changing of upload limits, problems with the site, big news changes.. things that are handy to know.

michealo

« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2009, 01:56 »
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One day I will see what is the big fuss about Twitter.  ::)

Sites like Dreamstime actually put useful info in there, such as changing of upload limits, problems with the site, big news changes.. things that are handy to know.

That is a clever use of Twitter on Dreamstime's part

« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2009, 07:49 »
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That is a clever use of Twitter on Dreamstime's part

Yes, but random things like the below, which I see from them, is just static in my feed:
"Stock fact: Eifel tower at night, with the light arrangement on, is copyright and can only be uploaded as editorial."

« Reply #10 on: June 12, 2009, 13:54 »
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I got TwitterFox and it's just one tiny icon in status bar. When I want to see this messages I can click on it. Can you make it optional here?

digiology

« Reply #11 on: June 13, 2009, 01:05 »
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« Reply #12 on: June 13, 2009, 11:52 »
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If you use AdBlock Plus in Firefox you can add following rule: "microstockgroup.com#TABLE(class=twitter)"

« Reply #13 on: July 17, 2009, 21:18 »
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Ok, I opened an account there.  What's next?

I still don't understand what this is for.  ;D

« Reply #14 on: July 17, 2009, 21:37 »
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I still don't understand what this is for.  ;D
A complete waste of time. News feeds on established sites are great. I think the kind of people that worship Twitter are the ones that dump the forum of YAY full with help no sales while they don't have time left to shoot stock. Today I canceled my Facebook. (when I came online after 3 months a few chatboxes popped up with hey wazzup?). Twitter will be next.

zymmetricaldotcom

« Reply #15 on: July 18, 2009, 04:10 »
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We are this >< close to ceasing Twitter usage. Not for anything with the aspects of how the service works, but for the recent terrible sysadmin examples:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/16/twitters-internal-strategy-laid-bare-to-be-the-pulse-of-the-planet/
and
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/15/another-security-tip-for-twitter-dont-use-password-as-your-password/

Plus it's a little creepy that their internal corporate communications seem to be all done in 'tweet' style, like they are from another planet where sentences don't exist lol. ** edit, you can communicate in 1's and 0's for all I care, just make sure you're not leaving your system exposed!

We will hold on for now because I don't want to have squandered the time of people that have spent a few moments to follow our own account, and it is a -free- service after all.  Hopefully we see some proactive action from the Twitter-admins that they take security a little more seriously than using 'password' as a password etc.
« Last Edit: July 18, 2009, 05:20 by zymmetrical »

« Reply #16 on: July 18, 2009, 06:13 »
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Plus it's a little creepy that their internal corporate communications seem to be all done in 'tweet' style, like they are from another planet where sentences don't exist lol. ** edit, you can communicate in 1's and 0's for all I care, just make sure you're not leaving your system exposed!

Keith thanks for the links,
I am not sure that summary bullet points are creepy or from another planet, but the comment I liked was about retaining staff and how 'people leave managers not companies', I have seen many a situation over 40 years where the company had felt duty bound to 'back up the manager even if the manager was right or wrong' which caused alienation of the staff and bad feeling.

I work in IT as a freelance consultant and the number of times I have heard, "just use that PC over there, the user name is 'administrator' and the password is password with a capital 'P' and for the 'o' use a zero"

David  ;D    
« Last Edit: July 18, 2009, 06:19 by Adeptris »

« Reply #17 on: July 18, 2009, 07:06 »
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I still don't understand what this is for.  ;D
A complete waste of time. News feeds on established sites are great. I think the kind of people that worship Twitter are the ones that dump the forum of YAY full with help no sales while they don't have time left to shoot stock. Today I canceled my Facebook. (when I came online after 3 months a few chatboxes popped up with hey wazzup?). Twitter will be next.

It really is mostly useless.  Things that will get you removed from my follow list.  Incessently retweeting other people's input.  Constantly posting polls.  Carrying on conversations back and forth with others in the stream with unending doting for whatever their last comment was (that's what email is for).  Stupid shortened words like #togs and #tweeple.  Posting "follow fridays" lists to your same buddies over and over.

« Reply #18 on: July 18, 2009, 17:13 »
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We are this >< close to ceasing Twitter usage. Not for anything with the aspects of how the service works, but for the recent terrible sysadmin examples
Security might be one thing, information overload is another. Twitter is overload breaking loose. In your first Techcrunch item, it is mentioned that RSS is the enemy. Of course it is. RSS is a better "tweet" with vital info filtered. My top Firefox bar has about 30 feeds of channels I care for: BBC,CNN,Arcurs,Mstk diaries,papers,slashdot, etc...

As to Facebook, I stay far away from it. Yesterday it was in the local media that the taxman of my (W European) country uses Facebook extensively to match your advertised lifestyle to your filed income form. No thanks. Flying under the radar makes you fly further and cheaper.

zymmetricaldotcom

« Reply #19 on: July 18, 2009, 17:26 »
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Well my gheek side was pleasantly surprised a few moments ago on FB when I wanted to share the latest stupid internet video of Darth Vader and the stormtroopers doing the MC Hammer "Can't touch this" dance - the second you plunk in the http URL into the message, it throws up the video preview and description. Now that's service.

If the front-end's can continue to advance like that, without having these noob security problems, more power to them. 
« Last Edit: July 19, 2009, 10:40 by zymmetrical »

« Reply #20 on: July 18, 2009, 17:51 »
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we grow up in Canada learning about Flander's Fields, hopefully your government is not going overboard and forgetting what the expected standard of freedom is..

In taxes, love and war, all is allowed. The only freedom that counts is the state's one to mingle in people's business and tax them till they almost drop. The US will soon experience what a socialist system means with Yeshecan. Subsidizing cars that can't hold the road and ship them to China is just a start. You can't beat the system but you can stay out of Facebook and Tweet. And tweak your radar a little higher please.  :P

zymmetricaldotcom

« Reply #21 on: July 18, 2009, 18:04 »
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Well you can bet if capitalism can spotted from space via satellite ala N.Korea that thing's must be coming together. India will be the biggest English-speaking country by 2010, the new rules are that there are no rules. For the FB and Twitter, you get what you pay for - if a business really expects to recreate a generations-old model of trust with some kind of hot-air me-me-me medium, I can predict those businesses would not go far based on that.

I for one am happy with a carefully manicured twiiter-verse of like-minded people. Don't like their tweets, just drop them. I am somewhat concerned about the one-way aspect of the medium, just like the Twitter corporate idea leaks, it seems to be more questions or declarations than answers or dialogue.   

« Reply #22 on: July 19, 2009, 03:10 »
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I am somewhat concerned about the one-way aspect of the medium, just like the Twitter corporate idea leaks, it seems to be more questions or declarations than answers or dialogue.    

Most of the ones I follow are used for B2B (Business to Business) or B2C (Business to Customer) as soundbites they often have a pull to get you to click the link to a web page or blog post, where there is often a chance of dialogue.

Looking at the percentage of readers to those that comment on a blog post, many are observers and may have views but do not want to enter into dialogue, just like you see on forum posts read 1000 times with just 10 comments, from the same contributors.

The tweets, blogs and forum posts which have no value I just ignore.

On another forum they were discussing twitter and one user wrote, "I joined twitter and then I got an email saying someone was following me, it sounded so creepy I closed the account"

David  ;)
« Last Edit: July 19, 2009, 03:13 by Adeptris »


 

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