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Comment on The Dangerous Free by Marissa

comments-o-matic — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:40:17 +0000

Robert,

You’re absolutely right. I guess I still have a mentality that, somehow, if you’re paying for something, somewhere in the terms of service you have some protections. And if you’re paying for something that’s more enterprise-level, lawyers may have discovered any risks.

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Comment on The Dangerous Free by Robert

comments-o-matic — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:40:16 +0000

Good point, though it is no less true for tools or services you actually pay for. The whole issue of data in the cloud is going to get more and more “interesting.”

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Comment on The Dangerous Free by Annie Lynsen

comments-o-matic — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:00:24 +0000

This is so true. Free services are awesome, but I’m always a little bit wary of them.

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Comment on Comparison of ShareThis, AddThis and Gigya (Now w/ Convio Integration!) by igotux

comments-o-matic — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:20:16 +0000

On one of my projects earlier this year for a major brand, they were interested in adding social features to their current site. In my heuristic evaluation I reviewed 4 brands – Gigya.com, wibiya.com, Addthis.com and ShareThis.com to see which of these tools would best fit their user and business needs.

Wibiya.com – is a free service and allows you to ad a fixed tool bar to your site, it came with a list of really nice features like – standard social sharing, news alert, even chat capabilities. Very easy to use. Recently they were bought by conduit and have received a makeover.

ShareThis.com – free service. Easy to use and good analytics.
AddThis.com – free service. I found easier to use then ShareThis when customizing. Also found they offer more when it comes to FaceBook button terms ‘Like’ vs ‘Recommend’. Good analytics suite.

Gigya.com – has a fee per domain. But they offer a ton of great features from one package that makes is super easy to give any site some really cool social features. Like Sharing, Commenting, Sign In, Game Mechanics, Chat and so on. They also have a very good analytics suite and keep the data secure which was very important to my client. List of gigya’s features can be seen here http://developers.gigya.com/010_Developer_Guide

My recommendation was to go with gigya.com because of their abilities, feature list and giving my client the ability to manage all the analytics data from one location. The 1st location we implemented gigya was on my clients WordPress blog overall very simple, my development team did need to work with gigya engineers to resolve some customization features the designers created, 1 with the social share which did get resolved and one with their commenting system which still has not been resolved. Gigya should update their commenting api or maybe look at Disqus the leaders in commenting.

Note: my second recommendation was to have my clients development team build their own social features using 4 core social networking api’s – Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn. This was not consider because of development efforts, costs and possible performance issues to my clients site having to call 4 different api’s vs. calling gigyas 1 api to do the same thing.

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Comment on Ten Best Practices for Mobile Design Usability by Dorothea Korczynski

comments-o-matic — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:15:16 +0000

I just love this blogs design. Is it Movable Type?

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Comment on The Buzz at Beaconfire: September 16, 2011 by Maez

comments-o-matic — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:55:16 +0000

Nice blog, i allways love reading stuff like this.

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Comment on Comparison of ShareThis, AddThis and Gigya (Now w/ Convio Integration!) by Rob

comments-o-matic — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:50:17 +0000

I’m giving a thumbs down to ShareThis and switching to AddThis.

ShareThis has not processed the data from my blog. I seem to not be the only person with this problem as can be seen from link below. Note ShareThis has not responded in 12 days. To add my frustration to the topic there would have required me sharing personal info or signing up with GetSatisfaction.com, no thanks.

Also, with my old indie WordPress linker I could click on the Tweet button # and see what people were tweeting. With ShareThis I hit on the button # and it opens up a tweet box, not that that is a big issue but it counts it as a tweet even though I don’t tweet anything. Just hitting the button runs up your numbers even if you don’t actually share or tweet it! How can anybody trust that?

http://getsatisfaction.com/sharethis/topics/data_not_appearing

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Comment on Redesigned Boston Globe with design based on browser width (Responsive Design) by Cheyanna

comments-o-matic — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:45:17 +0000

I found mylsef nodding my noggin all the way through.

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Comment on Redesigned Boston Globe with design based on browser width (Responsive Design) by Boston Globe’s Responsive Redesign. Discuss. – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

comments-o-matic — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:05:16 +0000

[...] This marks the first major, high-traffic, content-heavy website to adopt a responsive design. The lead consultant behind the project is none other than Ethan Marcotte, the designer who wrote the book on responsive design. Much as ESPN changed the way we worked by being one of the first to launch a fully CSS driven site a decade ago, the Boston Globe’s redesign has the potential to completely alter the way we approach web design.—Beaconfire Wire [...]

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Comment on Redesigned Boston Globe with design based on browser width (Responsive Design) by Kira

comments-o-matic — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:35:15 +0000

Non-profits are doing this, too — EDF’s new web site uses responsive design, too! More about why and what we did here: http://kiramarch.com/2011/09/responsive-design-handling-any-screen-size/

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