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Saturday, February 2, 2002

"Somehow, I recovered everything, and--Bonus!--my trial period reset itself. Don't worry, Dave. I'm giving you my money on Feb 8, regardless."[Phil Ackley's Radio Thingumabob]: Dang. Wish I'd known that before I went and registered today :) (Just kidding, of course.) comment ()  7:57:41 PM  #   Wow. I finally got through all of my news. On a tip from another weblog, I had all my news items checked by default. Then I could read through all of them and click delete. But I don't think that quite works. I want to be able to remove just those items I've read and leave the others for later. So keeping items unchecked by default is the better way to go for me. comment ()  7:48:51 PM  #   OK. I just discovered a serious (I think) problem with the way I think about referrers. If I put a link to another weblog on my page and then follow it from my desktop homepage, then that weblog gets a link to my desktop page in its referrers page. They can't follow that link. To work correctly, they need a link from my cloud page. That way, on the off chance they actually want to find out about me, they can. comment ()  8:44:01 AM  #   So what happens when I've used up my 10M of space on UserLand's server? comment ()  8:37:29 AM  #   I do have to admit one thing, though. I have always been avid reader of Scripting News. But when the first iMacs came out Dave said that Apple was making a mistake if it thought that customers wanted style over substance. I stopped reading then and there. I didn't go back for over a year. That comment was clueless and it made me so mad I couldn't read any more of Dave's posts. Plus the fact that I thought Dave had gone crazy charging almost $1000 for Manila when I'd been using it for free as Frontier. When I finally did go back to Scripting News I found out about Radio and I realized that Dave had been on the right track after all. I think he always wanted to do something to create a community. And a really big community at that. He didn't want a couple hundred or even a couple thousand users. He wanted (and wants) millions. He needed to do something with low or no barrier to entry. But, of course, he still needed for UserLand to make money. In other words, he needed to do a killer app that was inexpensive enough that even Will Leshner would pay for it. That's Radio. comment ()  7:56:15 AM  #   I finally registered Radio. Wow. I didn't think I'd ever buy anything from UserLand. Not that I don't like them. I do. But first there was a free Frontier. Then Manila came out and it was too expensive for me. Radio is just right. comment ()  7:47:52 AM  #

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