Comments on: Dave Primes his Sycophants

By: Just Wondering

Just Wondering — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:41:05 +0000

I probably missed something, but didn’t Dave say he’d stop blogging last year?

By: zaphodim

zaphodim — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:01:20 +0000

Burn! I’m watching the Stevenote at Macworld, looks like Jobs updated the Apple TV, a new feature: flickr photo streams. I guess we’ll see what FlickrFan looks like when it is designed by professionals.

By: EyeOnWiner

EyeOnWiner — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:47:00 +0000

True enough. Not sure why spell check didn’t pick that up. Thanks.

By: Spelling

Spelling — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:14:40 +0000

It's sycophant.

Sorry for being so annoying.

By: McD

McD — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:14:48 +0000

Looking back at Dave Winer’s twitter feed I find:

1/12/08: “Official leak: FlickrFan is about to get a new baby beta brother. ”

1/12/08: ” finishing the interfaces for Amazon SimpleDB. Now that everything is (or seems to be) “

1/08/08: ” I ordered 10 red Pentel Sign Pens”

Clear as mud…

My guess?

He’s mastered moving jpg images (FlickerFan).

He’s probably going for audio (Dave’s “PodCatcher”) with this release.

And targeting video files after that.

By: Bullshit Mancuso

Bullshit Mancuso — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:44:53 +0000

Now that FlickrFan is being repositioned as the first application in a series to be deployed on the OPML Editor, as strange a configuration as ever conceived in desktop software, a note from the Radio UserLand customer support forum is funny:

http://radio.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$39120

The user’s question, “Does anyone know why FlickrFan app designed by Dave Winer doesn’t work in Radio[?],” can be answered thusly:

Because Winer’s such a hack he must release a giant object database/scripting environment with each new script it runs, since that’s the only way it has any chance of actually working.