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chrisleydon

261 karma · joined June 17, 2009

Creative Digital Media Artist, Founder of TinyGrab, Tech Editor at BiG! & TechCrunch TV Producer. 22 years young.

@leydon - chrisleydon.com

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chrisleydon··on How Men Can Remove Their Data from Luluvise
It's unfair to brand all women like this... just the ones who engage in such activities on Lulu.

Obviously we all want people who are great in bed, look stunning and don't smell, but there's no need to publish this info and make people feel terrible about themselves.

All this bitching goes on in private, perhaps we just ought to leave it that way? Certainly don't need an app for it. Just degrading.

chrisleydon··on How Men Can Remove Their Data from Luluvise
So will I, however it was just a concept ad and I'm still the copyright holder. I make a habit of not selling my copyright when I freelance, or do work for favours, makes more financial sense to license it.
chrisleydon··on How Men Can Remove Their Data from Luluvise
Would be interesting to see someone with a bit of spare time and cash take this to court. I wonder what the ruling would be.
chrisleydon··on How Men Can Remove Their Data from Luluvise
The audio recording I made for Luluvise a few months ago for a video animation is pretty amusing too: - http://soundcloud.com/chrisleydon/luluvise-animation-audio

Makes you wonder if a service this shallow could ever take off.

chrisleydon··on Superior Support
Thanks guys! It's only a version one document at the moment so we can update it with your feedback in the next version.
chrisleydon··on Superior Support
That's true for certain feature requests, but we're targeting support problems with this particular sheet. It's best not to assume that the customer is 'stupid' and instead see them on the same level as them, it's all about a mindset. If you go in with the customer is always wrong you won't go that extra step to try and help them, more dismiss them.
chrisleydon··on Superior Support
I can understand where you're coming from. From a support mentality they have to be viewed as being right, although admittedly there are some customers that are probably worth losing in the long run.

The idea behind that point was more to push the team to get things right and go that extra mile to help the customer. If they're rude though then the rule doesn't apply.

chrisleydon··on Tomorrow's Web Meetup London (April) Tickets on Sale.
Thoroughly enjoyed the first event!
chrisleydon··on GoSquared launches new dashboard for real-time analytics
Really impressed with the new design and tools provided by Version 4. Just keeps getting better and better!
chrisleydon··on Hacker News London Meetup Videos - September 2011
Not a problem! Sorry it took so damn long. Next time we aim to have them shot in HD and a faster pull through. A budget would be a nice incentive ;)
chrisleydon··on The Amazon Kindle Fire Is A Guaranteed Success. Apple Knows Why.
Apologies, I'll pass on your feedback to the site's designer. Ir's in need of an overhaul anyway.
chrisleydon··on Qwikster: Netflix's Attempt At Resisting The Borg
I look forward to hopefully knowing what you've discovered! It'll be an interesting study, I'm sure, and I'm intrigued as to how it goes. Best of luck with it!
chrisleydon··on BlackBerry's Blackout
There are still calls for one and in the West Midlands the police have started to limit data connectivity in an attempt to quash the "BBM effect".
chrisleydon··on BlackBerry's Blackout
These are the disenfranchised youth who are just angry and have no agenda. They don't care for a system, or a society, that's given up on them. In many respects their just violent for the sake of it - This AudioBoo highlights it well: http://bit.ly/nNhFOq
chrisleydon··on OS X Lion: 1984 Never Looked So Familiar
I think you missed the point. The article is highlighting the increasing inevitability that OS X will become a closed system where you will only be able to install apps and add ons through the Mac App Store.
chrisleydon··on A Developer's Worst Nightmare (The TinyGrab Story)
It was an early and foolish decision we made back in the dearly days of TinyGrab. The original system wasn't built, or even created, to handle more than a handful of people using the service. Thanks to some great PR though we scaled to ver 400,000+ users almost over night. The code base was horrible, buggy and 2.0 was being written to fix all of that. It was supposed to be a smooth transition over, but unfortunately someone got there first and forced us to launch the new system.
chrisleydon··on A Developer's Worst Nightmare (The TinyGrab Story)
If you can shoot me an email, chris@tinygrab.com, I'll deal with your account and help get you set back up again.
chrisleydon··on A Developer's Worst Nightmare (The TinyGrab Story)
A good alternative you'll find is FileShuttle. - http://getfileshuttle.com
chrisleydon··on A Developer's Worst Nightmare (The TinyGrab Story)
We have more backups than you can shake a stick at. The issues lays with the server being compromised and being forced to shut down. The old API and apps relied on a fixed IP address. It would have taken us months to get TinyGrab v1 back up to scratch, or a few weeks to perfect 2.0. No data was lost, what would you choose?

Chris Leydon TinyGrab Founder and Project Manager chris@tinygrab.com