corywatilo

Did you post the video on Posterous? If so, just know the video count isn't entirely accurate. It counts views to the parent site, as well as views in the Posterous manager, so it's really hard to tell a hard count of actual views.

This is spot on. I think it's a recruiter problem - many look at the resume and take that as the full story.

I have a funny example of this "hiring problem." Shortly after I consulted for a established, public web company, they were hiring a FT person for the same thing (design-related). The dept I consulted for emailed me and asked me to submit a resume and said they'd make sure I floated to the top. What happened? I didn't get past the phone recruiter. I could tell she got hung up (no pun intended) on something on my resume and I got a rejection email from her shortly thereafter.

So as this post suggested, the company went the consulting route before-hand and we worked well with each other. Then a recruiter got in the middle and messed it all up.

Facebook required their music partners to eliminate their non-Facebook authentication systems for new users to be promoted in the Facebook ecosystem. It's not really up to the services themselves. Spotify had to do the same thing.

Android asks for your permission on what information you want to give the app. iOS just simply gives it whatever it asks for, without asking you first.

This is actually nothing new. A lot of apps have been doing this for a very long time. However, it is one of the best kept secrets in our space. I kind of have a feeling no one talks about it because they don't want word to get out. Can you imagine the scandal if this made it on the front page of CNN or Drudge?

Ever since I learned this was possible, I've been very careful about which apps I download, and actually have downloaded very few since, as a result. There are a lot of random iPhone developers that I really don't think need to have access to my entire contact list.

Last year's ValioCon was great. My favorite talk was by Ethan Dunham (the fontsquirrel/fontspring guy) about font hinting and the current state of web fonts. (Did you know font hinting is like a programming language in and of itself?) I went in not expecting to get too much from the talks, but definitely walked away with a lot of valuable insight on a wide variety of topics. Definitely looking forward to the conf this year.

Actually collecting isn't that hard (in the U.S., at least). I won a similar case in small claims and the defendant didn't pay. All I had to do was file a form for the Sheriff's office to collect from him and pay the filing fee (I think around $45, which was then added to the amount to collect). I provided the defendant's bank account info, and when he was unresponsive to the police, they withdrew the amount from his account into an escrow account and then cut me a check for the amount owed and mailed it to me.

This can probably be a little more challenging if the account doesn't have sufficient funds in it, but I was happy to see that the system worked. It was a learning process for me (first time I had to do it, and thankfully, knock on wood, the last), but in the end, justice was done and I got paid.

It would if they checked your name against a database. But all TSA does is verify your ID is valid and matches the name on the boarding pass, nothing more.

I run an online portfolio service FolioHD (http://foliohd.com) and we get that question a lot: "Can people steal my pictures?" We've gone the extra mile to make sure saving pictures is a lot harder than a right-click and Save As, but it seems like lot of people don't even bother trying that first before asking. All the while, a simple screen capture of whatever you're looking at is just as easy, yet no one seems to know about that trick. The assumption is that Flash is safe, but not even Flash can protect against a simple screen capture.

A commenter on the blog post summarized it well. Not necessarily a bug; just bad design:

Group Messaging = OFF Expectation: Messages NOT sent to the Group

Group Messaging = ON Expectation: Messages sent to the Group

But Apple has it wrong ... reversed ... because message sent with GM OFF are sent to the entire Group, and those sent with GM ON are not.

How can that possibly be intuitive/logical/intentional? It's a bug. Crappy design.

If you've got it enabled...

I included the Group Message screenshot as an example of what it's supposed to look like when it's working right. The first screenshot was how they all came through for me.

Yeah, this is the part that's concerning. That and you might not even know it's a group message.

That's correct, although I've seen the same sort of thing happen with MMS.

Call me crazy, but I'm kind of glad I don't have enough drama to make it on this show...

Just wait until Obama buys them. Or just decides to takes them over.

This is possible. +1 Blake

Would be nice for FB to exclude that page from getting indexed though.

Wow, I didn't even know that was out there. But, it doesn't look like Google indexes those.

Maybe a better term would be oversight.

Blake,

Thanks for following up. My personal email address is indexed, but is nowhere else on the internet. Shoot me an email at hi@corywatilo.com and I'll give you the address.

Most of the recent stories are people whining about Facebook's policies and complexity of privacy settings.

This is an actual privacy bug.