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Alex Black replied on November 05, 2009 20:00 to the question "too many support Channels" in Posterous:

Hi a4agarwal, thats great thanks.

I'm waiting on a response from you for a set of emails I sent yesterday. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Alex Black replied on November 05, 2009 14:31 to the question "Can I include preformatted HTML in a post?" in Posterous:

Hi a4agarwal, this doesn't work for me.

When I post [code]stuff here[/code] on my blog it shows up as that literally. E.g. I see the [code].

I think this is something to do with me using a tweaked version of one of the stock themes?

Alex Black replied on November 05, 2009 14:30 to the question "too many support Channels" in Posterous:

Hi a4agarwal, what is your typical response time on emails? I emailed in a question to help@posterous.com and would love to hear back.

Alex Black started following the idea "Enable integrating disqus comments into our posterous blogs" in Posterous.

Alex Black replied on October 15, 2009 16:36 to the idea "Allow multiple windows, so mockups can be opened side by side." in Balsamiq:

I'd love to see this feature too.

Alex Black started following the idea "Allow multiple windows, so mockups can be opened side by side." in Balsamiq.

Alex Black replied on October 07, 2009 19:33 to the idea "Import/find contacts from Twitter/Gmail/Linkedin etc?" in Sprouter:

Thanks for the reassurances on both counts Erin :)

Alex Black shared an idea in Sprouter on October 07, 2009 02:46:

Import/find contacts from Twitter/Gmail/Linkedin etc?

I've just signed in for the first time to Sprouter, and I'm feel like a loser, no one is following me and I'm not following anyone :)

I'd love to find out who I know already that is on here, e.g. could you grab all the people I follow from Twitter and other networks (gmail contacts, linkedIn, facebook) and tell me who's on Sprouter too?

Looking forward to exploring Sprouter more!

- Alex

Alex Black replied on October 01, 2009 12:57 to the idea "Would like option to filter words with a certain TLD available" in Wordoid:

I'd love to see this feature too (e.g. just see available .com wordoids).

Great site Oleg, thx!

Alex Black started following the idea "Would like option to filter words with a certain TLD available" in Wordoid.

Alex Black replied on September 23, 2009 12:56 to the question "Unable to start Balsamiq Desktop on Ubuntu" in Balsamiq:

Log file emailed.

Alex Black replied on September 23, 2009 12:54 to the question "Unable to start Balsamiq Desktop on Ubuntu" in Balsamiq:

Hi Peldi, thanks for the response.

I've never tried any other Adobe AIR applications before, so I'm not sure.

Yes, Balsamiq did create a log file in that folder, but I renamed it to ".old", then re-attempted to start Balsamiq, and no new log file was created.

I'll email it anyways though.

- Alex

Alex Black replied on September 23, 2009 12:51 to the question "Unable to start Balsamiq Desktop on Ubuntu" in Balsamiq:

Is Balsamiq not supported on Ubuntu?

Alex Black asked a question in Balsamiq on September 22, 2009 14:09:

Unable to start Balsamiq Desktop on Ubuntu

I've just purchased and installed Balsamiq Desktop, I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 x64. Its created an icon under Applications -> Accessories called "Balsamiq Mockups".

1. I installed the application from here:
http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mock...
- it installed Adobe AIR, everything appeared to work ok
2. I click on the icon under Applications -> Accessories
3. My cursor goes to a busy cursor
4. I see an icon+title for a window appear on the taskbar labeled "Starting Balsamiq Mockups"
5. I don't see a window
6. After 5-10s that icon+title disappears from the taskbar, and nothing else happens, the application never opens

I expected a window to appear with the application in it.

any ideas?

Thanks!

- Alex

Alex Black replied on April 28, 2009 00:23 to the idea "UNIX job search" in Primal Fusion:

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the suggestion. We do plan to bring more sources of information online in the future, job postings are an interesting idea.

- Alex

Alex Black replied on April 14, 2009 01:06 to the idea "Semantic Think vs Google Think" in Primal Fusion:

Thats a good question Bart. I don't have a good answer. Presumably the software would have to know a time period associated with each version of learning, and then knowing the current date could know what constitutes the future and what the past.

Alex Black replied on April 07, 2009 17:21 to the problem "the "stone wall" problem" in Primal Fusion:

If you enter multiple words, sometimes Primal Fusion doesn't think those words go together, so it assumes you're talking about two different ideas and splits them apart:



In the above example, Primal Fusion split my idea "stone ferrari" into two ideas: "stone" and "ferrari". It does this because it doesn't have any data about "stone" and "ferrari" together, so by splitting it up it can provide me with some thoughts on each of those topics separately.

Currently we don't have a lot of data in the system, which causes this to happen more than we'd like.

Is this the scenario you're describing Chumakin?

I tried entering "stone wall", but I didn't see this issue. I did see two ideas called "stone wall" and a few related ideas. That happens when Primal Fusion finds multiple topics related to your single thought.

Alex Black replied on April 03, 2009 14:05 to the idea "Semantic Think vs Google Think" in Primal Fusion:

Thanks for the example, I see what you mean. You previously mentioned the idea that the software might look at your thought at the meta-level, how would that apply here?

I agree those aren't great results, hopefully we'll do better in the future as we get more data into the system (from wikipedia and from other sources) and as we improve our semantics.

If you look at the content for "future of education" you will see "School of the future" in there. Some of the others you pointed out aren't in there for various reasons, mostly I think because its not clear to the software that they are about the future, "Learning 2.0" for example.

Alex Black replied on April 03, 2009 03:51 to the problem "Notification email's not coming through" in Get Satisfaction:

Hi Eric, thats correct, I still haven't received it.

Alex Black replied on April 02, 2009 20:23 to the problem "Notification email's not coming through" in Get Satisfaction:

I've had this problem too, I have both of these settings checked:

Notify me of all new topics in Primal Fusion
Notify me of every new topic and every new reply in Primal Fusion

I seem to receive notifications of most topics and replies, but not every single one.

For example, I didn't receive notification of this topic:

http://getsatisfaction.com/primalfusi...

Its possible it got spam-filtered out upstream of me, I'm not sure.