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Alec replied on August 17, 2009 01:22 to the question "How is "Influence" Calculated?" in ClickOnTyler:

Hi Tyler,

Thanks for sharing the details.

That's some pretty cool math but you may be zeroing too many people.

What's the cut off point for 75% following and being zeroed?

Alec replied on August 16, 2009 12:16 to the question "How is "Influence" Calculated?" in ClickOnTyler:

Hello Tyler,

Thanks for your reply.

For this number to be useful to us, I'd like a bit better explanation.

As your customers (when you start selling the app) I imagine we are supposed to use this figure in our campaigns. So we need to know what makes it up to know if it is useful to us and/or suggest improvements or alternate ways of scoring it (this could be controlled in the preferences with intelligent defaults).

Alec asked a question in ClickOnTyler on August 16, 2009 03:08:

How is "Influence" Calculated?

How is influence measured? BTW, I love the links only view. Fantastic.

Alec replied on July 21, 2009 20:01 to the question "Taking IntenseDebate's XML Export and Importing Back into WordPress 2.7" in IntenseDebate:

Hi Michael,

We have Typepad comments which are not in Intense Debate and Intense Debate commments.

Wordpress is fresh with none of the comments (well Typepad comments as we've moved them).

We'd like to amalgamate the Typepad and Intense Debate comments in a single Wordpress database and use our built-in Wordpress anti-spam systems (somewhat similar to Intense Debate but faster to load as local).

I think what you guys are doing is great but this particular client would be better served by having all the data local and some custom routines applied to it.

Any help you guys could give us to get the Intense Debate comments into Wordpress would be much appreciated.

As I mentioned, Typepad comments have already been successfully moved. Getting our comments back from Intense Debate is the holdup now.

Alec replied on July 21, 2009 19:06 to the question "Taking IntenseDebate's XML Export and Importing Back into WordPress 2.7" in IntenseDebate:

Hi Beau,

Thanks for the lowdown.

We do need it pretty urgently for a Typepad weblog that we are moving to Wordpress.

I find it a bit rich that you guys are advertising very vocally two way syncing on your website when in fact no such functionality exists.

So we are coding a custom XML converter to Wordpress right now.

Would you care to purchase the code from us when it's finished?

Alec replied on July 17, 2009 14:33 to the question "Taking IntenseDebate's XML Export and Importing Back into WordPress 2.7" in IntenseDebate:

Hi Michael,

I need some help with this as well.

What's the best way to take the IntenseDebate file back into Wordpress?

Alec replied on April 08, 2009 19:37 to the question "Sync with Highrisecontacts tagged with spesific keywords" in Newsberry:

Chris, that's amazing work under difficult circumstances!

I hope 37signals catch the hint and upgrade the API far enough that you will be able to simplify the rules for working with tags. But as I said, given what you have to work with, you've gone a long way.

Alec started following the idea "Topaz Denoise with finer-controlled “Blur Reduction”: amount & radius" in Topaz Labs.

Alec replied on March 24, 2009 01:01 to the discussion "Interested in Topaz Adjust plug-in for Apple Aperture?" in Topaz Labs:

Hello Albert,

Unfortunately not first hand. We'd love to code an image application and we'd be very good at it, but there would be some new ground to cross for us.

Alec replied on March 23, 2009 15:52 to the discussion "Interested in Topaz Adjust plug-in for Apple Aperture?" in Topaz Labs:

Hello Albert,

Thanks for the update. If you are redoing the port, you should try to tap into the non-destructive SDK. All the existing plugins are using the older destructive (working only on a tiff, not the original RAW file) architecture.

You have a chance to be the first with the newer non-destructive Aperture plugin architecture.

Cheers.

Alec replied on March 19, 2009 16:43 to the problem "Profile pic within specs, says uploaded, but no new pic is there." in Twitter:

Hello Courtney,

What you are looking for are these two links:
http://twitter.com/account/picture
http://twitter.com/account/delete_pic...

You can either press the delete button on that first page or just enter that second URL.

PS. Make sure you are signed in first!

A comment on the problem "Profile pic within specs, says uploaded, but no new pic is there." in Twitter:

This worked for me as well. Along the way, some of the versions which didn't take actually came back and I was able to stop deleting and just leave up the reappearing picture. Strange system. Looks like it needs some serious repair. – Alec, on March 19, 2009 13:03

Alec marked one of IceAndFire13's replies in Twitter as useful. IceAndFire13 replied to the problem "Profile pic within specs, says uploaded, but no new pic is there.".

Alec replied on March 18, 2009 16:12 to the praise "Great support from Tasty Apps" in Tasty Apps:

I calmly noted my own experiences.

What is your goal with this conversation Eric?

Alec replied on March 18, 2009 15:53 to the praise "Great support from Tasty Apps" in Tasty Apps:

Hello Eric,

You saw how first hand Tim Breslin treated me. In fact you felt you had to pull the thread on account of his obscenity, including threats from his side to compromise the integrity of this site by setting up a false account in the name of my company and posting fake complaints.

On the other hand, I'd say my feedback here as a customer is perfectly appropriate. Rant? What are you talking about...

A comment on the question "Sync with Highrisecontacts tagged with spesific keywords" in Newsberry:

Superb. I'd really like to be able to combine Highrise with a mail service. You guys were quick off the mark with the initial sync which was a great idea. Unfortunately blanket mailing one's entire Highrise list of contacts just makes no sense whatsoever. We have clients with widely different interests on Highrise and need to send some of them info about a and c and some info about b and c and some just info about a or b.

Even that's a simplification. – Alec, on March 16, 2009 17:30

Alec started following the idea "add multi-client support" in Octeth.

Alec replied on March 16, 2009 03:50 to the question "How do I save a template as I am editing it?" in Octeth:

Hello Cem,

The autosaving is cool and works well.

What I'd do for an autoresponder and a way to preview segmented lists though...

A comment on the question "Sync with Highrisecontacts tagged with spesific keywords" in Newsberry:

Hello Chris,

Just to update you, I have written to David at 37signals and have response. He has promised to look into adding tags to the API next time they revise the API. Not a definitive enough answer alas.

It's a pity as we aren't using our Highrise account as it doesn't have any useful way to interact with mailing software (just one massive list, who needs that). – Alec, on March 15, 2009 23:34

Alec replied on March 15, 2009 23:31 to the discussion "Any feature requests?" in Octeth:

I'm with ryanopaz. We really need autoresponders. Autoresponders are in Oempro (same codebase I think) so I'm surprised they aren't in SendLoop. Just charge us 1 cent per email like with the main campaigns.