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A comment on the idea "Bring back the Tag Cloud" in StumbleUpon:

I switched back to v3 a long time ago. Unfortunately, you have less than a month before StumbleUpon switches us both to v4. – tamar, on October 15, 2009 12:58

A comment on the idea "Bring back the Tag Cloud" in StumbleUpon:

Hey George, is the Similarity Meter (Venn diagram) coming back or no? This FAQ item doesn't seem to say that: http://www.stumbleupon.com/help/New_S... – tamar, on October 14, 2009 15:44

A comment on the idea "Bring back the Tag Cloud" in StumbleUpon:

Hey George, is the Similarity Meter (Venn diagram) coming back or no? This FAQ item doesn't seem to say that: http://www.stumbleupon.com/help/New_S... – tamar, on October 14, 2009 15:44

A comment on the idea "Bring back the Tag Cloud" in StumbleUpon:

This is a very good point. This was one of the ways I knew how to network with other individuals on Stumble. And as Sebastian said, while tags may not have *actively* been used on SU, it was easy to glance at the tag cloud and get an idea about the stumbler, especially to gain insight about compatibility for networking purposes. – tamar, on October 05, 2009 12:13

tamar marked one of Monica's replies in StumbleUpon as useful. Monica replied to the idea "Bring back the Tag Cloud".

A comment on the question "iPhone and iPod Touch Application Shortsightedness - Here's a "Common Sense" Suggestion" in Apple:

Your comment is complete useless. Please come here when you have something valuable to add. Otherwise, this might as well be equivalent to trolling or spam. – tamar, on October 05, 2009 01:35

A comment on the idea "Bring back the Tag Cloud" in StumbleUpon:

I appreciate the response. Thank you. – tamar, on September 30, 2009 16:37

A comment on the idea "Bring back the Tag Cloud" in StumbleUpon:

"No feature is lost from V3 to V4."

Now here are the questions of the day then.

1. Where are the compatibility charts - the Venn diagrams telling me how likely it is that I'd like someone else's stumbles (or that I'm looking in the mirror?)

2. Am I not able to share stories with multiple recipients at this time? According to the V4 feedback group on SU, someone said that doesn't exist anymore. If you ask me, it seems that this feature is actually lost.

George, I have no problem with relocated features--really. I do have a problem with features going kaput and it sure as heck seems that both are gone. – tamar, on September 30, 2009 16:23

A comment on the idea "Bring back the Tag Cloud" in StumbleUpon:

Sorry. I'm frustrated that George, who clearly has arguments from *users* of the website toward keeping the tag cloud, shot us down. Heck, with SU being "more social" and a "social bookmarking site," I hardly see either being emphasized in V4. It's really a shame.

I get it. When Facebook came out with its news feed and other services came out with change, people get pissed. But they also didn't lose functionality - they gained more. Everything that kept me enjoying SU is gone now. – tamar, on September 30, 2009 15:28

A comment on the idea "Bring back the Tag Cloud" in StumbleUpon:

Perce--I'm actually on your side here and am trying to bring up other points to bolster your own argument. I think that SU needs to first EMPHASIZE tags ALTOGETHER. Since they *didn't*, they don't see a need to keep tag clouds there or anything else tag-related for that matter from my observations (i switched back to V3 though because V4 is downright awful).

But -- if you don't want me to help support you here, I guess I'm done.

(And Sebastian - thanks for the feedback below.) – tamar, on September 30, 2009 15:16

A comment on the idea "Bring back the Tag Cloud" in StumbleUpon:

I'm not asking for someone to look at my discovery and that's not scalable anyhow. I guess I'm spoiled by Google (and even more recently, Bing) since I don't think this kind of thing happens very often there and that they understand human intent. SU is a small company that has gone through a few hands so I understand limited ability to understand the content of a submission. However, do we know with certainty that a computer with an AI algorithm is evaluating the page? I never knew that, and based on some of the submissions I receive (especially those that violate TOS, e.g. Digg submissions from digg.com URLs), I'm curious to know why this AI exists if it's not taking action on spam abusers. Sorry, this is TOTALLY off topic, so nevermind -- but I have always doubted that the content was evaluated at all. – tamar, on September 30, 2009 15:02

A comment on the idea "Bring back the Tag Cloud" in StumbleUpon:

As I said in my earlier message, I think it's SU's fault that tags and tag clouds have not been used heavily. Instead of dropping it in V4, they should actually emphasize tags and "labeling" of submissions. – tamar, on September 30, 2009 14:58

A comment on the idea "Bring back the Tag Cloud" in StumbleUpon:

Sebastian, nope - I'm not confusing topics and tags. Based on a category/topic that has been suggested by SU's limited list, SU has assumed incorrect "default" tags on particular stories. It's very weak. I'm not sure there's an algorithm in play there at all. Does SU actually evaluate the content of a page submitted? – tamar, on September 30, 2009 14:50

tamar replied on September 30, 2009 14:44 to the idea "Bring back the Tag Cloud" in StumbleUpon:

Not sure what you mean, but I think this isn't the fault with the users really. If SU actually fixed its "language algorithm" (that's right, they don't have one) problems, maybe tag clouds would actually be heavily used. Instead, SU didn't do a thing about how poorly it was managed, let it die, and now one of its employees say that there's no room for it due to underutilization. Gee.

tamar replied on September 30, 2009 14:34 to the idea "Bring back the Tag Cloud" in StumbleUpon:

My big concern isn't so much about the *tag cloud*, but I want to see the 5 tags that people apply to specific submits. I can't even see my own easily anymore. Half the time, the service tags things inappropriately, like SU's immediate assumption that an article about drugs (which isn't safe for kids) is "pornography." I saw an article about colorblindness the other day, and SU tagged it "glaucoma." Right.

Knowing what people tag specific items is INCREDIBLY helpful. Now that's gone (or at least invisible). Sure, it wasn't perfect, but people (like me) DID actually try to tag items appropriately.

With V4 of the site, I think it's in SU's best interest to actually fix the tags and categories once and for all and make them actually match the content they reference. "Pornography" and "glaucoma" are sad attempts to get it right, but instead of doing without tags, fix it!

tamar replied on September 23, 2009 13:20 to the problem "foursquare for palm pre?" in foursquare:

Ha, because nobody from foursquare answered this question, I emailed them yesterday trying to nudge them for a real response. I assume they're purposely ignoring the question, but I hope they consider Pre users even though we're clearly not as cool as iPhone users in their eyes.

tamar replied on September 13, 2009 23:42 to the problem "foursquare for palm pre?" in foursquare:

I'm not a dev but am curious about the first part. Will you make an app for the Palm Pre?

A comment on the question "iPhone and iPod Touch Application Shortsightedness - Here's a "Common Sense" Suggestion" in Apple:

Excellent. While this solution wasn't 100%, it was good enough. With the iPhone/iPod Touch 3.1 update, though, Apple effectively killed this workaround. At this point, I don't get it. Does Apple really want to force us to listen to the same 1 minute stretch of music when we're playing a game for hours at a time? It's like torture. Why the hell would Apple kill a good thing?!

iluvcc - if you know of another workaround, I'd appreciate it. – tamar, on September 10, 2009 19:35

A comment on the question "Where are my tweets?" in Squeejee:

Thanks Bradley. I finally got my tweets but I'm waiting for DMs, mentions, sent messages, and all that other stuff. Still getting the Fail Whale message. Any thoughts on this? – tamar, on September 03, 2009 17:53

tamar replied on September 03, 2009 13:25 to the question "Where are my tweets?" in Squeejee:

I signed up last night and keep getting fail whale sync errors. There are no tweets at all. You mention 1.5 to 2 hours - it's been about 16 hours (since my first tweet that I was using the service).