Riaz Kanani's Comments

IntenseDebate Blog : Automattic Acquires IntenseDebate

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:26:44 +0000

this sounds like a good move to me :)

IntenseDebate Blog : HTML Parsing, New Widget, New Usernames, & New Profile URL's

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:15:09 +0000

great work guys - ID has come on leaps and bounds in the last few months

Feld Thoughts : A Very Good String Of Books

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:05:51 +0000

wow - I have seen a lot of posts around book recommendations - almost always I scan the recommendations with a "blah" - almost all these have been added to me amazon wish list - cheers for the recommendations! :)

razorshine : push email on an iPhone - come on gmail ;)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:25:58 +0000

You would think so - one thing I am not expecting yet is something similar to Google Apps - allowing me to use my own domain name but using gmail as the interface. I think I would move back to Yahoo if that came out - Gmail is pretty stagnant right now and Yahoo's email platform looks the best featured. All that assumes the speed of the interface is quick though <grins>

razorshine : new blog design

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:25:15 +0000

Thanks :) The previous design had 3 columns as well - but the main post area was very narrow - this layout allows me to write more without filling up the entire front page <grins>

razorshine : what if your IP was portable?

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:43:42 +0000

true - the reverse lookup would not work.. that still requires the ability to take the IP address with you which leaves us back with changing the way the internet works at its core. The only way around that would be to have some way of broadcasting your dynamic dns identity rather than your IP address.

razorshine : amazon redesign - where'd the books go?

Thu, 29 May 2008 10:43:36 +0000

hmm weird, mine does too now :) well hoorah anyhow :)

razorshine : Rushmore Drive: An Ethnic Targeted Search Engine

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:06:49 +0000

lol - yea the video is bad - very bad marketing in practice :(

razorshine : friendfeed or social thing? or are lifestreams a waste of time?

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:08:28 +0000

the short answer is not right now - I'll give a more detailed answer in the next few posts!

razorshine : friendfeed or social thing? or are lifestreams a waste of time?

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:26:32 +0000

Think I am contradicting myself in this post somewhat - I prefer the ability to message back into the orginal service, and yet I am saying that users would not have to sign up for the various services.

Does that mean friendfeed is better for mainstream users?

I think I end up with the life stream aggregator being integrates at the OS or browser level (ie not a website) and all these services being able to be signed into using openID (which would allow the commenting.

razorshine : louis gray and friendfeed

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:15:52 +0000

looking forward to less friendfeed <grins> I do think you have benefited enormously from this though as you have become the figurehead for friendfeed publicly.

razorshine : louis gray and friendfeed

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:53:34 +0000

I wonder whats next :)

razorshine : TV service providers - the future

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:11:45 +0000

Have you taken a look at Cachelogic? They cache popular content for ISPs at the edge of their network to help reduce those running costs. For me this is a better place to cache content than on the edge of content delivery networks like Akamai.

Of course I have no idea how well that can scale - but its a first step towards reducing the costs of delivering content using an IP based network.

razorshine : TV service providers - the future

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:05:21 +0000

thanks :)

razorshine : TV service providers - the future

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:50:14 +0000

Sky have the ability to use their satellite connection to deliver large amounts of content - they can therefore get more from the 24mbps connection than the other providers can - of course they are stuck on the upstream.

But you got me thinking further - Sky would also need to use the same ADSL 2+ connection for video on demand, which if HD quality, would chew through a lot of that bandwidth too. I had forgotten they can't do VOD.

razorshine : TV service providers - the future

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:46:18 +0000

Docsis 3 is the technology Virgin Media are using to achieve the 50Mbps speeds (scalable up to around 100Mbps).

IntenseDebate Blog : Intense Debate...now with sorting

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:55:08 +0000

excellent :) the quicker load time is a huge boost :)

razorshine : relevance gone wrong

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:47:55 +0000

Hmm one thing Google Reader has improved is the speed with which it grabs posts. Within a few seconds I had added that it applied only to Gmail in Google Apps and not Gmail (and changed the post title). Google Reader shows the old title and content :(

Feld Thoughts : The Pain of Change

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:23:06 +0000

side comment: not sure why but logging in using openid logged the above comment without logging me into intense debate properly.

razorshine : dancing elf - viral marketing :)

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:25:26 +0000

lol