Comments on: Tag clouds, calenders, and more http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2007/08/04/blog-changes/ Laura's view from her world Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:54:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Andy F http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2007/08/04/blog-changes/comment-page-1/#comment-6898 Andy F Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:42:11 +0000 http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2007/08/04/blog-changes/#comment-6898 Hey Laura, Thanks for the tips. The tag cloud and calendar are great features and i've added them to my site now too! Interestingly, the Facebook badge didn't seem to work quite so well, but i think thats my CSS rather than anything else! Cheers! Hey Laura, Thanks for the tips. The tag cloud and calendar are great features and i’ve added them to my site now too! Interestingly, the Facebook badge didn’t seem to work quite so well, but i think thats my CSS rather than anything else! Cheers!

]]> By: Erik Wingren http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2007/08/04/blog-changes/comment-page-1/#comment-6879 Erik Wingren Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:55:24 +0000 http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2007/08/04/blog-changes/#comment-6879 <b>Laura,</b> We took a closer look at your code and notice that your Snap Shots key is only 7 characters when it should be 32... This is the alphanumeric key you get during <a href="http://www.snap.com/about/shots.php" rel="nofollow">signup</a>, as described in Ajay's <a href="http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/snap-preview-anywhere/#installing" rel="nofollow">installation instructions</a>. Maybe the key got scrabled last time you upgraded the plugin? Hope this helps, and please continue to share your experience. Cheers. -- Erik Wingren erik[at]snap[dot]com Laura,

We took a closer look at your code and notice that your Snap Shots key is only 7 characters when it should be 32…

This is the alphanumeric key you get during signup, as described in Ajay’s installation instructions.

Maybe the key got scrabled last time you upgraded the plugin?

Hope this helps, and please continue to share your experience.

Cheers.
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Erik Wingren
erik[at]snap[dot]com

]]> By: Laura http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2007/08/04/blog-changes/comment-page-1/#comment-6868 Laura Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:50:34 +0000 http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2007/08/04/blog-changes/#comment-6868 <p>Your comment prompted me to try again. I tested it using the links on the front page of my blog. Some of the links had previews that hadn't had previews before, which was cool. But when I tried them again, a few minutes later, they said that the preview wasn't available. Some of the links alternated between showing previews and not showing previews.</p> <p>So I checked the plugin version and upgraded to 1.3., and tried again. I get much the same behaviour. Some of the links show previews, some don't (which is fair enough), but some show previews only intermittently, which is weird.</p> <p>I'll leave it activated for now and see what happens. :o)</p> Your comment prompted me to try again. I tested it using the links on the front page of my blog. Some of the links had previews that hadn’t had previews before, which was cool. But when I tried them again, a few minutes later, they said that the preview wasn’t available. Some of the links alternated between showing previews and not showing previews.

So I checked the plugin version and upgraded to 1.3., and tried again. I get much the same behaviour. Some of the links show previews, some don’t (which is fair enough), but some show previews only intermittently, which is weird.

I’ll leave it activated for now and see what happens. :o )

]]> By: Erik Wingren http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2007/08/04/blog-changes/comment-page-1/#comment-6865 Erik Wingren Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:40:42 +0000 http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2007/08/04/blog-changes/#comment-6865 <b>Laura,</b> My name is Erik Wingren and I head up UX Research for Snap.com. First: Thanks for trying Snap Shots and sharing your experience — this is how we learn and develop. Second: Not sure why you were seeing lag in generation of "regular" site previews but I assure you that Snap Shots still very much support previews of regular links. Just for the record: The way Snap Shots is engineered there is a 10-20 sec lag the very first time someone activates a Snap Shots enabled links (since our robot has to access the page and create a preview) but from the second time and forward there should be virtually no lag. If you still have the plugin available I would love to know if you are still experiencing the lag, and if the lag persist past the initial time. The "high profile sites" you mention (i.e. Wikipedia) are for links pointing to pages on sites where we have created custom, more interactive interfaces for — in the example of Wikipedia the user gets the actual text of the intro paragraph, with inline jump-links. For a full list of these, please check out the lower half of the page<a href="http://www.snap.com/about/shots_central.php" rel="nofollow">Shots Central"</a>. Cheers. -- Erik Wingren erik[at]snap[dot]com Laura,

My name is Erik Wingren and I head up UX Research for Snap.com.

First: Thanks for trying Snap Shots and sharing your experience — this is how we learn and develop.

Second: Not sure why you were seeing lag in generation of “regular” site previews but I assure you that Snap Shots still very much support previews of regular links.

Just for the record: The way Snap Shots is engineered there is a 10-20 sec lag the very first time someone activates a Snap Shots enabled links (since our robot has to access the page and create a preview) but from the second time and forward there should be virtually no lag.

If you still have the plugin available I would love to know if you are still experiencing the lag, and if the lag persist past the initial time.

The “high profile sites” you mention (i.e. Wikipedia) are for links pointing to pages on sites where we have created custom, more interactive interfaces for — in the example of Wikipedia the user gets the actual text of the intro paragraph, with inline jump-links. For a full list of these, please check out the lower half of the pageShots Central”.

Cheers.
–
Erik Wingren
erik[at]snap[dot]com

]]> By: Laura http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2007/08/04/blog-changes/comment-page-1/#comment-6850 Laura Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:32:27 +0000 http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2007/08/04/blog-changes/#comment-6850 I'm not sure that 'people' in general think that hierarchies are a bad thing. I just think they're very constraining and artificial. Haven't thought this through a huge amount - I hadn't intended to muse over them quite so much when I began this post - but in terms of information retrieval, the non-hierarchical tagging seems much more useful. I’m not sure that ‘people’ in general think that hierarchies are a bad thing. I just think they’re very constraining and artificial. Haven’t thought this through a huge amount – I hadn’t intended to muse over them quite so much when I began this post – but in terms of information retrieval, the non-hierarchical tagging seems much more useful.

]]> By: James http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2007/08/04/blog-changes/comment-page-1/#comment-6848 James Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:42:03 +0000 http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2007/08/04/blog-changes/#comment-6848 Like the tag clound, but would like to know why people think that hierarchies are not a good thing? I appreciate that if they are static and not updated then that can be a problem, but surely there must be a concept of dynamic hierarchies. Pleased that you haven't got rid of the red! :-) Like the tag clound, but would like to know why people think that hierarchies are not a good thing? I appreciate that if they are static and not updated then that can be a problem, but surely there must be a concept of dynamic hierarchies.

Pleased that you haven’t got rid of the red!

:-)

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