Dave Sifry on Twitter RSS

http://twitter.com/dsifry

Founder of Offbeat Guides, Technorati and Linuxcare. Dave is based in San Francisco, California.

  • dsifry: @davestone Awesome! Sorry, missed your mail - let's chat! When are you around?

    02:02:25 am on March 11, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: Made it through the guts of ActiveRecord. Still feel like there's so much magic going on, but learning. Next - onwards to Action Controller.

    01:41:16 am on March 11, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: Phew! Learning Rails in a hardcore way this week. Made it through the first 20 chapters of "Agile Web Development with Rails".

    01:37:04 am on March 11, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: Any recommendations on the best web services to find businesses near a particular address or lat/long?

    09:55:41 pm on March 8, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: What's the best tethering app for Android Phones?

    05:10:44 am on March 6, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: Very interesting presentation on the future of gaming from a former Disney Imagineer: http://bit.ly/9Q1yDL

    07:11:43 pm on March 5, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: Recommended @davemcclure:' I recommend @davemcclure for being an awesome member of th... ' http://bit.ly/d0bw1o #mrtweet

    04:22:19 pm on March 5, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: Recommended @joshk:'he's smart, fun, and really knows his stuff. Great friend to entr... ' http://bit.ly/d8VEXF #mrtweet

    04:21:23 pm on March 5, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: Recommended @bfeld:'he's a great guy, terrific VC and helping a lot of companies beco... ' http://bit.ly/8Y2JmT #mrtweet

    04:20:23 pm on March 5, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: Recommended @fredwilson:'he's a top-notch VC and great friend to entrepreneurs.' http://bit.ly/9lUfjR #mrtweet

    04:19:07 pm on March 5, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: Looks like Facebook rolled out some changes to how it handles queries and their encodings. I pulled the offending code, and all is well.

    07:13:33 pm on March 4, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: Starting last night I'm seeing Facebook API "Incorrect Signature" Errors from restserver.php. Anyone know what's up?

    03:28:47 pm on March 4, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: RT @bleam: #Bleam Named to Top iPhone Photo Share App List - http://bit.ly/aMlPNS #iPhone #Appstore #Photosharing #bluetooth

    07:29:35 pm on March 1, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: RT @fredwilson: Startup Visa Act introduced by Senators Kerry and Lugar http://bit.ly/cRAcHh

    09:52:42 pm on February 24, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: RT @davemcclure: Help Support #StartupVisa Act 2010: go2 http://startupvisa.com/support-us/ (tweet, donate, blog, widget, call yr rep, RT!)

    09:05:43 pm on February 24, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: @jeffnolan Awesome! How do you like it? How was the experience?

    05:52:34 pm on February 24, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: @dangillmor Agreed!

    08:27:20 pm on February 22, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: @karllong It's a great phone and believe it or not t-mobile actually works here in san francisco as opposed to at&t

    08:23:54 pm on February 22, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: Wow, Google Earth on the Nexus One is awesome.

    08:08:02 pm on February 22, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: I have a new favorite band for this month: "The Heavy". Check out their Single, "How you like me now": http://bit.ly/Kx4KF

    09:14:56 am on February 22, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: @VictorSanchez Many thanks! Much appreciated. I'll let you know if I have any Q's but this looks great!

    04:37:48 am on February 22, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: Javascript Experts - what's the best way to draw a transparent overlay on top of an image? Ideally jquery-based but any is ok

    11:22:27 pm on February 21, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: @kwerb Hey, to each his own! I have friends who absolutely swear by pine, b/c it lets them navigate incredibly quickly - no gui!

    05:28:24 pm on February 21, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: miraculously, my rear window motor is working again. Bizarre, but thanks, oh mighty gadgeteer in the sky!

    02:38:56 am on February 21, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: The Facebook API appears to be down right now, wish they'd push out a status, let us know what's up. Seeing "Incorrect Signature" errs.

    08:21:12 pm on February 20, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: @OrenMichels Yep, getting Facebook errors here too.

    04:59:30 pm on February 20, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: @stevenjayl Yeah, also the Janis Joplin Mercedes Benz commercial, and Iggy Pop Carnival Cruise commercial. Apocalypse nigh!

    02:22:00 am on February 20, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: Is www.amazon.com down for everyone, or is it just me? Looks like one of their image serving CDNs are down...

    12:34:02 am on February 20, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: @gnat Why? I use that all the time. Is it because of Google Buzz?

    09:06:19 pm on February 17, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: Ouch! http://pleaserobme.com/ Nasty nasty, but hilights the big issues of real-time location-based updates!

    07:59:04 pm on February 17, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: I'm here with peter giving him a demo of the nexus 1 at the embarcadero

    10:59:44 pm on February 16, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: @davidx CONGRATULATIONS, DAVID!!!!!!

    02:19:40 am on February 15, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: @shellen I'm with you, man.

    01:40:44 am on February 12, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: Wow. 7 minute movie of San Francisco Market Street only days before the 1906 quake. Wow. http://bit.ly/5UpFac

    08:31:36 pm on February 11, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: RT @superic: does anyone in @sf need a queen size mattress? @urbancrunchy and I are upgrading. details: http://bit.ly/b8b6tA

    11:02:41 pm on February 10, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: Follow me on Google Buzz: http://www.google.com/profiles/dsifry

    09:56:31 pm on February 10, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: @twilio Congrats on the SMS API - do you send/receive MMS now too?

    06:09:18 pm on February 9, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: Just uploaded 34 new photos to my Flickr "Retreat 2010" photoset: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsifry/sets/72157623376396744

    07:21:25 am on February 8, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: Help Mac OS X Gurus! I need to share a wifi connection over ethernet with some people. I HAVE WIFI to the net, need to share it over en0

    08:45:22 pm on February 5, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: I'm showing my brother how to use voice transcription on the nexus one

    04:51:05 am on February 4, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: RT @zephoria: new Pew data on social media & teens+young adults. (Blogging fading among teens; 8% of teens use Twitter) http://bit.ly/d3aC2y

    11:05:41 pm on February 3, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: RT @cshirky: If you thought the talk between Obama & Republicans was too useful to be a one-off, demand #questiontime http://twurl.nl/cbqu2c

    11:03:32 pm on February 3, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: RT @demandQTime: Sign the Petition: As Americans, Demand Question Time! http://bit.ly/cpjekp

    07:11:15 pm on February 3, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: Well, looks like iPhone OS 3.1.3 still b0rks my iPhone. Error 1002. Guess it's back to OS 3.0.1, bummer!

    04:20:41 am on February 3, 2010 |

     

  • dsifry: @ianb those geese come by every year in the spring and fall during migration season. They like to stop at gg park in SF to rest. Pretty!

    02:50:41 am on February 3, 2010 |

     
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