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http://twitter.com/dsifry

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

  • dsifry: @jasondowdell For now, I think the answer is "To blog about it" and have it show up in search...

    07:18:08 pm on September 25, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: @jasondowdell It was a legal records search, thanks to a Google search.

    06:51:47 pm on September 25, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: Don't ever buy anything from versuslaw.com - total bait-and-switch, and customer service refuses to help.

    06:26:53 pm on September 25, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: @RubaTravel 1. Washington

    08:19:57 pm on September 24, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: Bruce Springsteen's Movie & TV Song credits: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0819803/ (I love the internet!)

    02:24:23 am on September 24, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: I'm blushing! WhereIvebeen.com reviews Offbeat Guides: http://bit.ly/11kHi3 Tell your friends: 20% off a guide for readers, too!

    09:59:20 pm on September 22, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: Farewell ~London! Heading to LHR-SFO. Lovely weather here in the Uk during my trip - reminds me of ~SF weather!

    11:29:16 am on September 20, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: Had a great time hanging out with @davestone today, exploring London's ~Hyde park and environs. Lovely ~london day!

    11:51:54 pm on September 19, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: @GarethWong I'm in ~london until tomorrow morning, then back to SFO

    03:08:17 pm on September 19, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: Arrived at hotel in ~Hyde park London.

    02:30:43 pm on September 19, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: Got a Spotify Invite! Thanks to @davestone and @spotipartners for the fast response. Spotify looks quite nice! :-)

    11:49:59 am on September 19, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: As I"m in the UK, I'm looking to try out Spotify - anyone got an invite they can share? david AT sifry DOT com... Thanks!!! :-)

    11:41:49 am on September 19, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: Morozov with some great discussion of cyberwar and how it affects social media & infrastructure, e.g. Russiavs.Georgia, USvs.Iran #oxsmc09

    02:41:21 pm on September 18, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: Oxford Social Media Convention picture set, esp some nice Oxford shots: http://bit.ly/4ASZIB #oxsoc09

    02:35:55 pm on September 18, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: Morozov making great points about how gov'ts are flooding net convs with distributed disinformation (e.g. 50 cent publishing) #oxsoc09

    02:29:16 pm on September 18, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: Hindman making claim that indeed you have to ask permission to be heard by lots of people in the blogosphere (I TOTALLY DISAGREE) #oxsmc09

    02:27:00 pm on September 18, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: Matthew Hindman and Evgeny Morozov pushing the limits of the benefits of social media tech. #oxsmc09

    02:26:18 pm on September 18, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: Most interesting #oxsmc09 discussion so far, debate about assessing the impact of blogs and social media.

    02:26:02 pm on September 18, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: @rodnic66 Sounds great! I'm doing a walking tour, then dinner tonight, and conf tomorrow but always love meeting folks!

    01:02:10 pm on September 17, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: ok this is cool: I'm on wifi in the bus from ~heathrow to ~oxford. Not broadband speeds, but very civilized. :-)

    12:50:56 pm on September 17, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: arrived at ~Heathrow, heading to ~Oxford today. Any Oxfordites want to meet up, DM or @ me!

    11:23:54 am on September 17, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: @dsifry: Heading to ~London and ~Oxford! Anyone up for a meetup in ~London on Saturday 9/19?

    10:06:41 pm on September 16, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: @gkoberger oh you're so right. Duh!

    10:06:14 pm on September 16, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: Heading to London and Oxford! Anyone up for a meetup in London on Saturday 9/19? Would love to meet up!

    09:54:40 pm on September 16, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: So who is running twitter search now? ;-)

    08:39:50 pm on September 16, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: my point is that Twitter Search certainly seems to acept # as a valid token, could do the same to ~ (or whatever)

    08:39:22 pm on September 16, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: Twitter search seems to note the difference between #foo and foo - note http://bit.ly/BpzkQ & http://bit.ly/BpzkQ

    08:36:51 pm on September 16, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: @kevinmarks Too bad - there's a big difference between "I'm posting at this place" (geocoding) and "I'm posting ABOUT this place" (~tilde)

    08:32:35 pm on September 16, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: @kevinmarks hm, so does twitter search also filter out : and / ? if so, then none of these ideas work unless they fix it

    08:28:21 pm on September 16, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: RT @kevinmarks: there are 2 existing location syntax customs on twitter - l: and / - twitter search filters out punctuation so ~ won't help

    08:27:29 pm on September 16, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: I was thinking that the use of ~ would make searching for tweets about a location really really easy and fun

    08:08:59 pm on September 16, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: It's awfully hard to semantically understand intent of a tweeter - also, think about non-english uses too

    08:08:01 pm on September 16, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: RT @jrnoded: @dsifry Agree w/mendicott it's only 140 chars someone should be able to associate going london in one tweet opposed hate london

    08:07:12 pm on September 16, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: RT @defcon_5: @dsifry twitter could trigger an underline for a tilda just as easily...

    07:53:40 pm on September 16, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: RT @sos100: @dsifry good idea. That could catch on, why is it needed though (can't locations be auto extracted/detected)?

    07:53:32 pm on September 16, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: RT @mendicott: tilde to denote location(~London)is too esoteric, like Ham radio talk .. Need to work with real language, hashtags not useful

    07:53:03 pm on September 16, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: RT @edyson: @dsifry ~ for location. * to indicate conflict of interest - positive (I own, work for, live with) or negative (lost my job...

    07:52:07 pm on September 16, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: RT @builtbydave: @dsifry I thought people used L:, i.e. L:London?

    07:51:40 pm on September 16, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: RT @TreLost: @dsifry I prefer using #, this way it is far more search friendly and the place will pop out by being underlined.

    07:51:18 pm on September 16, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: RT @defcon_5: Nice idea. RT @dsifry: I've been thinking that using the tilde (~) to denote a location would be useful. "I'm going to ~London

    07:51:01 pm on September 16, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: I've been thinking that using the tilde (~) to denote a location would be useful. e.g. "I'm going to ~London." Thoughts?

    07:35:56 pm on September 16, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: Mac Things users: How do you add tags to multiple tasks at the same time? Click-drag individually is slow...

    02:34:10 am on September 15, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: Based on the overwhelming # of reccos, Things appears to be the wnner, with OF being very functional, but really complex. Thanks!

    11:03:12 pm on September 14, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: Mac Users: What's the best personal task/todo manager for you? I'm looking at Things and OmniFocus. Any reccos?

    10:20:15 pm on September 14, 2009 |

     

  • dsifry: iPhone 3G users - beware of the 3.1 OS release - it nearly bricked my iPhone. Had to manually restore back to 3.0.1. http://bit.ly/jIlwW

    11:14:22 pm on September 13, 2009 |

     
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