tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124624882024-03-08T14:32:30.421-05:00The former JD Amer blog.The former Blog of Lopico.com founder J.D. Amer.JDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1154010770260923012006-07-27T10:31:00.000-04:002006-07-27T10:32:50.273-04:00New LopicoI don't really use this blog anymore (now at jdamer.com), but if you happen to come across it, be sure to check out the new version of Lopico. Thanks.JDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1140795972560942862006-02-24T10:43:00.000-05:002006-02-24T10:46:12.706-05:00Make The SwitchI switched to wordpress for my new blog jdamer.com - so this is probably the end of this blog. Now that I am no longer hand-coding XML, I will likely use that blog as my sole means of blogging.JDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1140440443073065142006-02-20T08:00:00.000-05:002006-02-20T08:00:43.130-05:00Lopromo DelayLopromo should have launched by now, but it is being pushed back as I am considering a few more features and methods of implementation before it is launched. The design and feel of the site is great, but I'd rather push it back than launch it in a sub-par state. Part of the problem is that it's not as mainstream friendly as I'd like it to be. It seems that too often companies in the web2.0 JDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1139353803683519972006-02-07T17:57:00.000-05:002006-02-07T18:10:03.710-05:00eHub InterviewMy interview for eHub was posted today. Thanks to Emily Chang for giving me the opportunity to share my thoughts on Lopico and the web in general. For eHub readers - I encourage you to leave feedback here on this blog, in your own blog, or through email to "info at lopico dot com." As I said in the interview I encourage criticism. When visiting Lopico I recommend checking out Akron to see howJDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1138997452576205342006-02-03T15:09:00.000-05:002006-02-03T15:11:18.336-05:00The Chicken, The Egg, and AT&TMuch has been made lately of the end of the internet post. It's an interesting post, but seems to be a lot of speculation, and no one really seems to know for sure what is going on. First off, the quote from AT&T's Whiteacre is out of context, which is never very trustworthy, so keep that in mind as you read on. The Quote: "Why should they be allowed to use my pipes? The Internet can't be JDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1138755218518410872006-01-31T19:33:00.000-05:002006-01-31T20:05:17.440-05:00IE 7 High-jacking feedburnerI downloaded IE7 Beta 2 Preview to my laptop today ( I will keep IE6 on my desktop for a while) and I must say that I like it, with one exception: it highjacks feedburner. As with this blog, many blogs allow readers to subscribe (easily) through feedburner. When you click on the feedburner counter in the right hand column you will be presented with a number of options for subscribing to this blogJDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1138673006206275852006-01-30T20:58:00.000-05:002006-01-30T21:03:26.263-05:00Trenton, a sign of things to come.I've added a new city to Lopico. Anyone from Trenton, NJ that would like to add their favorite local businesses to the web's most user driven local directory, can now do so. This is just the first of 50 new cities that I plan to add over the next few months. Up next: Allentown, PA. technorati tags: lopico, new jerseyJDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1137976292159147912006-01-22T19:18:00.000-05:002006-01-22T19:31:32.176-05:007 in 11Well I wouldn't say Lopico Lovers is off to an amazing start, but it's better than not having any reviews at all. So far 7 reviews have been posted in the 11 days that Lopico Lovers has been up. I wouldn't say that this is good, but at least a few people have followed the links to review a business. Of course, this is only beginning, and for right now, Lopico Lovers is not directly accessible JDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1137113413759045282006-01-12T19:28:00.000-05:002006-01-12T19:50:13.820-05:00But, what makes it so great?On Lopico you could previously only do three things: 1. Find Great Businesses 2. Add businesses to Lopico Listings and 3. Vote for your favorites (because of this I often said that Lopico used the F.A.V.orite system). Now, there's a fourth: introducing "Lopico Lovers" the new way to review your favorite local businesses. Lopico lovers is distinct from other review programs in that it requires JDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1136948940594666342006-01-10T22:04:00.000-05:002006-01-10T22:09:00.610-05:00Blogging about BloggingI now remember why I initially thought using Blogger rather than hosting my own blog was a good idea: Blogger is easy. The new blog jdamer.com is up, but not much is happening with it, because it is a little more of a pain (not much more) to blog the way I'm blogging over there. Not much of a pain, and I wouldn't mind doing it that way if I were a blogger, but I'm not. I'm a web developer that JDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1135995925996184612005-12-30T21:15:00.000-05:002005-12-30T21:25:26.016-05:00New BlogIf you'd like - but I don't know why you would want to - you can take a sneak peak at my new blog. It is now "live" at jdamer.com. But it's not really a blog yet. For now it is a basic html document, in fact most of the links aren't even set up yet, and I've barely thought about CSS. I'm working with the open source project PowerBlog to adapt this look as my template for my new blog - it's JDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1135704655946270742005-12-27T12:29:00.000-05:002005-12-27T12:30:55.963-05:00Is Wink the Answer?In my last post: "New Service that I'd like to see in 2006," I may have overlooked Wink as the answer to this problem. Wink is ambitious, and IMHO a great idea, but needs momentum, which, judging by the amount of coverage it is receiving right now, will not be a problem. Unfortunately, momentum now is not as important as momentum once it starts working. I've been trying for a few days to sync JDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1135651620462514612005-12-26T21:30:00.000-05:002005-12-26T21:47:00.476-05:00New service that I'd like to see in 2006Other than my new site (which I am working very hard on, and really think will be great) the web service that I'd like to see most in 2006, is a bookmark tracking aggregator.Every few days I check the number of times that Lopico has been bookmarked on del.icio.us, and sometimes Furl, but there are also a handful of other bookmarking sites such as yahoo myweb 2.0, de.lirio.us, clipmarks, and simpyJDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1135367573350877612005-12-23T14:42:00.000-05:002005-12-23T14:52:53.366-05:00New RSS / XML LogoThe RSS standard logo: Mozilla started it, Microsoft has said it will adopt it, and now the rest of the world should soon follow suit. I joined in today by creating a new rss logo for Lopico as well as the new site and new blog that I am working on. I modified the logo slightly to keep the XML abbreviation for the benefit of those not yet familiar with the logo.If you want, you can grab the logoJDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1135290968195768122005-12-22T17:34:00.000-05:002005-12-22T22:37:45.070-05:00Blogatus - A Blogger's HiatusI haven't been blogging much lately, well I've been blogging my usual amount after a heightened amount of blogging, and there are good reasons. First I'm working on a lot of great things right now that are consuming the majority of my time. Some things that I'm working on:I've discovered a way to make Lopico up to 10x faster and I am implementing the changes. I'm finalizing some last (but JDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1134768647846800332005-12-16T16:03:00.000-05:002005-12-16T16:36:49.490-05:00Final Flock Beta ReviewThis will be my last post about Flock until it is released. I've had some fun with Flock with but now I've pretty much switched back to firefox full time. It's an interesting concept, but not one with mainstream appeal. Nothing wrong with being niche. Overall Strengths:1. The blogging is great, especially the ease of tagging. Maybe it's pure coincidence, but my "web 2.0 picks" blog was by far oneJDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1134483948172561392005-12-13T09:12:00.000-05:002005-12-13T10:32:36.710-05:00Lopico on Your SiteI just noticed that Yelp added a feature that allows businesses to put a Yelp link on their site. The link displays the businesses current star rating (which if you've read my posts in the past you know I'm not a fan of) and the number of reviews on Yelp for that business. Why am I blogging about this? Well, I've been thinking about doing something similar with Lopico, but also very different. I JDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1134420787698909222005-12-12T15:41:00.000-05:002005-12-12T15:53:07.800-05:00What else are you going to call it?I just checked out the flock blog aggregate for the first time in a while, and one thing that I was surprised to see was a post scorning the name web 2.0. Not because the name web 2.0 is a fan favorite that no one scorns, but because another Flock blog has a graphic on the bottom that says "take back web 2.0." Clearly not intended to be taken as more than a play on Firefox's take back the web, JDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1134257166991968002005-12-10T18:21:00.000-05:002005-12-10T18:26:16.510-05:00Name this blogOne last note, I hate the new name of my blog, and seem to be stuck in trying to come up with a great name for my blog. I'm looking for one that is not a registered domain as I plan on moving out of blooger. Any Ideas?Still using Flock and posting much more. Sometimes I feel like I am talking to my self in a socially acceptable manner when I blog. I'm guessing that I will not get any responses. JDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1134253089273236772005-12-10T16:55:00.000-05:002005-12-10T17:18:09.333-05:00Web 2.0 PicksDel.icio.us just got picked up by Yahoo! and it really was my second favorite web 2.0 site, but there are many more great sites that people should try. This is just a short list of sites that I like, and most likely there are more I am forgetting:These are in no particular order:eHub - have to start here because this is the place where I picked most of these fromOdeo - best place for podcasting, JDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1134230491280768362005-12-10T10:44:00.000-05:002005-12-10T11:01:31.383-05:00Buy me out!Del.icio.us was bought by Yahoo! yesterday, and I'm upset about this. Not because I am against Yahoo!, I really like a lot of what Yahoo does and I've been using My Yahoo since about the day it came out. The only thing that I don't like about Yahoo is the amount of spam that I receive in my Yahoo inbox. I'm not Dvorak but I get very little spam in all of my email accounts with the exception of JDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1134145041795123062005-12-09T11:12:00.000-05:002005-12-09T11:17:21.820-05:00Live Mail's 5 MinutesYesterday I posted about Live Mail's 5 minutes of being as good as Gmail, and that is over as far as I'm concerned. My biggest complaint with live mail is the lack of RSS incorporation which Gmail just added. Live Mail still has a calendar which is great if you use it, but I don't, and I imagine that Google will soon have a competing service. I suggested RSS through live mail's feedback and I'm JDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1134144641750590452005-12-09T11:04:00.000-05:002005-12-09T11:12:16.113-05:00New HomepageSome Mornings you just wake up with an idea. This morning I woke up thinking about the Lopico homepage, and within an hour or so I had a new homepage. I would classify this as an intermediate step to the next new version of the Lopico homepage. Part of what I like about Lopico is the freedom that I have to play with the look and feel of it and the ability to change things so quickly. If you read JDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1134072218877444152005-12-08T14:42:00.000-05:002005-12-08T15:06:01.576-05:00Who has time to Blog?With the exception of people that are paid to blog, who has time for it? I know that I don't. But if you look at my blogs compared to frequent bloggers, mine tend to be on the long side. I'm going to try to blog more often with shorter blogs.Beta Blog preview...I'm involved in beta testing a handful of services right now, and would like to blog about these. This would include Flock, the browser JDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12462488.post-1133744162839583862005-12-04T19:40:00.000-05:002005-12-04T19:56:02.856-05:00Sea ChangeNow that this is my blog and no longer the Lopico blog there are going to be and have been a few changes.Changes that I've Made: I changed the title to reflect the new scope of the blog I added a Lopico button on the side bar as well as a feedburner counter You can now subscribe to this blog by clicking the feedburner icon Lopico news is now available at Lopico News What to expect from this JDAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216694503032075438noreply@blogger.com0