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Sarah Webb .:. 20080720162031: Hi Kent,
I just bought an iTouch and stupidly bought the upgrade to version 2.0 from iTunes before realizing I could hack my device. Yours is the first page I've found that I kinda understand but I could really use some help in restoring the itouch and obtaining a way to allow third party applications. I am really new to the land of computers and, to be honest, and am afraid of screwing up either my computer or iTouch. I currently rin Windows Vista and I have iTunes version 7.7.0.43. Think I could trouble you for some help?

Thank you for your time and patience,
Sarah
Brad Fults .:. 20080620112723: I hate recruiters. Double fail for the encoding discrepancies.

Anyway, instead of the typical "your skills are greatly required for a super stealth-mode startup with amazing leadership blah blah blah", I'll keep it short and sweet.

I'm a front-end developer with Causes in Berkeley. We write software and web applications that help people accomplish and spread social good -- in other words, if you care about saving the dolphins, we provide you with the technology and ability to organize your friends around your cause and make donations to a relevant non-profit.

We're looking to hire great engineers and technical leaders, etc. If you're interested, drop me a line and we can talk.

http://code.causes.com/jobs

Thanks.
mike gurtiza .:. 20080617143112: Hi Kent,

I hope all is well. I received your information from a colleague of mine, and I would like to discuss with you an opportunity I have available with a Sequoia Capital and Norwest Ventures backed stealth mode startup based in the Sunnyvale. Please contact me ASAP so we can discuss this opportunity in greater detail. This is a time sensitive matter.

Here is a brief description:

My client is developing a system solution to solve mobility problems faced by service providers, small to medium size businesses and large enterprises. Our technology enables customers to make their work force smarter and mobile, simplify roll-out of mobile applications and services, and promote greater teamwork and productivity.

Requirements:

4+ years of experience in developing web based applications

Expert JavaScript skills.

Strong HTML/DHTML/CSS with an eye for good looking design.

Solid experience with AJAX Apps and an understanding of the principals involved in writing them.

Strong understanding of DOM programming and cross browser issues.

Experience programming with Spring, MVC, and Apache Velocity.

CS degree preferred. Start-up experience is also desirable but not required.

Compensation includes competitive base, large equity plan, benefits, and a true startup environment. The CEO’s previous company was bought by Cisco for $500 million.

Take a look at let me know what you think. If you are interested, please reply with an updated copy of your résumé in Word format and good time to discuss this opportunity. Also, please forward this on to some of your colleagues, who might be interested, we’ll definitely take care of you!

I look forward to hearing from you!

Thanks,

Michael

____________________

Michael Gurtiza

Sr. Executive Recruiter

Coit Staffing, Inc.

500 Sansome St. #510

San Francisco, Ca. 94111

office: 415.433.5200 ext. 410
Kent Brewster .:. 20080617093145: Kids are good, new house is outstanding ... we just need to sell the old one now. :)
Angela Ching .:. 20080613231637: Hi Kent, It was so nice to see you today. Your home is beautiful! Completely different from the last time I saw it! Let's keep in touch! How are the kids?
Kent Brewster .:. 20080613124559: Sathya: Fixed, sorry.

Hi, Arjun. It sounds like you want the badge to tell the CMS to send the e-mail when somebody interacts with it. I'm not sure why you want to do this with a badge; if it's an independent piece of JavaScript it will need to know which user to send mail to, and I can't think of a way to do that that doesn't involve an open cookie, a login/password form inside the badge, or other gaping security hole. Please be careful out there.
Sathya .:. 20080613115307: Hi Kent,
Wanted to try your ransomizr ... unfortunately it doesnt seem to be working :((

Kindly Check
Arjun .:. 20080612154511: Hi Kent,

I wanted to tie a web badge in with an existing CMS that I have on my site. What I am trying to do is have the CMS automatically generate a code and e-mail it to a user, who would be specified in the CMS. Would you be willing to guide me with this implementation, or discuss setting something up for your assistance?
Gianko .:. 20080530144242: Hello Kent...

well... the twitterati badge just broke down!!!

now is asking for a login/password... :(

(check it on your site)

please, please help!... yours is the best twitter badge ever!
Stephen Frick .:. 20080510143630: Hi Kent, Stephen from Trade A Favor here. We met at the Maker Faire last weekend.

Many people said that they had been thinking of a concept similar to Trade A Favor, and that's precisely my reaction to your open profiles post. It's a "man, I have *just* been thinking about that" reaction.

I hope you get an opportunity to add our prototype to your Facebook application and give us some feedback. You had also expressed interest in schooling us on the wonders of APIs, even for startups like us working within the Facebook API. Talk to you soon.

http://www.tradeafavor.com
Kent Brewster .:. 20080502083210: Stacy: oh, dear. I need to rig something to allow me to go back to previous days ... sorry about that, please let me know if it happens again.

Arodicus: one of my goals for the project was NOT to require immediate execution of the closure upon load. There could potentially be hundreds of badges--including multiple instances of the same script--on the page at once, or a very large page beneath a badge at the top of source order, and the delay in perceived load time wasn't acceptable.

It's a valid side branch to explore, however, and I will continue to do so in future. Requiring the script to know its own name is a major pain point.
Stacey .:. 20080501213427: Todays puzzle is impossible to solve (May 1st) the middle far left 6 squared box can't possibly have a green colored square in it, just thought I would let you know (I have never solved it in less then 30 moves and I plan to keep it that way haha)
Arodicus .:. 20080501160946: I'm not sure I follow you... unless the script is doing something like dynamically adding it's own scripts (in which case, yes, it would fail), and so long as the script is written to force immediate execution of the closure upon being loaded, it should work, I would think, regardless of where it's loaded, wouldn't it? Can you provide a rough example where it would NOT work?
Kent Brewster .:. 20080501082206: Ah, see, but that will only work if the SCRIPT tag appears last in source order, which is guaranteed not to be true if the site operator is following best practices and including his libraries immediately before the close of the BODY tag. Good thought, though; please keep trying!
Arodicus .:. 20080430172841: I loved the succinct treatise on Badges, and wanted to offer a suggestion. Replacing the line:

var thisScript = /badges.js/ (near the bottom)

with this function:

var thisScript = (function(){
var scr=document.getElementsByTagName('script');
return scr[scr.length-1].getAttribute("src");
})();

...eliminates the need for entering the scripts path if you give it a different name.
Nick .:. 20080428210325: Hey if your good with Yahoo Pipes. We would like for you to use Yahoo Pipes into fetching certain youtube videos we want to be able to stream on our flash video player. If you know how to do this. please email me back. We will hire you and pay you
victor .:. 20080422084327: First for people looking how to retrieve Linkedin profiles, do you know this widget http://www.linkedinabox.com/ ? Linkedin must have a API or some feeds ...

Then a question for Kent about FOAFster : would it be possible to use it outside of this Web site with a FOAF page comming from anywhere ? I really like the idea and the design :)
Thanks
kenny .:. 20080417112339: Kent-HELP retrieve files on iPod Touch? read your "Easy Flash Drive Data Recovery with PhotoRec". Doesn't mention Touch. Apple was no help. We lost music when we synched touch. in the BIZ, and we neeeed those songs. thank. please Email a reply.
Kumar .:. 20080411103046: We are looking how to import linkedin profile to our application, as any one done that if they have can you guide us or we are willing to purchase the codes as well
Kent Brewster .:. 20080402094509: Hi, Vijayender. Thanks, that's very nice of you. I really couldn't say anything about LinkedIn's plans for an API; I imagine they're going to be very careful to protect their users.
Vijayender .:. 20080401225211: Hello Kent Brewster,

I am amazed by the mashup work you do.
These days I am looking for information about LinkedIn API.
When I have searched for it in API category on http://www.programmableweb.com/
You are the only guy who has worked on it.

There is an article which says 'LinkedIn to avoid 'API free for all http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/364404/linkedin-to-avoid-api-free-for-all.html

I am desperately looking for some information about
1) How to get access of the linkedin API / REST spec.
or
2) Whom to contact in Linked in to get access for linkedin API / REST spec.
An email to developers@linkedin.com has not been of any use so far.

I will be grateful to you if you could please provide me the necessasary infomation to start on this.

Thanks in anticipation,

Regards,
Vijayender
Andres Garza .:. 20080318164756: I am one of the organizers of the largest IT event in Latin-America: SISCTI. This event is completely organized and run by college students of the Tecnologico de Monterrey (http://www.itesm.edu).

We annually host this event and invite several keynote speakers. We are really interested in having you as one of our speakers.

Please let me know how I you would be interested in attending and I could send you more information.

Thanks

Andres Garza
Christan .:. 20080318021428: Hi,

I am interested in purchasing permanent textlink advertising at some specific pages of

http://kentbrewster.com/

let me know if interested so that we can discuss it further. I can make a good offer to make it worth your time.

Let me know!
Thanks

Christan Michael
Kent Brewster .:. 20080312120904: English, mostly. :)
Alex .:. 20080310120101: What language is your site written in?
Kent Brewster .:. 20080308065410: Hi, Willis. Thanks for the kind words; the best part of doing Speculations was seeing people sell. Very sorry about your author topic, but: no, no backups were made. Perhaps you could locate someone who was a subscriber and had it via e-mail?
Willis Couvillier .:. 20080307080641: Kent: My words are completely sincere; yesterday I received my 6th short story acceptance. The first 5 were last year. And all of them owe their moment to my time on the Rumor Mill. I think a LOT of writers got their start through the people they met there, or through information posted. It'll be remembered a long time.

Question: Would you have a back up of the Mill? I would hope to beg a copy of my author topic, if possible. I'm slowly transferring the odd relevences over to my LJ now. But the Google cached has expired, I think...
jr .:. 20080303170858: Singleuser boot --fsck not done
root device is mounted read-only
if you want to make modifications to files

/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /

if you wish to boot the system
exit

mar 4 launch[12]: can't exec /bin/sh for single user: no such file or directory.

My problem is that I don't have a keyboard input option here to allow it continue or exit, nor does it recognize in itunes so I can't just set it back to 1.1.1.

Your thoughts would be much appreciated! THANKS!
jr .:. 20080303170654: Singleuser boot --fsck not done
root device is mounted read-only
if you want to make modifications to files

/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /

if you wish to boot the system
exit

jan 24 launch[12]: can't exec /bin/sh for single user: no such file or directory.

My problem is that I don't have a keyboard input option here to allow it continue or exit, nor does it recognize in itunes so I can't just set it back to 1.1.1.

Your thoughts would be much appreciated! THANKS!
Kent Brewster .:. 20080303153744: Gregory, Willis, Julia: thanks very much for the kind words. I'm still trying to get a handle on what I learned while doing Speculations and The Rumor Mill, and how I'm feeling now after having ended it. I expect it will take a while.
Julia Jones .:. 20080303135532: Another note to say that Speculations and the Rumor Mill was much appreciated, and will be missed. Thank you for all the work you put in over the years.
Willis Couvillier .:. 20080303123559: I am saddened at the loss of Speculations and the Rumor Mill, and just wanted to let you know that my time there is a highlight of my writing life. Your efforts were and are appreciated, and will be missed.
Gregory Koster .:. 20080302172320: Dear Kent: From out of the past, this is Gregory Koster formerly of the Rumor Mill. I have just learned that you shut down speculations.com save for a shell, because of the effort it was taking. I can see why you would, but it is still a sorrowful day. But for you, best thanks for something that made a terrific difference to me. Best of luck in anything else you do.

Skyward ho!
Gregory Koster
David .:. 20080223082255: Sorry if this is a stupid question but I'm trying to find an api that could query Google Reader and get the number of subscribers for a given url's RSS feed. Is this something that could be achieved with the sort of methods you use with Yahoo Pipes?

Thanks,
David
NitinK .:. 20080220175935: Hi, Kent:

I really enjoyed your session on social data at the SD Forum event at Yahoo! last week. It was one of the better SDForum sessions in a little while - there was a lot of interesting information packed into a short time. Your bookmarklet was really cool, although it's freaky how much public information about a person can be extracted by working backwards through the API and on to other social sites.

I've posted an article about it on my blog:
Social Data: Observations from "Search & The Social Graph" Event

Cheers!

Nitin
Software Abstractions blog
Donovan .:. 20080124151359: Hello there, thanks for the great advice. Sadly I have somehow flubbed it. I did a jailbreak successfully on the first try, then when I was in the VT to reallocate the space I must have fat fingered it because on the re-load I got the dreaded blank screen. So, I dutifully re-installed 1.1.1 and started over. Everything went fine until I had 1.1.2 re-installed and ran the 1.1.2 jailbreak (with ssh install) option. It seemed to run successfully, but on the first re-boot my touch now spews forth a large length of command prompt information culminating in

Singleuser boot --fsck not done
root device is mounted read-only
if you want to make modifications to files

/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /

if you wish to boot the system
exit

jan 24 launch[12]: can't exec /bin/sh for single user: no such file or directory.

My problem is that I don't have a keyboard input option here to allow it continue or exit, nor does it recognize in itunes so I can't just set it back to 1.1.1.

Your thoughts would be much appreciated! THANKS!
Kent Brewster .:. 20071210103803: Sorry, I don't have MusicMatch so I really couldn't tell you. In case you updated by mistake and you want to back down, Oldversion.com, as always, is your best friend:

http://oldversion.com/program.php?n=mmatch
stealthydarky .:. 20071210050832: Yahoo bought MusicMatch as you know. I like my old version of MM better. How do I get rid of the Nag Screen to update? Thanks for your time man.
Rawbs .:. 20071126091509: Hey there..... Last night I put the badger feed code into dreamweaver and it was working perfectly in Firefox. Today I opened my index page in firefox and safari and the feed wasnt producing any results both in the technorati search engine and my html page. The rss window still shows up but doesnt produce any link results, and last night it was working perfectly....please help :-(
Kent Brewster .:. 20071113084919: Cool, glad it's useful. Yes, I need to revisit Twitterati and get auto-links working; it would also be nice to be able to go back if you get stuck on Scoble's page, or at least be able to enter a user id somewhere without having to discover it by surfing. Please don't forget to look at Case-Hardened JavaScript for a peek under the hood.

CrowdVine looks very interesting; how's that going for you?
Tony Stubblebine .:. 20071112230413: Kent, I was going to ask what the license was for Twitterati because I wanted to work it into a widget for CrowdVine (and probably extend it to auto-link @syntax/urls and for OpenSocial which would let me add a link to the local profile). Then I found your FAQ and my question was answered. So all I have to say now is thank you and good work.
Kent Brewster .:. 20071104091626: Sweet! It works with an iTouch!

Sorry, Jay. I took a quick look at Snapfish and I can't find anything resembling an API. I'll keep looking, but the prognosis seems pretty grim. Good luck, and please check back here if you do find something that works.
Kent Brewster .:. 20071104090057: and again...
Kent Brewster .:. 20071104085940: Testing from my new toy...
Jay .:. 20071031090252: Kent
Wondering if there are any tools to do this: I have several pics (more than 2 gig) on (sick) Snapfish and would like to copy/download my OWN pictures without paying them money (for each 50 pics $10, I need to rob a bank!)

IF you know/have some idea, please post it! I am really thankful for your help!
Jake
Kyle .:. 20071028130743: Hey, Kent - Not sure if you remember me, but I'm going to be joining Yahoo next month, would love to catch up when I arrive. Don't have your email address, if you could please drop me a note when you see this, and I'll give you a little better context.

Best,
Kyle
Kent Brewster .:. 20071018202224: Not sure, Jackie ... were you playing it on My Yahoo?
Jackiie McComb .:. 20071012130457: How come when I see a stained glass board it shows only white squares and I can't figure out how to play?
Thanks, I loved that damned mindless game.
JM

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