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26/02/2008 test from n95

nobody@vox.com(Conor) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:43:55 +0000

Hello hello

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Nokia Go Play Launch

nobody@vox.com(Conor) — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:33:24 +0100

Review of Nokia Go Play Launch

This was a desperately underwhelming event, I was looking forward to a new gaming device that would take on Nintendo, Apple and Sony Ericcson at the same time. All I got was men in buttoned-up suits and Finnish accents talking about "funky" and ""rock your world". They couldn't even get the name of The Ministry of Sound right.

They need an evangelist. Call him the CEO, the Chief Evangelical Officer. Someone who can control a crowd like Steve Jobs. Someone passionate, someone who understands the web (which I don't think these guys do).

Hell I'll do it for them and I won't need to hold paper notes whilst speaking on stage.

So basically the announcements were:

An 8GB N95
Some music phone with a 3.5mm jack (wow!)
Some Ovi stuff coming whenever
Touch sensitive screens on Series 60 in 2008
A new UI coming whenever

They need to do wayyyyyyy better than that.

Why not jam a GSM chipset into the N800? I know a LOT of people who would buy that.

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Vox doesn't use rel=tag in posts?

nobody@vox.com(Conor) — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:25:19 +0100

Seriously?

You use it in the tag cloud but not in the posts themselves?

Mind boggling

And of course because we cannot edit the HTML, we cannot add them properly ourselves.

This is a real attempt a lock-in and lock-down isn't it?

Feels like Bebo. But to be fair, at least you have RSS.

Looks like I have to completely give up on trying to support Vox in LouderVoice. No HTML, no proper tags, no way to indicate parts of a review without reverting to a bullshit approach like Item=X, Rating=Y, URL=Z. Hell maybe we'll do that at some stage.

And Six Apart is in the same city as Technorati and the associated microformats guys. Do you guys ever talk over sushi and soy lattes?

Back to supporting open platforms I guess.

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Review of Galaxy Caramel

nobody@vox.com(Conor) — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:14:05 +0100

This is one of those standard commodity chocolate bars you can buy in any store in Ireland. But god help me, it's lovely. The chocolate may be cheap but the runny caramel in the middle is just divine. I could demolish one of these in one minute flat.

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Review of Vox

nobody@vox.com(Conor) — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:42:24 +0100

Item: Vox
URL: www.vox.com
Address: N/A
Rating: 3/5
Summary: Feel constricted at every turn like Bebo
Review: This has the potential to be as big as Bebo but not as big as MySpace
Tags: vox, bebo, myspace

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Review of Jacques Restaurant Cork

nobody@vox.com(Conor) — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:32:38 +0100

3 Jacques Restaurant Cork. Despite many recommendations, we were left underwhelmed by this Cork institution.

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Another embed try with spans only

nobody@vox.com(Conor) — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:18:42 +0100

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Playing with review styles

nobody@vox.com(Conor) — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:14:53 +0100

Looking at different review styles in the absence of raw html editing. What is the easiest and most flexible for people to do. Geeks may be happy with something like markdown but it looks terrible.

[review]
[item]Vox[/item]
[rating]3/5[/rating]
[description]An interesting platform but one I have not warmed to yet[/description]
[tags]vox, blogs, blogging, xhtml[/tags]
[/review]

We could go with something really simple like this:

Review of: Vox
Rating: 3/5
Description: An interesting platform but one I have not warmed to yet
Tags: vox, blogs, blogging, xhtml

Or how about the new embed function to get xhtml embedded:

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LouderTweets

nobody@vox.com(Conor) — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:13:14 +0100

Simple simple way to write mini-reviews using Twitter so that they end up searchable on LouderVoice reviews site. No need join LouderVoice.
Add "review" as a friend on Twitter
Send reviews in this structure:
@review 2 Vox web-site. Still waiting for them to allow me to enter raw HTMLso I can get some microformat support here.

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Still can't do raw HTML eh?

nobody@vox.com(Conor) — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:51:32 +0000

Thought I'd check back in and see. On the upside - MT, LJ and Typepad work beautifully with hReview so I'm happy enough. I'd love to be able to support VOX too tho.

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