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this can work or not...I cant understand ):

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really here?

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I do, too

I like this product very much

Sorry,it's my fault.It's appeared.

Hi mark: How can I cancel my blog's link or cancel my account? After I changed my blog's head the comment does not appear. p.s.In the menu"Show comments of all my sites" my blog's title became Garbled character. http://img245.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=05593_need_123_364lo.jpg

bullshit

How can my students comment and not show up as me? Do they each need an account?

Just testing

introspection?, what do you mean?

The question on my lips is whether this mechanism can hanlde long comments. The question on my lips is whether this mechanism can hanlde long comments.The question on my lips is whether this mechanism can hanlde long comments.The question on my lips is whether this mechanism can hanlde long comments.The question on my lips is whether this mechanism can hanlde long comments.The question on my lips is whether this mechanism can hanlde long comments.The question on my lips is whether this mechanism can hanlde long comments.The question on my lips is whether this mechanism can hanlde long comments.The question on my lips is whether this mechanism can hanlde long comments.The question on my lips is whether this mechanism can hanlde long comments.The question on my lips is whether this mechanism can hanlde long comments.The question on my lips is whether this mechanism can hanlde long comments.The question on my lips is whether this mechanism can hanlde long comments.The question on my lips is whether this mechanism can hanlde long comments.The question on my lips is whether this mechanism can hanlde long comments.The question on my lips is whether this mechanism can hanlde long comments.The question on my lips is whether this mechanism can hanlde long comments.The question on my lips is whether this mechanism can hanlde long comments.The question on my lips is whether this mechanism can hanlde long comments.

Create a Fresh Badge Logo! It's totally sweet. http://widgetsforfree.blogspot.com/2008/01/create-fresh-badge-logo.html

You guys are creating the future of Web 2.0, think big hear guys because you are it! Get on the phone with Facebook and work out a deal, they need you to compete with myspace and there foaming at the mouth for new social apps like this.

just testing...

I tried it, and I thought it would be better if the comments remain after I re-saved the post. Similarly, I wish I could use this with a Wiki. That will be super.

hello world this is cool

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真的

头像能不能不和名字放在同一行？而是完全居左或者居右，是不是要好一些

革命尚未成功，同志任需努力。期望做得更好，速度和美观都很重要！

颜色和样式不能调整，放到博客上像个补丁似的，却是有碍观瞻。希望能做适当调整啊

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so good luck !

I just found Linebuzz, and I think it's great. I would love for it to be more customizable: - I'd like to be able to have it open to the side of my post as opposed to over or below it, - I'd like to be able to change the colors, embed images in the background etc. - I'd like to be able to set attributes and format the appearance of the widget itself, as well as the comment boxes. Don't get me wrong, this product is sheer genius, but I think it would be better the more tweakable it is. Additionally, you will be able to build a much bigger network of people who care and use it that way, fwiw.

How about measuring BOTH? Like a lot of people, I want to be more productive. Like a lot of people, I want to work less. RescueTime allows me to understand when I'm most productive and exactly how much time I spend NOT getting stuff done (but still feeling busy).

Not QUITE the same thing. Jettask doesn't break out web sites, which is critical for a lot of people. Knowing that I've spent 30% of my time in Firefox is fairly meaningless. Jettask also doesn't transcend a single install. What about multiple machines? Where does your data go when you buy your new machine? There are some other (pretty damn cool) features that we have in the pipe that simply aren't possible with a local-only app. Oh, and we're FREE. And you instantly get any bug fixes / new features... Gosh, are we still talking about why web software is cooler than installable stuff? In 2007? ;-)

One Latte comming up. "Click"

The only difference is that, for most entrepreneurs, the invisible bridge isn't there and they fall screaming to their deaths.

Open source FTW :)

Interesting article in the NYT today that talks about how the cost of patent litigation is outstripping patent profit. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/business/yourmoney/15proto.html/partner/rssnyt?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin Not sure how I feel about patents... But I've never met an entrepreneur who was burned by NOT bothering to patent anything (though I've certainly read about 'em).

Awesome!

I agree this is oftentimes the case. It's pretty damn liberating to be small enough to not need a lot of structure. A wise man of Steele from MIT once said to me, "Yaw, that sounds great, but how does that work for BIG projects. Are you going to build an operating with 2-3 people?" He's dead on. But with the frameworks, libraries and turnkey hosting environments that are available nowadays, the percentage of startup ideas that can be done with a small team and a shoestring budget has gone WAY up. Three cheers for that!

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hows about a new GUI?

I hope one feature is a browser plug in that lets me linebuzz anything on the web. That way I am not limited to only sites with linebuz embedded in it. There is a site that does this with email pretty well.

just so long as you don't get rid of the good stuff. this is a powerful tool and I plan to use it with my composition classes at university in the fall.

What a slap in the face of GeoJoey! ;-)

Hey keep and eye out. I came up with an innovation project that I think will make it onto jobster.com soon!

As a born-and-bred American, I'm hesitant to throw out the byproduct of this "ease"... I think American Entrepreneurs feel a bit more entitled than our immigrant counterparts.

Very Good. If you have some questions or problems in your learning.you can write to dupola at gmail dot com. I will reply you in time.

这个中文名挺好听的。

Congrats on the launch- looks tight! The Linebuzz front page is about 8 billion percent cooler now that I can read it. It's actually a bit addictive. Man, your timespend is going to be frightening. I'm pretty sure all you do is code and visit Facebook. :-) Beta is VERY soon-- the app is pretty much done, we're just lagging a bit due to mediocre Rails sysadmin skillz. Ah, well.

Fantastic! It's working in Safari again!

Nice job！I like your service and new update.Especially "a comment restore tool". In the future, I also hope you can offer a tool to edit published comments,not just restore,delete,or change position.Anyway,thank to your work.

As an English user this makes the homepage MUCH more user friendly. Nice one!

Please ignore my earlier comment about losing my comments - they appeared again!

I installed a script "Bubble Tool Tips" from http://web-graphics.com/mtarchive/001717.php on my Blogger blog and LineBuzz stopped working. I decided I would much rather keep LineBuzz so deleted the other. Unfortunately I lost all my comments.

Where's the CSS for LBACmnt? The link to the comment that you place on my page is hard to see in my color scheme. Do I just create my own style for the class or is there a place to define it? I looked at advanced mode but did not see it there.

There comments aren't sychronized in my blog - http://rickdog.terapad.com/index.cfm?fa=contentGeneric.cwjqvereoypbgmib&pageId=108438. They didn't start showing up in the widget until I posted several, now it only shows the third and fourth even though I've added six. All the comments show up on the linebuzz page though - http://linebuzz.com/rickdog

this is a very cool widget, this widget is also available for myspace.com users so they can just have as much fun as facebook.com users

tap tap tap. That's the sound of my foot. ;-)

Hi do you have any solution now? Sorry to trouble you again.

This is pretty cool

Mark, any thoughts about a linebuzz application on F8? I could see it being pretty sweet to have my buzz on my facebook profile. Check facebook applications under "utility" - linebuzz would fit right in.

The problem you mentioned also exsits in a traditional BBS forum. Really a trade off....But one sometimes may need to edit a post in the case of typos, grammer mistakes, or an updated idea.

Thank you for the suggestions. #2 is straightforward. About #1, what about if someone has replied to your comment, should you still be able to edit it then? If so, the reply may not make sense or apply anymore. Maybe add the ability to edit comments unless someone has replied?

Could you please try to add the following two features? 1 Edit the comment that one himself/herself have posted before. 2 Everytime when I logged on Linebuzz.com and found some new comments, I had to link to the original page (my own blog site) to reply the new comments posted on it. But I think it is FAR more convinient if I can just reply them in the linebuzz.com site.

this is a comment

On blogger I have it working but I had a line post which is open somewhere when I got to the text after two days it is still saying that the text is being commented on by someone.

I cannot seem to put linebuzz into my Wordpress? Any suggestions? I get the code showing in the widget I am putting the code into.

Can't i use it in my Space? How?

Tks To Hard Work!

^_^ 大家怎么都到外国网站上用中文说话啊 ^_^

You better Watch out you better not cry, you better not pout i'm tellin' you why, Linebuzz is coming to town.

Thanks for reporting this issue. We'll look into this and get back to you soon.

Hello, there maybe a clash somewhere with your script and the TinyMCE Editor Javascript. I am using Simple Forum in my own hosted wordpress blog and it is not working right now, however i found it can be working well if i remove linebuzz javascript from my sidebar. I have check with Simple Forum developer, and he suggested me to check the compatibility between your javascript and TinyMCE. My url is http://clblog.net, please help, as i like both forum and linebuzz very much. Thank you.

Are there ways to access the CSS? I have an issue with the links on one of my pages because they take on the characteristics of the block links from a list. I can make changes on my end to compensate, but if you could point me to a way to just override or custom-name CSS link behavior, that would be swell.

Search: site:http://linebuzz.com Google got 330 results. Yahoo got 144 results. Msn got 6 results. 200705241646(UTC)

Heard about our story through hecaitou.net and really touched by your Professionalism. We‘ve changed our site into UTF-8, but still got some problems, such all comments will exist under Firefox but no trail of any comment under IE. Hope you can give us a hint. Thx and good luck! www.zen-tea.com

Search: site:http://linebuzz.com Google got 246 results. Yahoo got 120 results. Msn got 6 results. But www.linebuzz.com has no result return.

感觉上加上这东西后，我的页面变得不美观了。。好象整个侧栏都变颜色了。。不知怎么回事？ 我的地址：www.achonger.com

哦，是啊，昨晚我也发现了。

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Mcafee VirusScan? cool ID...-.-! amazing guys....linebuzz staff and hecaitou.. I rock,'cause I'm here

Come on,buddy~ we r looking forward to new version~~ BTW,Who can tell me how to remove the shadow image of the linebuzz box?

似乎在首页有说明的,linebuzz在页面加载完毕后再加载,不会拖慢速度...事实也证明如此

cool stuff! i heard about Buzz's Chinese version trouble,i really hope i could help somehow,but i don't have much free time(10 months before graduation:P) wish you luck buddy!:)) P.S: if it won't take too much time, i'll still be very glad to help :)

有两点希望： 1、不要拖慢页面加载速度 2、期待有中文界面

When LineBuzz meets Keyword, What's gonna happen? Maybe a new searching engine or a Tag cloud?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UagYcW6Fi_I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9OmVnjRG2Y

Cool!

"had us as dot-com of the day",what's mean?

这个东西太好玩儿啦。太好了，加入速度。

I get to know linebuzz from hecaitou.com about 2 days ago, but try to use it until I saw ur blog today. ( http://www.hecaitou.net/?p=1569 ) thank you for the hard work, hope ur guys fix the international problem, pass this craziest week back to normal :)

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have a try:)

Can sn space not be supported? When I tried to use a msn space URL, a dialog with "We encountered and error, please retry again later" always be shown.

Come on! Here is not Bastogne, and you are not the General McAuliffe. But it seems that linebuzz is really buzzing now. Looking forward to the update. Currahee!!!

http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?o=l&c=1&f=555555&u=www.linebuzz.com&u=&u=&u=&u=&r=6m&y=r&z=1&h=300&w=610 And I've submitted linebuzz to Google, yahoo and Msn.

辛苦啦！希望能尽快推出中文版，这样更容易让中文用户使用！

Internationalization, often called I18N (the 18 is the count of letters beween the leading I and the last letter N) takes the process of localization one step further. Rather than rework software, products and content for multiple languages and cultures, it makes sense to design and engineer them to accommodate various locales and languages. The Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) defines I18N as: "...the process of generalizing a product so that it can handle multiple languages and cultural conventions without the need for re-design. Internationalization takes place at the level of program design and document development." A sample of the tasks involved in internationalization include: * creating language standards and style sheets, * designing software with proper encoding and interface standards, * establishing efficient update processes and workflow for web content, * designing appropriate documentation standards and templates, * developing graphics to ensure cultural acceptability and to handle graphic text translation effectively.

加油呀！>_<

Mark, Thanks a lot. You are super quick in responding.

OK, I apologize, lagopi. I was q bit quick to judge. You aren't a whiner. You are, however, a much more content-worthy blogger to which Mark could have directed his readers. I'm just an idiot with a blogspot account and just enough programming knowledge to break stuff. Mark, I still appreciate the plug, but puh-leeze point your techno-savvy LineBuzzers to lagopi's cool blog--they won't be sorry! :)

What a big whiner, lagopi! heh heh heh... How 'bout if I mention YOUR blog on MY site? Would that make it better?? :) (And thanks for the plug, Mark! LineBuzz is the coolest.)

What?! You don't blog for the sheer love of blogging? I am outraged!

Mark, I have posted about linebuzz and installed it too. I would have been happier, had you mentioned about my blog. Anyway, never mind. Good luck.

真好玩

That has to do with the options being passed to the flash object...I think that when the object tag (or embed tag...I would actually have to look at the source) you would need to pass in: wmode=transparent This allows dom objects to float above flash movies.

Thanks mark. I will soon be posting about you. may be in 1 hr. Another thing i noticed in another blog: the comments disappear behind an embedded youtube video object. that makes the comments unreadable.

Ok Great. I removed it too and linebuzz works fine now. Mark, you are so good. Thanks. Now one question: Should my readers register in linebuzz in order to comment in my blog? BTW, I am writing a post on LineBuzz. Very exciting concept.

mark, thanks for your help. i removed that widget. still not working.

please check now. still not working.

i did as you said. my blog is at http://lagopi.blogspot.com. It doesn't seem to be working. shd my readers be registered users of linebuzz to post inline comments in my blog?

i guess this means no beers tonight, eh :-)

sleep is for wimps! You've got a superbly workable idea here, and you got to get some shut eye?

How do i join?

Thanks =)

Updated softare to support various characters è è which now display properly in the popup.

that can be my excuse in case the translation is not perfect :-) お休み！

yes!thanks!:D

Thanks Mark.

100shiki.com is not in Chinese.It's in Japanese ;) I wish the popup of linebuzz be response for 2bits character.

I forget some info: browser firefox 2.0, XP

Hi Mark First: my english is pure basic so, pardon me (i' m italian) Regarding the little bug with character and accents in the popup: i need the &egrave; but the encoding is this è (è)...

Well,i must be the second.o(∩_∩)o...

I will - this looks great so far! Will definitely think about putting it into my blog, nice job guys :)

Just ten minutes of use and first opinion is good... a solution for tumblr ;)

Mashable is the best... totally awesome!

Feedback ahey! Like it, blogging it in a minute - http://snipperoo.com

This is a really cool feature to comments.

bfb

This is looking great

Yes. Is this mentioned on the official site.

existing link can't be buzzed

this is a test www.testsite.com <A href="http://www.teachertube.com/signup.php">Sign Up</A>

Yes, but how often is the context going to be worthless garbage -- and what about comment spam?

Me neither! :-)

Can't wait for that launch!

I found out about it over at ProBlogger. Great stuff, I have been waiting for something like this!! Well done guys.

Check out who else is using it here: http://www.technorati.com/search/linebuzz

Can ordinary websites use it too?

What? My lame blog isn't newsworthy? ;-)

hi from techcrunch

Cool, because I <3 safari.

Kerry & Mark, I cannot see how to insert custom scripts like this for my typepad blog (http://virtualalumn.typepad.com/plu) maybe we can chat on google if you have a quick idea?

Excellent! That bug was annoying!

^_^ wow~~ thanks u reply me so quickly~ i will post your servers on my blog . http://www.showeb20.com

couldn't support chinese!!!!!!!

may we also suggest things by commenting inline? :-)

You're in the venture blog!

I'd avoid beginning an otherwise excellent blog post with such a cliche. My two cents.

Cool!! Thank you much, i'm going there now

Sorry I missed the meeting , sounds like it was fun. I really like this concept, what would it take to get posted on Typepads directory of widgets? Go Linebuzz!

Nice...moving quickly at 3am :-) by the way, i'm having trouble getting it working on my blogger account, with their default template (or it may be a case of me just not understanding where to click...) http://jheitzeb.blogspot.com/

It would be cool if you somehow aggregated comments from other blog entries that mention the same highlighted term... or something...just a hunch that aggregating in interesting ways could be a powerful feature

Can you make it so the "enter your comment" ui shows up as soon as you highlight the text? that would be more discoverable.. It took me a while to figure out i needed to click the "comment inline" hyperlink to get to this pop-up.

If LineBuzz comments aren't traditional, what are they? I looked up the antonym (opposite meaning for those of us who ditched or slept through English class) and came up with these: Antonyms: fresh, new, unusual, abnormal, unaccustomed, uncharacteristic, Bohemian, nonconforming, unconventional, untraditional, incautious, left-wing, liberal, progressive, radical, revolutionary, exotic, foreign, strange, uncommon, uncustomary, unorthodox, different, irregular, offbeat, unfamiliar Hmm, I really like nonconforming, radical, revolutionary and offbeat.

http://linebuzz.com/The%20Outlander/ 404'd. Clicked on the name of this guy who commented on my blog. Is the user gone? Name change? Or wha?

lollerskates. It's not Google keeping you hip... It's ME! (wow, THAT's scary). Congrats on the presentation last night. Now it's time to fill out your CAPTCHA. <sigh>

This works for me now in Safari! Great job!

Confirmed in Intel Safari! I guess tonight was the launch party! Great presentation tonight. And three cheers for LineBuzz!

next you'll be saying you don't know what lolcats are...

You make a really good point. Having worked at largish companies, I remember giving up countless weekends for a deadline which seemed so artificial. I did it to keep my boss happy, he/she did it to keep their boss happy and the CEO who owns .00000000000001% wants to keep the shareholders happy. With startups, your contribution (or lack of) is very noticable and measurable which is where some of that physic energy is probably derived.

wow, instant service :)

something like that... it's already in my buzz, but I think it would be cool if it was public, had a feed, etc...

Looks fixed.. Any reason why I can't reply to comments in the sidebar widget? this thread is getting big :)

My birthday!

I think engineers these days are a little jaded about fire drills after working at large companies. Places like Amazon or Microsoft demand that sort of thing constantly for things that don't personally matter to engineers (human lives vs. some profit that may or may not trickle down to your own stock options?). I do think entrepreneurship is a different story. With all the startups it seems like people are getting their psychic energy back.

If you google for 'trac hosted' or 'bugzilla hosted' there are a few companies offering hosted bug tracking -- never tried one of course, so can't endorse any...

I think locks on selections might not be properly released on errors. Repro: 1. Select text containing a link, try to comment on it. (get the error about not commenting on a link). 2. Select a subset of that text that does not contain a link. Get the error about someone else being busy commenting on that text. Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

I went to the "Get Buzz'd" page and entered my blog url (http://blog.gorgorg.org). If I try to hit enter to submit, it goes to this url: http://linebuzz.com/getBuzzd/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.gorgorg.org&advancedMode=0 and I get a "we encountered an error" popup (twice). If I click on the submit button it works fine.

Ah, I see why. I was thinking about the sort of orthogonal feature where you're essentially making your own linkblog by commenting on things (like digg or bluedot), in which case more context might be useful.

Weird...I have Safari 2.0.4 on my machine and I can't get it to work...I have an Intel Mac...are you using a PPC Mac (that's the only difference that I could think of...)

Sounds like fun. I'll see you there!

Why is there a 100 character limit? (cool stuff btw!)

And it's all reflectiony!

Are you SURE it works on Safari? A coworker was visiting this page and the javascript widget didn't load. Also, you should comment out the captcha stuff for a little while. Gonna be a while before someone writes a bot to spam this, and you're forcing an extra annoying step.

It's alright...it should be easy to fix...this is a great idea! I have been thinking of something very similar as of late, but I think this implementation is way better than the idea that I had.

Yep, that's exactly what happened down to the $%!& shouting. Power in numbers!

Bug News! Your captcha is below the fold!

I used BugHost.com http://www.bughost.com/ for a short time. Their Lite version is free up to 5 users and 1 project.

I've thought about this and part of the answer is not sweating the small stuff as much. Some bugs are forgiven especially at launch time as long as the overall experience is good. Another reason is the dev guy is quite seasoned now in releasing new products. Mark has learned to ward off basic bugs such as using " or ' in forms. He recognizes (ie hears it) my testing technique now of running my fingers across the keyboard when entering text into fields. I know this version will shake out bugs and that's ok because that's what Alpha is all about.

Are there any cheap hosted apps like Bugzilla? With a startup, the last thing I want to to is install/configure/support yet another app.

Congrats!

It's not usually a decision made on the merit of the skill set or area of expertise. It's more about who founded the company and what deal subsequent team members managed to cut.

Almost there... and we have a few exciting new features.

Hey Glenn, I've noticed you're tagging your own text. I'm thinking of introducing a tag-interesting-text feature into Linebuzz. Let me know what you think. Regards, Mark.

Congrats!!!

I think the nature of the application is something to consider too. An avionics system for a 747 is a little different from most consumer web apps. With a web application, if you release an accidental bug, you fix it and all users instantly have the newest version of the code the next time they visit the website. It's tough to patch the software on a 747, especially after the bug has manifested itself. :( Having said that, the one thing that we pride ourselves on is a big focus on QA. I think you know our QA director managed large teams at companies like Symantec and she built the BBC's digital television QA lab in London from the ground up. So when we release software, web app or no, it usually works. :)

Aren't you a property _developer_? ;)

My bad. You're absolutely right. Just to clarify, the meta description is used as a fallback if the searched term doesn't appear in the text on the page. Good point about optimizing for appearances. Probably worth a blog entry of it's own.

We're working on this. :)

Don't be. London is built to handle terrorism way better than most other cities. You'll notice no bins in the tube station, camera's on every street, more cops per square mile than most cities. It's all a legacy of the IRA era. I was a block from the Admiral Duncan pub when it got nail bombed in '99 by a neo-nazi. We heard the thump of the bomb going off and seconds later a bobby was running towards us shouting RUN!! That was scary. But within minutes the whole area was cordoned off with a medivac chopper on the scene and it was bustling with police and emergency services. The bomber was arrested the same night from CCTV footage. London's been dealing with terrorism in one form or another for decades. Al Qaeda is just the latest blip and, so far in London they're a lot less sophisticated than the IRA. Mark.

If you're in the Canary Wharf area, check out Fish (a restaurant) on the waterfront for some simple but great seafood - and if the weather's nice, which it should be this time of year, sit outside and enjoy the view. If you're feeling flush, check out Ubon (by Nobu) about 100 meters down from Fish and up the stairs. There's also a really cool health club in the same vicinity as Ubon - can't remember the name - but it has the most awesome spa with river stones etc.. Also, take a walk in Hyde Park along the serpentine at around 9pm at night. It should still be light and there's a nice buzz in the area. If you want the very best tequila bar in London, check out Cafe Pacifico in Covent Garden (the barman's name is Pablo and he's Columbian) or it's smaller but vibier sister bar, La Perla in the same area. Can you tell I miss London? ;) Mark.

Hi Reson8rs, Definitely. LineBuzz works on any web page, in any browser and on any operating system. We don't require any browser plugins or extensions and we aren't tied to blogs or blog hosting platforms. So to answer your question, LineBuzz would definitely work on a wiki. In fact you've given me an idea. We run our own LineBuzz wiki at wiki.linebuzz.com. I think I'll install LineBuzz there to make it more interactive. I'm the founder of LineBuzz, so I'm obviously not an objective source of info. But what I love about our product is that it adds context to a comment. Rather than having to re-describe which part of a blog entry or web page you're referring to, people know exactly what you're referring to when you post an inline comment. Regards, Mark Maunder.

I scored 5 on the test. So I'm almost a borderline asshole. I think I'd love to meet someone who gets more than 15 - just out of morbid curiosity.

We are keeping all the good features. It's things like mandatory registration that we're pulling out.

Hi tellio! Watch for a major release in the coming weeks. We're doing a big site redesign and adding some features that I think are going to make a lot of people happy. Let us know if you have any comments or suggestions, either here or email me at mark at linebuzz.com. Mark Maunder LineBuzz Founder & CEO

You mean I've been checking this site daily and you're not into blogging? WTF?! Blog more! Esp about UI design as it relates to startups. You've given us a ton of good advice which it's taken a while to implement, but the next version of LB has much of your designy goodness in it.

It'd be interesting to chat about hosting services in this context. Different sector, but similar issues.

I think the most intriguing dictionary definitions of art I've seen is: "Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature." ...which makes an oil rig a work of art.

LOL!

My 16 year old nephew started a summer internship with us a week ago. I'm blown away by how much energy this kid has. He's written 3 guides on how to install LineBuzz on various blogging platforms (see wiki.linebuzz.com). I haven't seen many teen interns in the software industry. Sure it takes a few years to become a programmer, but I think high energy and a strong desire to learn and prove themselves makes teens a great and underutilized resource.

Great idea Tanya! There are many sites out there that could use some basic tweaking of their link structure, url format, etc. In case you haven't already, check out www.webmasterworld.com. It's a brilliant SEO and web marketing forum - one of the few. Mark.

Hey Deleriad. Welcome to LineBuzz! I dig the Pilates of the Caribbean. :) MarkM.

Hi Tanya! Your new site looks really great. Congrats on the launch!! I love the fact that it's so easy to navigate and that you include actual prices. It's such a pain to have to talk to a sales person for an hour before they give you any actual pricing information. Mark.

..in any language.

Puts things in perspective doesn't it.

You're an Alaskan living in Seattle. That makes you almost as much an immigrant as me my friend.

Thanks! I'm going to buy a book today and start learning to read Chinese. It will probably take a long time before I can have a real conversation with you, but I'm really looking forward to the challenge of learning the language. Mark.

Congrats guys, the Jobster portal on Facebook is looking really great! Just one think I noticed - the word [test] appears in the app name when I click the 'get started' link on the portal. But other than that, it rocks! :) Mark M.

Now I get to start tappping. Where's my RescueTime Beta?! ;-) Seriously, I can't wait to find out how unproductive I really am.

Very interesting article Nick.

Purple and Yellow? That's got to be illegal somewhere!

Hi! I hope you're well. :) We finally rolled out our I18N release. I hope you don't mind me using your blog to test Chinese on the new version of LineBuzz. Feel free to delete this. Regards, Mark Maunder.

...is now complete. :)

..and having said that, what the heck am I doing writing about it here. Oh well.

Good idea. I'll add it. Yeah, lavender does get a little old doesn't it. :( The next version will have a widget customization wizard. We're hoping to have it out in a week or 2. It's, understandably, one of our most requested features. To answer your question about LBACmnt, we dynamically inject a stylesheet into the page with our basic classes. LBACmnt is not one of them though. It's a class simply used for tracking purposes. One of the things it's used for is to figure out if you're trying to comment over text that already has an inline comment. BTW, I've been thinking about adding an API to give developers like yourself a bit more control. But I'll probably hold off until the feature set has stabilized. So perhaps in a month or two. Mark.

Hi Sue, Please don't blog about this just yet, but we're about to release a new version that includes a comment rescue tool for exactly this problem. Regards, Mark.

Hi Rick! Welcome to LineBuzz. Looks like you found a way to style your comment text. You can use advanced mode and use standard CSS properties in the comment: and commentMouseOver: sections. We're going to be introducing a wizard interface soon to help make this a LOT easier. Sorry that it's a little clunky right now, but LineBuzz is very very new, and we're still playing catchup with the amount of interest we're getting. We're rolling out a big internationalization release in the next 48 hours. Regards, Mark Maunder LineBuzz Founder & CEO.

That's so funny, a friend called me 30 seconds ago suggesting the same thing. :)

Sorry RanyingWei but we don't support MySpace. LineBuzz manipulates the document object model of your page in order to capture your selected text and to re-inject comments into your page. The only way to do this effectively is using the Javascript DOM API. Unfortunately there are a few sites out there that do not support Javascript. MySpace is one of them. The hosted version of Wordpress is another one. But there are many blog platforms that do support Javascript, including TypePad and Blogger.com, two of the largest blogging platforms. Regards, Mark Maunder.

No worries Karl. The new version will be here soon. :)

Yes. We'll get around to it as soon as we roll out I18N.

I run mac and pc side by side. I'm a dev and do testing on both, but I also enjoy looking at the world through both the XP and OX X lense. It would scare me to dump windows entirely because that's what 86% of our users use and I want to see what they see.

This'll give you a backlink from linebuzz.com to tonywright.com on the phrase Tony Wright. Now lets just hope google hits linebuzz before the comment scrolls off the page. :)

Hi ZenTea, We're working hard on getting this release out for you guys. We've actually been doing a bit of testing on your website. The next release will support GB2312 and the extended GB18030 character sets. We hope to have it available for you soon. Regards, Mark Maunder.

Nice. That second track - I thought he sounded familiar - and then I realized Gavin Rossdale is the lead singer of Bush. Very cool.

http://www.100shiki.com/ has a dot-com of the day. They feature a site a day as I understand it. I don't speak Japanese though, so I might be mistaken.

Hi Kevin, We've fixed this issue in our latest release and are rolling it out late this week. Thanks again, Mark.

I had to Google that. My history is terrible. :)

You're nuts! :) I'm watching our weblog and it's scrolling very quickly. Just an update, we're still working on that release and are still targeting this evening for release. I'll let you know when it's released or if the plan changes. Mark. ps: If you're wondering why the first email you got said this reply was from someone else, I was testing something for another user who reported a bug, and I forgot to switch userid's on our system. I deleted the old comment and replied again as myself. Oooops.

You have total control and can delete any comments you don't like.

Please let us know if you experience any slowness. We've specifically built linebuzz for speed. Your comments only load when a user clicks on commented text. When the page loads, we send a series of numbers to and from our servers. We don't send large chunks of text when the page loads. So it should be very fast. Again, please let us know if you experience any slowness. Mark.

What we've found is that most bloggers get one or two pieces of text highlighted per blog entry, and then those pieces of text get lots of comments. So it generally stays pretty clean I think.

Mark has directed his readers accordingly. ;) ..and programmers make some of the worst bloggers. Hell, look at me!

Done! :)

Thanks Jen. I think one of your friends mentioned that there was a bug on your site - they couldn't post a comment. I suspect they're using Safari because we're aware of a minor issue and we're working thru the weekend to roll out a fix along with some internationalization stuff. Just wanted to let you know. Mark.

Hi Kevin, We're looking into this now. Regards, Mark Maunder.

:) We're going to be chatting about some of our new bloggers over the coming weeks. I'll be sure to mention yours.

...which also explains why the widget text was all uppercase. :) We've never had a site that uses text-transform before, so we're overriding that style in the widget now.

Nice one Jen! I wrote LineBuzz. I'd never even heard of the text-transform property until now. It makes me glad we just opened it up and let our authors add any supported CSS property. I think we need to do more of that. Maybe a Javascript API? Regards, Mark Maunder

Boa vinda a LineBuzz!

I think there are some businesses that require vast amounts of capital to get off the ground and others that you can bootstrap on a few extra bucks a month in hosting fees. Either way I think it's very important to validate your business idea as far as possible before raising outside funding. Once you do get funding, it becomes much more time, energy and money consuming to switch to another business model. I don't think it's wrong to switch - many businesses start as one thing and learn from their customers they should be doing another thing. Just do it while you're nimble. Mark.

Congratulations guys!!

welcome to LineBuzz! :)

Welcome to LineBuzz! :)

We use prototype.js for LineBuzz and effects.js on the LineBuzz.com site for some of the animation, and it is very cool!

Welcome to LineBuzz! :)

OK, it works now. Welcome to the LineBuzz family! :)

We're here to help. I noticed another problem on your blog. I just posted an entry and it didn't appear. I'm working on that now. Leave it installed so I can debug the problem. I think it's because I posted next to the Google AdSense code. It should work so I'm fixing it. I'll let you know when I'm done. Mark.

OK, I found it. You have a script installed that is not behaving well and is probably affecting other scripts and widgets on your page. The script is the following: <script src='http://tinyurl.com/2b5ojn' type='text/javascript'></script> The reason it's behaving badly is it hooks into the onload event of your page and removes any other scripts that use onload. Here's the line of code that it uses: window.onload = ppp_init; That prevents anything else from loading after your page has loaded. My suggestion is that you remove this script from your page. That will probably make lineBuzz work and anything else that relies on window.onload will also work. Regards, Mark.

checking...

OK I found the problem. Another script on your page is causing an error. You might not have noticed it before because you don't have a javascript debugger activated in your browser. But I have one and it pops up an error in Internet Explorer and Firefox. You should fix it because users who visit your site who do have a javascript debugger get an error that pops up. The line that is causing the error is directly below the line that starts with: function ws_results The line number is 2692. I suggest you either remove the script or fix it. That will make LineBuzz work. LineBuzz doesn't execute because that script stops javascript from executing in the browser. I hope that helps. Let us know if there's anything more we can do. Mark

checking...

Hi, I just looked at the source of your blog and I don't see linebuzz installed. Install it, then reply to this comment and I'll take a look and make sure it's working. Mark.

Just saw this now. :) Yup, coffee for us.

Come work for us! We like insomniacs. :)

Good question. I'm an immigrant myself. I moved here in 2003 and live in Seattle. Historically the US has benefited greatly from immigrants. Think Einstein and Godel. The neo-cons are turning away brilliant foreign minds with this xenophobic policy and culture they are propagating. Lets hope it changes with the next election.

Hi, Visit the page at http://linebuzz.com/myBuzz/ Register, and then go to the getBuzz'd page and get the javascript to install on your blog. Regards, Mark.

Testing from mark 1

Testing comments.

Welcome to LineBuzz! :)

Make that Japan. *oops*

*CHUCKLE!* Unicode and UTF8 support coming up!

I used to check my PageRank obsessively until I noticed a gradual decline in the correlation between my traffic and pagerank. For about 4 months I had the pagerank greyed out on my google toolbar, and was getting a ton of SE traffic from them. Things like the Hilltop algorithm have superseded PR I think.

Thanks for the mention Snipperoo! Let us know if you need anything from us or have any feature suggestions. We're here to help. PS: Very cool blog btw.

I have a friend who's working in Dubai and several who have been there. I'm dying to visit. I hear it's a pretty incredible city. Mark.

Same here. Most days I'm really frustrated with the current administration and how they're handling things. Then other days I'm reminded of Sept 11 for whatever reason and how I felt in the immediate aftermath - kind of like "lets do something - anything - lets just kick some ass". So I have a sense of why we rushed back into Iraq. But then, I'm no leader of a superpower and you'd think things would have been thought through a bit more. Mark.

Hi Sue, Great blog, and I see you're one of the first to use our customization features since we launched yesterday. I thought I'd comment on methods to increase traffic via SEO. I used to run a job search engine which was one of Time Mag's top 50 websites of '05. We provided a search, but simultaneously got a lot of traffic from the non-vertical search engines like Google. Bloggers generate a lot of new content daily which search engines love and that's one of the keys to promoting any website to the SE's. And you've mentioned that in your article. But another key is letting the search engines know about that content. Self proclaimed SEO gurus will tell you all sorts of things, like 'your page must validate with the W3C or you'll get ignored'. It's all poppycock. SE's are in the business of finding valuable and interesting pages and not all of those have been optimized. But those valuable and interesting pages do have certain characteristics llike, they usually have a lot of backlinks from high quality websites like Digg.com, Slashdot, Techcrunch, etc. So - you probably know this - but one of the keys is to let high quality websites know about you and get them to link to you. Another key is making sure that those high quality sites are talking about the same stuff you are. Never, ever, use link farms, link exchange programs and anything else that gaurantees you results and charges you money. Sure, spend money on pay per click ads if you want, but never spend money on SEO. Search engines are in the business of protecting themselves against commercial SEO and you may end up getting penalized or banned. Hope that helps. I noticed you've got the comment bubble configured to be quite narrow. You may want to expand that a bit. Just a suggestion. Regards, Mark Maunder Founder & CEO LineBuzz.com

I think so. :) I'm working on a fix for your site. We don't officially support chinese characters yet, but we have about 4 chinese bloggers now, so don't worry, we're going to take care of you guys. I'll email you when that fix is live. Mark Maunder.

Let me know what they are (in english) and I'll fix them for you asap! We give our bloggers personal attention here. :)

Hi, I don't speak Italian (is it Italian :) but welcome to LineBuzz. :)

Um, holy crap! I now know why Valium exists.

If you're commenting a blog post, my guess is it's not garbage. We use a captcha (an image with numbers) to prevent spam and have some secret sauce in the server side code to back up the captcha.

Testing if we can rock Simplified Chinese.

The Sun Rocks. If you don't know why, then - ahem - it's the great articles silly.

The new captcha is now live - just in case you didn't notice. :)

Yes, LineBuzz works on any web page as long as the text is contained in DIV or P tags. And that's almost always the case. We are just marketing it to Blogs because we love the Blogsphere and it's the most interesting use case.

Hi Guys. Welcome to LineBuzz! :)

Hi Neil, We are putting together a TypePad guide, but here's a quick summary of how to do this: 1. Log into Typepad 2. Select your weblog 3. Click the "Design" tab 4. Click "Manage your saved designs" on the right under design shortcuts 5. Select the checkbox of your current design and click the "Convert to advanced" button. (You can undo advanced later because it clones the design) 6. Confirm you want to convert to advanced. 7. Your new advanced template will be in the list. Click 'Apply' on the right of the advanced template. 8. You should now see a list of templates you can edit. 9. Click on sidebar and edit that. 10. Place the javascript directly below the text that says "<!-- sidebar -->" at the top. You can also put it lower down if you'd like, below the <MTBlogIfArchives> I hope that helps. We will put together a guide soon with screenshots. We're also hoping to get this automated with typepad. Regards, Mark.

Thanks daodao. We're working on it. :)

And late tonight we got our first Chinese user. Welcome daodao! :) We haven't tested I18N much, but we'll get there.

hehe - but of courze.

Looking forward to seeing this!

We are here to serve you guys!! Please please please give us all your feedback, good and bad. Kerry is in charge of our QA and takes it very seriously (she ran QA teams at BBC and Symantec). You can email her directly at kerry@linebuzz.com and we'll roll your ideas into the product as fast as we can.

Working on this too and we're releasing something awesome this evening that'll save you having to scroll up/down between the "comment inline" link and the text you want to comment.

We already give you the ability to customize the way comment links look and the bubble that pops up. Will add widget customization too. We're also working on a wizard interface on the Get Buzzd page so you don't have to know CSS.

Also added this to our bug tracker. Good idea.

Great idea. Just added it to our bug tracker.

Just to clarify, it doesn't matter where your readers post the comments. They will show up on the home page, blog entry page or archive pages as long as you have the widget installed. This was a hard problem for us to crack without affecting server performance, but we've done it and it works.

Tomorrow. :)

I'm aware that the captcha is hard to read. Funny story. When I was giving the presentation on Wednesday, I couldn't read the captcha and someone in the audience shouted that what I thought was an 'i' was actually an R. We're fixing this with a release this evening.

We've fixed this. Anything inside a DIV, P tag will now work. So blog platforms like Xanga that put blog entries inside TD tags instead of DIV's now work fine.

Hi Vivek, Sorry I didn't give you a heads up. We did a presentation to a small group of fellow entrepreneurs in Seattle on Wednesday and a Seattle times reporter snuck in and covered it on Thurs. Then Seattle PI picked up on it on Friday. We're officially launching Monday and I was going to let all our blogger friends know then.

Joe, I set my test Blogger account up with your template and I've figured out where you need to put the linebuzz javascript: Put it directly below the following two lines: <!-- Begin #sidebar --> <div id="sidebar"> Make sure you get it below the <div id="sidebar">. You can put it further down if you want it below the "About me" stuff. That will make it appear in the side bar and take up less real-estate. Mark.

It's on the page but it's appeared right at the top and is taking up the full page. Can you move the javascript so it's above the "Links" on the sidebar? It'd probably look a heck of a lot better there. You could also email me the template and I'll insert it, or let me know which one you have selected and I'll reproduce it with my blogger account and guide you.

Fixed the bug (and it's in production now). Your first login wasn't updating your last access time. I guess we hadn't tested what happens if you access a users profile right after they register. :)

Interesting - completely agree!

I'm looking into why your last online time is ridiculously huge on your profile btw.

Hi Joe, Quit giving away our features before we release them! Actually Ryan and Tony suggested this last night. It'll be implemented before we launch on Monday. Thanks for the further validation though. Mark.

Thanks Tony. This is now fixed.

I'll go with bohemian.

Duh. I screwed up the link to the Seattle Times. Fixed it now.

It's funny, during the presentation I made fun of you Tony and then it came time to type in the captch and I couldn't tell if a letter was an I or an L, and someone in the audience said it's an R, and I couldn't believe it when it was. This captcha SUCKS right now so I'm going to shop for a better one starting this weekend, once I have some more serious issues out of the way. It's just the image quality that I can't take. Also I'll probably reduce the number of letters for now to something like 3, and then increase it if that becomes a problem.

Testing something.

Looking into this now.

Thanks Ryan! I'll sort out Safari tomorrow first thing and we'll be implementing that little feature you mentioned asap!

I like terminator two!!

Heavy days! One more summer and I think you'll be right back up there.

"I'm not" should be "I'm now". Typo.

OK, so it's 1am and I think I've nailed this bug. Lets see if it worked. :) Laurel your whole blog is inside a single DIV. The original LB algorithm considered blocks of text to be anything inside a div. I'm not looking at DIV's, P elements and H1,2,3 tags. I didn't do this originally because of performance but I found a faster way to do a few other things so I can do these other elems now. The nice side effect is that users can edit their blog entries without losing their comments, as long as any paragraphs that received comments remain unchanged.

Ahem. Of course I know what that is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcat

Our developer was too lazy to implement that. ;) Good idea!

OK will do. BTW, the widget doesn't work on your blog, but I have my DOM inspector out now and I've figured out why. All your blog entries are wrapped in a single DIV. Looks like paragraphs are in P elements though so I can use that and am working on something now.

Weren't you a Ruby automation god last time I checked?

Hi Laurel, I tried to repro the bug on the getBuzzd form and couldn't in IE or FF. But I added in something that may fix it anyway. Let me know what browser you're using and if it's fixed. Thanks!!

Homebrew?! It's an enterprise ready paradigm shifting, life recontextualizing world changer! Well almost. Give me a week to iron out the kinks.

LOL! Happy Birthday LT!! (again!)

Psychic energy. I like that. Thats exactly how I feel working on my own thing - like I'm psychically energized. I think the boom in startups is much better for the Internet because the pace of innovation is accelerating.

So another widget that shows "What I'm Buzzing" (not sure if that's the best phrase) but stuff that you've highlighted and commented on in other peoples blogs that have linebuzz installed. That's brilliant. How much do you charge for these ideas of yours? ;) I'm totally going to do this. First I got bugs to fix.

Thanks Laurel. I'm working on both of these right now.

Thanks for the mention Tony. :) Perl and I have a love hate relationship. It's possibly the fastest loosely typed language for web apps. But then you invent a new OO syntax every time you write a new app. And the Unicode support drives me to drink.

I mean to add... do you think we should increase it?

I guess the idea is you're adding context to your comments and you don't need a whole paragraph of context. Also, once you select text and comment it you prevent someone else from selecting a subset of that text and commenting only that. They are forced to reply to your larger selection. So they lose finer granularity of context. (I can't believe I just said granularity of context.)

Cool, thanks Tony. What version of Safari? I have an apple next to me as I write this and it works perfectly in Safari 2.0.4. We actually used 3 undocumented features in safari to implement this so if it's a different version, then I'm not surprised.

We found over 30 companies that are providing some sort of web annotation, but they all require you to install something in your browser. One of them makes you use their servers as a sort of proxy. The problem with client-side stuff is that only those readers who have installed the plugin see the comments or annotations. With LineBuzz, you install once and everyone has it.

Thanks Ryan! Lots of bugs to fix, but the fundamentals work I think. Why don't you join us on Wednesday evening at the Capitol Hill Library Seattle Tech Startup meeting conf. We're demo'ing it there there's a great pub everyone hangs out at afterward.

Congrats Tim! You're the first one besides Kerry and I to install LineBuzz on your blog!!

Please add any bug reports to this comment thread. Thanks!

I just installed LineBuzz on our changelog page. We have a TODO list and changelog, so if you'd like to add any info to TODO's or info to bugs, you can just add them as inline comments.

ZOMFG It's RYAN!! Thanks dude. Tony just mentioned that too. In fact Kerry mentioned it before we launched and I think I might have shouted that it doesn't matter and I'm not %$# fixing it. Typical dumb dev. I'll fix it. :)

It's like hitchhikers guide to the galaxy says: DON'T PANIC!!

Funny I was thinking about this a few days ago. I'd pay $5 a month for that. Actually (now I remember) I was thinking Google should add it to their office suite. I suspect most of the companies that use Google's office suite are like us - small very techie startups.

Notice the threading. ;) Thanks Tony!!

Welcome to LineBuzz. This is the very first comment ever posted. :) YAAAAAAYYYY!!!!