Quickies: 16 MB m130 & i705, MyHandEmail, Palm, PIC
Tony Rudenko's PalmPilotUpgrade.com has just added the Palm m130 and i705 to their line of 16 MB upgrades. It costs $120. -Tony
MyHandEmail will be shutting down as of March 31. It's an AvantGo channel that allows users to send and receive e-mail from any POP3 account. The owners are accepting offers to buy the service. -Ed
Palm Inc. filed papers on Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission that will allow it to occasionally sell up to $200 million in common and preferred stock and other securities. This doesn't mean the company intends to do so immediately, or even that it will sell the entire amount. This is just notification that it might at some point in the future. The company would to use the proceeds for general corporate purposes, including capital expenditures, and working capital. -Ed
In an effort to decrease bandwidth use and in response to user requests, the PIC AvantGo channel and wireless version no longer lists the last ten reader comments. Of course, these are still available on the main version of the site. -Ed
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Darn it all
Carl Brooks
http://www.palmloyal.com
RE: Darn it all
RE: Darn it all
RE: No more comments on the Mobile version
Did you actually find the comments on the mobile channel useful? We were only showing the last few that were posted. They weren't threaded so we got complaints that they were hard to follow. Before you ask, there is no way we're going to be able to display all the comments on the mobile channel. On some articles, they add up to 200 K, which I'm sure is far more than most of you have allocated for the entire AvantGo channel. So we thought that this would be a good way of reducing bandwidth usage a lot while affecting the minimal amount of people.
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RE: No more comments on the Mobile version
Phil
RE: No more comments on the Mobile version
Now here's the kicker, I found that I only looked at the PIC channel on my Palm about once a week, but I would always synchronize it, sometimes twice a day.
So yes, I read the comments on the mobile version, but I rarely read the mobile version anyways come to think of it.
I guess I'm one of the major bandwidth hogs here. :)
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RE: No more comments on the Mobile version
Please consider doing something like this.
Thanks
OK, Comments will be back April 1, 2002
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RE: No more comments on the Mobile version
RE: No more comments on the Mobile version
Someone said: Why not cut it from 10 down to 5 comments?
Well, that is rather short-sighted...
If people are going to re-sync to get the comments, they will just do so more often, because of the lower number shown, in turn leeping the bandwidth requirements the same IF NOT MORE (since there are only 5 comments, there could actually be people who think they are going to miss a troll's comments so might sync more than double the time).
I am all for Ed cutting this out if it means keeping PIC free AND up and running!
I think I speak for most of us here in that we do NOT want PIC to shut down because of high cost in maintaining the user comments on the Avantgo Channel.
(I know, I know, where did I get the nerve to speak in your behalf, sorry...)
RE: No more comments on the Mobile version
Why can't you set the Avantgo caching of PIC to once a day or something. Let Avantgo cache the data from PIC once a day instead of a per sync basis.
You'd trade off up to the minute news for lots more comments and plummenting the bandwidth even more.
MyHandEmail Sucked Anyway--No mobile comments!!!
RE: No mobile comments!!!
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Disable posting from mobile device as well
I suggest that you watch the quality of the user comments for a few weeks. If you see a lot of repitition, then remove the capability of users to post comments from AvantGo. The potential problem is that since an AvantGo user cannot see other users' comments, he won't know if his post is a near repeat of an existing comment.
Disable posting from mobile device as well - LOL
As if THIS has EVER stopped the morons / trolls from writing repetitive, already existing comments while on their desktop and being able to read all the comments.
Hahaha, thanks for the laugh.
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No more comments on the Mobile version
Yeah, I know. I'm probably weird.
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