Open The Dialogue

For my latest question to be answered, I’m wondering why I can’t select any sort of “I don’t know anyone here” option on LinkedIn when it comes to fellow students at schools I’ve gone to, like I can with companies I’ve worked at.

The always-awesome Mario Sundar already responded to my short video over on Flickr, stating that he’s sent the suggestion to the production folks. Let’s see what happens! (it’s like we switched their coffee to Folgers or something…)

Well ladies and gents, we’re already up to Volume 2 of the How Not To Be Annoying On The Internet series, and this time I’m addressing the issue of the search box clearing itself out after you click “Search” on Technorati, versus not clearing itself out on any other Search Engine out there.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I have always found it useful having the contents of the search box still there and it strikes me as odd that it isn’t on Technorati. Just my $.02. As for the “annoying,” that’s just a simple way to round up the myriad frustrations, oddities, and other sorts of things that strike us all on the Web every day, so please don’t take it personally, anyone who we might happen to feature here!

Okay, here’s the first installment of what I hope to make a regular occurrence here at Open the Dialogue, and I’m officially calling it “How Not To Be Annoying On The Internet.” [Thanks, Chris!] Of course, HNTBAOTI as an acronym doesn’t exactly roll off your tongue, but whatever. We’ll be using Flickr Video to offer up sub-90 second videos / screencasts (and yes, that’s a GOOD limit to have), and the first volume is one of my personal favorites, turning off the nifty autoplay feature. It’s like turning off the keytones on your cellphone 30 seconds after purchasing a new phone, except…well, it’s just not on a cellphone.

In any case, without further ado, here we go.

Hope you enjoyed this installment, and we’ll hope to bring you more soon!

[ed: and before you ask, I did the screencast using SnapzProX on my iMac, and converted the file down to Web-ready using Apple's QuickTime Pro. The original file version wasn't working on upload but the converted, m4v file, did, so give that a whirl if you're unable to get .mov files working at first.]