Outsight Interactive - Comments

Hi Denise! I'm a bit late to

Mina — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:49:00 -0500

Hi Denise! I'm a bit late to the party, but I like the way you break down the social impetus for the bra status trend. I definitely agree that people love to be "in the know" because that's the beauty of memes, right? Early adopters can wear a badge of pride by being meme-savvy, and then everyone else begins to follow suit because they want to appear meme-savvy too. I surmise it's about using the language of the interwebs, and conveying through simple cues that you are Internet Cool. The use of acronyms such as FML, MLIA/MLIG, tl;dr come to mind.

It really is a pity though that nothing proactive came out of the bra trend. My biggest question is wanting to know who came up with it, and how it spread like it did. I know for a fact that Facebook tracks commonly used words and phrases in status updates. I bet they could do the same thing and see how the bra trend spread geographically. Major marketing data to be had and sold [Insert Dr. Evil laugh].

I often detect

Denise — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:10:00 -0500

I often detect inconsistencies in my internal state, I wish the fix were so easy... :-)

Hey Shena, Thanks for the

Denise — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:05:17 -0500

Hey Shena,

Thanks for the comment. It sounds like we had the same experience of it. The speed was phenomenal. And like you, I am wondering how something like this could be done for a good cause (or truth be known, for a client - we are in the biz after all).

Its such a fine line, though, you can't dampen the fun or it won't go anywhere. Very interesting to think about none-the-less. I am curious now to see if we will see it circle back through. Aya mentioned late last night that it was moving through Tokyo.

Great comments! I'm so glad

Shena Lowe — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:28:09 -0500

Great comments!

I'm so glad you touched upon so many of the elements I was thinking about yesterday. I felt similar confusion late Thursday, then TMI over some of the colors, then driving home and discussing it with a friend a sense of loss for the whole thing, for what this type of hype could have been. Funny how I haven't seen anything move that fast through Facebook in a long time (since the de-friend for a Whopper) and it was more about show your sexy side than doing anything productive...."Where's the beef?!"

Before bed, I wanted to type "PEACE" and see if that would spread around the globe and by morning my friend Lisa in Sweden would have the same status. She's Black, btw.

Thanks to "4 Guys From

Asif Hafeez — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:36:10 -0400

Thanks to "4 Guys From Rolla". Excellent solution provided.

Hey it worked!!! even with

Sam — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:02:52 -0400

Hey it worked!!! even with GUIDs!!! i had a function that takes the comma delimited and convert it to a temp table then i would JOIN the function to my query. this worked fine for numbers and guid IN SQL -- although i modified the function to work with GUIDs( parse also '{' and '}' and ',') it worked fine even with guids in sql but i get a cast error(string to guid) in my application although im getting the correct result set in sql and are passing the right paramater types(string/nvarchar). A next alternative i was thinking of was to create a temp table and populate it with the guids(im getting the guids from a chklistbox) maybe call a looped insert statement to populate it then use the temp table in my query either JOIN it or 'Select IN(Select Guids from @temptable)' but i wont have to go thru all of this!!! thanks to this post :) much appreciated!!!

My mistake... SELECT

Athadu — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:31:08 -0400

My mistake...

SELECT convert(varchar(100), Value) FROM dbo.Split('ListItem1, ListItem2',',')

works perfectly - i was trying to be too smart and put in too many quotes.

Thank you for the excellent solution.

Regards
Athaud

Trying to use this for a

Athadu — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:29:13 -0400

Trying to use this for a char based values as in:

SELECT convert(varchar(100), Value) FROM dbo.Split('''ListItem1'', ''ListItem2''',',')

doesn't seem to work.

Eventhough the above statement by itself works and returns back a temp table with two 'listitems' - when used within another select statement with the IN clause doesn't seem to work.

Any ideas why?

Thank you

Athadu

Do you think this is what

ffxi gil — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:20:11 -0400

Do you think this is what Sun Tzu was talking about, a board game?

As a Westerner I can say I've never heard of the game either, but I'm keen to find an online version so I can start learning. Thanks for the heads up!

Great observations, Jon.

Denise — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:32:55 -0400

Great observations, Jon.

Luke W shows those kinds of treatment options for primary and secondary actions at the bottom of the following: Web Application Form Design

One thing I'd be aware of is

Jon Reil — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:59:35 -0400

One thing I'd be aware of is how the order of these buttons translates to users that have to tab through your interface. One would think that you would want the action item to be the first item chosen as it would more than likely be their preferred choice.

One other question that comes to mind is: Should these both be portrayed visually as buttons? Or should the primary action be a button and the secondary action be a link... so [OK] and then cancel ?

Just a couple more interesting things to think about in these somewhat never-ending debates.

That's filthy cool guys! No

Aaron Johnson — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:29:00 -0500

That's filthy cool guys! No screenshots though? Show it off!

I wonder how well this would

Mike Bosch — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:45:16 -0500

I wonder how well this would scale? I would imagine it is better to first create a table variable in the local procedure and then use that table in the actual WHERE clause? Otherwise, wouldn't the function have to be evaluated (and re-split) for each row in the table?

Congrats on the victory

corey byrnes — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:08:44 -0500

Congrats on the victory guys! Well-deserved. Hope all is well with you all.

Wow! You and the 4 guys

Siddus Vious — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:52:02 -0500

Wow! You and the 4 guys should get some sort of an award for this! This has made life so much more stress free!