Comments on: Apture for WordPress http://www.gavinsblog.com/2009/01/30/apture-for-wordpress/ Estd. in Ireland, July 2002 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:42:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mat bing http://www.gavinsblog.com/2009/01/30/apture-for-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-714921 mat bing Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:56:55 +0000 http://www.gavinsblog.com/?p=4150#comment-714921 I don't get the resource hog thing either. I just came across this plugin and think its the best thing since blogging. I just wich you could use it when creating or editing blogger post. I don’t get the resource hog thing either. I just came across this plugin and think its the best thing since blogging. I just wich you could use it when creating or editing blogger post.

]]> By: Steve http://www.gavinsblog.com/2009/01/30/apture-for-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-705610 Steve Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:17:24 +0000 http://www.gavinsblog.com/?p=4150#comment-705610 I have been using apture for a few weeks now and haven't noticed any issues. I have always thought of load as being similar as iframes on both client side and the server from where the information within the window comes but I could be very wrong. I have been using apture for a few weeks now and haven’t noticed any issues. I have always thought of load as being similar as iframes on both client side and the server from where the information within the window comes but I could be very wrong.

]]> By: Fourcultures http://www.gavinsblog.com/2009/01/30/apture-for-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-700904 Fourcultures Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:51:01 +0000 http://www.gavinsblog.com/?p=4150#comment-700904 Gavin, I agree, Apture looks and feels impressive. If they'd let me, I'd install it on my Wordpress.com <a href="http://fourcultures.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">blog</a>. As it is, I'm nearly ready to switch to Wordpress.org so I can use it. I'm not so impressed with 'snap shots', which seems to have more limited linking capacity. We definitely need a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/science/17mund.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all" rel="nofollow">smarter</a> kind of hyperlink. What makes Apture a <a href="http://www.lessig.org/blog/2008/12/apture.html" rel="nofollow">'killer app'</a>, for me, is this: multiple simultaneous linking. Hyperlinks are the thing that makes web a conceptual step up from print. But when they were <a href="http://www.lamberta.org/blog/hyperlink-brief-history/" rel="nofollow">invented</a> it was assumed a word (or image) would only link to one idea. As a school kid I was taken with studying poetry and finding that a six word line of a T.S. Eliot poem would contain allusions to eight or more other texts - i.e. more links than words. It seems as though Apture is well on the way to fixing this inadequacy in the existing web, and so providing another conceptual leap. Further, it now appears intuitive that a hyperlink could be, without prejudice, to text, video, audio, image... As the web develops it seems increasingly clear that the hyperlink itself is the content, and I think Apture is showing a way forward. Gavin, I agree, Apture looks and feels impressive. If they’d let me, I’d install it on my WordPress.com blog. As it is, I’m nearly ready to switch to WordPress.org so I can use it. I’m not so impressed with ‘snap shots’, which seems to have more limited linking capacity. We definitely need a smarter kind of hyperlink.
What makes Apture a ‘killer app’, for me, is this: multiple simultaneous linking. Hyperlinks are the thing that makes web a conceptual step up from print. But when they were invented it was assumed a word (or image) would only link to one idea. As a school kid I was taken with studying poetry and finding that a six word line of a T.S. Eliot poem would contain allusions to eight or more other texts – i.e. more links than words. It seems as though Apture is well on the way to fixing this inadequacy in the existing web, and so providing another conceptual leap. Further, it now appears intuitive that a hyperlink could be, without prejudice, to text, video, audio, image…
As the web develops it seems increasingly clear that the hyperlink itself is the content, and I think Apture is showing a way forward.

]]> By: Gavin http://www.gavinsblog.com/2009/01/30/apture-for-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-696281 Gavin Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:29:45 +0000 http://www.gavinsblog.com/?p=4150#comment-696281 Yea, I was having issues with RAM usage a while back. Turning off apture appeared to stop this issue, though reactivating doesn't seem to have brought the issue back. I am stumped. I will keep Apture active until I see any reason to change! Yea, I was having issues with RAM usage a while back. Turning off apture appeared to stop this issue, though reactivating doesn’t seem to have brought the issue back. I am stumped. I will keep Apture active until I see any reason to change!

]]> By: Tristan Harris http://www.gavinsblog.com/2009/01/30/apture-for-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-695170 Tristan Harris Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:15:50 +0000 http://www.gavinsblog.com/?p=4150#comment-695170 Cool Gavin, let me know how it goes. And could you let me know - when you say a reduced load on your memory - which do you mean? What system is telling you that its taking up more memory? Thanks! Tristan Cool Gavin, let me know how it goes. And could you let me know – when you say a reduced load on your memory – which do you mean? What system is telling you that its taking up more memory?

Thanks!
Tristan

]]> By: Gavin Sheridan http://www.gavinsblog.com/2009/01/30/apture-for-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-695069 Gavin Sheridan Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:13:38 +0000 http://www.gavinsblog.com/?p=4150#comment-695069 I'm gonna go testing it again Tristan. Deactivting apture coincided with a reduced load on my memory... can't find another explanation. I’m gonna go testing it again Tristan. Deactivting apture coincided with a reduced load on my memory… can’t find another explanation.

]]> By: Tristan Harris http://www.gavinsblog.com/2009/01/30/apture-for-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-694787 Tristan Harris Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:25:27 +0000 http://www.gavinsblog.com/?p=4150#comment-694787 Hi Gavin, Thanks for the post. Could you explain why you felt Apture was a resource-hog and chewing up server memory? I can't imagine how that could happen since Apture isn't server-side. In general, we spend a lot of time optimizing performance. Not only is it important, but our biggest publishing customers like the Washington Post, BBC, etc demand it without compromise. We also made a change in early December making Apture several times faster to load and made it even faster to link new information. If you haven't tried it in a while, it's a game changing difference. Here's the announcement: http://blog.apture.com/2008/12/now-faster-than-ever/ We'd love to hear more of your feedback about performance.. could you email us at feedback AT apture DOT com? And hope you continue to enjoy using the product! Thanks, Tristan, CEO Apture Hi Gavin,
Thanks for the post. Could you explain why you felt Apture was a resource-hog and chewing up server memory? I can’t imagine how that could happen since Apture isn’t server-side. In general, we spend a lot of time optimizing performance. Not only is it important, but our biggest publishing customers like the Washington Post, BBC, etc demand it without compromise.

We also made a change in early December making Apture several times faster to load and made it even faster to link new information. If you haven’t tried it in a while, it’s a game changing difference. Here’s the announcement: http://blog.apture.com/2008/12/now-faster-than-ever/

We’d love to hear more of your feedback about performance.. could you email us at feedback AT apture DOT com? And hope you continue to enjoy using the product!

Thanks,
Tristan, CEO Apture

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