Archives for the 'miscTech' Category
Magic, Technology, Synthesis
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
“We need to not be building the Marauder’s Map and instead be building the Weasley Clock”
- Kevin Marks (as reported by Dennis Crowley)
To get it out of the way up front, let me just say this: I’ll stipulate to deserving a certain amount of mockery for thinking for so long about a Harry Potter reference, if [...]
Dear Twitter: It’s Not You, It’s Me
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
September 13, 2009:
I love Twitter and use it a lot, but I’m tired of developing for the API. It’s not that I don’t think the API team over there do a fantastic job, or that I think the API is bad, it’s a personal thing. It no longer excites me the way it once did, [...]
Zune: congratulations and condolences
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Back in the day, I had myself a very nice time watching and writing about the release of Microsoft’s first Zune device:
Zune: welcome to the gamble
Zune’s CNN Train Wreck
Zune: this pretty much sums it up
Ceci n’est pas une Zune post
Zune: when will the hurting stop?
Zune: words fail me
After reading a bit about the latest Zune HD, [...]
Millions of Blogs are Now…
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
A week ago I wrote the following:
Either everybody who’s been gushing about rssCloud “making millions of blogs real-time” is missing the point, or I am.
I haven’t worked through it all in my head, but if I had to write a totally speculative, one day after release headline right now I’d go with something along the [...]
Untitled #470: On Foursquare
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
Being a post against the possibility that enough hasn’t yet been enough written about foursquare in the past few days.
In the post that launched a thousand VCs on to foursquare, Charlie O’Donnell both neatly outlined a compelling analysis of foursquare’s potential as a real, money-earning business and articulated some areas of concern for that business. [...]
Aggregation and Accretion
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Aggregation: a group or mass of distinct or varied things, persons, etc.
Accretion: the growing together of separate parts into a single whole.
Bonus definition! Excellence: the state or condition of being excellent.
Step One: Aggregation
I begin with the proposition that aggregation has been one of the key concepts of the past five years or so—a period that [...]
Nitpicking: development, agile and otherwise
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Earlier today I twittered as follows:
It means I wasted a couple of hours with the API this morning, but I just heard that a @songkick feature I really want is in QA…sweeet!
Thanks to my ego-tastic monitoring processes, shortly thereafter I became aware of an indirect response to that tweet, along the lines of “‘In QA?’ [...]
Reconsidering Facebook
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Being a quick brain dump, since the Internet does not exist where we’re staying in Claryville, NY.
Before we left Brooklyn I was thinking about Foursquare; I think what Jon Steinberg and crew have done with Social Great is really interesting, but it’s not the direction that really excites me about the potential of the real [...]
A Couple of Needles for a Tiny Thread
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
So if you’re on Twitter, you are almost certainly aware by now that Joshua Schachter (of del.icio.us fame) just launched a personal project called A Tiny Thread. It’s a nice idea: piggyback off of the Twitter identity system [and take note of that, identity/SSO geeks] and create conversation spaces.
This neatly and rather elegantly addresses one [...]
The Twitter That Was
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Let’s start with a couple of interesting links: first, Nate Westheimer’s post from a few weeks ago in which he notes that his own Twitter use (and that of a number of other once heavy Twitterers) has been declining over the past few months. The full post and chart are here [and you should take [...]
