Jim Ray on Twitter #music
Jim Ray reviews Twitter #music: Tellingly, you can’t get to a musician’s tweets from within the app to decide whether you want to follow them based on the content of their stream,…
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An App you install from the web
From Dark Sky Company, the guys behind the relatively new web app Forecast, comes a great post about how web applications can perform as well as native applications: Granted, some apps must be native: OpenGL-based…
Medium and Barley are just the beginning
I just spent a few minutes playing around with Medium, a new "system for reading and writing", created by the makers behind great services like Blogger and Twitter. It was extremely validating to…
Why Coworking is growing in Australia by Alex Hillman
Alex Hillman is one lucky guy: I’ve been to Australia twice in the last 12 months. Three different cities. All for coworking related activities. Sounds like great fun but he also has…
Gary Vaynerchuk’s 19 people you should follow on Twitter list
My good friend Gary Vaynerchuk chose your's truly as #4 of 19 people he thinks should be followed on Twitter. He says of me: his new project is something that I think…
Chad Dickerson’s advice to inside sales people
Chad Dickerson, like many of us that run companies, gets a lot of solicitation via email. Some good. Most bad. He decided to do something useful with his response to one: I…
Flickr for iOS now uploads photos \”faster\”
Me, in December of last year: Now they need to take a queue from Instagram (and many other modern mobile apps) and start uploading the photo immediately, rather than waiting for the…
Plain, Plain Space, Barley
As you may have guessed from the lack of posts, I'm busy. After leaving Viddler and taking some time to get things in order; I'm busy building Plain, Plain Space, and our…
Dear Apple, Please don’t make a watch.
Nick Bilton of The New York Times: In its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Apple is experimenting with wristwatch-like devices made of curved glass, according to people familiar with the company’s explorations, who…
How much should I raise?
There is no shortage of opinions on this topic but Wayne Barz takes a pretty good approach to answering, or not answering, the question How much should I raise? I certainly can’t…
On Foursquare’s usefulness
Dan Frommer recently said this about Foursquare's usefulness: The broad, public perception of Foursquare still seems to be that it’s all about being the mayor of some bar, or something useless like…
But, why did you unfollow me?
Please do not be alarmed if you've noticed that I have unfollowed you on the Twitter. It isn't because I do not like you. It is, again, because I'm refactoring the way…
Remembering Aaron Swartz – \”You should blog that.\”
Tantek remembers Aaron's encouragement to blog ideas and solutions: But the larger point here is that he turned a rant into a positive action. He challenged me to do something about it,…
GitHub hits 3 million users
In a world where hitting 10, 50, and 100 million users seems to be the goal it is nice to see that a service can be a massive success at a fraction…
Andrew Kim goes to MSFT
Remember Andrew Kim? The guy that rebranded Microsoft for free. Well, now he's going to work there. I can’t talk about the details of how things fell into place but the choice…
NASA estimates 1 in 6 stars have Earth-sized planets orbiting them
That is a lot of Earth-sized planets. A lot. For instance, look at what NASA estimates for our galaxy alone: Since the Milky Way has about 100 billion stars, there are at…
The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s \”Crime\”
Alex Stamos: I was the expert witness on Aaron’s side of US vs Swartz, engaged byhis attorneyslast year to help prepare a defense for his April trial. It is an interesting read.
The wisdom of Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz, who tragically committed suicide yesterday, in an interview from 2007 when he was just 20 years old: If you talk to any woman in the tech community, it won’t be…
Stop worrying about being copied
Nathan Kontny: "If my idea isn’t worth copying then it’s not a very good idea. If my product or business can’t handle a new competitor, then it’s not a very good product."…
Your life’s work
DHH: If you’re not committed to your life’s work in a company and with people you could endure for decades, are you making progress on it? Yes. I am.
Ubuntu for phones
Canonical is calling this Ubuntu for phones but even in their own presentation they mention it will run on tablet devices. Yesterday I said, on Twitter, that I was happy to see…
Organizational complexity
Dalton Caldwell, co-founder of App.net, does some thinking about organizational complexity. He contrasts how a simple demonstration of Artificial Intelligence does not necessarily mean that model is scalable to do more complex…
Random 60: Season 2 Episode 1: Deer!
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Single User Utility In a Social System
Don't get knocked off your feet by the sheer strength of my agreement with Fred Wilson on Single User Utility In a Social System: One of the most important lessons we took…
The original 13-rules of basketball
Dr. James Naismith published these original 13-rules of basketball in 1892. I especially like #5: 5. No shouldering, holding, pushing, tripping, or striking in any way the person of an opponent shall…
Flickr Premium?
Danny Nicolas has been keeping up with my Flickr commentary of late about how Flickr should create a more affordable, less feature-rich account type and he has a few things to add:…
Rerun: Random 60: What to do about Flickr?
Seems appropriate to link back to an episode of Random 60 discussing Flickr. Remember, this was three years ago. "The woman CEO" that I mention in the episode is not the current…
An interview with Quentin Tarantino in the NY Times
I enjoyed this interview of Quentin Tarantino in the NY Times. Especially this bit on Page 5: I remember reading a review that Pauline Kael wrote about some director’s big epic, and…
Flickr for iOS 2.01.772
One niggle I had with the new Flickr app for iOS was the upload progress indicator was far too subtle (though an interesting take on what could be done to make it…
Flickr’s Holiday Gift and what it could mean for the future
In my recent How Flickr can eat Instagram's table scraps. I'm Instagram's table scraps. And so are you. piece I postulated that Flickr needed to make some adjustments and, possibly, make a…