October 2008
33 posts
iPhone Apps I've Liked Recently
Byline - Read Google Reader Offline. You can star stuff and it syncs your read / unread items. This is by far my most used iphone app. Superb!
Also:
Goodrec - I like the way you navigate their map with left right arrows to scroll through nearby restaurants.
MiGhtyDocs - Read your Google Docs.
Aqua Punt - It’s football season and this game is fun. (My friend EJ made this.)
Dope track. Planning on going to see girl talk...
bit.ly Search Filters - Some Useful Views
Just posted a note about new search features over on the bitly blog. Check it out.
bitly:
We just added some new search functionality to bit.ly that I’ve had fun playing with over the past few days.
Right now, when you enter a search query on bit.ly, we search Twitter for all posts that contain the phrase you entered which also contain bit.ly links. After getting back this set of tweets, we...
Tech Stats from Amherst College
betaworks:
At Amherst college, 1% of first-year students have landlines, 99% have Facebook accounts. Also:
Percentage of first-year applicants who applied online in 2003: 33%.
Percentage of applicants who did last year: 89%.
Year that an incoming Amherst College class first created a Facebook group so that they could socialize and otherwise get to know each other prior to arriving on campus:...
Twitter / Summize Ahah
I was just chatting with @andrewparker about a bunch of different stuff, and one of the things we talked about was twitter and how it seems to be gaining a fair amount of adoption. One of the problems with twitter, I think, is that it requires a very high level of work / effort / trial to understand it’s value. Andrew thought the number was about 20 friends before a user starts...
Cool Stuff, Recently
Microsoft Excel - for many things, so much faster to prototype in than a full scripting language. Trying to learn a bit more about excel and really digging it.
Google Spreadsheets - once you hone your excel skills, you have on demand, personal, private web apps. My roommates and I are using this for shared expenses, I use it for invoices, and have been doing some quick financial models. Also good...
Watcha video from snackfeed: "Defining Moment" Ad. It's so refreshing to get a break from the slander and actually learn something in a campaign ad.
Journaling
Reading some Crossfit literature and thinking I need to write more often. I’m going to add tumblr post via email to my address book and hopefully that will encourage more frequent posts. Also, looking forward to qik for iPhone.
Singularity Summit Recap
This weekend I went with CC to Singularity Summit in San Diego. The Singularity, if you’re unfamiliar with it, is the idea that technology is increasing at an exponential rate and that the human race will use it to speed up evolution to either alter itself or create a new intelligence greater than itself. Whether or not you buy the Singularity completely, I think it’s a good idea to...
Traditional Recession Tactics are Doomed to Fail
If Starbucks wants to grow in the States via new stores and new products, its corporate strategy must support the clear macroeconomic need to shift overconsumption to long-run investment. That means relying less on Vivannos, and more on, for example, Starbucks as a platform for communities to build and invest in local resources.
—Umair
Wow, definitely need to think about this essay for...
hackaddict is back
After taking some time to focus on work at The Apple Blog, my sister Jenny has resumed posting on her more general life hacks blog, hackaddict.net
She just wrote a post about using bit.ly to track Craigslist ad views, and lifehacker has picked up the story.
Full story.
Good to have you back, Jenn.
from charlie o' donnell (ceo of path101)/nynext...
Well said, Charlie.
zeem:
To be honest… I think any startup that needs to severely “buckle down” now or any VC firm that needs to do a 180 on their investment strategy wasn’t doing it right in the first place.
I teach two classes on the side to make ends meet.
We run on four free servers… Two we got from a friend at a startup that blew up and two we somehow convinced Sun to give us and...
Fred Wilson Notes
3) The next 12 months may be a period of the ‘haves and have nots’. Last night the Spotted Pig was mobbed but the new hot place down the block was not. There are bulletproof restaurants (the pig), bulletproof ad models (paid search) and bulletproof brands (all things apple). In tough times the money will keep flowing to the best companies and will stop flowing to the worst. Be a...
“The cautionary tale here is that Joost’s first mover advantage...”
– gbattle
“What is joost? I just signed up.”
– my Mom, in an email.
When moms start watching video on the web, something is changing. This is good news for friends at Snackfeed, a similar service but a much cheaper acquisition. I think Joost has taken in a boatload of money.
Umair on the Economy
The striking thing about today’s economy isn’t that lame, soul-crushing industrial-era business is imploding into a black hole of economic nothingness. That was predictable. Rather, it’s that while the so-called value created by, for example, investment banks, is proving to have been largely an illusion, revolutionaries bringing new DNA to the table are able to create...
Testing Tumblr Queue
Love the concept of queued posts / rate limiting for blog posts. This should be great.
Google Transit NYC
http://bit.ly/15QQ5z
Playing with Google NYC subway transit maps. I don’t agree with the train choice here ( should be the A/C/E, imo), but I do love how they show the train times. Very cool
Cool R-email
Samantha to me show details 5:15 PM (5 hours ago) I love this article. I just searched gmail for “kortina” and “nytimes” to find it. I love gmail. On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 2:33 AM, Kortina <kortina> wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/magazine/17charity.t.html?ei=5087%0A&em=&en=5d7424fbecae9fc2&ex=1166590800&pagewanted=all
I love how...
Watchnavajeet:
Great video, inspirational. via Charles from iminlikewithyou:
Nintendo makes more profit per employee than... →
navajeet:
“The programmers of Super Mario Galaxy will generate more profit this year than the average Goldman Sachs banker has ever managed” … that is bad ass.
Useful Command Line Unix Tool: find
find . -name “.svn” | xargs rm -rf
Get rid of all those annoying snv folders.
“Old Guard here, College 44, Philosophy major. I’m a retired physician...”
– Arthur, a member of a Penn alumni book club reading Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale that I joined this month.
This brief message made me really happy.
“But will entrepreneurs, the lifeblood of the Valley, still come if the money’s...”
– Peter Thiel - The view from the Valley - Sep. 30, 2008 (via bijan) (via navajeet)
*real engineering* - i like
Watchvery funny. College Humor and the Onion are the two funniest shows anywhere. Better than snl, colbert, daily show, etc.
“Obama app on the iPhone? Where’s “Pantsuit,” the Clinton app...”
– via @skewer
obama iphone app is here
