May 2009
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Google's Long Term Bet on Organizing Personal Data
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information. A subset of the world’s information particulary important to me is my information—my transcripts, documents, photos, videos, publications, files, music, etc.
So far I heavily use the following: Gmail Google Calendar Google Docs Google Talk Google Contacts Youtube
I’ve been so pleased with how well these...
First Thoughts on Google Wave
Must be very easy to embrace innovation when you have loads of Adwords cash in the bank. That said, Wave looks phenomenal, and Gmail+Gtalk+Gdocs+Gcal is already worth at least $100/mo to me. I’d prolly pay for Wave, too. Another thought: Wave Marketplace, anyone? I want to sell Wave modules. Google: please facilitate a marketplace for me and I’ll gladly give you a generous cut of my...
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Attention Poverty
Here are a few excepts from a recent nymag feature on distraction. I recommend reading the entire piece if you can make it through ;)
What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might...
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UberTwitter Beta Blackberry Twitter Client →
gbattle:
I just downloaded the latest version of UberTwitter and was astonished at how great it is compared to TwitterBerry whose only redeeming quality was being first. The open beta is free (unlike TwitterGenius which is $5), but it is jam packed with ez-wizard configurable features you’d expect in a serious mobile Twitter Client - GTalk status integration, ReTweet support, favoriting,...
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain (via affremblequotes)
kortina’s bit: Mark Twain has so many gems.
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WatchAs extending the browser becomes much simpler with tools like Jetpack and Ubiquity from Mozilla, expect to see a burst of innovation making your browser a productivity enhancer. Turning users into software engineers with intuitive tools is something Microsoft Office did well (Word, Excel macros). Mozilla is taking this to another level.
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“They want a sense of purpose, a narrative arc to their lives, something that...”
– Obama on Americans seeking spiritual community, quoted by @heif tonight at the y+30 meetup. Heif notes that other communities and causes outside the church will be possible as people self organize using more efficient communication and publishing technology to connect.
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Altering Lifestyle is the Proper Treatment for...
Using pharmaceuticals to treat lifestyle diseases has been largely ineffective and provides no solution or long-term option for improving one’s health or reducing disease risk. Most drugs that are used to treat lifestyle diseases like heart disease, diabetes, acne, etc only act as a band aid to eliminate symptoms, not to eliminate the root of the problem. … The point I’m trying to make is...
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Bruce Springsteen - Light of Day - 2000-06-04
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What I Like About AIM Away Message / Gtalk Status
One message per friend: none of my active-publisher friends can drown out less active friends. I can just scroll down and see the single most recent status from each of my friends. I wish Twitter had this view
Because of (1), I don’t have to excercise the same amount of restraint when I publish. On Tumblr and Twitter, I try to space out posts because I think if someone sees 3 posts in a...
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Focus forces brutal prioritization
When you get to make a small number of bets, it forces continuous prioritization. It’s extremely hard to measure the value of something against some abstract and absolute notion of value. It’s much easier to say, “I get one bet, so is A better than B and C?”
via Laserlike, http://bit.ly/yOt0d
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Some notes I jotted down in response to JB's...
JB’s Post: http://bit.ly/eAL2Z Is 15-20% traffic via social distribution a new phenomenon or just a phenomenon that is newly trackable? Perhaps social distribution was always a traffic driver, but it used happen via email, instant messenger, and harder to track channels? Even an organic google search for omgpop leading to a hit on omgpop.com might classify as social distribution—word...
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Akron Family - Sun Will Shine
Saw Akron again...
bit.ly sidebar bookmarklet, rev 2
I LOVE this. It’s pretty, it’s functional, it doesn’t open a new window…. Well done, guys. This is awesome. Originally posted as a comment by mike fabio on bit.ly Blog using Disqus.
more here: http://bit.ly/GdjBI
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-3) →
D’Angelo (38)
Stevie Wonder (29)
The Budos Band (22)
Daft Punk (20)
Grateful Dead (20)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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More Public Data
Last week Google announced public data in search and trends, and now Amazon has released a bunch of public data for use on EC2.
I can’t wait to start playing with some of this data, eg:
The Twilio / Wigle.net Street Vector data set provides a complete database of US street names and address ranges mapped to Zip Codes and latitude/longitude ranges, with DTMF...
Stevie Wonder - Dancing to the Rhythm (Live)
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Intellectual Foundations and Practical...
Scientific observation played a large role in Crossfit’s evolution (Greg Glassman cites coming from “a family of rocket scientists living in a community of rocket scientists” as the source of his scientific rigor).
Open source also important to the Crossfit Community—I always thought Crossfit was on the leading edge of open source / online social community / game...
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Jenny on the Importance of Headlines
Jenny: so here's my take on "mysterious" websites
not the way to go, people's attentions spans are so short now
we've gone from blogger>tumblr>twitter
information needs to be short and to the point
when i read delicious popular, if it doesn't have an interesting title, i don't read it
and when i click on the page, i look at it for a few seconds and if i don't get/like it, it gets closed
me: you should blog that
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Good businesses listen to their customers, they...
A few excerpts from Ken Lerer’s recent speech at Columbia journalism school. The whole speech is worth a read, but these are are few of my favorite points:
the best companies in any industry will eventually lose market dominance by doing everything that a good business should do. (By the way, if I were in charge of Columbia University I would make this required reading for every incoming...