Please find some quiet time for poetry today.
short spoken word piece for “In Bb” project, from the spin project. see http://www.inbflat.net/
Gmail App Store
I’m using about 10 Gmail Plugins from the “Labs” section (just enabled Canned-Responses, eg) and am thinking about 10 more features that I want to have. I know 3rd party developers can develop gadgets for Gmail, but these are pretty well sandboxed right now.
Gmail needs to open up deeper access with the plugin architecture and create a marketplace for developers to sell plugins. The inbox is one of the focal points of my online activity, and I’d be willing to pay real money for tools that—even incrementally—increase my email productivity. A lot of the current 3rd party plugins are kind of crappy, and to do really interesting things 3rd parties resort to Firefox Extensions (xoopit). Creating a marketplace for paid apps would drive innovation and build up quality of apps.
Same for igoogle, Brit, though I personally spend much more time in gmail than in igoogle.
A Little Twitter Tool I Want
When someone follows me on Twitter, say, @userX, do a Summize search for tweets to:@userX and filter to those that were authored by my friends. I want some quick context of how I might know this person and what my friends are saying to this person.
Please let me know if this exists or if you build this!
Skype has one of the most beautiful, friendly aesthetics of any brand I can think of. I peruse their brand book once every few months as a source of inspiration. If you’re into design / branding / marketing at all, I highly *highly* recommend checking this out.
Download the Skype Brand Book: http://bit.ly/skypeBrandBook
Photo above from the page, “How are clouds made?” Awesome.
Twitter Biz Idea for the Time Rich
Think of this like selling a MMORPG account that has lots of money/items.
1. Figure out how to amass followers—in a certain niche. A possible option: expect 10-20% follow backs when you follow strangers. If you want to sell the account to a technologist, follow anyone who talks about iPhone or foursquare, or some other germane topic. Another option: start retweeting people in your niche or @messaging prominent figures like @guykawasaki.
2. Unfollow whoever doesn’t follow you back within a few days to keep your following/followers ratio nice.
3. Once you get a large following, say greater than 10K followers, auction off your account to the highest bidder.
4. Since Twitter allows you to change your handle, whomever you sell your account to can change their name to whatever they wish.
The EconoMining Project
The comment about “lightning fast delivery” can enhance a seller’s reputation and thus allow the seller to increase the price of the listed items by a few cents, without losing any sales.
Prof. Panos delivered an amazing presentation at NYTM last night about correlating phrases in product reviews to prices/purchases to explain differences in market prices for identical products. I’m trying to find slides so I can dig into this more. In the mean time, check out the EconoMining page at NYU: http://bit.ly/15GKYE
SMS and IM Deserve More Attention
I realized recently that if I did work, I would not use email. I talk to my friends via SMS, IM, and Facebook, in order of frequency.
“ I’ve been thinking a great slogan for the double meaning is “Twitter is Breaking News
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