Posted in Macintosh, Social Software on Feb 21st, 2010 3 Comments »
ClickToFlash
Steve Jobs hates Adobe Flash and doesn’t want it on the iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad but that’s besides the point. I’ve been noticing that my computer has gotten increasingly unstable as my workday goes on. Later in the day (like now) typically the computer was running hot, fan on, Safari running slow and hanging [...]
Posted in Copyright, Ideas, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Feb 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Insight
I first learned about Insight through this post at Signal to Noise: “Smart” pasting at The New Yorker site.
If you copy text from a site that has Insight installed, when you paste it the paste will include a link back to the original post. That link is easily deleted if you don’t want it but [...]
Posted in Opinion, Social Software, iPad on Feb 16th, 2010 6 Comments »
Turf War at the New York Times: Who Will Control the iPad?
The New York Times has never gotten it right, ever. They have the best news in the business and the best brand and they cannot seem to figure out how to get money out of users.
It’s simple: do what Salon does. Charge a yearly [...]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Feb 12th, 2010 6 Comments »
Facebook Login
John Gruber and many others have commented about this in the past day and I’d let it pass me by if I hadn’t seen examples of it first hand in people I know.
Read Gruber’s post and the link to ReadWriteWeb’s initial post: Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login and the comments under [...]
Posted in Social Software, Travel on Feb 12th, 2010 5 Comments »
Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall
Or, a rolling facebook page. Even if all students are doing is chatting, emailing, and posting to their facebook pages and a few are doing school work, that’s better than being bored and getting rowdy.
A wifi bus is a good thing and I only wish MTA would make [...]
Posted in Opinion, Social Software on Feb 7th, 2010 4 Comments »
Kottke on Chatroulette
Jason Kottke reviews a new video conferencing site called Chatroulette (chat roulette). Connect with random people all over the world, no moderation, no rules, just a video and voice connection with god knows who or what on the other end. The site has no appeal for me but Kottke’s review of [...]
Posted in Social Software, Tech Stuff, Travel on Feb 3rd, 2010 6 Comments »
Southwest nails down in-flight WiFi partnership, whole fleet to be lit by 2012
Having recently flown on both Virgin America and United on wifi enabled planes, I can say that even in coach where there’s little room for a laptop computer (an iPad would be perfect here), having access to the internet in flight is useful, [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Feb 3rd, 2010 3 Comments »
John Gruber’s Daring Fireball Gets Comments (Whether He Likes It or Not)
The influential site Daring Fireball, John Gruber’s web site that covers all things Macintosh, iPhone, iPad and Apple in general is a weblog with the commenting feature turned off. On popular sites like DF moderating comment threads can be a full time job and [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Social Software, Travel, iPhone on Jan 21st, 2010 2 Comments »
Just a quick note that I’m on my way to California on a United PS flight and am using their Gogo inflight wifi network for the first time. In a word: great!
Simple to use, not too expensive ($12.95 for a coast to coast trip, $7.95 for a smartphone), the network has plenty of bandwidth for [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Social Software, iPhone on Dec 6th, 2009 7 Comments »
Bill Atkinson’s PhotoCard at the iTunes store.
PhotoCard is an iPhone application that allows you to send stock or your own images to friends as email postcards. Looks quite good and Atkinson is an excellent designer and developer (having been one of the original developers of the Macintosh). You can also use it to send physical [...]
Posted in Photo Sites, Photographers, Social Software on Dec 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
Pictory is a photo sharing site for photos with stories and more context than just visual imagery. Looks interesting, like my kind of thing, might have to submit.
Posted in Photographers, Social Software on Nov 29th, 2009 No Comments »
1x.com is a photo community that’s tightly edited and moderated. They seem to have a large number of excellent photographers represented there.
Posted in Macintosh, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Nov 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Prey is a small application that you install on a Mac or a PC laptop and if that computer is ever stolen Prey will help you track it.
It’s open source and free.
I haven’t installed it yet but it does sound quite useful. Of course, it also seems to allow the folks running the project to [...]
Posted in Ideas, Reading, Social Software on Nov 20th, 2009 No Comments »
BookMooch
Give books away. Get books you want.
Social media as a way of trading analog media. Perfect.
[via Andrew Howat]
Posted in Events, Ideas, People, Social Software, Tech Stuff, Video on Nov 10th, 2009 2 Comments »
This is an excellent 40 minute interview of Google CEO Eric Schmidt by Tom Ashbrook, host of NPR’s OnPoint which took place at MIT recently. The “Michael” being referred to is Michael Hammer who was a computer science professor at MIT and who recently passed away.
Schmidt is incredibly articulate and his discussion of these large [...]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software on Nov 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
The Secret Cause of Flame Wars
People in our study were convinced they’ve accurately understood the tone of an e-mail message when in fact their odds are no better than chance.
I think this happens with much online communication that gets stripped of helpful context: tone of voice, facial expression, or the thread of the conversation.
[via Derek [...]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software on Oct 15th, 2009 No Comments »
Amazon Introduces Same-Day Delivery
Amazon Prime members, who pay $79 a year for free, two-day shipping, will find the new charges most palatable; same day delivery will cost an extra $6 an item. But non-Prime members will have to be pretty desperate for those Pampers Baby-Dry size 3 diapers: same day delivery will cost $15.
Wow, as [...]
Posted in Opinion, Social Software on Oct 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Bloggers Must Disclose Payments for Reviews
Oh dear, this is going to get complicated.
[via Derek Powazek]
Posted in Opinion, Social Software on Aug 30th, 2009 11 Comments »
Facebook Exodus
The disillusionment with Facebook has come in waves. An early faction lost faith in 2008, when Facebook’s beloved Scrabble application, Scrabulous, was pulled amid copyright issues. It was suddenly clear that Facebook was not just a social club but also an expanding force on the Web, beholden to corporate interests. A later group, Harmsen’s [...]
Posted in Social Software on Jul 26th, 2009 No Comments »
National Public Radio has done an outstanding job on their new web site. Check it out: NPR.
The New York Times comments: NPR Moves to Rewire Its Approach to the Web.
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