February 2012
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Feb 6th
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January 2012
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Tech Products I Couldn't Live Without in 2011
Inspired by Michael Arrington’s 2009: Products I Can’t Live Without, here are my vital tech products of last year: iPhone 4S — specifically the 8 megapixel camera, iCloud, and Siri. I take a LOT more pictures now. iCloud has saved me a couple times when I had to hard reset my iPhone while on the road. Siri has allowed me to move several apps off of my homescreen, including Phone,...
Jan 25th
June 2011
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Multiple Social Graphs
Last year I attended two reunions — one with my childhood friends and the other being my High School reunion. While I’ve done a pretty good job of keeping in touch with my childhood friends, most of my high school friends I hadn’t talked to since graduation. But if there is one thing that I have in common with both groups of friends, it’s Facebook. It came up several...
Jun 21st
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"It Just Works" →
MG Siegler: With Chrome OS, everything is always there because everything only exists in the cloud. But Google has been bending over backwards to tack on a file management system to Chrome OS. That weakens their cloud argument, in my view. But again, their aim is to ease the transition of current PC users to the cloud. Google seems to be aiming more for users who understand current...
Jun 10th
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Proximity-Aware Push Notifications
Back in 2006, when I was sporting a nifty little Sony Ericsson. I had this desktop app called BluePhoneElite that would push notifications from my phone to my computer screen via bluetooth. It was great! When I got a text message, I’d see an unobtrusive growl notification pop up. When someone called me, same thing; a casual little growl notification to nudge me and then fade away. It was...
Jun 9th
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Steve Jobs: I’m actually as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. The clearest example was when we were pressured for years to do a PDA, and I realized one day that 90% of the people who use a PDA only take information out of it on the road. They don’t put information into it. Pretty soon cellphones are going to do that, so the PDA...
Jun 8th
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Jun 4th
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Jun 1st
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Mobile Devices: Remote or Primary? →
Fred Wilson: If your friend has an MLB.com subscription on his or her tablet and they come over to your house, you could watch the game on your TV via your friend’s tablet. Wow, I’ve never thought of it that way. Now if only NBA games weren’t subject to blackout policies…
Jun 1st
May 2011
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One Night Out with GroupMe
Karol: The show starts at 7pm, right? Mel: Yeah. I’m heading there 5:45ish with Marlo. Mel: Ness, are we supposed to save seats for you or you guys gonna be backstage the whole time? Nessa: We’re in the first act, so we’ll sit with you guys after intermission. Krystal: Save two seats for Karol. That is a texting conversation I had with my friends on Saturday with the...
May 30th
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Apple: The 4-Foot Walled Garden →
Victor Agreda reported: From where I sat, Apple was on the defensive — but in a good way. The defense was primarily “we own the store, we own the rules for the store, and our goal is to protect the consumer.” Working to Apple’s advantage is the tight control of the App Store, which some (including TUAW at times) have bemoaned as draconian. But I think today’s...
May 25th
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May 25th
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“I’m actually as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the...”
– Steve Jobs
May 18th
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What Happens When It’s Google/Android Vs.... →
TechCrunch: Google has succeeded in building a massive platform that doesn’t fully rely on them. That’s awesome on paper. But it can work both ways. If others start to realize that they don’t need Google, what does Google do? Just sit there and take it? The answer, of course, is “no”. They’ll fight back.
May 18th
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The LAST Thing Google Needs Is More Engineers →
“…Google will never be a great consumer company until it takes a lesson from the book of Jobs and hires a bunch more liberal arts majors. Engineers are great at solving problems. But they’re not always so great at figuring out which problems to solve.”
May 18th
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Get More Out of Your iPad with Instapaper
This isn’t exactly breaking news…but man, Instapaper is a REALLY GREAT app. For months I was hesitant about forking over $5 for this app. I constantly said to myself, “I already have Flipboard and Reeder…do I really need another reading app?” A couple weeks ago, I said, “screw it” and finally bit the $5 bullet. What happened? Instapaper quickly...
May 14th
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Q) Does Twitter need a feature similar to the... →
Hell yes, a Like button would add tremendous value to Twitter! For users, it would add another element of interactivity to the Twitter community. For developers, it would add another dimension to work with. For marketers, it would add another signal to measure their campaigns with. We are already experiencing an information overload as a society. With a Like button, we’d have another...
May 3rd
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April 2011
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How the iPhone Knows Where You Are →
GPS is, in fact, rocket science at many levels. But the way in which Apple combines and supplements information from multiple sources to create a fast and accurate lock explains why to us as users it’s all “GPS” and just works. Absolutely mind-boggling how much innovation is put behind this, all while being 100% transparent to the user.
Apr 30th
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Apr 29th
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Chris Dixon: There are two kinds of people in the... →
Such a great read for entrepreneurs.
Apr 29th
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“I can’t say enough about bootstrapping. Whether you’re starting your...”
– Jason Fried, “How to Get Good at Making Money”
Apr 18th
Apr 17th
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March 2011
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Mar 23rd
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Mar 17th
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Re: Why doesn't Microsoft understand tablets? →
Response by Robert Scoble So, in this dream, er, nightmare I have, I walk into Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft office back in 2006 and say: “Hi Steve, I gotta talk to you about our tablet strategy.” “Sure, Scoble, what you thinking about?” “Well, it sucks. It just isn’t working. Customers aren’t delighted. The market isn’t afire. Our employees are even bored with...
Mar 2nd
February 2011
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Feb 26th
Feb 21st
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Q) What's your Daily Social Media Routine?
asked by @TheRayson. Here we go: Wake up. Check notifications on Boxcar (iPhone). Notifies me of new @replies, followers, DMs, and emails. Also notifies me of breaking news about Apple. Check text messages. Catch up on my feeds with my Flipboard app (iPad). Tech News then links/pics from Twitter. Check personal Twitter account on my iPad. (It’s easier to skim through these since...
Feb 18th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 1st
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January 2011
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My Top Tech for 2010
Inspired by Michael Arrington’s 2009: Products I Can’t Live Without, here are my vital tech products of last year: Google — Chrome, Voice, Gmail, Reader Apple — iPad, Magic Mouse, MacBook Air, iPhone Twitter — Twitter for iPad, Hootsuite, TweetDeck Boxcar for iPhone Skype Tumblr Flipboard for iPad Foursquare Facebook BlogTV TokBox Honorable Mentions:...
Jan 5th