Chrome, Android, and The Cloud (32)
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A journalist friend of mine once said about Google "they are a freak of a company, the best advertising business ever built is funding the largest collection of mad scientists ever assembled". I love that description of Google and have used it many times. But it suggests that Google is chaos and I don't think that is true at all. Google is building a collection of web apps, like gmail, gcal, and google docs, that ...
The Friday Photo Follies: London at Night (2)
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I’m checking out shortly, so a link to some wonderful photos to put you in a contemplative frame of mind for the weekend. The Boston Globe has up a series today taken over London’s financial district at night, and they are bleakly ethereal, like the movie Blade Runner relit by the people who did the closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. More here.
The Friday Photo Follies: London at Night (2)
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I’m checking out shortly, so a link to some wonderful photos to put you in a contemplative frame of mind for the weekend. The Boston Globe has up a series today taken over London’s financial district at night, and they are bleakly ethereal, like the movie Blade Runner relit by the people who did the closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. More here.
We Need To Kill The Business Card Once And For All (63)
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The business card needs to die, and everyone knows it. They’re clumsy, easy to lose, and virtually useless as one of the last bits of information that we pass non-digitally (they kill trees, too). The cell phone market could easily put business cards out of their misery, but instead of conforming to a single standard for contact exchange, handset manufacturers offer proprietary solutions or none at all. FriendBook, an iPhone application from Tapulous, looked like ...
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griflet said:
This is interesting, but I like it better the 2d code embedded in a business card. Besides, everyone likes to show off their business card ;)
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Sean Blakey said:
Hate business cards. Palm "cards" were a step in the right direction (remember the train ad?). An iPhone app is NOT a sufficient solution.
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Stanton said:
I couldn't agree more.
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Ralf Mueller said:
Yes!
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tommyp said:
removed from appstore
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colladude said:
why iphone
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Dolores Parker said:
Instead of shaking hands, now you shake your iPhones.
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Sean said:
Lets see, I usually pay a penny or less per business card... Could TechCrunch stop announcing things are dead? Last month it was voice mail, this month business cards, next month it will be the Internet because it's "outdated".
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Convoluted said:
Neat Idea
We Need To Kill The Business Card Once And For All (54)
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The business card needs to die, and everyone knows it. They’re clumsy, easy to lose, and virtually useless as one of the last bits of information that we pass non-digitally (they kill trees, too). The cell phone market could easily put business cards out of their misery, but instead of conforming to a single standard for contact exchange, handset manufacturers offer proprietary solutions or none at all. FriendBook, an iPhone application from Tapulous, looked like ...
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javaneze said:
ναι ρε πουστη τελικα ειναι αχρηστη.Τοσα χρονια απλα φιαχνω και ξαναφιαχνω και τι εγινε; ακομα και τα cool moo cards μου στην θήκη ειναι!Ασε που ποτε δεν θυμαμαι να δωσω!
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Sean Blakey said:
Hate business cards. Palm "cards" were a step in the right direction (remember the train ad?). An iPhone app is NOT a sufficient solution.
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Rizzn said:
I've got an idea! Let's exchange a cheap, reliable technology that costs a fraction of a penny with one that costs $300 plus $100 a month. Brilliant!
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Stanton said:
I couldn't agree more.
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tommyp said:
removed from appstore
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colladude said:
why iphone
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Sean said:
Lets see, I usually pay a penny or less per business card... Could TechCrunch stop announcing things are dead? Last month it was voice mail, this month business cards, next month it will be the Internet because it's "outdated".
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Convoluted said:
Neat Idea
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Ralf Mueller said:
Yes!
RideTheCity.com: A Google Maps App for Safe Biking (49)
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RideTheCity is a cool mash-up application that allows you to plan bike routes based on safety and speed. By typing - or selecting - a start and end location in New York City, the application will find the safest and quickest routes by factoring in bike routes for “safest” trips and the shortest travel distance for the quickest trips. The project is run by three bikers, Jordan Anderson, Vaidila Kungys, and Josh Steinbauer (Full disclosure: ...
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Dorn said:
This is really cool.
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Chad said:
this is a really cool niche use of google maps
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Joe said:
Been waiting for something like this.
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Ben said:
Dreams do come true.
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AJ said:
great concept
RideTheCity.com: A Google Maps App for Safe Biking (62)
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RideTheCity is a cool mash-up application that allows you to plan bike routes based on safety and speed. By typing - or selecting - a start and end location in New York City, the application will find the safest and quickest routes by factoring in bike routes for “safest” trips and the shortest travel distance for the quickest trips. The project is run by three bikers, Jordan Anderson, Vaidila Kungys, and Josh Steinbauer (Full disclosure: ...
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Joe said:
Been waiting for something like this.
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Dorn said:
This is really cool.
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Ben said:
Dreams do come true.
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Chad said:
this is a really cool niche use of google maps
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AJ said:
great concept
Get Ready For A New Platform War. Google Gears Drives Straight At Microsoft’s Profits. (13)
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Google launched Gears last May, and for the first year of its release it was considered a minor, niche product that a few developers and users may take advantage of to allow offline access to web applications. You can probably recall the arguments at the time: who needs offline access, connectivity is everywhere anyway, not enough apps will support this etc. It wasn’t until a year later and only a few weeks ago, that Google ...
Our next cash crop? (1)
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Marijuana, for all intensive purposes, is legal in the state of California. My brother and I discussed this at length this past weekend. We laughed mostly. California, has an old law that was put on the books in the early 1900's that citizens, with enough signatures, can get a referendum on the ballot. 12 years ago, because of HIV patients in San Francisco, who were smoking weed to alleviate their pain, someone put on the ...
Our next cash crop? (1)
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Marijuana, for all intensive purposes, is legal in the state of California. My brother and I discussed this at length this past weekend. We laughed mostly. California, has an old law that was put on the books in the early 1900's that citizens, with enough signatures, can get a referendum on the ballot. 12 years ago, because of HIV patients in San Francisco, who were smoking weed to alleviate their pain, someone put on the ...
The Long Tail of Baby Names (4)
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The top baby names, like the top-selling records or most-watched TV shows or you-name-it, command less and less market share: "The diversity in U.S. baby names has exploded since the 1950s. Back then, a quarter of all boys and girls got one of the top 10 baby names, according to Laura Wattenberg, author of "The Baby Name Wizard" (Broadway, 2005). In recent times, the top 10 names account for only one tenth of all baby ...
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Very Cool!
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Bryan said:
The top baby names, like the top-selling records or most-watched TV shows or you-name-it, command less and less market share
The business case for goodwill (4)
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Carolyn Y. Johnson has a great article about companies that listen online today in the Boston Globe. She mentions that Comcast and Southwest monitor Twitter for frustrated users and Dell for improving its customer service as well as providing a site called IdeaStorm where people can provide feedback. Dell has implemented over 50 of the suggestions from the IdeaStorm site. I’ve talked about listening online before, because I think everybody at Google should do it ...
You guys know you want this Starwars thing (1)
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Here’s Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They’re Banned (5)
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The stories over the weekend were bad enough - the Associated Press, with a long history of suing over quotations from their articles, went after Drudge Retort for having the audacity to link to their stories along with short quotations via reader submissions. Drudge Retort is doing nothing different than what Digg, TechMeme, Mixx and dozens of other sites do, and frankly the fact that they are being linked to should be considered a favor. ...
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michelle said:
The AP has a lot of nerve. Everyone should stop referencing them and speed up their demise, which is inevidable.
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Every time Google releases a new feature for Gmail, Calendar, Google Docs etc. people who use Google Apps are left wondering whether they'll get the new feature. Sometimes they have to guess addresses, like for the new mobile Google Talk. They are supposed to figure out that the Google Apps version of: http://talkgadget... is http://hostedtalk... having to deal with delayed updates and mysterious addresses, Google Apps users usually have at least one standard Google account ...Shared by ack (17)Contribute commentGrokked (2) permalink
http://www.gamasu... Pretty impressive analysis.Shared by ack (17)Contribute comment
