What Is The Deal With This Stupid Lighter iPhone App? (52)
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Everyone keeps talking about Smule’s virtual lighter iPhone application called Sonic Lighter (iTunes link). I wasn’t impressed: there are no less than ten different virtual lighter apps in iTunes, which is what I’d call a saturated market. And it gets better, because Sonic Lighter costs $.99. The official Zippo iphone app is free. The basic functionality of all of these is similar - you have a virtual lighter, you light it and when you move ...
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kleinman said:
This is a very good example of using location-based technology to drive viral adoption. When you see people in your vicinity using something, you are more incline in doing same. Even for something as useless and crazy as a lighter app.
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Jonathan Washburn said:
Must read post for AR team.
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puthali said:
lol...just one example of the massive community building opportunities via iPhone/iTouch...
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MV said:
why?
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llopis said:
Those stupid novelty apps don't cease to amaze me!
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Jason Cartwright said:
Astounding pointlessness
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Kingsley said:
brilliant. you can make almost anything more valuable by adding some social
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Sergey Kapustin said:
Похоже на то как горят зажигалки на концертах рок-групп, только в данном случае масштаб "немного" побольше.
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Haidong said:
very nice try
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Graham said:
Clever!
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Devlin D said:
Brilliant viral concept, even if the app is pointless. Viral goes a long way I guess.
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Chris said:
this is ridiculous, but i guess people will buy anything for a buck :P
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Hyunhak said:
이 말도 안되는 라이터 어플이 다운로드되는 이유는?'location awareness 과 social networking/human team building instincts to create a bit of a phenomenon.'를 적당히 이용했기 때문.phone-to-phone ignition(발화)가 키포인트
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jaehyun said:
이거 아이디어 좋은거 같다. 역시 별거 아닌거에 돈 벌수 있는 기회가 있다.
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Satyajeet said:
Nice! It's a great example of how superior design and implementation can even in what appears to be an saturated market with no real need (it's a ligher app!), result in revenue.
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grend said:
THAT'S the way you do it. Fascinating.
Stop those long emails chains — Yammermail brings email forwarding to business messaging service Yammer (1)
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Yammer, the “Twitter for Business” company that won the Techcrunch50 conference best-in-show award earlier this month, launched an application programming interface last week. The API lets other companies build additional features. Today, a startup called Yammermail has used the API to launch a new feature I’ve been wanting, well, since before I heard about Yammer. It offers two ways to forward email to Yammer’s streaming feed of short messages to tell colleagues what you’re are ...
Swype keyboard for touchscreens (25)
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Very clever new input concept from one of the guys who brought you T9. I was just simulating this on my keyboard and it’s surprisingly easy to do. Of course I don’t have anything to measure my accuracy, but I think the concept is fascinating. Full story at CNET.
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matixo said:
Ciekawa metoda używania klawiatury na ekranie dotykowym - jak T9 przy standardowej komórce. Wygląda na to, że będzie bardzo szybkie i łatwe, a w połączeniu z dodatkowymi gestami niesie niesamowite ułatwienie w pisaniu.
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Jon said:
very interesting....
A 36:1 ratio is actually pretty good. (64)
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Labor Day recently passed. That means you may have received a shared photo album from a friend or relative. You know the type: It’s usually dozens (or hundreds) of shots of vacation fun. But you’re not into it. Now, it’s not that you don’t care; It’s fun to peek in and see what happened. But who wants to sort through a glut of 200 photos of someone else’s vacation (or baby photos or whatever)? What ...
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David said:
I still struggle with this - and continue to make conscious efforts to improve this skill.
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jessmartin said:
Thank you Matt, for making me feel a lot better about my photography. I'll be doing good if I can get one good photo out of thirty-six.
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phillprice said:
...if you get one good shot on a roll of 36, you were doing good. That’s the ratio: 36:1. When you edit ruthlessly like that, you come out with great results. People think you’re better than you are. It’s not that you became a brilliant photographer, it’s just that you started exercising taste and restraint
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Ranvir said:
This explains the logic driving Lil'Grams
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cec said:
Yes! Yes!!! I wish more people would adhere to this rule. I'm tired of wading through dozens, if not hundreds, of horrible shots on Facebook, Flickr, and Picasa. Only the best should be posted. You won't see me uploading all the shots I take straight into Facebook. I filter. Unfortunately, some friends of mine don't have that filter, and some not so flattering shots of my family and myself get on Facebook!
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ervin said:
Igen, igen, igen! Mennyire igaza van. Le a sok képes fotóalbumokkal!
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urbansheep said:
“It’s one of the biggest challenges in the digital age: When you can bombard people with everything, it’s tempting to do so. That’s why taste, restraint, and editing are so important. Sometimes it’s about throwing out the 35 bad shots and revelling in the one great shot.”
The uncanny valley (32)
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Tom points us to this fascinating concept. It's called the uncanny valley and it goes back as far as Freud. When you get too good at faking it, people freak out. We love cute dogs, cute monkeys, clairvoyant websites, smart voice mail systems. But we get totally wigged out when a website knows too much about us, when we start talking to a voice mail attendant like she's a real person or when a photo ...
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pfostpfilms said:
ok so i love seth godin, but i'm sharing this for the picture. CREEPY.
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Ullash said:
so wat does this mean?? CRM is effectively only upto a certain point ? and who defines that point
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colladude said:
mmm
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billspaced said:
THAT IS FREAKY
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AlexT said:
extremely important
Back to Basics: Reminders (7)
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No matter how well you set up your todo list and calendar, you aren’t going to get things done unless you have a reliable way of reminding yourself to actually do them. Anyone who’s spent an hour writing up the perfect grocery list, only to realize at the store that they forgot to bring the list, understands the importance of reminders. Reminders of some sort or another are what turn a collection of paper goods ...
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DavidAndrew said:
Ive started using sendible for reminders - works well
Back to Basics: Reminders (6)
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No matter how well you set up your todo list and calendar, you aren’t going to get things done unless you have a reliable way of reminding yourself to actually do them. Anyone who’s spent an hour writing up the perfect grocery list, only to realize at the store that they forgot to bring the list, understands the importance of reminders. Reminders of some sort or another are what turn a collection of paper goods ...
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DavidAndrew said:
Ive started using sendible for reminders - works well
The Fortune 500 4-Hour Workweek: Multiplying Output in Groups (Plus: Downloadable Checklists) (37)
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For English subtitles, choose “Danish” from the “Choose Language…” drop-down. There is a misconception that lifestyle design is just for entrepreneurs or CEOs. In reality, the principles — borrowed from economics and behavioral psychology — can be applied within organizations and groups with even more dramatic effects. Just watch the 25-minute segment above from the Danish equivalent of the BBC (DR1), where lifestyle design is tested by both an employee at insurance giant Codan and ...
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Parveen said:
I love the picture of the whiteboard in this post.
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Kolgoth said:
Absolutely fantastic post... Probably one of my favorite for real-world application and usability.
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mitchgroup said:
Yes Tim. Yes Tim. Yes! This quote:If the processes are wasteful (inefficient), performance will decrease when you attempt to scale. The more people involved, the more severe the decrease. If the processes–including prioritization and workflow optimization–are lean (efficient), performance will increase. Combined with other people following the same lean processes, performance can increase in an exponential vs. linear fashion (For any exponentially growing quantity, the larger the quantity gets, the faster it grows)." says it all. It's tough to remain focused on this "process awareness" in the early stages of business. Doing so reaps benefits later. It's that darned delayed gratification deal !
Enjoying the Observer pattern with custom events (10)
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I created an introductory example discussing custom events as an implementation of the Observer pattern. I posted this on my personal blog first and quickly got a port from my Prototype version to Malte's jQuery port (and now we have a DOMAssistant and Appcelerator versions). I hope others keep them coming so we can aggregate a simple example of custom events and how it works across various toolkits: The example dynamically adds functionality based on ...
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Is architect a verb? (47)
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I confess. I like using it that way. I think architecting something is different from designing it. I hope you can forgive me but I think it's a more precise way to express this idea. Design carries a lot of baggage related to aesthetics. We say something is well-designed if it looks good. There are great designs that don't look good, certainly, but it's really easy to get caught up in a bauhaus, white space, ...
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skeggsjp said:
another excellent nugget of wisdom from Seth.
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Link of the Day said:
I get the point and I know he's Seth-Fuckin-Godin, but 'architecting' - seriously?
Black Web 2.0 interviews Glam Media (2)
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While at Blogging While Brown we got a chance to interview Tamera Reynolds who is the brains behind Black Life. She gave us a little more info on what exactly Black Life is and the goals for the channel. You may remember we recently reported on the launch of Black Life just last week so this interview series is right on time and may help answer some of your questions. Check Part 1 of 3 ...
9 ways you can take advantage of this terrible economy (3)
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Written by Andrew Galasetti All right, we get it… Gas prices are high; the real estate market isn’t good, stocks are down, and many banks are in a mess. The media keeps drilling it into our heads like we had no idea. Despite their negativity this may actually be an excellent time to better your life and the lives of those around you. Tough times are some of the best times for people to become ...
How to mount a remote file system as a local drive in OS X - Simple Help (5)
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This tutorial will guide you through the process of setting up Macfusion. After installing Macfuse (easy) and then Macfusion (even easier), you’ll be able to mount a remote FTP or SSH host as a local drive. This allows you to access, read/view, write/edit and transfer files to and from your local hard drive to the remote one - as if it was local as well. Keep reading for the complete walk-through. First up, download MacFUSE ...
DVD Catalyst Rips DVDs to Friendly Formats in One Click [Featured Windows Download] (5)
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Windows only: Free application DVD Catalyst Free rips videos from DVDs to device-friendly formats for your iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, Xbox, smartphone, and more in one simple click. Normally we prefer previously mentioned HandBrake for this job, but DVD Catalyst Free is much friendlier if a quick and simple rip is all you're looking for. Either way, DVD Catalyst Free is worth a download. If it's not quite what you're looking for, check out our ...
First Look: SodaSnap Instant Postcards (1)
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Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone, App StoreMissing iCards? Well, SodaSnap hopes to fill the missing hole with their postcards for the iPhone. "SodaSnap Instant Postcards" is a a free application that does just that: creates postcards on-the-go. Just shoot a picture with your iPhone and SodaSnap lets you send it off as an e-mail postcard. You can choose a picture that is saved in your "Photos" library which allow folks with an iPod touch in ...
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