August 2008
19 posts
Complaint #272
whitewhine:
“Internet on my 3G iPhone is just as slow as my old Blackberry. Remind me why I spent all this money to ‘upgrade?’”
-Whine by Me
Replacing Blackberry with 2G, I’d say this whine pretty much reflects my own experience.
Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put... →
The cell phone model applied to electric cars. Brilliant stuff.
It's not a glitch. Tiger does walk on water. →
Electronic Arts doesn’t make mistakes. That’s clear from this nifty bit of customer outreach. What happened was: A player of EA’s Tiger Woods PGA Tour ‘08 found a glitch in the game…
Verisign's openID and password manager
“Verisign’s new Personal Identity Portal (PIP from now on) isn’t the sexiest application out there to help you manage passwords. But it has Verisign’s strong reputation for security behind it, and it is a surprisingly easy way to manage website credentials.”
via TechCrunch
This isn’t a bad product, but for now I am extremely happy with 1Password on the Mac, which already has...
Muxtape Shuts Down to Resolve RIAA Conflict - News... →
Uh-oh. I hope they get back up soon.
Intelligent guessing, or lack thereof
When I went to Nike.com today to watch this sweet olympics commerical (thanks for the link AdWeek!), I had to answer regional questions. First, my language (English), then what part of the world I was in (North America). It isn’t hard to tell, using my IP address, that I am currently in San Francisco. I wonder why Nike does not make this guess and bring me to their North American, English...
Where Are We In The Hype Cycle? →
New technologies tend to follow different trajectories of hype, hope, and despair as they are discovered by different groups of people and finally adopted (or ignored) by consumers. Gartner…
“Use Google Alerts and Summize RSS Feeds on your product name and your competitor...”
– if you aren’t doing this with your startup, you are making a big mistake
TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Aiming your startup at the US - without leaving the UK
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I’m continually amazed with the results I get out of Summize searches.
Case Study: Bank Of America →
totesfawkward:
An interesting brief history of BofA’s Keep the Change program.
I was just having an argument about this with two people. I still contend it isn’t anything special, but this case study is an interesting peek into the history of the program. I can see why it is popular, however. I just think there are better ways to save. Given the miniscule interest earned in a savings...
“I believe constraints are key to building great web apps. I am not sure about...”
– Fred Wilson
Structure
Seth Godin has an interesting piece up about the word “architecting” (not a real verb) vs “designing”:
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…So I reserve “architect” to describe the intentional arrangement of design elements to get a certain...
“Why do you think World pop music is so dominated by just two countries (the UK...”
– via an email discussion Anthony was having.
Most marketing dollars?…any other ideas?
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It is likely that there is no single answer to the question. I thought at first that it could be because the US and UK are two of the world’s biggest markets. What may be more...
Kick it into touch - the johnson banks thought for... →
Nice overview of subway maps. There are a lot of better ways to do NYC.