December 2007
37 posts
Online vacuum cleaner buying experience
From 10:04am to 11:43am today (thanks Google Web History), I scoured the Internet looking for vacuum cleaners with my credit card close at hand, intending to buy immediately. Our 15-yr old Hoover had just aspirated and shattered a mint-flavored Chap Stick and it was getting well past time for it to be replaced. Here’s how I ended up purchasing a vacuum cleaner today: I went to a local...
Woodstock
When Andrew Sullivan wrote in the Atlantic recently about “a nonviolent civil war that has crippled America at the very time the world needs it most” and went on to explain: While Clinton was substantively a moderate conservative in policy, his countercultural origins led to the drama, ultimately, of religious warfare and even impeachment […] and his personal foibles only...
Writing for the Google platform
I’m surprised that I haven’t seen more written about Google’s experimental move to open up Gmail to 3rd party developers. Already it has enabled some interesting extensions of Gmail. (Thanks Adam for the link.) We have one too - Phil was an early adopter of the new API. It’s not hard to imagine that if this model were adopted across more Google properties it could unleash a...
“The data that drives all of the most valuable web services is contributed by...”
– Brad Burnham, “Google’s Data Asset” (read the whole article, it’s worth it)
Also, Danger...
On a blogging tear this morning - so many things to comment on especially in the mobile industry today. Mobile technology expert Adam MacBeth highlighted the Danger IPO news to me yesterday - wow they have burned through over $134 million already! - but I don’t see how those guys are going to make it with their key technologists already working for Google and, most importantly, with the most...
“In RIM’s latest quarter, 34% of its devices were sold to consumers. / For...”
– .. given this and this I keep wondering when MSFT will throw in the towel on their mobile efforts and just buy RIMM already.
Best bio ever
The Slog just reminded me of a blog written by a guy who has just about the best bio ever: “Goldy” is an accidental activist who stumbled into politics in 2003 with a satirical statewide initiative to officially proclaim WA’s serial anti-tax initiative sponsor, Tim Eyman, “a horse’s ass.” A conscientious political press corp, weary of Eyman’s outrageous...
Google gPhone Development in Boston →
..in the 2 pts make a line dept, I’ve needed to look this up a couple times now when people ask me about the rumor that Google’s phone development is not entirely based out of the bay area (rumors of Boston, Kirkland/Seattle, etc. are pervasive). Now I’ll have a place to refer to it. I’m pretty sure there are other links to this info as well (right Adam?)
Partial survey results
We asked 10 questions in our recent mergelab survey (because that’s how many SurveyMonkey gives you for free). 4 questions were product-related, which I won’t share here because of all the spies reading my blog. 2 were text boxes to write stuff down, which I won’t share here to protect anonymity. And 4 of them were sort of “demographic” except that I didn’t want...
Dashboards
For skiers/snowboarders: http://cascadecrud.com/ (thanks Mark!) For politics junkies: Yahoo Election Dashboard Bye bye productivity…
Subprime Crisis Claims California: Fiscal... →
.. and increasingly it looks like this campaign will be held with a collapsing economy as a background.
What You Need To Know About Amazon SimpleDB →
(Thanks Charles!)
SEO Killing Google? →
.. Pito is going to be proved right: SEO is slowly but surely killing Google and social or reputation-based search systems will eventually take over (or get incorporated into Google, depending on how quickly they can adapt/acquire)
from the 'what will they think of next' dept →
for real
Uh oh
You know things aren’t looking so good when the WSJ has the following headines back to back on Monday and Tuesday: Monday: U.S. Mortgage Crisis Rivals S&L Meltdown - Toll of Economic Shocks May Linger for Years; A Global Credit Crunch Tuesday: UBS’s Subprime Hit Deepens Credit Worries - Bank Gets $11.5 Billion from Singapore, Others; ‘Unknowable’ Bottom? We gots...
“Iterate in the marketplace, not in the conference... →
Facebook Messages: Small Change, Big Impact. →
Finally! Facebook sends you the content of the messages you receive (rather than just a notification). — girlkate indeed. about time.
Laurel's awesome Beijing photoset on Flickr →
Twitter is *way* better than Facebook
Kate is writing a neat series of posts about the joys of twitter, but there’s one thing she said that I have to comment on: Twitters and Facebook status updates are almost the same thing. I disagree .. Twitter updates are way better. Here’s why: In my experience, people feel compelled to write slightly more interesting stuff in twitter. I attribute this to the slight but important...
Giuliani's Foreign Policy Adviser Sounds like a... →
re: previous post
in there any place for humor in the race for...
gotta give credit to huckabee for a using bit of self-deprecating humor vs. the rest of the pack acting all serious. (memo to others: appearing on snl or letterman doesn’t count.) will be interesting to see if it works. slog is having lots of fun with him but let’s keep it in perspective: he’s nowhere near as scary as giuliani and podhoretz.
power out for 6 hours. ugh. thanks to the seattle city light crews for fixing the blown transformer outside in the freezing cold.
“You’re not fooling anyone, you filthy pervert.”
– Emma Clarke (3rd one down)
