Category: Technology
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Notes: NY Tech Meetup April 2012
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Tonight was the April edition of New York Tech Meetup, hosted by friend Nate Westheimer. A few notes from the presentations. Also, if you couldn’t make it to the Skirball Center down at NYU, there are simulcasts right now: Simulcast of “April” NYTM at New Work City Simulcast of “April” NYTM at General Assembly The…
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Ark People Search in Beta – People Search Meets Social Network Ubiquity
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Today TechCrunch reported on Ark People Search, which recently got funding through yCombinator. Combining multiple social networks and online datasources, Ark lets you search for anyone who has a presence on the internet – both via publicaly accessible data as well as private social network you have access too. And there’s really no better time…
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Twitter Patents: Pull To Refresh?!
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Twitter has a patent on the smartphone staple interaction, pull to refresh. How can this be? Input associated with a scroll command may be received. Then, based on the scroll command, a scrollable refresh trigger may be displayed. Subsequently, the scrollable list of content items may be refreshed in response to determining, based on the…
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More SXSW Apps
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SXSW rages on, and so do the apps. A few more from today…. Hurricane Party – “Hurricane Party helps you find, share, and create spontaneous parties. Whether it’s an impromptu game of kickball or a wild night on the town, Hurricane Party is your backchannel to an unforgettable experience. It’s not about planning. It’s not about organizing.…
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Invasion of Omnisocial Geolocation Apps!
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With SXSW happening this week, the battle for app of the year begins. This year, I think the focus is going to be location aggrigating apps – apps that pull in geolocation data from multiple social networks, and combine them in a common map and feed. Here are a few top apps out there –…
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Delta + Amazon = Free In-Flight Shopping and Zero Productivity
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Great, now I’m going to come off my next Delta flight both behind on work AND broke. Luckily I won’t pay for shipping thanks to my Amazon Prime Account. Delta and Gogo Wireless will now offer free access to Amazon Shopping while in the air. From the press release: ATLANTA, March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ —…
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Explainer: Mom This is How Twitter Works
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Hah, this is great. Next time your luddite mother asks your in confusion what all this “twittering” is about, just send her over to this site. Jessica Hische lays it out nice and clear. Jessica’s Conclusion: Twitter is awesome, but while it seems like a relatively simple service, it is quite nuanced. I hope this…
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Inside Social Apps 2012: Trends in Social Game Product Development
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Brief notes from sitting in on the “Trends in Social Game Product Development” panel at Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco, CA. Trends in Social Game Product Development Brenda Garno Brathwaite, COO & Game Designer, Loot Drop, Inc. Bill Jackson, Creative Director, CastleVille, Zynga Dallas Sebastian Knutsson, Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder, King.com Mike…
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Conferencing in San Francisco
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For the next few weeks I’ll be living and working in San Francisco. Already, here are a few new things I’ve been introduced to: iOS App “Highlight” – Location based social app. Uses background location to correlate who else you’re physically near at a given moment, and provides a very basic interface with which to…
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Smartphone Walkie Talkie App Voxer Gets Reviewed on CNN
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Over the past few years I’ve been a user of iOS app Voxer. CEO Tom Katis is a friend of mine, and I’ve had a great time using the app through it’s successive generations and revisions. Lately, Voxer has been accelerating in its reach, and is now hitting the prime time, moving up the Apple…
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Microsoft, Thanks For Finally Getting Onboard with QR Codes
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Microsoft, thank you thank you for getting with the program here and supporting internationally standardized QR codes in with your proprietary tags. QR codes are just beginning to take hold here in the United States, and at the same time are being made obsolete by technologies like NFC, and location based payments like Square Wallet.…
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Crashplan Online Backup LOST MY ENTIRE BACKUP ARCHIVE
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After almost an entire week of not being able to backup to Crashplan because of “archive maintenance” on their part, I was informed today that instead of merely maintaining my backup archive, Crashplan LOST THE ENTIRE THING. That’s right, Crashplan lost all of my data, unrecoverably. It’s gone – my entire online backup archive of…
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The 2011 NYC Marathon Goes Social With Badges
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This year the NYC Marathon went social. In partnership with site Basno.com, they’re offering up digital marathon finisher badges, which confirm a person’s race finish, and provide an easy, social way to tell friends about the race. Badges seem to be the hot social currency lately, with many prominent sites beginning to offer users them as…
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iTunes Match With Large Libraries: Dual Library Partial Solution
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Following up on my recent frustrations with the new iTunes Match service having a 25,000 song limit on library size, Macworld has a quick, and obvious band-aid solution: Create two separate libraries. One main library with all of your content, and then one new library with only the 25,000 songs you want to have matched.
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Apple Launches iTunes Match – With 25,000 Song Limit
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Apple finally made its iTunes Match service available to the public today, coupled with the latest iTunes 10.5.1 update. Users may subscribe for $25/year, and have access to “all” of their iTunes music from the cloud – with a catch. In the fine print, you’ll see that the matching service is limited to 25,000 songs.…
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Staying In Touch on Halloween with GroupMe
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This year for Halloween, a group of about 15 of us got together for a massive Halloween party crawl. With the crazy Snowtober 2011 snow storm in NYC, and the packed party schedule of 5 different parties across town, it was important that we all stayed in contact throughout the night – both to collaborate…
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How To Enable Geofenced Notifications in Apple iOS 5
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Over the past few days after the release of iOS5, I’ve been eagerly trying to set up geofenced notifications. Previously I wrote about the release of geofencing in iOS5, and now I’ve had a bit of time to test geofenced notifications. It seems that the process is not quite as smooth as it could be,…
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Apples’s iOS 5 Finally Adds Geofencing
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New post for iOS 6 – Geofencing in iOS 6 == As I’ve been discussing for literally years, the concept of “Geofencing” – creating virtual fences around geographic points in order to trigger certain events when the barrier is crossed – is getting ready to change the way we’re productive, and the way we run…
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Using oEmbed for Dynamic, Futureproof Embedded Videos and Photos
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When writing and maintaining the codebase of my website, I’ve always tried to adhere the the highest degree of code standards compliance, flexibility, compatibility, and future maintainability and relevance. I’ve kept the use of plugins to a minimum, and have made sure that as much site content as possible is optimillay visible without the use…
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Mapnificent Visualizes and Answers “Where can I get to from here in how long?”
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Although not a completely new tool or concept, Mapnificent‘s method of visualizing public transportation timing and connections seems to be particularly compelling. The interface makes use of the Google Maps API, and overlays a simple set of controls to maniupulate the view of the data. Simply use a couple sliders to select your city, and…
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Communicate With Me – Securely.
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Freshly posted on my site is my shiny new 4096bit GPG Public Key. Use this key to send me encrypted, private messages and files that only I can decrypt. I used GPGTools GPG Keychain Access GUI for Mac OSX Lion to generate the the 4096 bit key, and am posting it in the root directory…
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PSFK Asks: Is Bitcoin The Most Dangerous Technological Project Since The Web Itself?
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PSFK Asks: Is Bitcoin The Most Dangerous Technological Project Since The Web Itself? Well, they could be, but wont.
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FastCustomer
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You know, it’s kind of pathetic that I actually relate with a product like this – that I’ve spent so many hours of my life waiting on hold to speak to a customer service rep or tech support that I feel the pull to streamline the process. But, I do. During years of tinkering with…
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At Long Last – The Return of Offline Gmail
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I love using Google Apps for my Calendar, Documents, and especially email. For Gmail, the interface is great, fast with keyboard shortcuts, and since it’s all online, it’s available everywhere and doesn’t tax my local system. And up until recently, for those times when I’m offline, I could still access my Gmail offline using Google…