November 2011
5 posts
I have moved to: http://youngmania.tumblr.com →
Google X →
Swiped this from Daring Fireball
Among the items that could be connected: a garden planter (so it could be watered from afar); a coffee pot (so it could be set to brew remotely); or a light bulb (so it could be turned off remotely). Google said in May that by the end of this year another team planned to introduce a Web-connected light bulb that could communicate wirelessly with Android...
How iPads, phones & sensors will redefine our... →
“New devices have become purely ‘personal assistants’ that fit into our lives rather than the other way around. Future of technology is to become far more immersed and subtle, even hidden. Something that is so intuitive that when used it is so natural we don’t even register the use,” says Wilkinson.
I find this analagous to print media. When the average reader reads a book, they don’t...
The Rise Of Pinterest And The Shift From Search To... →
If Pinterest can (1) get its users to take pictures of things in the real world with its mobile app and post them online with data and (2) leverage image-tagging tools such as Stipple and help bypass intent-based search on just a small fraction of online transactions, it could be a huge cultural and financial success. This is the promise of Pinterest. Of course, there’s a long way to go and...
Forgot about the Kinect?
All this recent talk about Apple TV is bothering me. As far as I’m concerned, it’s not even vaporware, considering Apple hasn’t even acknowledged its existence.
But the rumors have started to link Siri into the picture. How voice rec. and AI will influence the way we watch TV. This is where I have to stop and say:
… what.the.fuck.
SiriSeriously?
Forget about the...
October 2011
14 posts
Droid Razr
As I’m collecting my thoughts on the differences between iOS and Android, I can’t help but be bothered by the mockery of Android that is this new ‘phone’.
Bottom line is this; Motorola makes shitty products. The original Droid was a piece of crap. Xoom was a failure. Nobody picked up on the Atrix (though, I’ll have to agree it was an awesome concept). Worst of all, I...
Verizon Starting Motorola Droid RAZR Pre-Orders... →
So? Who cares?
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iOS vs Android
Just received my iPhone 4S over the weekend and have been spending a lot of time with it, hence the lack of posts in this blog. Over the next few months, as I get accustomed to iOS, I’ll be blogging about my observations and thoughts in comparison to Android.
Just some background; I used the HTC Droid Incredible for almost 18 months. Unlike a lot of current iPhone users, I was...
Dropbox.com
“So Houston must combat a MySpace-like implosion by spending a lot of his war chest on ubiquity. He’s protecting his flank against Google via a new deal with phonemaker HTC, which will make Dropbox the default cloud storage option on every one of its Android phones. Deals with six other phone firms are almost inked; PC and television makers are next. Houston has hired a team to tailor...
“Their success will continue — not at expense of each other but at the expense of...”
– Om on New versus Old
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The demise of tech companies occur not because of competition, but because of their inability to continuously innovate.
After all, what’s the point of old tech?
Busy
Swamped with work today. Hopefully will be able to post a little something on iPhone 4S sales over the weekend.
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LocalResponse →
“He says people who go to the effort to tell the world where they’re shopping will welcome the direct overture for offers from those retailers.”
WSJ piece; LocalResponse Raises $5 Million For Its Twitter Ads
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Localresponse operates by searching for key business names (like ‘I’m at McDonalds now’ or ‘Chillin at Baohaus now’) or geo-tagged...
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Lot 18 →
“Lot18, a flash wine and gourmet food sales site, is on track to generate $25 million gross revenue this year, a source close to the company tells us.”
Businessinsider; 11-Month-Old Wine Site Lot18 Is Generating $25 Million This Year
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It’s pretty amazing how they’re generating this amount of revenue in less than a year of existence. They closed a Series B at...
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Cash Crunch?
Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making. But I cannot remember a time when we have gotten more inbound traffic. It is not just coming from entrepreneurs. It is coming from angels, seed investors, VCs, lawyers, accountants, friends, aunts, uncles, you name it. I’m waiting for the guy who sits at the front desk in our building to pass me a business plan on...
Bubble
It’s an asynchronous chat room for people talking about the same subject, or working in the same coworking space, and it’s heavily integrated with Twitter–so if you work in General Assembly and you want to share the blog post you just wrote, you could post in the General Assembly Bubble and tweet the post at the same time.
Betabeat article: Founder Loses $100 K. On His First Startup,...
The next Steve Jobs
While there may never be another Jobs, there are others out there tinkering in basements and garages who may create new systems and devices. There also Jobs’ former rivals who had made their own mark.
This article debating who is the next big innovator after Jobs.
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I believe Bezos is the only legit guy on the list (Thiel is a hedge fund guy, cmon; Zuckerberg = awkward guy; Page and...
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Closed vs. Open
To repeat myself: You don’t have to work very hard to find things about Steve Jobs to dislike. You aren’t obligated to give the company he co-founded any money. You can even root against it, and take pleasure in its failures. But all Jobs ever did was make products that people were free to choose or ignore. Stallman and Raymond, however, seem to be confident that they understand what’s good for...
Inaugural post
I need a place to put my thoughts about issues related to tech. Writing these thoughts down will help refine and define the way I think about things.
First real post coming in a bit.