I saw OPK
2 Oct 2008 6:00pm GMT I attended the Churchill Club last night as Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, the CEO of Nokia, was there to sit down with Rich Karlgaad, the publisher of Forbes for a chat (it was supposed to be with Walt Mossberg, but he bailed because of bronchitis). I got to sit up front at a reserved Nokia table (w00t). The picture above is of OPK (as he's called) on the left, and you'll notice a couple of E71s on the table in front of me jammed into the sugar packet holders videoing the whole thing. (That reminds me...
The problem with not posting regularly...
1 Oct 2008 6:48pm GMT Is that blogging is hit or miss. It's a numbers game - at least it is for me. I spew excess mental activity here, and then once in a while some of it turns out to be useful or significant. The times when I sit down to write the Great American Blog Post, I generally fail miserably and no one cares. The times I sit down and bang out something from the gut, without much filtering or "forced analysis" is when I create something worth reading. The problem is that if you start to slack off, like I...
Jealous!
27 Sep 2008 5:54pm GMT I have to say how insanely jealous I am of Twitter's success. I had written apps like it a few times using SMS as a base - simple and short posts to channels sorts of apps - like a more dynamic Upoc. But I didn't ever stumble on the right combo of features that Twitter did to make it interesting/viral/compelling. In fact, I had a meeting about Twitter years ago at Yahoo! where I remember explicitly saying that I thought it was a great service (as I had done something similar), but that it...
Random new stuff I'm using
25 Sep 2008 8:36pm GMT Here's a few quick bits about some new apps I'm using now that I have full time job again. First, I'm back on a Mac. This was mostly because my coworkers are ex-Apple and/or use a Mac, so I went with the flow. This is not without pain, however. Specifically, I hate, hate, hate the Dock. I've been using a Task Bar since Windows 95, and that's a *long* time - I even set up my Ubuntu box I now use regularly to mimic a standard Windows desktop still. The Task Bar paradigm is just more useful and a...
The iPhone Crapp Store?
23 Sep 2008 5:41am GMT Just a week ago, I subscribed to Pinch Media's Recently Added iPhone Apps feed, which updates with new apps as they appear on iTunes. I'm not exactly sure how they get that data, as the iTunes XML data is encrypted I think, so it's actually quite an interesting hack they've done. I figured it'd be a good way of keeping tabs on some interesting iPhone apps. To my astonishment I've seen updates pass through my reader for over 450 apps in just 7 days. Ho-ly. Shit. That's a lot of apps. And you...