Twicecream - a fake service to demonstrate a point about single sign-on…
In web 2.0 there is a determination to screw up potentially great services. It’s my number #1 pet peeve with software development these days. Here’s a fictitious example of a service you might create…
You’ve built a service that automatically Twitters your geo-position and the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Etiquette'
How to build a really successful web 2.0 service on top of another service and screw it all up
July 30th, 2008 ·
Tags: Architecture · Etiquette · Flickr · GPS · Life Streaming · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · SnapTweet · Social Networking · Software Development · TwitPic · Twitter · Web Services
If you’re that important, they’ll find you again
July 23rd, 2008 ·
On Twitter, the numbers for friends (people you follow) and followers (people who follow you) are being misreported. The most common tweet today is about one’s follower count dropping off. This is telling of your personality, and not in a good way.
If you’re complaining about your follower count dropping off without your realizing your friend [...]
Tags: Economics · Etiquette · Flow · Life Streaming · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · Social Networking · Twitter
Philly Geek Dining
July 14th, 2008 ·
I’ve been wanting to organize a meet-up in Philadelphia for a while. Combine that with having a list of 30+ restaurants stored as a note on my phone, wanting and waiting to try, and you get opportunity. An opportunity for the geek in us…
So I’m finally kicking this off in an official manner. The [...]
Tags: Etiquette · Social Networking
Mobile phone GPS a security risk? Only to those who follow you
June 25th, 2008 ·
Steven Hodson, in a post over on Mashable, describes security risks and the waste of information that mobile phone GPS use brings (when pinpointing and announcing our locations). He poses some extremely valid points in regards to announcing one’s geolocation via Twitter, Brightkite, or FriendFeed being useless noise.
Telling people via a highly conversational medium such [...]
Tags: Etiquette · Facebook · Flying · FriendFeed · GPS · Geolocation · Jaiku · Life Streaming · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · Pownce · Security · Social Networking · Twitter · Wearing
Mobile Phone GPS - Where are we going?
June 22nd, 2008 ·
Most smartphones slated for release over the next 12-months include a GPS receiver, built in. After that, it will be a marked failure to not include a GPS in a phone. The functionality that comes with GPS is outstanding - mapping, directions, location based experiences, etc. We’re about to enter an age of advancement in [...]
Tags: BlackBerry · Bold · Etiquette · Facebook · Geolocation · Jaiku · Life Streaming · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · Nokia · Pownce · Prediction · Social Networking · Software Development · Twitter · Wearing · Web Services · iPhone · iPhone 3G
Homeless, Keyless, Wednesday
June 18th, 2008 ·
Today was strange…
Image courtesy of Malingering on Flickr - it is not of either of the homeless men I met today.
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I started off the day by going for a great morning run. On my way home I realized my house key fell out of my shorts pocket, so I was looking around on the ground [...]
Tags: Economics · Etiquette · Homelessness · Philadelphia · Running · Twitter · YouTube · del.icio.us
Why I’m not opposed to rising fuel prices - Philip Greenspun’s electric car post
May 27th, 2008 ·
Image of Ford Reflex, a concept hybrid vehicle with solar panels on the roof
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Philip Greenspun, professor of electrical engineering at MIT (and an avid traveler and fellow aviator), has an outstanding post. He explains some simple math behind replacing every passenger vehicle in America for electric cars. The resulting cost: Zero.
Link to Professor Greenspun’s post
We’re [...]
