Sol Young

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Day 5 - 7:30AM EDT, 10 TPM (Tweets Per Minute)…
Links: Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 - Day 4 - http://twitter.com/sol - http://solyoung.com

This morning’s Twitter experience has found some bugs in the system. Last night I added a few hundred friends but didn’t go through my email for add announcements… Doing that [...]

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The flow is going and it’s time for plumbing improvements and deeper details on this process…

Day 1
Day 2 

Image courtesy of Komax Systems
Day 3
The question most people have been asking is, “What is the flow like?” Many have described this amount of flow as unmanageable and anti-social. Here’s what I’ve learned first-hand by Day 3…
After wrapping [...]

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It’s day two of discovering and opening up the flow… (not to be confused with ‘Flow Theory‘)

A couple days ago, after months of thinking about how to consume more information, I was inspired by Scoble’s post to switch off of a standard HTTP Twitter API polling application (Twitterific) and move to a Jabber based client [...]

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As developers, if you’re building services your customers can share, you need to plan on announcement integration.
I keep thinking back to February when I wanted a better way to integrate Twitter. Others wonder about Twitter being a source of lost content, as Cartoon Barry describes well. If a visitor is on my site I want [...]

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Most of you know I rarely go out of my way to publicly voice such a negative opinion as I’m about to issue. Especially against a company for which: a) I hold stock, and b) I believe is one of the best large companies in Silicon Valley.
Today I signed up for Yahoo! Merchant Services for [...]

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