…Standing Mobile w/ Kevin Cawley cuz I can’t sit still
For all you iPhone junkies out there, take a look at what Fabrizio and company have cooked up. I have been lurking around the Mobile Open Source blog for a while and am always impressed with the stuff they are cranking out and discussing. Nicely done once again!
Ran across this after launching my NewsFriends - NewsGator Facebook application:
hmm… not sure who benefits form this (okay, well I do know) but still got a little laugh from it.
Ah…. just kidding. I really don’t use FB that much…. yet! But I clearly see the massive potential here. Once we move past the “craplets” (took that one from Seth Goldstein) and we will move on, I suspect FB is gonna be a place I and many others spend lots more time. Facebook is only going to get mo better and better over the next year or so.
After that, well we’ll have to wait and see 
Looks like MSFT “won” the right to invest a big bucket of money in Facebook for a share of the pie…
Over the last week there has been lots of speculation over who was going to win the “battle” - Google or Microsoft. But was this really a battle or something inflated by bloggers and journalists or a play by Google to inflate the price? MSFT has had deep relationships with FB in the ad space, and Google has announced they are going to open up the Google social graph around iGoogle and Orkut via an API in what seems like a direct response to FB’s success.
This was a no-brainer for MSFT and Facebook, and it seems like a great fit.
So it happened again… the first time I chuckled. By the tenth time it annoyed the shit out of me. This time it was three guys in a Four Runner. They pull up beside me (I am on my road bike) and they start shouting “Go Lance… you’re #1 - can I get your autograph”. Hah!
I give them the look like “grow up you boneheads”, they stop for a minute, speed up, and start taunting again.
Next time you feel like jacking with a cyclist… don’t do it:
ps… okay, maybe it’s just punishment for all the stupid shit I did when I was a kid. Okay, I guess I can laugh again.
When I first moved to Colorado almost 13 years ago I worked odd jobs while “trying” to find a job in the oh so exciting field of Mechanical Engineering (thank God I found Computer Science). In the interim, I climbed lots of rocks and logged lots of miles on my bicycle in and around Colorado and did whatever necessary to pay the bills.
During one of those odd job stints I met a real interesting character, David - I can’t recall his last name. David was a unique cat, he was about 6-4 and a buck thirty soaking wet with long hair and an off the charts laid back approach to life. David and I didn’t have a whole lot in common, but he was really sharp and we had some great conversations. I enjoyed hanging out and rapping about all sorts of shit.
David thought he was going to live forever… no, seriously he thought he was going to live forever! I didn’t believe him.
But I did learn some valuable lessons… one was the benefits of a cleansing fast. I have done this off and on ever since. David would fast on water precisely mixed with lemon slices, cayenne pepper, and pure maple syrup. David fasted way too often which was evident in his rail thin physique. But I am good for a fast once or twice a year. It’s that time again. Maybe I can live forever too
Just read that the rumored GPhone may actually be an attempt by Google to create a mobile OS:
“The essential point is that Google’s strategy is to lead the creation of an open-source competitor to Windows Mobile,” said an industry executive, who did not want his name used because his company has had contacts with Google. “They will put it in the open-source world and take the economics out of the Windows Mobile business.”Others say they believe that another major goal of the phone project is to loosen the control that carriers have over the software and services that are available on their networks.
I am wondering if this rumor is just a rumor… cuz it don’t make no sense! We already have mobile Linux and carriers are not gonna rush to use a Google OS/platform and give away precious ad revenue. In addition, I can already get to Google mobile properties from pretty much any mobile device either thru the browser, client apps in some cases (maps for example) and SMS. Yahoo and Microsoft already have a mobile application platform so if Google is just building a platform on top of Linux that has already been done. Like I said it doesn’t make sense. I bet there’s more…
Sling Media was acquired by EchoStar… great news for a really cool company with a great product. I dig that Sling Media has always had a strong interest in mobile. They have had a Windows Mobile client for a quite a while - it is pretty slick. And recently I believe they announced a version for Palm and intentions for a J2ME client.
I got my first Sling box from my friend Andy. He let me borrow it - it was one of the original batch and the streams were unencrypted - Windows Media format. I was trying to hack the thing to see if I could pull off a stream from my cable box, pump into a media server, and broadcast that stream live (their software limits you to a one-one peering). Yeh, I know the pirating implications are not admirable, but it was a fun project. That led to another project, which led to a dead end… but valuable lessons learned along the way.
Anyway, congrats to the team, local investor Ryan McIntyre, and Jason Hirschhorn from Sling who I met through NewsGator.
Is Mint right for me? Mint won the TechCrunch40, and I certainly would love to have better control over my finances… Quicken & MS Money just take too much effort.
Mint looks cool - check out Scoble’s video for a quick overview.
There are a few problems I have though…
I am gonna give Mint a go… Aaron Patzer, the CEO, seems genuine and the product’s value prop looks really good. Mint has a great personality! It looks like Aaron went out in old-school entrepreneur style and built an elegant thingie that solved a real pain that he was having. That’s cool!
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Over the weekend I took the kiddos to the Denver zoo… Holly got a well deserved day off for hiking and coffee with friends.
We had a fantastic time seeing all sorts of cool animals, making cotton candy messes, and taking numerous laps on the carousel. It was all courtesy of NewsGator… that is pretty cool!
On Friday Veronica put together a package for each family that was going to the zoo. Emma, Asher, and Ava each had their own goodie bag full of goodness. They were totally psyched when I got home on Friday. NewsGator also gave us a very gracious amount of zoo bucks so we could eat cotton candy ’till we turned blue. It was a great time. Thanks NewsGator!
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