Sure signs that things have ch…
Sure signs that things have changed, #3 You never really get anything done anymore. "I’ll be right back to this…" No, you won’t.
Archive for the ‘ideas’ Category.
6 pounds 13 ounces, 19 inches….
6 pounds 13 ounces, 19 inches. Born at 3:18 on 4/19
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Just the face-melters left on …
Just the face-melters left on gh2-e… I guess once you get to this point it *should* be possible. Not looking forward to freebird.
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[http://tinyurl.com/5ogz5s] - …
[http://tinyurl.com/5ogz5s] - Check this out!
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Trying to get stuff done befor…
Trying to get stuff done before my wife goes into labor
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Throw me a fucking super duper…
Throw me a fucking super duper nerd party. I just beat guitar hero 1 on expert.
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Trying out twitter on Twinkle….
Trying out twitter on Twinkle… Glad it has a setting to dial down the proximity distance… This may be a killer app.
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The Real News network
The Real News network appears to be a non-profit news gathering and reporting organization… actually, hey, that makes a lot of sense to me. Just the premise of a non-profit news organization highlights a big difference between itself and FOR-profit news organizations. Even PBS, which I respect and rely on for daily coverage of news, takes government subsidies. So while I believe PBS does a pretty good job, I think there’s definitely room in our marketplace of ideas for another independent voice. Will I donate? Maybe. It *is* tax-deductible…
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Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius… oh oh dr. zaius…
I guess you can take Charlton Heston’s gun now.
Technorati Tags: you’vefinallymadeamonkeyoutofme
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imatrix / QR Codes on the iPhone
So this QR code reading program showed up on appTapp’s Installer today.
Ok, I just realized that you have to go to the preferences for this application and turn OFF “capture only” for things to really start to work as designed. I think that setting is a debugging tool since this is still early days for this app.
Wait a second, didn’t I just see this the other day on the processing.org website under contributed libraries?
http://www.shiffman.net/p5/pqrcode/ … aha!
Ok, so I just tested this out. The QR Code library for processing can read the iMatrix codes, but iMatrix doesn’t seem to understand QR Codes, despite being incredibly similar. I’d even hazard a guess that the iMatrix code is a valid form of the QRCode… (obviously, since it works. 
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So I guess the scheme here is to be a repository for iphone readable QRCodes? Since it doesn’t seem to want to read things like this:
Which you can generate here: http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
update: It’s fixed now, and that QR code works great!
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Herskovitz: Are the corporate suits ruining TV?
One of my brothers in law, Justin, works for Marshall Herskovitz, co-creator/producer/writer of many excellent entertainment products that you’ve probably consumed. Mr. Herskovitz wrote an Op-Ed piece for the LA Times analyzing our state of affairs in the world of big budget content creation:
Because the business of television has become an exclusive club, closed to new members, some producers are turning to the Internet to have a voice. And, of course, the Big Six are doing everything they can to own and control that as well. Already, it’s impossible to make an “overall deal” — the time-honored arrangement in which producers are kept on retainer to develop shows for a particular network — without agreeing to be exclusive to the network on the Internet as well as television. The logic of this defies all laws of economics; producers pledge fealty to networks because they (the producers) don’t have the millions it takes to shoot, distribute and broadcast their own programs on television. Producing for the Internet, on the other hand, costs as little as $30,000 an hour, and “broadcasting” costs much less. Virtually anyone can do it.
We’ve been talking about this for so long that it hardly sounds like a revelation to me anymore. Maybe it’s my close proximity to one of the major epicenters of new content delivery, but realizing that the internet is your next hub of entertainment just isn’t a new idea for me.
Aha, but, what *is* interesting here is that this is Marshall Herskovitz trumpeting this concept… in the LA f’ing Times!
Uh oh, Big Media. Some of the smarter (and, honestly, richer) kids are tired of you bullying them and they’re taking their ball to their own back yard, which isn’t as small as you remembered it being. And they have their own playground. And cameras. And fat internet pipes. Uh oh.
I think Mr. Zwick and Mr. Herskovitz’s challenge is to not fall victim the very situation they despise once their plans start to pan out in the direction they want. The fact that they’re debuting to MySpace, and not “MySpace, Facebook, and iTunes” goes to show that we have a long way to go still. The institutional gatekeepers seem to exist in every mature system, don’t they?
Anyway, I do wish them the best of luck with their quarterlife project! I’ll be watching.
Technorati Tags: herskovitz, quarterlife, zwick
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3rd party apps
Let’s take a look at what happens when a device is awesome but is overly controlled:
General Magic magic cap
Here was an amazing device for it’s time. It was a modem-enabled handheld mini computer platform with shopping, AOL, apps, etc. It was way cool. Handwriting recognition, touch screen, etc. Cool cool cool. Very cool. Annnd Closed. So it died.
Apple Newton / Message Pad
Died prematurely. Mindshare was taken over by people who learned their lessons and started from scratch. (whoops! no, wait, nevermind.)
Danger hiptop / Sidekick
Here was an amazing device for it’s time. Awesome hardware platform, innovative OS, USB, IR… fast graphics for gaming (for it’s time)… annnnd closed. Then open! Then closed. Then open, but only if you jumped through a ridiculous amount of hoops to get a “Developer account” and program in some obscure language that had no Mac compiler. So it died. (to me anyway)
Handspring / Palm Treo
Here was an amazing device for it’s time. Color screen, touch screen, built in keyboard, GPRS, heck, it was even hackable. Some of the hacks were so good that they made them into regular features, if you could endure the firmware upgrade process and not screw anything up. The problem here was that they were trying to staple on phone functionality onto a Palm device. And that worked out ok in some instances, but overall the OS is butt-ugly. Definitely stuck in the 90’s. I’m sure the paradigms were about as good as anyone could expect considering that nobody had really ever done anything beyond it at the time. This was the first handheld device that actually explored some of it’s vast capabilities pretty well, thanks to 3rd party application developers like http://chocopoolp.com. Developing for the Treo was essentially like developing for the palm… IE, on Windows exclusively. The treo’s problem is that there are a bazillion applications for Palm devices, but the reliability on the *treo* was pretty shoddy. So, you could install an application and wind up with an endless restart loop (*cough*AIM*cough*) Add insult to injury that every application that *was* reliable was $20. AND there were things on the desktop you could *NEVER* remove… Lots of great potential, but due to several organically grown problems, this is doomed to be overshadowed by something greater. So it died. (to me anyway).
Apple iPhone
well, certainly here is an amazing device. The hardware platform is like from another planet. But it’s a planet that we already have people from who live on earth. So the native application 3rd party developer scene took off like a…rocket, I suppose. There’s so much freaking potential in this thing, it hurts just to think about it. Arguably there were only a handful of amazing programs that came out while 1.0.4 firmware was available, and a whole lot more that were impressive, if not exactly amazing. Factory standard applications are adequate to amazing in most cases, and anemic in other cases.
3rd party developers are ITCHING to utilize the full potential of this device, and, once again, decisions are being made to control the experience. I hope to god that minds are changed at the top about this. This is an amazing device, and it’s true power will never be exploited if the doors are kept firmly shut and all they let people do is look in the window.
I want my multitouch Turntable app for my iphone. Remind me why this is a bad idea?
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James asked me if I twitter, to which I said “no I don’t, not yet.” Now I do. I love the documentation page titled Make It Stop:Turning Off Text Message Notifications.
Twitter: Microblogging. With Optional OMGWTF Phone Bills.
You can tie in quicksilver to twitter for even-faster-status-updatey-goodness, too. Pretty cool!
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my phone and computer need better integration
Here are a couple things I regularly wish I could do with my computer and treo 650 phone:
* copy and paste text to and from my phone to and from my computer
* drag and drop URLs onto my phone
* drag and drop google maps locations onto my phone
I can already drag and drop photos, music, and video onto my phone using the missing sync, but… dang. I sure wish I could treat my browsers and clipboards on my treo and computer like they’re both working for me.
