October 2009
68 posts
Can I include a reference to a Twitter list? Users invented a @twitter reference, so will it be @user/list ?
2 days after Google Maps Navigation on #Android 2.0 #Eclair was presented $TOM2 and $GRMN are still in trouble.
Social Search, #Android 2.0, Maps Navigation, Music Search… long line of fine products from Google this week.
Hm… @techcrunch returning 403 errors instead of pages.
#Android fans, rejoice: Droid is here and it’s the best one so far: http://j.mp/engadget-droid
ARES i-X rocket test flight went perfectly. NASA seems to have 100% test coverage now. ;-)
The Space Shuttle successor, ARES i-X, about to launch. Will it crash as every gen during test flight before did? http://j.mp/nasatv
RT Mr. Terminator terminates a bill with a middle finger: http://j.mp/3kS863 It’s highly unlikely this happened by chance.
Mr. Terminator terminates a bill with a middle finger: http://j.mp/4pM4Pl It’s highly unlikely this happened by chance.
New mantra: Break to Build
Want to see the boss-key of Web 2.0 age? Look at Spreadtweet, Twitter disguised as a spreadsheet. http://j.mp/4dp9fM
Nice, #Android 2.0 is here: http://j.mp/android-2 Bluetooth, multi-accounts, multi-touch, sync API, camera improvements…
Programming w/o diagrams is like cooking w/o timers. #quote
Word of the day: balkanize - to break up into smaller and often hostile units. How true! The best part? Word exists since 1919!
wonders if #Facebook’s “people you (used to) know” blend with #FriendFeed’s “people you may want to know”?
Babbler, Facebook #Android app says: “null wants to be your friend”. null was NEVER my friend.
favorite button of the day: Ignore on #Facebook
Serbian football legend Piksi still in form - scores as a coach (volley from 50m): http://j.mp/piksi-scores #viral
Welcoming @timberners_lee to www 2.0. I guess he tried Google #Wave as well.
wonders what’s the most lucrative 1- or 2-char .de domain? http://j.mp/4wwcYN
had a fantastic chili con carne at work. Good #food! Kudos to chef @mcflyhh! Now, where’s that cup of coffeine?
I didn’t see this coming - #Android RATS (not rats!) go to battlefields: http://j.mp/android-rats
waving to my ex-band mate from my Hamburg HQ & embedded Twitter stream says: My rule #1:”If u don’t go, u don’t know” (T. Friedman) True!
It’s not about Motorola Droid vs. iPhone 3GS competition. It’s about much bigger stir to happen in smartphone market. #Android
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Motorola Droid will be the 1st #Android phone w/ the same CPU as Apple iPhone. Competition finally! #Eclair makes it sweeter.
“#Android adoption is about to explode. You have all the necessary conditions. (12 devices, 26 countries, 32 carriers)” - Eric Schmidt
One thing is sure: chips are getting smaller/faster. So should #Android phones with newer ARM and OMAP cores: http://j.mp/android-arm-omap
Esp. in the morning, before Sun rises, people going to work look like ants. They should try behaving like bumblebees. Active yet social.
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Funny truth about advertising and people’s perception of ads.
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wonders if microbloggers will go bezerk for micropigs. http://j.mp/micropig
#Google & its creative ways to turn people’s cognitive surplus into something they will turn into revenue Behold: http://j.mp/building-maker
Got talent? Here’s what Google & other companies (can) do to keep it: http://j.mp/brain-drain-prevention
The Newzealander who created a http://j.mp/micropig to life hit the jackpot! Talk about creationism not being lucrative. ;-)
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How companies keep their employees motivated
This short options menu is short but pretty much sums up the options for Google which is suffering from the biggest brain drain so far in 2009.
Its worth emphasizing: you can replace Google with company X (say, your company’s name) and Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL with A, B and C (i.e. competitor companies’ names).
How does Google continue to keep the troops motivated and excited about...
“If you’re not breaking things, you’re not moving fast enough” - Mark Zuckerberg. Listen to the young wiseguy! #quote #facebook
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What economics really is
“Have you ever seen a preference? If you have, please take a picture of it for me. Since we like to assert that economics is an empirical science, we would like the theoritical primitives to be observable, at least in principle, otherwise we’re only engaged in a very mathematically rigorous form of theology.” David Ahn’s PhD microeconomics course notes.
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My #MacBook Pro gave its flowery version of #BSoD. The need to use an external non-Apple keyboard was too much for its “ego”. #macosx #fail
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Obama elected president Jan 20. Nobel Peace Prize submission deadline Feb 1. Fast! (via @milosbozovic) http://j.mp/nobel-pp-process
Serbia thrashes Romania with 5:0 and qualifies for World Cup 2010 in style. :-) #football
Barack Obama won Nobel Peace Prize. Now it’s even more likely world’s coming to an end in 2012. http://j.mp/nobel-peace-2009 #wtf
Lame Windows 7 #ad, lame party: http://j.mp/windows7-party Smart they disabled YouTube comments. Not here: http://j.mp/2hDhRz #fail
Motorola DEXT available in UK: http://j.mp/motorola-dext-uk #Android #Motoblur
eating @cyanogen #Donut on my ADP1. Tasty #Android FAST food! :-)
eating @cyanogen #Donut on my ADP1. Tasty FAST food - yummy! :-)
Into drums or drum’n’bass? You won’t believe this: http://j.mp/jojo-live-dnb #music
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“You’re not here to write code; you’re here to ship products.” - so true. Netscape source code however? Carbonara! re: http://ff.im/9jinK