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Initial iCloud Thoughts

As expected Apple jumped into the cloud-based music game yesterday when Steve Jobs announced iCloud. While I download iTunes and update my iPad to try out some of the features that are available now, here are a few thoughts on the announcements. It’s about time that there will be iPad synching via wifi. The mere [...]

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Review: Music Beta By Google

Last month Google announced their cloud-based music service Music Beta by Google, why it isn’t Google Music or GMusic I don’t know, because no one is going to be calling it by a name that is meaningless when shortened to 2 words and what happens when some day it is out of beta? Music by [...]

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The Cloud-Based Music Service Of My Dreams

These are exciting days for cloud-based music services. Amazon launched their Cloud Drive in March. Then Google rolled out the Google Music Beta at their I/O Developer Conference. And of course all signs point to Apple announcing iCloud or some similarly named cloud-based music service soon, perhaps in a couple weeks at its Worldwide Developer’s [...]

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Men Are From iPad, Women Are From Kindle

In the New York Times yesterday there was some interesting data from Forrester Research on men, women and e-readers. Generically speaking, the iPad and other tablets are men’s toys, while the Nook Color and other e-readers are more popular with women. According to data from Forrester Research, 56 percent of tablet owners are male, while [...]

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The Power Of The Humble Origin Myth

I’ve been reading David Byrne’s Bicycle Diaries, basically a compilation of blog posts ostensibly about his bicycling in cities around the world, but that jumps from his perambulating to thoughts about architecture, art and danger, the impact of city structures on their inhabitants, the Marcos mystique in The Philippines, bike lanes and basically anywhere else [...]

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Review: Blogsy For iPad

Blogsy is a fantastic new blogging app that finally brings WYSIWYG formatting to blogging on the iPad and includes some new takes on functionality to make blogging easier. Blogsy splits their interface in two, Rich and Write, which roughly correspond to the Visual and HTML views in the WordPress interface. The Write side is your [...]

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The Value Of Your Distraction

I grew up without cable TV and I was shocked when I went to a friend’s house and realized that the stations they were paying for had commercials in them. Paying and still having to wait through commercials? Crazy. Eventually I learned that for cable, like newspapers and magazines subscriptions pay for a portion of [...]

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Freakonomics Off The Rails

Freakonomics was outstanding for it’s use of economic theory to uncover the true cause of the drop in crime in the 90s, why drug dealers live at home and whether Sumo wrestlers throw bouts and why. It was a revelation, entertaining and a success. SuperFreakonomics follows the same structure as Freakonomics, identifying the risks of [...]

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Mind Your API

It was about 4 years ago that I was hit by Rishad Tobaccowala’s advice to the crowd at OMMA East. “Mind your API“. Don’t ask me why that one instruction stuck with me more than everything else that he said that afternoon, but it did. For those of you who don’t know what an API [...]

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A Geek’s Hierarchy of Needs

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