July 2010
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June 2010
13 posts
iBoom 4
parislemon:
AT&T: 10 times the iPhone 3GS first day sales.
Apple: 600,000 first day pre-orders.
Next batch of iPhone 4s not shipping from Apple until July 14th now.
Two thoughts:
1) It’s going to be a nightmare to activate these things on day 1.
2) How much are the first batch going to sell for on eBay? $1,000? $2,000? More?
I failed. Miserably. I didn’t get my pre-order in...
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When paid is better than free.
In no particular order:
Easier to rank in your category with a smaller number of sales.
The ability to put your application on sale. Don’t underestimate the traffic sent by people looking for price-drops. It’s not insignificant.
The momentum of switching from free to paid provides an excellent temporary boost in the rankings.
Paying users give a crap and want it to work....
Dear New York Times Website,
I like to click and double click sentences, words and paragraphs while I’m reading. It helps me focus on what it is in front of me.
With that in mind, please remove that god awful script which continually pops open new windows when I click.
best, j
cc/ jacqui
Boxcar Is a Universal Push Notification App for... →
On LifeHacker, via TechCrunch!
Twitter vs. Facebook (a developer perspective)
A week or so after Boxcar launched, Twitter reached out. Made a few suggestions. A few weeks later, they reached out again. We’ve chatted on the phone. I’ve visited the new headquarters (it was a blast)!
How many times has Facebook reached out? Zero.
May 2010
12 posts
two things about boxcar 3.0
I’m fearful yet excited about this release. It has at least one major change.
I actually use certain features more now than I ever did before.
Those are both very, very good things.
Let's get real, real-time should be real-time
Real-time delivery of data: you know it when you see it. You know it when you’re not seeing it.
Twitter’s streaming API is real-time. Boxcar receives your tweets within 1 second or less of you posting them. We then inject those into our own stream and 300 milliseconds later they are sent to Apple for delivery. You receive tweets in your hand roughly 6 seconds after they’ve...
“The old musicians stay where they are and become like museum pieces under glass,...”
– Miles Davis
“Don’t be afraid. What I mean by that is lots and lots of decisions are made by...”
– Corner Office - At AdMob, a C.E.O. With a Portable Desk - Interview - NYTimes.com
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April 2010
11 posts
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“If you don’t like whats being said, change the conversation.”
– Don Draper
The last 5 days in San Jose and SF can be summed up with pretty much one word: interesting.
We’ll see what happens, but I haven’t been this excited about new stuff for Boxcar in quite awhile.
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iPad information diets
So not really a diet, but rather a restructuring.
Instead of taking small breaks (distractions) during the day to scan the headlines, read an article or two - all consuming is left for later in the evening. When it is comfortable, and I can pause to reflect on what it is I’m reading.
The easiest way to do this is through Instapaper. I don’t read rss feeds anymore, so instead...
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March 2010
9 posts
“The more seasoned entrepreneurs know that starting out with a killer feature is...”
– BeyondVC: Is it a feature or product?
“when you use your iPhone or your laptop, it creates some sort of social barrier...”
– Why the iPad is going to change everything - Mathieu Thouvenin
(Just pickin’ out quotes for this week. Mathieu is right. This is going to be huge, if not for this reason alone.)
“i’m talking about the raw lust for real time data. that’s not going anywhere.”
– m3mnoch: Not Everyone Using noSQL is a Rails-Lovin’ Ass-Clown
(For sure. I’ve never seen people yell so loud when they are notified in 5 minutes, rather than 5 seconds.)
February 2010
6 posts
“The greatest risk any business has is dying in irrelevance.”
– Michael Robertson, TWiST
This weeks experiment - phrase play
“I have to” is now “I choose to.”
“I must finish” becomes “When can I start?”
“This project is so big and important” with “I can take one small step.”
“I must be perfect” is now “I can be perfectly human.”
“I don’t have time to play” becomes “I must take time to...