I wanted to follow up on my post yesterday with a quick list of the best sites for consuming music. Although these products don’t have applications (yet), they have sites that are worth playing around on.
SONGZA: simple and sexy UI; great if you know the title or artist; no account necessary
MUSICOVERY: fun way to find [...]
For the past month, I’ve been working on a project to build a music player application. I’ve come across quite a few players; and since I haven’t posted a techy-post in a while, I thought I’d share my five favorites here.
1. Yahoo Music Player
I was blown away with the Yahoo Music Player. I [...]
As a news junkie, I was excited to see this tool (surprisingly created by MSNBC) with exceptional design and UI. You can select the type of news you want fed, and colorful tagged headlines spin around the screen in a merry-go-round fashion. As you click on a headline, it spins down and you have the [...]
Poke London has come up with a creative way to encourage giving. They’ve created the Global Rich List, where you can input your salary and see where your prosperity falls in the global perspective.
Even someone living the US poverty level– $10,400 for 2008— lands in the top 13% of the world.
The site is moving people [...]
I just noticed that google is now offering public transit route on google maps. But the only form of transportation they are including is the caltrain or bart– hardly useful for getting around within the city. When I tried pulling directions from the Apple store in the Marina to the Apple store downtown, it suggested [...]
I recently started downloading books from Wowio. They have a great business model: free books if you don’t mind ads on the front page. The site is wonderful and easy to use; it’s creating an account that’s a bit more difficult. You must verify that you are a real person by providing a non-anonymous email [...]
hanging out at the commonwealth club for the snap summit. other than the interesting talk on mass interpersonal persuasion, I’m having a hard time paying attention to people go on and on about the “social graph” and future of the platform.
oh yeah, annie and I decided to take a trip to Thailand in mid-April for [...]
Enabled by the miracle of abundance, digital economics has turned traditional economics upside down. Read your college textbook and it’s likely to define economics as “the social science of choice under scarcity.” The entire field is built on studying trade-offs and how they’re made. Milton Friedman himself reminded us time and time again that “there’s [...]
google is now allowing us to edit their maps.
But what is stopping people from pulling jokes on friends and moving your house marker to, I dunno, a crack corner?
When my friend Kirill told me he was leaving his job at Slide to start his own venture, I wasn’t surprised. But when he told me he was starting a social network, I was shocked. In a time when the market is over saturated with social networks, I couldn’t bear another invite to upload my [...]
I can’t wait for the day when TVs are in museums and all our shows are available online.
I love ideas that are simple and powerful— i.e. Google providing free phone numbers and voicemail to all the homeless individuals in San Francisco. Free email is not enough, as internet access and know-how is limited to those truly in need. I’m glad that the company charged with organizing the world’s information can understand there [...]
This mediocre book, by Richard Florida, presents an interesting fact: there’s a strong correlation between the gay population of a city and its success in the technology industry. San Francisco is a good example. We have the highest GLB percentage of any city (according to wikipedia) and are also known as a high tech mecca. [...]
I started a new list on Yelp today titled “Places that should accept credit cards: stop being cheap. we spend good money at your establishments”.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves (right behind dirty bathrooms). I’m trying to encourage all of these establishments to take the big step and install credit card machines in [...]
It may be because someone thought you were annoying and decided to use their illegal “phone jammer” to shut you up (this would so happen to me). I just found out about this incredible device, which actually stops the cell phone reception of calls in its nearby radius. According to Phone Jammer dot com:
A phone [...]
I’m spending the day in Berkeley, training some of my mentors, listening to the band play outside, and smiling from ear to ear. Why? Not only is it a beautiful Friday in California, but because I got my birthday wish– two laptops for two children. One in a developing country around the world and another [...]
…but didn’t even get me into imdb. see my guest appearance, two whole lines from -2:46 to-2:40
1. No Phone Trees. Have you ever noticed that the crappier the customer service of a company, the harder it is to find their number? This site is my new best friend. Just find the company you need to call (comcast? delta?), put in your digits, and they call you when they’ve [...]
it’s in two-and-a-half weeks!
Please pitch in for my birthday present. I’m raising money for a laptop for a child in a developing nation. I’m 54% of the way there!
You can donate here.
Thank you to Terry Chay, Blair Johns, Scott Tabbbey, “Spaceguy”, Rosalind Robertson, Robert Steburg, Dominick Valentic, Leon Bacud, and Jason & Rebecca Jones [...]
As with any new technology, the complainers have already begun filing complaints about the OLPC, now called the XO Laptop. However, I’m finding that their complaints are irrelevant because, well, this laptop isn’t made for them. Of course this machine doesn’t compare to the features of your MacBook Pro. This laptop was [...]
Actually, two laptops.
One will go to a child in a developing nation. The other will be delivered to me (!) where my friends and I will play on it for a couple of days, take some pictures, then give it to a student in the bay area.
As we sit here on our computers all day [...]
While tonight I enjoyed my two hours of life casting– a.k.a babysitting for iJustine, I could NEVER do it full time. Here are just a few reasons why:
1. People are too critical and there’s no way to kick out the mean ones.
2. I don’t always want my hair and makeup to be perfect.
3. I [...]
Ever since I got Big Mac in February, he has been shutting off randomly. Like an earth quake with no warning or attack pattern, I’m thrown from my position and left to pick up the pieces. My only solace is that I’m not alone. In fact, googling “macbook random shut offs” returns 188,000 [...]
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