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Oh my LORD, I'd love if my phone's inbound call handler had hooks to integrate with web services like this. Jesus, could you imagine how awesome that would be?!?
Commented Apr 6, 2011 on Three phone tips for antisocial people like me that hate phones at A Whole Lotta Nothing
Three phone tips for antisocial people like me that hate phones
In no particular order: 1. A friend recently got a new phone & number on Verizon, and neglected to set up his electronic voicemail account for the first few weeks. When you call, after 4-5 rings it goes to voicemail but the message is simply "This user has not set up their voicemail yet. Goodbye...
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Automoblox! I think I love them even more than Annabelle does.
Commented Jan 30, 2011 on Land of Lev at hello typepad
Land of Lev
Land of Lev, originally uploaded by david.
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I totally, completely love this story, in a way that makes me wish I had thought to write out my perspective on Annabelle's birth.
And just so you know, I can never get enough photos of Lev on Flickr... he's awesomely cute. :)
Commented Dec 30, 2010 on Birth at Stingy Kids
Birth
I remember telling my mother that I had a "corazonada" (a hunch) that the baby would come early. She was happy to hear this, and I was so sure that my instincts were on target that I started to wrap up all sorts of loose ends (unanswered emails, desk clutter, other acts of random cleaning). Bu...
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Awesome post, and I'm excited to see the alternative services that folks contribute in comments since this isn't a space I know all that well. As always, though, questions of definition come up -- like, what's "delivery"? If I were building a web-scalable app right now, I'd be worried about building out the message-delivery-to-the-user functionality such as what you've described, but I'd also be worried about building out functionality for internal messaging -- like building a well-functioning message queue system, for example. I'd assume that there are good providers out there for that (Amazon Simple Queue Service? OnlineMQ?), but since it's not user-facing, it's not as sexy.
(I'm reminded of Leslie Orchard's awesome post about the importance of internal queueing... http://decafbad.com/blog/2008/07/04/queue-everything-and-delight-everyone .)
Commented Dec 20, 2010 on Delivery As A Service at dashes.com
Delivery As A Service
Since a few people told me they found my notes on cloudtop applications useful when I posted them a few months ago, I thought I'd share some more notes in the same spirit. This time it's not a pattern in end-user applications, but rather in infrastructure services, which
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Dec 14, 2010
Ken, one more thing if you're listening: the iPhone client should kill its background process if I log out of my Latitude account. Right now, if I have the background update option turned ON, but use the app's logout functionality, the app continues to use Location Services on my phone... even if I force-quit the app using the iPhone task manager. I can't think of a reason this should be so; I'm logged out of my Google account, so there's no place for the app to be sending my location, meaning it should stop using Location Services.
Is there a formal place to which to send bug reports like this?
(Michael, sorry for hijacking your comments!)
Commented Dec 14, 2010 on google latitude pm ken norton responds at sippey.com
google latitude pm ken norton responds
You know what I love about blogging? That I can toss off a quick kneejerk post about the new Google Latitude iPhone app, and get a thoughtful and well-reasoned response from Ken Norton, the product manager of Google Latitude. (It probably helps that Ken's a friend; I don't think I have every PM...
I'm definitely closer to Ken's perspective than your's, Michael, but I see what you're talking about -- I'm just not one of the folks that's (yet) worried about Google's reach into my life. (Hell, they host *all* my email -- my archives going back to 1996! -- so they know the deepest darkest secrets already.) I've found a lot of value in focused location availability; the complexities of modern life with two working parents and daycare that closes at a fixed time (with $3/min overage charges!) means that my wife and I frequently use location services to cope when the times that traffic's bad and we might have to make abrupt changes to our plans as a result. Up until now, I've used Glympse for this... and Ken, if you're reading, we might continue to use Glympse due to its model of letting me specify at share-time who I'm sharing with, and letting me set expirations (and destinations for auto-expiration) on my share invitations. But having a legitimate Latitude option for my iPhone at least puts Google in the running...
Commented Dec 14, 2010 on google latitude pm ken norton responds at sippey.com
google latitude pm ken norton responds
You know what I love about blogging? That I can toss off a quick kneejerk post about the new Google Latitude iPhone app, and get a thoughtful and well-reasoned response from Ken Norton, the product manager of Google Latitude. (It probably helps that Ken's a friend; I don't think I have every PM...
I just posted this comment to Mena, and I'll post the same one to you: I tell every Nike+ user I know -- give the iPhone app RunKeeper a try, and you'll NEVER go back to Nike+. Never ever. RunKeeper is friggin' amazing.
Commented Mar 23, 2010 on NikePlus is Excellent at hello typepad
NikePlus is Excellent
I haven't been running over the past few years, but I have been recently. I'm a couple generations behind on the NikePlus experience, so I plugged it in this morning to see how it had evolved. The iPhone app and web dashboard are completely new to me, and entirely for the better. All the thing...
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