Yesterday I finished reading Mike Proulx‘s book, Social TV. It’s a great primer on the past few years of connecting TV to social media. From reading it, you can get a pretty good picture of how you’ll watch TV in a few years. Let’s say 2020 just to be conservative. Every TV will be wirelessly …
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So my buddy Mike Proulx wrote a book about Social TV. That’s pretty convenient since my job IS social TV. We got a few copies at work so I grabbed one to take home and read. I truthfully cannot remember the last real book I read. Although I spend most of my day reading, I …
I’ve been playing Scrabble on Facebook for years. It’s fun, challenging and a good user experience. I play on my iPhone and iPad too. All the apps are free. Recently, people have encouraged me to play Zynga’s Words with Friends. It sucks. Let me tell you why. It’s a blatant knockoff of Scrabble. This game …
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Rarely do I expect much from a company’s customer service. Usually it’s endless phone trees with occasional responses by incompetent employees. Not Apple. A few weeks ago I walked into my local Apple store with a Magsafe power adapter that no longer worked. This is a common issue and Apple settled a lawsuit because of …
Now that the Red Sox are out of the playoffs (painfully so), I can be completely objective about who I think will win the World Series. Some people would use matchup history, batting averages, ERA or even run simulations based on individual players to come up with a prediction. I’ll use another metric: deadliness of …
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My primary email address has been around a long time and so I get a lot of spam on it. I’m used it. My kids’ email addresses (they forward to me) do not get much, well mostly because they don’t use email. The other day I got some spam from a big company (WebEx, owned …
At work, I’ve been building a a tool that does a bunch of JavaScript interaction with REST services. It should be able to use GET, POST, PUT and DELETE and be able to send custom headers. No big deal, right? Well, the service isn’t running on the same host as the client is served from. …
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Lately, I’ve been using Google Chrome. As much as I hated the fact that Google decided that none of the other browsers were good enough and had to make yet another to make web developers’ lives that much more complicated, they’ve done a good job. Chrome is fast, compatible and stable. That got me thinking …
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Tomorrow is the first day of fall and the end to what may have been the busiest summer of my life. I’m just happy to have survived it. A summary of my life events over the last 3 months: Work Quit my job at at Yahoo! after 8.5 years Took two days off Began work …