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Domain Name Registration: Alternatives to Go Daddy
A little while ago, I received a notification that a domain I owned was about to expire and set to auto-renew. This reminder prompted me to start a search to replace the incumbent registrar I was using, Go Daddy, with something else. I asked around on Twitter, looked at related blog posts, and read some [...]
Can We Ever Digitally Organize Our Friends?
When Google+ launched last week, one of the most discussed features was Circles. In case you haven’t read a single blog, Tweet, or Google+ post in the last week (and yet, somehow stumbled into this dark corner of the internet), Circles is Google’s way of allowing you to group people. You can put anyone into [...]
Brooklyn Beta
A couple of weeks ago, I attended Brooklyn Beta, a new two-day intimate web conference put on by Cameron Koczon of Fictive Kin and Chris Shiflett of Analog. I had the honor of being invited to present on some of our thinking and process behind #NewTwitter, the redesign of twitter.com. Smaller, Smarter, More Intimate The conference had only 150 [...]
The Fire Hose vs. The Stream
There are two recurring questions that I find myself answering. The two are different but related: “Why would I want to know every little detail about what my friends are doing from Twitter/Facebook/Friendfeed?” “How do you not get overwhelmed by all the people you follow/friend?” My short answer is I don’t treat it like a [...]
Twinkle Hijacks Twitter Usernames
When iPhone apps first came out, there were two iPhone apps people tended to go with for accessing and posting to the popular Twitter service: Twinkle and Twitterific. Since then, superior applications such as TwitterFon and Tweetie have hit the market but the first to market advantage has ensured some measure of popularity with the [...]
How to Convert Music to MP3, AAC, AIFF or WAV With iTunes
I was trying to create an iPhone ringtone using Rogue Amoeba’s MakeiPhoneRingTone application. This applicaiton requires AAC files to be dragged in. “No problem,” I thought, “iTunes does AAC conversions.” And it does but apparently, the interface to get there has become really obfuscated so I thought I’d document how to do it. Everything else [...]
Facebook Has License to Sell Your Photos
I’m seeing two trends lately. The first is that more people are posting with to Facebook exclusively or both to Facebook and Flickr. The second is an increasing number of my photographer friends using Facebook to promote their photography by posting their photos there. I can understand both of these trends, of course. Facebook is [...]
Twitter Answers
In response to danah’s survey on Twitter (if you don’t know what Twitter is, go check it out – it’s in a nutshell a way to send micro updates to anyone that cares to listen by phone, web or IM): First, the practical question. Can i quote you? [x] Yes, and you *must* use my [...]
Open Hack Day, UK
Beck at Yahoo! Open Hack Day by Laughing Squid / Scott Beale Last October, Yahoo! held an Open Hack Day where we brought in developers and designers in the Bay Area to work on whatever they wanted to, and invited them to utilize Yahoo! APIs to make cool hacks … and that’s what people did. [...]
Flickr Old Skoolers Having a Fit: A Response From a Yahoo
Disclaimer: I work at Yahoo!, but not on Flickr. These are simply opinions of mine. Three things happened in quick succession this past week: Flickr limited number of tags to 75 and number of contacts to 3,000 They also announced a date when the users who aren’t using Yahoo! accounts would have to merge their [...]
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Kevin is a San Francisco-based entrepreneur, designer, and author. He is the co-founder of Incredible Labs and worked at Twitter, Raptr, Yahoo!, and Trilogy. He is @k on Twitter.
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