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The Fire Hose vs. The Stream

In Geeky on 2 February 2009 tagged facebook, friendship, twitter with 10 comments

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

In Design Discourse, Geeky on 19 January 2009 tagged tapulous, twinkle, twitter with 7 comments

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

In For Your Ears, Geeky on 30 November 2008 with 7 comments

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 [...]

Twitter Answers

In Geeky on 9 May 2007 with Comments Off

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

In Geeky, Man at Work on 1 May 2007 tagged hack, yahoo! with Comments Off

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. [...]

Overheard on TV

In Geeky on 31 January 2007 tagged blogs with 2 comments

Marge Simpson says, “I’ve never heard anything on the gossip news … or the blogosphere.” Also, unrelated, I got a jury summons. Among the check boxes to choose from for reason not to go: – not a US citizen (check) – not 18 – convicted of a felony Does this mean they’re incapable of telling [...]

Why I’m Not Getting an iPhone nor ModBook

In Geeky, Thoughts and Rants on 17 January 2007 tagged apple, axiotron, iphone, macworld, macworld2007, modbook with 3 comments

The iPhone was announced amidst much hoo-hah last week at MacWorld. Those who know me know that I’m a gadget person but have been surprised to find I’m still using a Nokia 6100 phone – the same phone I’ve had for three years. Make no mistake, I’ve been shopping for a good integrated phone for [...]

Handwaving Hack on the Wii

In Geeky on 28 December 2006 tagged hack, Man at Work, maps, nintendo, nintendowii, wii, yahoo! with Comments Off

About a month ago, Yahoo! had our quarterly internal Hack Day. Now that I work in the group that organizes Hack Day, I felt compelled to contribute a hack. For those that don’t know, Hack Day is when Yahoos spend 24hrs (or a portion thereof) to build some pet projects, typically utilizing Yahoo! APIs. The [...]

Halloween and Flickr

In Geeky on 31 October 2006 tagged flickr, halloween with Comments Off

I’d just like to say, Halloween is an awesome time to look through my friends’ contact streams. They are all freaking hilarious. That is all.

Internet Child

In Geeky, I've Journal on 13 July 2006 tagged ebay, internet, netflix, overheard with Comments Off

Overheard at a bookstore a conversation between a mom and her child, who couldn’t be older than 7: Mom: Just look for it on eBay when you get home, ok? Kid: Ok. (Kid starts looking at DVD movies on their way out) Mom: Don’t get any movies here. If you see any movies you want [...]