March 2008
77 posts
My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-30 →
sidyadav: Upgrade day today. Upgraded to Leopard finally — lovin’ it.
sidyadav: Twitter’s gotta expand to photos. I can’t see why not — they have a huge freakin’ platform here and I hear…
My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-29 →
sidyadav: Gotta love Fast Company magazine — this issue’s Obama article is killer. Probably the best $50 annual subscription money I’ve spent.
sidyadav: jQuery is the best thing that…
My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-28 →
sidyadav: Obama-Bloomberg ticket would be a dream come true.
sidyadav: Like.com is fantastic and addictive for finding products you like — my precursor to an eBay search
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My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-27 →
sidyadav: @CenterNetworks Thanks plenty for the sticker! You’re the best competitor in the world… wait… fellow blogger. ;-)
sidyadav: Draiiiiiiiiinage.
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“The job of a centrist is not to be indecisive, but to range his decisions and...”
– As a recent follower of centrism, that’s one of the first things I’ve learnt — though there’s a long way to go. More personal quotes coming as I ponder over the art of philosophy. :-)
“Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of...”
– Wikipedia on Steve Jobs — is that the best, most fulfilling bio a person could have, or what?!?!
My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-25 →
sidyadav: Social media jumps the shark: http://www.socialmediadaily.com/. I hated that term since day one anyway.
sidyadav: I love how 10,000 people visit my site the day I don’t write…
Advertising in Japan: URLs Out, Search Boxes In →
This is exactly why the Japanese were, are, and will be ahead of everyone else in terms of technology and culture and forward-thinking. Bets are on: this trend is going to follow into the U.S.
Rick Astley on Rick Rolling →
Good interview with Rick Astley where talks about Rick Rolling.
My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-24 →
sidyadav: Bought some super-ergonomic shoes, Wiimote for hacking (multitouch Macbook!), 250gb FireAgent external hd — geekful unboxing excitement!
sidyadav: Worked for 8 hours straight on…
“The brain of man is programmed with a tendency to quickly remove doubt by...”
– Charlie Munger, 80-something billionaire, Bias #4 (Doubt-Avoidance Tendency) - blog.pmarca.com: The Psychology of Entrepreneurial Misjudgment, part 1: Biases 1-6
blog.pmarca.com: The Psychology of Entrepreneurial... →
This is like gold for any entrepreneur — as is Andreessen’s blog itself.
The Oxymoron: User Experience in Consumer...
Apart from Apple, you can’t really expect much from the hardware/consumer electronics industry when it comes to providing a good user experience.
That’s why I was so surprised when I bought a new 250gb Seagate FreeAgent Pro external hard-drive today and it was running the moment I plugged it in, without any shocks, horrors, incompatabilities, or headaches.
Additionally, it was well...
My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-21 →
sidyadav: listening to some flight of the conchords — and nearly choking laughing. “binary solo: 01010000010100100101010 ” http://tinyurl.com/2hnqs2
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My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-20 →
sidyadav: Is there a list of the most too-much-information tweets? Stuff like: “cleaning my nose” or “that toilet visit was nasty”
sidyadav: I just got 1000 buttons made for Rev2.org. Now…
“You don’t make a revolutionary product by trying to beat a competitor. You...”
– Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo.com
My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-19 →
sidyadav: Obama gave a terrific speech today (full video): http://tinyurl.com/32a2vv
sidyadav: I’d like to coin a new buzzword for services like FriendFeed/Socialthing/Iminta/Plaxo:…
“Scientists believe the world began with the Big Bang. Chuck Norris shrugs it off...”
– I can’t tell you how much I love Chuck Norris jokes. And they never seem to get old.
My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-18 →
sidyadav: I was just acquainted with the pun-phrase “globesity.” Ouch.
sidyadav: WTF? Wolff Olins — one of the biggest marketing firms in the world — has a blog on its homepage with…
Charlie Rose Face Plants To Save His MacBook Air →
As a Charlie Rose fan, this is too funny. Made my day.
Minimalism.
As most of you know (and by most I mean the one person that reads this blog), I’m working on a new startup to do with “sharing stuff” called Nincha.
In the weekend, I decided to hold off any commitments elsewhere and use that time to focus on the project, and the project alone. I’m glad to say it worked. I must have worked on it for about 10 hours throughout — and...
sidyadav: Cleared up 30GB space off the Macbook. WhatSize is really a rocking tool - http://tinyurl.com/269bjt sidyadav: I really love FriendFeed’s public changelog idea. This is what every community-driven service should have. http://changelog.friendfeed.com/ sidyadav: Wohoo - having Tumblr post Twitter Digests daily means I’ll be able to twitter often and not worry about the economy...
My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-15 →
sidyadav: FriendFeed’s second kickass feature: comments & matching up. Folks can comment on your stuff, and if they like the same thing it shows it.
sidyadav: Vimeo is one of the best video…
WatchIn my visit to San Francisco, I managed to get quite a lot of footage of the Sightseeing tour. I decided to spend a weekend putting it all together into a music video of one of my favorite songs of all time.
JESS3 // Jesse Thomas - 571 213 4308 →
If I were a professional design/advertising/web dev guy, this is what I’d want my homepage to look like. Simplicity meets slickness.
“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via juliaallison)
Just a quick note, I’ve decided to not reblog things here anymore — but instead use Tumblr for its specific purpose (posting original thoughts, links, quotes, videos, etc. through the service itself)
If you, however, want to keep up with my reblogged life in one place, you can do so with my FriendFeed. EVERYTHING will be reblogged there. Twitter, Digg, Flickr, Facebook, YouToube,...
Happy Pi Day! →
Twitter should be what Friendfeed is, except its own service (like Poodz.) Ugh, obvious opportunity
Warren Buffett just kicks butt. http://tinyurl.com/298edy
Weekend pet-project time. It’s amazing how regenerated you feel when you work on creative stuff you wouldn’t otherwise work on on weekdays.
FriendFeed (the service that tipped yesterday) has the most amazing “Recommended Friends” service. Useful & better than ANY other I’ve used.
Happy Pi day, americans!
Freeing up space on the Macbook. Monolingual and What Size are too awesome apps - did 7gb all together.
And it really is marvelous. You can see what I’ve been up to like no other service. Not ever tumblr. http://friendfeed.com/sidyadav
Geni.com is going to be huge. My extended family over in India haven’t even heard of Facebook and they use Geni in so much more useful ways.
Wow, speaking of things that are going to be huge, FriendFeed is the next twitter. Friend requests are crazying me. And that’s a word.
Super shameless self promotion: http://www.rev2.org/
Plug plug plug http://sidyadav.com/. I love the new line in my brief bio: “I’m an Existentialist by philosophy.”
Note to Web 2.0 fanatics: as techcrunch gets more techy and gadgety and less web 2.0y, we’ve decided to covers startups and services only.
So, the Bebo folks made a few million today and slashed a billion off of Facebook’s value. Who’s tomorrow?
WOW. I know you’ve seen TedTalks. But you HAVE to watch this one. Standing ov material. http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229