September 2009
52 posts
Had a great time in Aspen. Unfortunately had to leave early. Now in San Jose at a skater movie premiere. #supercharged
McKinsey did a study for AT&T in the 80’s about cell phones. Prediction: 1M units in US by 2000. Actual: 109M. Forcasting is hard.
The problem with borrowing money from China is that an hour later, you just feel broke again. (-Bush impersonator)
I don’t think Twitter would have done well at TC50 or Demo. (Likely response: WTF?) Wonder if Google would have. (Search? Yawn.)
We had a bug today that caused some people I retweeted to show up in your timeline (on 3rd-party apps) uninvinted. Sorry about that.
I started writing in this 5-year diary (http://bit.ly/18exKE) a year ago. It’s finally paying off.
Lots of shit hitting my fan right now.
RT @twitter: Wanna get Twitter via SMS on your phone? Text “start” to 40404.
The Awesomeness Manifesto by @umairh: http://bit.ly/ECFrP via @jennadawn
Ah…terrific massage yesterday (thanks, @britneybindel) and a good workout this morning has me more clear-headed than most Mon morns.
RT @shellen: Did you hear this young man, Kanye West interupted a young lady singer the other night. Terrible. Just terrible. Heart goes …
Brizzly is good. This invitation link is good for 5 people. http://bit.ly/sK8Dn
Sorry, txt to 40404 is US-only. Other #’s found here: http://help.twitter.com/forums/59008/entries/14014 (only the short codes are 2-way)
RT @rk: i’m really happy for your twitpocalypse and imma let you finish, but twitpocalypse 1 was better
RT @gruber: Now that I see a few new-style RTs in my timeline, I see how this might be a flat-out great feature.
RT @badbanana: Can’t wait to read this 32-page magazine the U.S. Postal Service sent me, unsolicited, about direct marketers going green.
RT @al3x: User icon update: the problem has been identified and your icons should be back to normal before long. See http://status.twitt …
RT @wagnerofficial: Watch Wipeout tonight! I think this is the best episode EVER!!!!
“The bill just keeps getting more and more negative each month.” “I know, we gotta do something about that bill’s attitude.”
OH (in board meeting): “It just sounded like Cream of Wheat when it came out of my mouth.”
Wow, there are some seriously funny tweet artists I didn’t even know existed over at http://favstar.fm/
If you needed to name a conference room with a bird type, what would you pick? (Taken: starling, raven, magpie, sparrow, nene, plover…)
RT @fredwilson: tumblr wire is mesmerizing. maybe the best time waster on the internet yet. http://www.tumblr.com/popular
We need more awesome interaction designers at Twitter to design that shit out of some interaction. Ya know? http://bit.ly/wtKy2 #jobs
Michael J. Fox is on @KQED (radio) right now. Always seems like a great guy.
Oh, interesting: Michael J. Fox was being interviewed by @michaelpollan, who’s sister happens to be Fox’s wife.
Probably not most of the people talking about Taylor Swift on Twitter realize Taylor Swift if on Twitter: @taylorswift13
Interesting: Inline ads in Gmail after sending a message. Have never seen this before. Make sense. http://bit.ly/1HkKo3
RT @dougw: Any out of town faces from #tc50 going to join tomorrow’s @sftechrun? 5 miles at a comfortable pace. Starts 6:30 from Twitter HQ
Great new hire dinner with great new hires (and some okay old hires).
RT @crystal: Tweet and retweet were sitting on the bridge… tweet jumped off. Who was left?
RT @goldman: Hey Google: When you see the results for [anal] in my search history, I wanted Analytics and put it in the wrong box. So to …
Enjoying the new Twitter themes and default avatars, thanks to @stop and @vl
http://yfrog.com/0oy62j @Miles is on a shopping trip.
How you feel about that is more about you than that.
RT @KathySierra: Dumbing-down doesn’t work. You want, “OMG I’m actually getting this [really f’n hard thing]!” Don’t strip the hard stuf …
I know the kids are all into “cloud computing” these days, but MS Word 2008 for Mac is kinda nice.
I forgot my belt today, so don’t be surprised if my pants fall down.
Adult faces look giant after you stare at a baby for a while.
Love the Undo Send Gmail Labs feature.
Woops, let’s try that again: http://bit.ly/CbiIs
Did you know you can exclude (or only include) tweets with links in Twitter search? http://twitter.com/#search?q=iphone%20-filter%3Alinks
Yeah, that didn’t work either. One more time: http://bit.ly/I1yz8
In the quiet office w/@jessverr, prepping for a meeting.
I’m slow at cooking, but I’m imprecise.
Finally realized how to crop in @skitch, and one of my favorite apps ever became significantly better.
Found my missing wedding ring while looking for my lost house key. I’m like the absent-minded professor here. Without the professor part.
wow, a hardware device for tweeting bakers: http://www.bakertweet.com/
Blatant “aw, cute!” baiting. http://flic.kr/p/6UNRpT
Woman on NPR said they’ll be moving animals, including, “lions, tigers, and bears.” Disappointed (yet impressed) she didn’t add “Oh my!”