Having such lofty goals, and so little time to do it, maximizing my productivity is crucial. Every minute has to be devoted to doing something useful, and I have to ensure I have the mindset and the motivation to do it. You could spend hours on Lifehacker and similar sites, reading other people’s productivity secrets (including celebrities), but it takes time to discover and tweak what...
FireEagle and thoughts on location sharing.
Justin posted the other day about social objects, particular aspects of us (pictures, bookmarks, status, etc…) that can be shared with other people. I was going to write a post about how my “killer” social object would be location. I ended up scrapping it, but given Yahoo’s announcement of FireEagle, a platform for personal geographic information. This looks absolutely...
Werewolf Bar Mitzvah
Amazing. From 30 Rock.
OpenSocial, Or Not
Google released a set of standards called OpenSocial, which will allow developers to, instead of writing, say, a Facebook application which only works on Facebook, an application that will work on any social network that supports OpenSocial (which a lot of the other social networks other than Facebook/MySpace do). It’s not the open social network. It’s not going to unseat Facebook or...