Zvi Band

Category: Tech

  • Updated: Metro Times.

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    Is done*. I am so 1337. *OK, fine, it’s not totally done yet. It still is missing the SMS interface. But I am waiting for emails from vendors, and my second alternative (sending SMS through e-mail) can’t be done yet because Sun’s dev website is down for maintenance. The command line interface is awesome. You…

  • Metro Times.

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    I just came up with an awesome idea. I was at a bar for a close friend’s birthday last night. I am a morning person, so I tend to go to sleep pretty early at night (usually), and thus didn’t want to be out late. And for sure, I didn’t want to leave the bar…

  • We just have to beat them.

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    Since we released our Facebook application to the wild, our numbers have been steadily growing. Not in the 1000s a day, but enough to give me and my co-developer on this project some pride 🙂 Of course, we have one primary goal in mind, for now. We gotta beat PMS-o-meter.

  • Comcast Hinders BitTorrent Traffic

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    I hate Comcast.If another high speed provider were to come along, offer untouched bandwidth and decent customer service (sorry Verizon), Comcast would be finished. Hell, you could even charge triple the price. Powered by ScribeFire.

  • That’s quite a nametag you’ve got there…

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    8.3 million. For nametags. Say what you want about the possible benefits of having it. But they have quite some competition. What is interesting to me, however, is that this is another Boston company being funded. I think, slowly but surely, investors are funding companies in places other than the valley. I’m interested in seeing…

  • Personal Area Networking

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    While I believe the setup (and the limited range of Bluetooth) makes this particular implementation of questionable value, I believe that the idea of locating users by immediate area is awesome. I wouldn’t use this for finding new people who are in my area. Instead, I would prefer an application that would pop-up when a…

  • NYT: click a word, any word…

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    I was reading an article about a passenger revolt on a Continental flight (reading articles like this makes it painfully obvious why the American airline industry is in deep trouble, and it’s all their own doing). I noticed at the bottom of the article, a small little tip: To find reference information about the words…

  • Facebook and the Work/Life Balance

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    Continuing on from yesterday, I was going to go on a rant about my personal thoughts on social networking – mainly related to the difference between professional and personal social networks. While some look for a one-stop shop, I am quite happy having one social network for professional needs (LinkedIn) and one for my personal…

  • Thunderbird would be great, except for…

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    Spam Filtering – The junk mail control, a Bayesian filtering implementation – sucks. Messages that I mark as not-junk continually get put in the junk folder. It just doesn’t work. With the rise of crowd powered technologies Calendar Integration – Is a start, but it’s still pretty poor. The UI for it is ugly, when…

  • On Facebook and Friendship

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    There’s a hole-in-the-wall vegan restaurant near where I went to college in Maryland. I went there a few times with friends and family. It was a decent place to eat, however one particular trait of the owner drove me absolutely insane. He always addressed me as “friend” time and time again. I passed this off…