Tweets and Twitters

I recently came across a number of interesting uses of Twitter that I thought were inspiring. The thing about facebook that really made it take off and hit the media in terms of buzz and attention was their Application Framewok. That’s the part of the facebook website that allows other companies to write Extra things. You’re probably using many of these on a regular basis, but the whole concept of allowing third parties to have such an impact on the User Experience of your company’s product is insanely innovative. It would be as if Coca Cola licesended its secret syrup and allowed third part soft drink companies the ability to create New Drinks from the Coke sauce. But that’s just what they did, with a LOT of restrictions however. You can only do things that fit within the Facebook API. Creative Application developers have done a lot with this limitation (games, mash-ups, music referalls, and integrations to other existing products)

2009
04/12
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Tragedy. Greif. Ezra Sherman. Hope

healing web

A dear family that we have loved for the 9 years we have known them has lost their son to lukemia this week. He died after an intense week long battle with cranial bleeding. One minute he was fine. The next his loving parents rushed him to the ER, discovered he had lukemia, then discovered he had bleeding in the brain…and one short week later he was gone. He never woke up and never knew he had a disease.

Because the ICU’s now have internet connections. Kandice and Ryan had the ability to take a cathartic and therapuetic approach and create a blog to tell friends and family about his progress during intense chemo. This led to hundreds of postings, a shrine at Ezra’s school, 1000 paper cranes, candles left on door steps and the proper kind of shared greiving that must have been common when we all lived in villages but is denied us usually in the modern age.

Everyone should have such love and it is interesting and strange how sick and hurt I feel about Ezra’s passing, leaving behind his twin brother and older sister but even stranger how comforting it is to see so many people sharing their love for this amazing family on the internet.

Read more on Ezra’s Blog

2009
02/07
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The meaning of life in all its variations

Life an all its forms

H/T to Markus Stefanko for finding this clear and concise definition of the meaning of life.

2008
12/12
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Innovations that matter

I love it when innovations really make a difference. You know the roomba , the AirBlade and now this.

The video is a bit slow getting started but worth watching.

2008
12/04
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Tweets for 2008-11-30

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2008
11/30
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Tweets for 2008-11-23

  • Watching a Danish Crusades action film at the theatres with my son. It’s in Danish withbno subtitles buy still cool. At least got beer. #
  • Using shazam to identify music. Best app Ever #

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2008
11/23
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Danish payphone

2008
10/25
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What was new turns old eventually

I realized how quickly one forum for expression can kill another.  Although I like the Total control of the blog format, and I’ve already said I prefer the tiny blog format, like Twitter or tumblr.

But facebook has really sapped all of my skillz at online expression, although maybe this is the excuse I need to write more.

http://www.techdigest.tv/2007/08/opinion_faceboo.html

2008
10/19
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Epitaph

My favorite inscription, I used to walk the cemetery behind my grandparents house in Knoxville, TN a lot.  I visited at least once a summer if not more.  The cemetery used to scare the crap out of me at night, their backyard was separated from the graveyard (some graves going back 200 years or more) by a small hedgerow.  But in the daylight I would wander around, trying make peace with the dead.  I think If i let them know I was an alright kid they would make sure to leave me alone at night.

Remember me, as you pass by As you are now, so once was I As I am now, so you shall be Prepare for Death and follow me

2008
08/12
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Economics: Is the only way down?

Like a lot of people, I’ve been thinking a lot about economics lately .

Check out this one from the economist. The only way is down

Asset decline

Its really important that our World Leaders keep their wits about them these next 5 years and work out something that is sustainable in terms of Global Economic Models instead of just figuring out how to put the stock market back in Bull mode.

Non-Performers!

From an article Debt capitalism self-destructs thanks for the Facebook post D. Ray

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“The current talk about the need to curb speculation in the commodities and financial markets to stabilize prices is off target, especially for believers of market capitalism. All market transactions are speculative in nature. Speculation can stabilize prices as well as to destabilize them, but only in the short term. Long-term price levels (inflation or deflation), as Milton Friedman aptly observed, are always monetary phenomena. The current turmoil in the financial system, the subprime mortgage implosion, the credit crisis from the seizure in the asset-backed commercial papers market, the undercapitalization of commercial and investment bank, the rating agency dysfunction, the insolvency of monocline (bond) insurers, the massive financial losses by the GSEs and a host of other financial problems percolating under the media radar, are the outcome, and not the cause, of this market turbulence. (See Perils of the debt-propelled economy, Asia Times Online, September 14, 2002.)”

2008
07/24
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