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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
FoodSpotting's Tech Has Been Stagnant
Image via WikipediaYesterday as I spotted this exotic Ecuadorian dish I realized I had not blogged about FoodSpotting in a while. I guess the service had some good news at the last Facebook conference (I have not yet seen the video). (The HTML5 Whimper At F8)Is it just me or FoodSpotting has looked the same since its inception?
I feel like I am done spotting the Desi dishes and now I want to venture out and spot global dishes. My next dish to spot might be Afghan.
What I feel is lacking is when you spot a dish you should have the option to show up for an eatup that is in direct relation.
A Small, Historic EatUp
The critical mass might not be there yet. But it will get there. An eatup self-organized around a particular food type or restaurant. You meet people who are passionate or curious about a particular food type.
Image via CrunchBaseFoodSpotting should become social and become an excuse to meet people, strangers. It should become a little bit like Chatroulette. Only there is no video camera involved. And it is offline, it is real. It is local.
My FoodSpotting Photos Are Being Viewed
FoodSpotting API
Twitter ---> Instagram ---> FoodSpotting
FoodSpotting's Dish As Starting Point
Or maybe even take it online. You get to video chat with people who are passionate about similar kinds of food, passionate or curious. I was not passionate about Ecuadorian food, but I was curious. That was a nice dinner.
Sean Parker's AirTime Could Net Him Tens Of Billions
Needed: 4Chan Log In(s)
Image via CrunchBaseI have been aware of 4Chan although I have never visited the site. But this guy is convincing. I think I do want a 4Chan log in option like I have Facebook and Twitter log ins, as pervasive. I like the idea of multiple log in names that you chose for yourself. Mashable: 4chan Founder: Facebook and Google Do Identity Wrong [VIDEO]
Google Plus: What Went Wrong?
Image via CrunchBaseNothing went wrong. Google Plus continues to grow like a weed. But I have not been using it daily, or even weekly. It has not become an integral part of my life. Contrast that to the fact that I use Twitter and Facebook every day, Twitter several times a day.
What went wrong?
For me it really bothered me that I could not feed my blog - hosted on Google's very own Blogger - into my Google Plus stream. I'd have liked it if my blog posts showed up in my Google Plus stream and gathered some comments.
Events: Week Of October 17
October 17, Monday
7:00 PM October NYC Web Design Meetup
770 Broadway
October 18, Tuesday
7:00 - 9:00 PM The Ecstasy of Defeat by the Editors of The Onion
powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY
October 19, Wednesday
3:30 PM US Royalty
Puma Store, 33 Union Square West
6:30 - 8:30 PM Nightlife @Daylife Presents Khoi Vinh: What Comes After Reading on the iPad?
Daylife HQ, 444 Broadway
October 20, Thursday
6:00 PM - Midnight US Royalty
Brooklyn Bown, 61 Wythe Avenue, between N 11th and N 12th
L to Bedford Ave, G to Nassau
6:00 - 11:00 PM Obliterati: Do You VYou?
Sweet and Vicious, 5 Spring St
October 21, Friday
8:30 AM DUMBO Tech Breakfast Meetup
The Gallery, 108 Jay Street
October 22, Saturday
9:00 PM US Royalty
72 Orchart Street
F to Delancey
7:00 PM October NYC Web Design Meetup
770 Broadway
October 18, Tuesday
7:00 - 9:00 PM The Ecstasy of Defeat by the Editors of The Onion
powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY
October 19, Wednesday
3:30 PM US Royalty
Puma Store, 33 Union Square West
6:30 - 8:30 PM Nightlife @Daylife Presents Khoi Vinh: What Comes After Reading on the iPad?
Daylife HQ, 444 Broadway
October 20, Thursday
6:00 PM - Midnight US Royalty
Brooklyn Bown, 61 Wythe Avenue, between N 11th and N 12th
L to Bedford Ave, G to Nassau
6:00 - 11:00 PM Obliterati: Do You VYou?
Sweet and Vicious, 5 Spring St
October 21, Friday
8:30 AM DUMBO Tech Breakfast Meetup
The Gallery, 108 Jay Street
October 22, Saturday
9:00 PM US Royalty
72 Orchart Street
F to Delancey
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Occupy
Image via WikipediaCongregate. Do not disrupt. This is about getting together, peacefully, amicably, almost in a celebratory way. This is not about disrupting traffic. This is not about preventing people from going to work. This is not about seeking confrontations with the police.
It has to stay completely nonviolent. It has to become super, duper organized. It has to be sophisticated.
Occupy one public space in each city, each town where people camp out around the clock. If the space's capacity is 1,000 people, stay at 1,000 people. Get people to participate in rotation. So one person might clock in for one 24 hour period to be replaced by another person who signed up to be there.
The occupation can not end until the fundamental fabric of the democracy has been impacted. The goal is one person, one vote democracy. The insane people running the banks on Wall Street threw the bus into the ditch and gave the world the Great Recession. Now they want to go back to their same old ways. That is not an option.
We want a new architecture for global finance. And so the occupation has to continue. It has to grow. It has to grow on all continents. It has to grow from one city to many cities. It has to go to every town, every city. Maybe you are a small town, and your public space will only hold 50 people, and that is okay.
The thing is, we are all connected. The occupation in one town is connected to the occupation in every other town. Each city is connected to every other. This is a global movement, a national movement.
It has to stay nonviolent. It has to stay intelligent. It has to be about the conversation. The mass, public action is about the conversation. For every person camped out at a park, there are 1,000 people and more participating online. That online "occupation" is as real as it gets. These are real people with real opinions, with real challenges, real political weight.
This movement is about roping in more and more people into the conversation.
Sales Tax, Wealth Equity Tax
The Conversation Is The Revolution
Tahrir Square In America
America And Europe Need To Learn From Japan
This Woman Is Dynamo
The Mini Me Stimulus Bill Lacks Imagination
Imran Khan
I got to see Imran Khan in person Friday evening. He showed up at the Columbia Journalism School. This dude is to Pakistan what Amitabh Bachchan is to India. You don't find personalities like Amitabh and Imran in countries like England and America. You don't find this one person that dominates the imagination of an entire country, and big ones too.
Image via WikipediaHappy Birthday Amitabh
This guy Imran is the next Prime Minister of Pakistan and I think he is going to be a good one, and I speak as a fairly political person. I was Barack Obama's first full time volunteer in New York City.
I asked him. App to cricket ke samrat rah chucke log hai. You have been the emperor of cricket. Ab aap rajniti mein hain. Now you are in politics. Rajniti mein samrat hone ka arth hota hai Prime Minister banna. To be emperor in politics means to be Prime Minister. To aap Prime Minister kab ban rahe hain? So when are you going to become Prime Minister?
"Agle election ke baad, Insa-allah!" he said. After the next election, God willing.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Super Amit, Super Swabbed
Mike Bloomberg, Amit Gupta
I showed up at the New Work City space in Chinatown on time - 9:30 PM. And I left past midnight. The people who were doing the swab thing were busy the entire time I was there.
Events: Week Of October 10
The first person I met was Nick Gray. Nick Gray! This was my first time meeting Nick Gray in person. This is quite an amazing person. At times it can feel like this dude is a mutual friend to everybody who is somebody in the New York tech ecosystem. If Nick Gray did not exist, the New York tech ecosystem might have to create one. He is one of those people.
"Oh my God, Oh my God, it's Nick Gray!" I said. He was out on the sidewalk eagerly waiting for people to show. The venue was one floor up. This dude was so feeling it.
Nick Gray: Bollywood Moves (2)
Nick Gray: Bollywood Moves
Brooklyn Loves Bollywood
BollyBrook Says Hello
I was born Indian. Nick Gray chose to be Indian. We are both Indian through and through.
He was in a somber mood. I tried to cheer him up.
"It is good to see you too, Paramendra," he said simply.
The Huffington Post: Help Amit Gupta: $30,000 Reward Offered For Bone Marrow Match
This whole thing has been an amazing social media success story. But it has also shown social media can be an echo chamber.
There are enough brown folks in New York City and in New Jersey to find a match for Amit Gupta. And there are enough mass based Desi/South Asian organizations in New York City and New Jersey to push the number into thousands, tens of thousands.
The tech crowd is only managing hundreds, and that is not good enough. But it is managing to raise thousands of dollars, and that is great.
The swab thing is so, so super easy.
How much time do we got? It is a race against time, right? It is time to go past social media. Keep using it, but now use it primarily to raise money. I guess there are costs involved to do the swab thing.
Now we have to treat it like a political campaign. We have to start making phone calls. We have to start knocking on doors in the right neighborhoods. We have to reach out to mass based South Asian organizations in the region. They might not know Amit, but they don't have to. Every person who swabs and is not a match is a potential match to some other member of the South Asian community down the line. That not Amit angle is the one we have to push now.
Raise money among the tech, social media, smartphone crowd. Reach out to the non digital, non social media, non smartphone crowd for a potential match. We should be able to organize some events by next weekend.
I want to reach out to people like Nick Gray and Tony Bacigalupo to see if I can get a little more involved.
It can not be all that hard. Google up "South Asian organizations in New York City, New Jersey" and start building a list of people to call up, office holders of the top organizations.
If there was a match somewhere in the tech/digital crowd, we would have found it already. It is time to reach out to the true grassroots. We are not it.
I showed up at the New Work City space in Chinatown on time - 9:30 PM. And I left past midnight. The people who were doing the swab thing were busy the entire time I was there.
Events: Week Of October 10
The first person I met was Nick Gray. Nick Gray! This was my first time meeting Nick Gray in person. This is quite an amazing person. At times it can feel like this dude is a mutual friend to everybody who is somebody in the New York tech ecosystem. If Nick Gray did not exist, the New York tech ecosystem might have to create one. He is one of those people.
"Oh my God, Oh my God, it's Nick Gray!" I said. He was out on the sidewalk eagerly waiting for people to show. The venue was one floor up. This dude was so feeling it.
Nick Gray: Bollywood Moves (2)
Nick Gray: Bollywood Moves
Brooklyn Loves Bollywood
BollyBrook Says Hello
I was born Indian. Nick Gray chose to be Indian. We are both Indian through and through.
He was in a somber mood. I tried to cheer him up.
"It is good to see you too, Paramendra," he said simply.
The Huffington Post: Help Amit Gupta: $30,000 Reward Offered For Bone Marrow Match
This whole thing has been an amazing social media success story. But it has also shown social media can be an echo chamber.
There are enough brown folks in New York City and in New Jersey to find a match for Amit Gupta. And there are enough mass based Desi/South Asian organizations in New York City and New Jersey to push the number into thousands, tens of thousands.
The tech crowd is only managing hundreds, and that is not good enough. But it is managing to raise thousands of dollars, and that is great.
The swab thing is so, so super easy.
How much time do we got? It is a race against time, right? It is time to go past social media. Keep using it, but now use it primarily to raise money. I guess there are costs involved to do the swab thing.
Now we have to treat it like a political campaign. We have to start making phone calls. We have to start knocking on doors in the right neighborhoods. We have to reach out to mass based South Asian organizations in the region. They might not know Amit, but they don't have to. Every person who swabs and is not a match is a potential match to some other member of the South Asian community down the line. That not Amit angle is the one we have to push now.
Raise money among the tech, social media, smartphone crowd. Reach out to the non digital, non social media, non smartphone crowd for a potential match. We should be able to organize some events by next weekend.
I want to reach out to people like Nick Gray and Tony Bacigalupo to see if I can get a little more involved.
It can not be all that hard. Google up "South Asian organizations in New York City, New Jersey" and start building a list of people to call up, office holders of the top organizations.
If there was a match somewhere in the tech/digital crowd, we would have found it already. It is time to reach out to the true grassroots. We are not it.
Friday, October 14, 2011
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