Either I have to upload a file already created elsewhere, or I have to submit a URL, or I have to search for a soundtrack on Spotify/SoundCloud. Why can't I just speak and create an audio post? Hello World!
The impending Age Of Abundance was prophecied in the scriptures thousands of years ago.
Friday, July 13, 2012
Why Can't I Simply Speak Into My Tumblr Audio Post?
Either I have to upload a file already created elsewhere, or I have to submit a URL, or I have to search for a soundtrack on Spotify/SoundCloud. Why can't I just speak and create an audio post? Hello World!
SMS: Nowhere Close To Done
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| SMS Flickr Dene Voss (Photo credit: katielips) |
But it is more. I think of SMS as command. Before GUI (Graphical User Interface) you had to input commands. After the cursor came the touch. There is gesture, there is 3D. I think SMS is going to emerge something cutting edge like that. You should be able to talk to the most complex of your machines through the simplest of your phones.
Power To The Cloud: Twilio Takes Its SMS Messaging API Global, Adds Dozens Of New Languages, 150+ Countries
Brewster: Is It Green?
One day while Dropio was still a company - before it got bought and put to rest by Facebook (Dropio entered the space before Dropbox) - I tweeted everyone working at Dropio with a twitter account. Only one of them tweeted back, some dude called Steve Greenwood. A few days later I found myself in front of him at the final Social Media Week party, it was a fancy party. (That was two years before I snatched the crown.) I was just standing there, he had walked over. I thought it was random, now I think not. I said hello, then I found out he worked at Dropio. Obviously I had not connected the dots. He startled me by talking of Dropio as "a trillion dollar opportunity." This was way before Google hit 600 billion, or wherever they are at right now.
The last time I met Steve Greenwood was a year and a half ago at the Barack Obama State Of The Union Watch party. I did not have the faintest idea both Greenwood and I had a mutual friend in the organizer of the event.
In between one day I met Greenwood at a New York Tech MeetUp after party. It was minutes after some random dude never seen before and after called me Sean Parker.
We are not close. We don't have each other's phone numbers. We have not exchanged emails. His first tweet was his last to me. But he has been one of those undefined guys in the New York tech ecosystem. Someone with obvious raw potential, but you did not know if you did not know.
And now the dude reveals himself. It is entirely possible I never made it to his spreadsheet.
Fred Wilson: Brewster
Jenna Wortham: New York Times: Brewster, a Mobile App, Wants to Transform Your Address Book
Life Hacker: Brewster Is an Address Book That Pools Together All Your Social Contacts and Organizes Them Automatically
All Things D: Q&A: Behind Brewster, the Buzzy New Modern Address Book
Brewster Blog
Charlie O'Donnell: Fall in love with the problem, not the product
The last time I met Steve Greenwood was a year and a half ago at the Barack Obama State Of The Union Watch party. I did not have the faintest idea both Greenwood and I had a mutual friend in the organizer of the event.
In between one day I met Greenwood at a New York Tech MeetUp after party. It was minutes after some random dude never seen before and after called me Sean Parker.
We are not close. We don't have each other's phone numbers. We have not exchanged emails. His first tweet was his last to me. But he has been one of those undefined guys in the New York tech ecosystem. Someone with obvious raw potential, but you did not know if you did not know.
And now the dude reveals himself. It is entirely possible I never made it to his spreadsheet.
Fred Wilson: Brewster
Jenna Wortham: New York Times: Brewster, a Mobile App, Wants to Transform Your Address Book
Life Hacker: Brewster Is an Address Book That Pools Together All Your Social Contacts and Organizes Them Automatically
All Things D: Q&A: Behind Brewster, the Buzzy New Modern Address Book
Brewster Blog
Charlie O'Donnell: Fall in love with the problem, not the product
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Will Amazon Deliver Pizza?
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| Image via CrunchBase |
There was a company in the late 1990s called Kozmo.com. It delivered DVDs and pizza. Amazon's next day delivery is on its way to becoming same day delivery, looks like. This is Amazon competing with Walmart. And it could go into big cities like Walmart has not been allowed to.
Retail is one of the oldest of industries. A lot of small shops might feel the pain.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The First To Be Sharing Bachchan's Tumblog Posts
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| Indian idol Amitabh Bachchan (Photo credit: net_efekt) |
Bachchan Moves His Blog To Tumblr
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| Cover of Amitabh Bachchan |
My birthday is not mine. My official birthday is the actual birthday of Amitabh Bachchan. I grew up watching this guy. I am an evergreen fan.
If I were Tumblr I'd declare a public holiday on this piece of news.
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