“There comes a point at which improving upon the thing that was important in the past is a bad move,” Shirky said in a recent interview. “It’s actually feeding competitive advantage to outsiders by not recognizing the value of other qualit ies.” In other words, companies that focus on traditional measures of quality—fidelity, resolution, features—can become myopic and fail to address other, now essential attributes like convenience and shareability. And that means someone else can come along and drink their milk shake.”
—The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine
August 2009
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Google Voice Tutorial: Setting up conditional voicemail forwarding for the iPhone →
google.com
Note to self… use this tutorial to set iPhone to forward callers to Google Voice for voicemail
Magma Open to Everyone
Today marks a big day for Magma — our website is now officially open to everyone. Sign up now if you have not already.
We owe a large thanks to the nearly five thousand beta users. Their wonderful suggestions and feedback were invaluable during our three month beta period. During that time, we have collected over 65,000 videos, millions of rows of video statistics, and tons of great feedback on what people want to do with the site.
Thanks again to everyone for their wonderful support! Keep your eyes peeled for new features and improvements.
Josh says: Congrats to Magma Team!! I’ll be checking it out!
“As the party dispersed onto Kent Street at show’s end, our final image of the night came as a crowd gathered on the corner of N 8th and Kent below a get together taking place inside one of the condos one floor above. Two girls stared each other down, one safely in the fancy digs, one on the sidewalk below, both threatening to have a flash-off. The girl inside the condo went through with it and exposed her breasts through the window, much to the delight of the throng of amateur male photographers looking up. The girl on the street buckled under the pressure, not being able to muster up the necessary exhibitionist spirit. With a disappointed crew around her, she coped with it through the accepted method of the day, tears streaming down her face.”
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Girl Talk’s Williamsburg Pool Party: Nature vs. Over-Nurtured (via mikehudack)
Josh says: Ummm, I was there in that swanky apartment, but had to leave before this happened. If true, then I have my suspicion who the culprit was ;-)
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I'm actually allergic to cats, but now my avatar can haz whiskers. Thx Tumblr!
BTW, what’s the dealio with this Sharks Vs. Cats thing?!
The Deal Storm That Changed Us: Blip.tv, YouTube, FreeWheel →
mediapost.com
To succeed in the new media economy requires deal flow
HTML Scrapping Using Javascript ((For Google Gadgets)) | eSpace →
espace.com.eg
Quick tutorial on HTML scraping techniques using Google Gadgets. Seems to be using the legacy API, and not the current Gadgets* API, but still useful
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The Personalized Homepage War: Who Matters →
techcrunch.com
Stats are a little old, but it’s clear that MyYahoo and iGoogle are the two personalized homepage platforms that really matter. This is worth considering when building a startpage app/gadget/widget.
