- This is another incredible Lego MOC called “War Doll” http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/63296 #
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- Incredible Lego MOC: http://tinyurl.com/5cdovp #
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- Interesting commentary on the Russia/Georgia thing. http://tinyurl.com/6qzutp #
- Took my mom to SF last night for dinner. Accidentally took a detour to Treasure Island - really great views there!! #
- And then, of course, there’s this Nogovitsyn guy. http://tinyurl.com/6n2heo #
- The new Dell Latitudes with the Instant-On OS (Exchange-integration and Firefox) sound awesome. Now, Dell: get licensed to run OS X. #
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- Importing footage into iMovie. I wonder if there is a faster way…. #
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- ok, iMovie is awesome. #
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- Reading about grilling Porterhouse. The discussion following this recipe is awesome: http://bit.ly/porterhouse #
- I wonder why Twitter Tools only posted one of yesterday’s tweets to my blog. #
- Grilled Porterhouse steaks. Went extremely well. Family stuffed. Eating Pocky now. #
- On the Twitter Tools issue I mentioned: I checked the Wordpress DB and the tweets are stored there. Maybe it will ‘catch up’ tonight. #
- Cool! Color your car with a tape that protects your paint job and lasts for 4 years. http://bit.ly/cartape #
- RSS Bandit can synchronize with NewsGator or Google Reader. I wonder if that code could be repurposed to sync NewsGator with Google Reader. #
- Maybe there will be an XBox phone soon. Pro: Chat/highscore/multiplayer in the form of XBox Live. Cons: No independent games. Loud fan. #
- Seriously, there should be XBox Live style functionality built into the iPhone SDK. Maybe in v3? #
- By the way, Braid for the 360 is an incredible game. #
- Applied electricbob’s patch to Twitter Tools. Future tweets should be blogged on the correct day. http://bit.ly/tweettimefixer #
- Reverted electricbob’s patch. Will manually update posts until an official fix is available. #
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- Getting ready to pick up my Mom from the airport. Why no iPhone flight status app? #
- Can’t find Andrew “Bunny” Huang on twitter.
# - Thinking of picking up pizza for dinner from BJ’s Brewhouse in San Bruno. Great stuff. #
- I’m sure olympic fencing is exciting for the participants and an informed audience. To me, though, it isn’t as exciting as I’d hoped. #
- Trying to downgrade from 2.1 beta 2 to 2.01. Tried once before and couldn’t get the phone to connect to AT&T, but maybe this time…. #
- I’d like to be able to access my Firefox browsing history from my iPhone. #
- 3 tries downgrading from iPhone 2.1beta2 to iPhone 2.01 did not work. Now running 2.1beta3. #
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- hackaday: Please go back to posting one hack per day. #
- @rogerly what is LofN3? #
- At @start08. Listening to the founder of lynda.com. #
- fuzzz is taking notes at start08: http://fuzzz.gaulin.ca/ #
- Running my thebigpicture photo downloader to feed my screensaver folder. Have to post that code. http://bit.ly/eclipse #
- My spring evdo is holding up great. #
- Guy on stage now: FUELLY - google analytics for your car #
- Fuelly: Threads, trends, activity screen, filter to friends, calculate savings with small changes, 2 people, few weeks, $1000 spent so far. #
- Fuelly: Built on the metafilter code. #
- Fuelly: web mobile version, nike+ style challenges coming as is API, i18n, facebook app, openid, car sharing, group formation/discussion. #
- Fuelly: “I’m a big no-funding guy.” #
- Fuelly is up, just added my Prius. Wish I had my odometer reading handy. #
- Blog post about Fuelly: http://bit.ly/fuelly (announced at #start08) #
- @mathowie very cool product! #
- Maria: “Time to Blackberry” - how long does it take a VC to get bored and pick up their blackberry during your pitch? #
- I like M.I.A. Paper Planes. #
- @davemc500hats I agree, mostly. Apture looks great. It’ll have to overcome the stigma associated with rich popup links in content, though. #
- @atmasphere great mobile theme on your blog! #
- Cool hack! This presentor reused his “vc pitch” to highlight (for the audience?) the openings available at his company. #start08 #
- Got a free black rubber Speck case for my iPhone at #start08. The cases were given out by dom from iphonedevcamp. Much appreciated. #
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A few minutes ago at the Start 08 conference, Matt Haughey got on stage and demoed/launched Fuelly.com. It’s a social network around cars, mileage, etc. Seems timely and useful.
Twitter discussion is here.
Seems to be pretty solid. My profile is here.
Some quick notes from the presentation:
- “I’m a big no-funding guy.”
- Mobile version available (good call)
- Coming soon: nike+ style challenges, API, i18n, facebook app, openid, car sharing, group formation/discussion.
- Available now: Threads, trends, activity screen, filter to friends, calculate savings with small changes
- It’s built on the metafilter code.
- Built with 2 people, a few weeks, $1000.
Pics:
Update: Looks like comments are starting on Metafilter, Digg and the Fuelly forums.
In the upcoming Apple Carputer / Car PC, I hope the gps guidance system is as easy to use for finding addresses as Goog411 is for finding phone numbers.
Maybe if I keep talking about it as if it’s definitely going to be released, It will actually happen.
Well, actually, it’s probably more like 160 tweets later. I semi-accidentally deleted my account at one point and lost the history. Anyway.
My last 129 tweets include:
- iPhone and iPhone 3G usage notes
- Product endorsements
- A plea to comcast
- A reminder-to-self to pay a parking ticket (which I forgot about until just now)
- Commentary on a few blog posts / news items that I thought missed the mark
- Notes about a couple of life events (ColdPlay concert with my son Charlie, grilling, eating an omelette, laser etching)
- I-wish-I-had-______
Nothing earth shattering, but I think I’ll continue to twitter (micro-blog).
Oppenheimer said: “We are working to develop new products that contain technologies that our competition will not be able to match. I cannot discuss these new products, but we are very confident in our product pipeline.”
I think that Apple can beat the competition so well because a) it builds the hardware and the software, b) it’s OS (OS X) has an unprecedented level of scalability in footprint, UI stretchability and power usage, c) the developer community supporting Apple is notoriously agile and loyal.
Yes, the tablet that people have been predicting for years will be fantastic when it arrives and I’ll certainly buy one, but the carputer could also be a huge win. Podcasts, Tivo for your radio, better and more integrated (with your macbook, phone and web) navigation, voice notes, etc… would be a good start. Wait ’till the App Store comes, though!!
Prediction: One of the new products from Apple over the next 2 years (maybe even their latest hint about a future product transition), will be a car pc.
My recent move bumped my commute from 5 minutes to 45 minutes and there are dozens of ways a carputer built right could make that time more productive and enjoyable (without risking anyone’s safety).
Without background sync capabilities in 3rd Party apps, some of these aren’t likely going to be available in the near future and some others may only be possible as Apple-built apps. Still, here are 10 iPhone apps I’d love to see.
1. Podcast downloader (using Wifi and 3G) with background sync.
2. Native Google Reader client with background sync.
3. Twitter reader with background sync and read/unread functionality.
4. Save YouTube videos for later, non-streamed, viewing (so Charlie can watch cartoon clips and ColdPlay videos).
5. “Back to My Mac” Screen Sharing.
6. Remote Desktop (for Windows PCs).
7. Multi-Protocol (AIM, GoogleTalk, Jabber, etc) Instant Messaging Client which runs in the background when not the active application.
8. UPNP video streaming client.
9. Wine ratings / search.
10. Better Photo-emails. The ability to send multiple photos in one email, easily, would be great!