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Over at Common Craft, Lee has posted a cogent, useful article about using Weblogs as a community management tool. Good reading for those of us who are involved with selecting the appropriate tools for online community building.
Ack! I wish that I could go to Future Forward Fest, an electronic music festival happening this coming weekend in San Francisco. I luv electronic music - playing it, composing it, and most especially dancing to it -- and Z O N K (one of my favorite local bands) is playing there. Sounds like a fun event.
We'll be at Haitian Dance & Drum Camp all weekend, so we'll have to miss the FFF. If anyone goes, let me know how it was! I'll do the same for the Haitian camp, should be a fabulous time (if this beautiful Indian Summer weather holds).
While doing some research for a game I'm working on, I ran across this simple, straightforward guide to palm-reading. It's aimed at singles -- and since I'm now MWK (married w/kids) I'll have to find some unsuspecting family member (or tolerant friend) to apply my newfound knowledge to. Although deep-down I suspect that palm-reading is a bunch of hoo-haw, it's actually rather fascinating, once you get into it.
Yesterday was Rosh Hashonah, the Jewish New Year. We celebrated by attending the family service at our local shul, which was FILLED with rambunctious kids. The rabbi did an great job of keeping the kids occupied by asking LOTS of questions -- a wonderful Jewish tradition that I always love to see in action.
Here's some Rosh Hashonah humour to brighten up your day. L'shanah Tovah!
The BBC reports on a new service that lets people track down the nearest hotspot using a mobile phone. Users find a local wi-fi hotspot by sending a text message to a short code. Sounds simple and useful. I love services that leverage loosely-coupled systems to create a better experience.
Great column by Jerry Collona on how to fire someone gracefully. Great reading. Boy oh boy, I wish these tips had been used by the mangament at my former company. If I'm ever again in the position where I need to fire someone, I'll definately follow this advice.
This article in the Feature gives an update on how Premium SMS is being used worldwide as a micropayment system for both mobile content and real-world goods. Using this system, a user sends a premium SMS which constitutes 'payment' (i.e. the message charge appears on their mobile phone bill), then gets back something in return - a bottle of coke from a vending machine, say, or a code that unlocks content on a website or in a game.
It'll be interesting to see if this loosely-coupled system actually takes off as a viable micropayment solution.
'Hi-tech smartens up to get the girls' is a great article in The Guardian about girls' gadget-buying habits. Some choice quotes:
Women are spending more than ever before on cameras, laptops and mobile phones, as well as specially feminised innovations such as lipstick memory keys, spiked drink detector kits and even robot cats. Analysts of the multi-billion-pound consumer industry are convinced the future is increasingly female....Leading the revolution are the pedometer, a device which counts the number of steps a person takes, and the iPod mini, a sleek and slender version of Apple's digital music player. Joining the queue in recent days is the N10, another music player which, weighing just 27 grams, can be worn as a pendant necklace. It is already hugely popular with girls in South Korea and its maker, iRiver, is considering selling it in jewellery stores in Europe....
In America last year women spent 14 per cent more than men on electronics, and a survey by its Consumer Electronics Association found a majority of women would prefer a high definition TV to a one-carat diamond ring. In Britain the trend is being repeated, as a recent Kwik Save poll found women spend nearly £200 a year on new technology, just £30 less than men. While technology lifestyle magazines such as Stuff and T3 are still dominated by pictures of bikini-clad models draped over motorbikes or Apple Macs, women's glossies are now featuring columns on the latest handbag-friendly devices.
A girl's guide to gadgets already exists online in the form of Shiny Shiny. Its editor, Katie Lee, said: 'Gadgets are being targeted at women more and more. It's seen as the big untapped market.... Women are not so interested in how many megabytes it has, nor indeed whether it looks nice, just: "How well does it work?" Boys like to have the latest gimmicks to impress; girls don't want to show off for the sake of having something new. They want to know that it's useful.
RU young, single, female and addicted to your mobile? Have you ever wished for a simple, fun download that was cool enough to show off to your date - and useful enough to carry in your pocket?
IF this sounds like you (or someone you know, feel free to forward) AND you're located in the Bay Area AND interested in participating in a series of focus groups for a girl-centric mobile dating game -- please send me an email (and/or post here) with the following info about you:
Continue reading "Shout-Out to young, single females who loves their mobiles" »
Interesting article at CNN.com about how protesters at the RNC are using texting to organize & communicate, using free group-texting services like UPOC and TxtMobs.
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