March 2012
3 posts
The Barbarism of the Health-Care Repeal Crusade --... →
In every other advanced country, the provision of universal access to medical care is a public responsibility. In every other advanced country, this principle has been accepted by the mainstream conservative party. Only in the United States does the conservative party uphold the operating principle that regular access to doctors and medicine should be denied to large chunks of the population....
Daring Fireball: iPad (3) →
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January 2012
1 post
December 2011
5 posts
About Advertising on Facebook →
I really appreciate them trying to be honest about this stuff, but somehow it still feels a bit nefarious.
But I guess advertising always does.
Big day for twitter
Let’s Fly! blog.twitter.com/2011/12/lets-f…
— Twitter (@twitter) December8, 2011
“Long story short: Google wanted to put Google Wallet on the Galaxy Nexus — the...”
– parislemon: You Get In Bed With The Devil…
November 2011
3 posts
Sync Coda with Dropbox
While there are a number of articles out there on how to do this, they all felt overly confusing for what should be a pretty simple task.
Quit Coda on your “master” machine, the one that has the coda settings you want to share.
In dropbox create a new folder called “Library”, and a folder called “Preferences” inside that
Move the Coda preferences file into...
September 2011
2 posts
Amazon "fires" the first shot, but it's not aiming...
While most people walked away from today’s Kindle annoucements thinking this was Amazon starting a war with Apple and the iPad, there was a little part of the annoucments that suggest they may have a different target in mind
Turns like amazon had a little trick up its sleave that it showed everyone at todays much anticipated Tablet annoucement. Amazon Silk is a web-kit based browser for...
Are Facebook's announcements what lead to...
We’ve all been reading a lot about Netflix plans to spin off there DVD by mail business into a new company called Qwikster. Everyones talking about their theories as to why they would make such a drastic move. Yet, no one seems to be talking about what I think is the biggest reason for this change, Facebook.
This didn’t really occur to me until I saw Reed Hastings get up on stage...
July 2011
2 posts
Writing tool
I think it’s a lot like photography, “the best camera is the one you have with you”. The best writing tool is the one you have with you
-written on the new Tumblr iPhone app
Dean Martin's burger recipe →
From The Celebrity Cookbook (1967), Dean Martin’s recipe for hamburgers: No ice. TV tray. Classy. (via @lettersofnote) Tags: burgers Dean Martin food
June 2011
3 posts
It's the data, stupid!
I get excited when I saw a nice long post in my google reader on daring fireball and quickly added it to Instapaper to read later. I thought finally someone is going to articulate all the ideas I’ve had about apples latest and greatest offering in a way I was just not capable of. Sadly like so many before him, gruber falls just a tiny but short on this one.
I don’t care if...
The biggest announcement
One of the biggest features mentioned for the new feature of iOs received little more then a listing on the screen during the keynote was the enhancements to airplay.
While some people have begun to put the pieces together, there hasnt really been enough stories about this feature which makes the Apple TV the ulimate iPad accessory (or is it the other way around).
While we dont know much, and...
May 2011
2 posts
April 2011
5 posts
Maniacal Rage: Fuck You, Tiny Wings →
maniacalrage:
I hate this game. I hate it so much. Every time I open it, I tense up. I dread touching for sunrise. I hate the night. It’s a fucking bastard, the night. And what about the sun? The sun is a lazy bitch who only helps you out in the beginning and then no matter how well you fly it just sits up…
Advertising to the hard to reach
After working for 7 years in a marketing department I just put together my very first advertising plan.
We’d done random ads here and there when things were offered to us for free but Housing Works has never really been in the position to commit $$ in advance to advertising.
Its been an interesting exercise, especially considering the audience we want to reach. Instead of advertising our...
iPad killed the keyboard shortcut
I was surprised to hear that today adobe of all companies has come up with a novel new use for the iPad, as extra controller for your Mac.
This isn’t about dumbed down light versions of adobes pro software for the iPad this is about using your iPad along side your Mac and playing to each others strengths. The iPad essentially plays the role that “keyboard shortcuts” once did...
March 2011
15 posts
“3.5 Million Households!”
What's missing from Amazon's AppStore
What’s missing from the amazon AppStore is not about how hard it is to install, or specific apps that didn’t make it to the catalog.
It’s not any of the complaints most of tech-blogettes are talking about, because what they don’t get is that amazon doesn’t care if anyone installs this on their existing android phones because thats not really what this is for.
...
Is the NYTimes paywall really just designed to...
I’m all for paying for digital content and I fully expect to subscribe to the NYtimes when the paywall goes up and I think many many others will follow suit.
What I am having a hard time understanding is which subscription makes the most sense for me….
The digital subscription price starts at $15 for 4 weeks just for web and iphone access, $20 for web and ipad access, and $35 for the...
Join us?
Tomorrow we have a big meeting to discuss the future of our membership program.
It should be an interesting discussion because we so rarely take the time to look back and evaluate instead of just plowing forward full steam ahead.
I expect a couple of things to come out of it:
Treating the thrift and bookstore programs more like loyalty programs
Overall goal with this population is to shop...
Saying no
So I had an offer presented to me today that I think I have to reject. It’s not that the offer isn’t good, because it is, but it would mean I have to give up something else. As much as I’ve tried to make myself believe otherwise I’m just not ready to do that.
And ive struggled with this for a while now, and I’m not, at all, sure why. What I’d be giving up...
Facebook me
I’m not sure if its part of a wider rollout or if i just got lucky to be the next on the list but I got access to the new facebook messages today.
The biggest thing that threw me off at first was the fact that the newest message was at the bottom when up until now it was the other way around. My first instinct was that this was horrible and that it was going to confuse the hell out of the...
Off
So we had our marketing “offsite” today, which is always an interesting day because theres so much… hmm how do you say it, so many half ideas and good intentions. But sadly the resolutions I hope to walk away from a meeting like that with are rarely if ever there.
We did decide on two “big” goals for the department
1. Expand audiences
2. Be more strategic
I...
Payments
Online payments is still an exhausting process, and for all the people out there claiming to have the simple turnkey way, no ones really figured it all out.
We’re coming really close to our own solution which give people the option of paying directly with a credit card or with paypal or google checkout logins, and all of them sync back to saleforce.com.
It’s finally looking nice,...
Re-Fashion NYC
Its almost here, graphics and ideas should be coming soon and bins rolling out in time for Earth Day. Amazing how far this come, now we will see if this will really start paying off.
Hypercritical about Hypercritical
John Siracusa was talking on episode #8 on Hypercritical today and was struggling to make an arguement that, while I think too a little to long to explain, was a very good point about the dangers of some of the decisions Apple has been making.
The basic idea is that apple has gotten big enough now that its business units have conflicting interests, most notably within the iOS universe.
It is in...
Mobile Progress
On sunday I stumbled across a post highlighting the lasted verison of JQuery Mobile being released and thought to myself, huh, I’m really curious how this thing works..
So I started playing around with it and very quickly realized that this was going to be much easier, and much more fun than I thought.
Its extremely far from complete, and many many hours away from even being functional but...
December 2010
2 posts
How I learned to stop worrying and join the iOs...
For years now I’ve put it off. Despite having an iPhone since literally day one, I’ve been fighting this ideological battle in my head against the idea of developing native applications for iOS.
Ever since college I’ve been a web developer, and while I’ve dabbled in application development and of course things like flash and director I always find my self back with good...
August 2010
2 posts
Bill Brand’s Masstransiscope subway art →
Shared by Keithmancuso
Need to remember to check this out…
I take the Q train from Brooklyn to Manhattan a lot and am always fascinated by this animation that’s viewable from the train slightly…
Goals
As we plan some updates to shophousingworks.com and housingworks.org i’ve spent a lot of time in the last month thinking about goals.
What do we as a non-profit really want people to do on our website. There are obvious answers such as making a donation, or buying something but is that all? For some people those things arent really options, and it doesnt mean they arent interested in...
June 2010
1 post
Sarah Palin, Punctuator Extraordinaire, Blames... →
Shared by Keithmancuso
Makes me want to throw up, she cant turn this around like that and get away with it.
This, from the woman who just two months ago called for the Obama administration to…
May 2010
2 posts
ChallengePost Becomes A Government Contractor →
Shared by Keithmancuso
I like this, hmmm..
Can we get better government through game mechanics? We are about to find out. Today, ChallengePost was named the official online…
Comment on Any Google Reader Shared Item →
Google Reader simplified the commenting feature so that anyone can comment on a shared item. “Up until now, someone had to be in a designated sharing group to be able to comment on a post, even if…
April 2010
7 posts
Support
I spent the better part of the day today trying to set up our first run at real organized customer support, and it was harder than I expected it to be get it all cleaned up but now that it is I think it opens up the door to some pretty big things…
I’d like to see our shophw staff starting to use this to manage customer issues, not to mention membership, and even thrift donations. ...
Recovering Textiles: NYC & HW
So this morning I went with Erica to the New York Department of Sanitation for a meeting about a possible partnership in what they are calling the “Textile recovery program”
I had no idea what to expect, I have thought we’d be the only ones there but we arrived 20 minutes early and there was already more than 15 people there. Not a lot but all the big players were there, both...