Category Archives: General

How to cope with live criticism via twitter

2010-04-26 – 07:59

Next time Digital Urban gives a lecture or presentation, it might be interesting to project a live feed of related tweets during the presentation.

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Facebook, your user interface is horrible

2010-04-11 – 14:19

Lately I’ve noticed several of my friends’ posts on Facebook are tagged with a Twitter icon, and most of the updates I want to post are small, so I figured I’d give it a try. Searched for Twitter on FB and got two apps, Twitter and Selective Tweets. First I tried installing Twitter, but when [...]

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Why does my iPhone bleep at me when I make a call?

2010-04-08 – 08:23

I’ve got a few email accounts that don’t support Push. On the Settings->Mail->Fetch New Data screen, you can choose whether to fetch new data every 15 minutes, 30 minutes, Hourly, or Manually. An uncharacteristically long paragraph of text explains that for better battery life, fetch less often, so I had it set to Manually. Almost [...]

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Meta-tweet

2009-03-24 – 20:27

Conversation between me, today, and me, circa March 2006:

“Hey Frank, it’s me, Frank, but from the future — 2009! I wanted to tell you a few important things. All these Web 2.0, social networking sites, and mash-ups are going to to make a ton of money in the markets, but they’ll lose most of it. [...]

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Happy New Year!

2008-01-01 – 16:28

We celebrated New Years last night on Rio de Janeiro time so everyone could go to bed as early as they wanted or needed. My mom (Grandi Mac to the girls) isn’t a napper, but she managed a five hour nap yesterday afternoon, and still was able to sleep a full night starting at 10 [...]

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