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Re: The Best Digital Notebooks

jaygoldman — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:16:46 -0000

Thanks for this! I bought the Supernote Nomad on your recommendation and have been very happy with it. Any plans to add the Daylight Computer as an option?

https://daylightcomputer.com

Re: Zooming

jaygoldman — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 08:47:09 -0000

We’re heavy Zoom users at Sensei Labs for all of the reasons Fred mentioned. Our customers are all over the world so travel would be unreasonably expensive, time consuming, and bad for the planet. It’s a reasonably good solution, especially when the sound and video quality are good for all parties (as everyone else has mentioned), but I do find that it removes most of the small talk and bonding moments. Often the real connections between people happen in the chatter before and after the meeting, or the meal you grab together because you happen to be in the same town. Those are the moments that form relationships but also the ones that get edited out in the efficiency of joining and leaving meetings from anywhere in the world.

Two things we’ve learned: it’s worth outfitting at least one of your meeting rooms with a Zoom Room setup (and don’t skimp on the microphone — sound quality is way more important than video quality), and having everyone connect to Zoom on their own laptops, even if they’re in the same room, can solve a number of problems mentioned in the comments. Just have everyone turn off their audio so you don’t get feedback. We do our weekly dev demos across our whole team by having everyone connect to Zoom from their desks, put themselves on mute, and only have the presenter on audio. Works really well!

Re: Portable TV and Music

jaygoldman — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 23:15:05 -0000

That's a great tip @Patrick ! Thanks for sharing it. I've ordered the TP-Link pocket router and will report back.

Re: Portable TV and Music

jaygoldman — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 07:52:38 -0000

I thought bringing an AppleTV to a hotel would be a great idea, especially on a ski trip with the kids. Then I discovered a small challenge with Apple TVs and hotel wifi: there’s no mechanism built into tvOS to deal with logging into a wifi network that has a captive portal.

You’ll find you can connect to the network but there’s no browser or way to trigger the login screen so you can’t use the network. I suspect you’d have the same problem with a Chromecast though I haven’t tried.

Apparently you can sometimes call the hotel tech support line and get them to register the device’s MAC address on the network but then you’d have to find the phone number and deal with them. Haven’t found a reliable tech solution yet but here are some options:

You can sometimes share your internet connection from a laptop over wifi if you can hard wire it over Ethernet.

If you’re technically inclined enough to use XCode and build a tvOS, this gives you a browser on the AppleTV: https://github.com/jvanakke.... I found the app build easy enough (and you apparently no longer need to edit header files), but the app itself a little unreliable.

You can also spoof the MAC address of the device from a laptop first and register it on the network (see https://gist.github.com/rsk.... Haven’t tried this one yet.

Good luck! Let us know how it works out.

Re: Don’t Fear Our Driving-Automation Overlords. Welcome Them

jaygoldman — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:49:44 -0000

Thanks for the comment Force! I'm one of the co-authors of the book and just wanted to share a different view.

You raise an excellent point (and I love "meat mechanism"!). UPS would entirely agree with you, which is why drivers don't have to listen to ORION's coaching. They do know way more about the real world conditions and can react to their changing environment. Tech as a coach is about providing real time coaching that helps guide your people toward better performance but never to replace them.

Re: Elapsed Time: Quantified Self or Better to Quantify Someone Else: Can We Improve Ourselves By Mimicking Others?

jaygoldman — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 18:52:30 -0000

I like this idea! It's like when you're playing a video game and there's a ghost of your best time to race against. There's some amount of this built into Nike+ and the ability to share workouts with your friends, but this suggests a fuller integration into their eating, sleeping, and other routines.

Path touches on this with their Nike+ FuelBand integration as seen in their video with defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh: http://www.youtube.com/watc....

Re: CA court: checking map/GPS program on phone while driving violates state | LAUNCH

jaygoldman — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:43:59 -0000

I wonder how checking a GPS while driving differs from using the controls on a car with a touchscreen console like the Tesla S. Both require you to look away from the screen and to focus on the display. I haven't driven the Tesla but I would think they are equally distracting (if they're distracting at all).

Re: ~30 @uber drivers protest outside of SF office; 'They’re running a | LAUNCH

jaygoldman — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:18:08 -0000

I've had the same experience as @jason — only ever had happy drivers who love the service. I wonder if these drivers are representative or whether they're maybe a staged protest? Lots of vested interests in Uber not succeeding.

Re: Is Passbook the Future of Pharma CRM?

jaygoldman — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:03:17 -0000

Glad to see others are thinking along the same lines as us! We've just published a POV on using Passbook for Co-pay cards that includes a sample card you can add to your iPhone or iPod touch. You can grab it at http://klick.com/health/blo...

Re: Sophie Trophies

jaygoldman — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:10:38 -0000

Hopefully with a much better outcome than Moon the Loon!

Re: The enterprise cloud products we use and the things they have in common

jaygoldman — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:46:28 -0000

It's interesting that Dropbox, Google, and Skype all started life as consumer products (I would even argue that Dropbox is still a consumer product that many companies have adopted despite significant security issues for that use case). Arguably, Yammer started life as the corporate answer to Twitter — I've never seen it actually stick either. A friend recently told me she uses Facebook Groups for everything within the company because of exactly the same set of reasons you listed above.

The consumerization of the enterprise space is pretty powerful. Our expectations of what's possible have been raised by consumer web/tech companies and now we're bringing that new bar into work. I love watching companies wrestle with their people rejecting provided infrastructure and finding ways to use better tools. We saw that a lot at Rypple (now work.com) when I was Head of Marketing there. Managers would choose to pay for Rypple for their team on their personal credit card and not bother with expensing the $30/month because it made them and their team better. The network effect meant that we would almost always get other managers signing up once it had reached them internally, until we eventually reached out through our sales team and let the company know they could save money on an enterprise account. It's a beautiful model, really.

Re: The new domains on the horizon

jaygoldman — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:53:43 -0000

Some great reporting in here Brad! Nice work.

It's a sign of the times that ".app" has the most competition, as well as a real testament to Apple's creation of a massive economy via the iTunes App Store. It's always useful to play "follow the money" and the number of registrants for .app speaks to the over $4 billion that they've paid out to Developers.

The real test of ROI on these new gTLDs will be user acceptance. Will we end up seeing ads with humira.abbott? That doesn't look or feel like a web URL, and anything that requires explanation is likely to fail. History has shown us many times that it's very hard to overtake .com, especially with longer TLDs already in place like .mobi (which should have been .m, but that's another story). $185,000 is a lot of money to spend on a domain if no one visits it, and I can't help feel like there is a certain amount of digital extortion at play in ICANN's $350 million windfall ("Look! We've made brand new real estate on the interwebs! Better make sure you register your name before someone else does!").

Re: next

jaygoldman — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:50:46 -0000

Congrats on all the success! Can't wait to see what you do next.

Re: Big Changes.

jaygoldman — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:17:59 -0000

WE are (possibly unreasonably) excited to have you aboard! Welcome to the team :)

Re: http://attentionsurplus.ca/post/15220796337

jaygoldman — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:35:40 -0000

Thanks for having me on guys! It was a lot of fun to tape the show (Tape? Is that what the kids say? Digitize?). Can't wait to hear the second part. And thanks for keeping Eric's flubs in :)

Re: 3 Brandnew Ways To Use Buffer

jaygoldman — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:20:58 -0000

Just another +1 (or +100000) for getting my delicious chocolate Buffer into my tasty Reeder peanut butter. Make it happen!

Re: letter.ly

jaygoldman — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:28:34 -0000

I'd also be really curious to see a sample issue. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that I wouldn't subscribe without seeing one - not that I don't trust Chris to produce great stuff, but rather that I would need a sense that the topics are things I would want to write about.

Re: http://thedailywh.at/post/2389936680

jaygoldman — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:10:57 -0000

If you liked the video, you should have seen our holiday party :) It wasn't quite as filled with meme references, but it was pretty damn awesome.

Re: http://thedailywh.at/post/2389936680

jaygoldman — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:09:26 -0000

Conveniently, we're hiring :) Check out http://www.klick.com/?bookm... for a listing of open positions.

Re: Gawker's Password Compromise Has Significant Aftershocks

jaygoldman — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:52:50 -0000

I'll second Jake's recommendation for 1Password. I use it on a Mac at home, Windows at work, and my iPad and iPhone, all synced via Dropbox. It's awesome, highly secure, and completely prevents the need to worry about things like this. More info at https://agilewebsolutions.c...

Re: Launch Status Update

jaygoldman — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:47:16 -0000

I'm sure I already know then answer, but any plans to open in Canada? You're no doubt focused on the US launch first, but there are lots of Canadians up here who are fed up with the big five banks and who would love a Simple solution.

(Actually, there are lots of Americans getting fed up with our big five banks too, since they've been on an acquisition spree, snapping up US banks as they fold. There are now more branches of TD in the US than in Canada...)

Re: Mind Your Inward Paths / nForm / Blog

jaygoldman — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:41:10 -0000

Excellent post Gene!

The mobile version of sites is starting to feel a lot like the InternetExplorer version of sites or the Print version of sites. They're usually ghettos built around limited functionality rather than highlighting device-specific awesomeness. I bet, for example, that the United app doesn't leverage location aware devices to give you airport specific recommendations.

I like the suggestion of mapping out how your content is connected now, but that can be a pretty tough thing to do. It's easy to lose track of all the places you've linked from one page to another, never mind all of the inbound links from the rest of the web. A quick suggestion: you can use Google Analytics to check a page's Navigation Summary, which will show you all of the previous pages that lead to this one. You can also look at the Entrance Sources to see a list of external pages that link in.

One last thought: I've been thinking a bunch lately about 'desire paths', a term borrowed from landscape architecture to refer to the paths people carve through lawns when a 'paved' path doesn't exist. They're harder to detect on websites than they are when you have a line cut through your line. That said, things like usertesting.com or userfly.com can help you to see the desire paths that people are forming on your site and can help you find ways to formalize those shortcuts.

Re: Enterprise Software Doesn’t Have to Suck

jaygoldman — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:06:12 -0000

Ben -

Thanks for the great post! We really appreciate the link over to the original on the Rypple site, as well as your added thoughts and continued discussion. It's awesome to see that an idea we planted can take root so deeply in other people's heads!

Would love to hear more from you about your past work with Design Strategy. Can you elaborate on that?

Thanks!

Jay Goldman
http://rypple.com

Re: 10 Steps to Starting a Business in Toronto

jaygoldman — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:04:38 -0000

Glad to see a publication like Inc talking about my favourite city! Also awesome to see folks like Sarah Prevette mentioned.

I work for http://rypple.com, a startup proudly located in Toronto. We think there's a lot to love about being located here, even beyond what's mentioned in the post. For example:

1) We're in EST, which means we can easily split the difference between Pacific, Eastern, and Greenwich Mean Time.

2) We have a big international airport with direct flights to almost everywhere. Makes getting to the west coast or Europe very easy.

3) We're one of the most multi-cultural cities in the world, which means there's a highly diversified labour force in our backyard.

4) Federal programs like SR&ED (Scientific Research & Experimental Development) make it much cheaper to run development teams here than in the states. Over $4 billion in investment tax credits paid to over 18,000 claimants each year (75% of which are small businesses). More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: Scripting News: Need help with CSS-based outlines

jaygoldman — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:10:29 -0000

Here's a working solution using uls for the lists and css for the indenting:

http://jaygoldman.com/indenting.html

Note that this also avoids the negative margin for the icons on each level.

I added in a small amount of jQuery to handle expanding and collapsing the lists in order to make it a real working example — you can obviously replace with your own JavaScript if you're not using that library.

One note: I inserted the permalinks using jQuery to keep the source clean. It's a simplistic implementation that sets the hrefs to #, so you'd have to add in logic to make them correct.

Code is semantically correct and validates cleanly: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2F...