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Re: http://www.michaelgalpert.com/post/21557456588

jonathanpberger — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:16:17 -0000

"The conversations I have in NYC are definitely broader and more diverse than the ones I have in NYC."

Huh?

Re: The Quandry

jonathanpberger — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:46:58 -0000

+1 on trying out an android phone with a physical keyboard. Android 2.0 is sexy, but the google integration is the killer feature, and you'll get that on a G1. If that works for you all you have to do is wait for a modern GSM keyboard phone.

Re: The Dictated Blog Post

jonathanpberger — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:34:28 -0000

http://www.youtube.com/watc... works for me, or search "10/GUI" and it should be the top hit.

Re: The Dictated Blog Post

jonathanpberger — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:19:38 -0000

The 10/GUI concept video has some nice ideas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWz1KbknIZke

(whoops; this comment should've been threaded in reply to "have you done or seen a good blog post on all of the various emerging ways we'll interact with a computer in the next 20 years?" here: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/01/the-dictated-bl...)

Re: The Dictated Blog Post

jonathanpberger — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:17:53 -0000

The 10/GUI concept video has some nice ideas about where interfaces could go: http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Announcing “Fashion.NYC”

jonathanpberger — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:34:48 -0000

Signed: jonathanpberger

Re: jay parkinson + md + mph = doctor in brooklyn - Hello Health added more doctors today.

jonathanpberger — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:29:04 -0000

congrats!

Re: jay parkinson + md + mph = doctor in brooklyn - I want health insurance based on lifestyle.

jonathanpberger — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:17:30 -0000

Hell yes!

Re: jay parkinson + md + mph = doctor in brooklyn - Jason Fried: The next generation bends over

jonathanpberger — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:30:34 -0000

Ok, I buy the Christensen argument about innovative disruption—but I'm not sure it applies in this case. Its one thing to be able to innovate when you stand alone. Integrating with legacy systems is another story altogether, and unless Mint has designs on taking people away from banks altogether, I see a strong argument for them to partner up with an establishment player for the sake of access and scale once they get to a certain size.

Re: jay parkinson + md + mph = doctor in brooklyn - Jason Fried: The next generation bends over

jonathanpberger — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:08:15 -0000

I'm not sure what you mean by "sustaining disruption", but I agree that Mint's culture will probably be sublimated to Intuits. But the Mint guys are under no obligation to be all indie and hardcore and go it alone. Its not unreasonable to think that better access to bigger players is what they need to take a banking app to the next level. They have a competitor that's staying indie (Wesabe), so customers and users get the benefit of seeing two approaches to this market.

Re: jay parkinson + md + mph = doctor in brooklyn - Jason Fried: The next generation bends over

jonathanpberger — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:55:13 -0000

Far be it from me to defend big business, but Jason Fried is a troll. Flaming Mint because they don't share 37s's "stay small" values? That's cute and all, but breaking into the banking business is structurally pretty different than writing web apps.

Let's compare this to a scenario where Aetna bought Hello Health: sure, they could kill it, either intentionally or accidentally. Buy Jay could start a new HH pretty easily and cheaply—that's the nature of 21st century business—and if Aetna *didn't* screw the pooch, things get interesting. The increased reach could push the HH agenda real far, real fast. Imagine every Aetna doctor being offered the option of structuring their practice as HH; they wouldn't all do in (nor will all Intuit users switch to Mint), but HH would massively increase its userbase and mindshare overnight.

Damn. I said "userbase" and "mindshare". Ick.

Anyway, Rafe has a nice takedown of Fried here, the gist being:

"Sure it’s gratifying to look at an acquisition and say “greedy investors killed the dream,” but there are plenty of alternate explanations that make more sense and don’t require us to think in childish terms about heroes and villains."

http://rc3.org/2009/09/19/w...

Re: A few thoughts on foursquare’s seed financing…

jonathanpberger — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:40:31 -0000

Congrats guys!

Re: phodroid | bekathwia

jonathanpberger — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:42:04 -0000

Drive safe!

Re: Recap: Our First Vintage & Bloggers Meetup - Monday is for Margaritas!

jonathanpberger — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:58:27 -0000

Bummer about the photos. Fun night though!

Re: The average life span of a 15th century man in England was thirty years.

jonathanpberger — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:37:57 -0000

There's gotta be a better way of phrasing "A 65 year old today lives 6 years longer than a 65 year old in 1900." That left me scratching my head for a few minutes.

Maybe "A 65 year old today has a 6 year longer life expectancy than a 65 year old did in 1900"?

Re: Test flv

jonathanpberger — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:25:16 -0000

Thanks for posting this! One suggestion for making the Full Text transcript a little more readable: pull out the "USER entered the room" and "USER changed nickname" lines. You can use these regexes to zap 'em:

^.*changed nickname.*$

^.*entered the room$

Re: One Hour Design Competition at Core77

jonathanpberger — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:43:16 -0000

Creative constraints are the name of the game. I think that's what makes computer-based design disciplines so different from everything that came before: the affordances of pixels are so removed from physical media that we struggle in the absence of the physics-based constraints that a sculptor or typesetter negotiates.

Re: My Purchases at the Manhattan Vintage Show

jonathanpberger — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:01:46 -0000

Holy crap that hermes scarf is AWESOME!

Re: Roses are Red, and My Extremities are Blue...

jonathanpberger — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:47:27 -0000

No you don't. Work is for suckers. Keep reading. KEEP READING!

Re: How to make your tab key work like it should on a Mac

jonathanpberger — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:00:07 -0000

Default behavior on a mac is to use select a drop-down menu using Tab, and navigate within the menu using the arrow keys. Personally, I like not having to hit tab 200 times when I hit the "Country" field that's part of most forms.

Re: Why Are Men So Hard to Shop For?

jonathanpberger — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:13:49 -0000

That Vaserely book looks eye-searingly awesome! It reminds me of this shirt: http://www.theselectseries....

Re: How I Find Good Stuff on the Web

jonathanpberger — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:31:22 -0000

> In the past on DesignNotes I’ve gone over why I don’t like rss feed readers

link?

Re: October’s Ruby Happy Hour is this Wednesday

jonathanpberger — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:46:39 -0000

Longtime O.in fan and new RoR Kool-Aid drinker. Can't wait for the happy hour!

Re: First Thoughts On The N95

jonathanpberger — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:20:12 -0000

Maybe better than a BB, but it can't hold a candle to an iPhone. I use a Treo 650, which has a piss-poor browser, but having a touchscreen instead of a mouse-pointer is such a huge advantage that the N95 didn't feel like a step up in usability, even if the rendering was far better than my treo.

I'm starting to think that on a mobile device, when the screen in a few square inches, a touchscreen is an unbeatable edge.

Re: First Thoughts On The N95

jonathanpberger — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:19:26 -0000