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Re: Design in the Wild: When delivering bad news just be honest (and if you can, be funny). Well done, Brightkite.

Aaron — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:21:29 -0000

It also shows a lot of overconfidence on BrightKite's part too - that people will actually wait for them to be the mobile social app du jour despite a bunch of competition.

Then again, regarding their competition, there isn't a big winner out there yet either.

Re: EverydayUX links for July 1st through July 10th

Aaron — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:23:27 -0000

Apple Remote rocks. Loopt worked for me right away: a friend added me and we found out we were only blocks away. So we had a drink. To me, that is success.

Re: Do Something Creative

Aaron — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:39:36 -0000

Here here!

Re: Golden Boots, Cave Singers, Dr. Dog @ 400 Bar

Aaron — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:07:40 -0000

Damn. Wish I had tickets. I'd love to go.

Re: Golden Boots, Cave Singers, Dr. Dog @ 400 Bar

Aaron — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:06:38 -0000

Hum. I hate packed shows at the 400 and I hate dbags. I don't feel as bad for missing it.

Re: Wilco Live: Ashes Of American Flags @ Riverview Theater

Aaron — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:16:43 -0000

I'll be there!

Re: What’s Going On Saturday?

Aaron — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:26:00 -0000

Idle Hands at the Kitty Cat Klub... (p.s. why is this an image?)

Re: UNKLE Paying Lip Service?

Aaron — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:03:55 -0000

Hey, mind sending that to me? I have a really good throwdown mix of theirs, about 43 minutes long, that was pre-Never, Never, Land if you don't have it already.

I saw them live when they came through Minneapolis a couple years ago and they weren't so exciting but I dig their stuff.

Re: Post to Twitter when you post to your blog

Aaron — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:24:24 -0000

I hate the Twitter Tools plugin. Twitter and traditional blogging are two different things. I don't use Twitter as an aggregation of whenever my friends create new blog posts. I use an RSS reader for that.

What happens unfortunately is that I generally remove from my Twitter friends people that do that - as they generally have other annoying Twitter habits as well. :-)

/my soapbox

Re: Websites as graphs

Aaron — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:57:09 -0000

This is pretty much chart porn.

Re: Full Screen Firefox and Safari on OS X

Aaron — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:56:25 -0000

Well, on a multi-tasking OS, why would you need the window bigger than it needs to be? What are you doing with all the whitespace in the window?

;-)

Safari's great because when you maximize the window, it goes to a maximum width of the website. Smart, IMHO.

Re: Violet Blue and Boing Boing Debacle

Aaron — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:13:20 -0000

Well, now it's on Valleywag.

Re: Iphone failures - Uploading Photos

Aaron — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:05:19 -0000

AirMe works a lot better with the iPhone and Flickr. It does the geocoding properly and can upload the full resolution. The application is a bit clunky yet though. I've emailed with one of the guys with AirMe about it and they're planning a pretty aggressive rollout timeline with bugfixes and features.

I wonder if Flickr will develop an Uploadr for iPhone.

Re: Wednesday Where? #3

Aaron — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:22:59 -0000

woot.

Re: 2007/08/09/flickr-upload/

Aaron — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:57:23 -0000

Ed over at Technology Evangelist posted a step-by-step post of how easy it is and what the new UI looks like.

Re: 2007/08/14/facebook-iphone/

Aaron — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:34:12 -0000

Hi, I'm the guy at Facebook who built this. We haven't launched the site yet and themob.facebook.com was only for testing. Stay tuned, the official launch is coming soon.

Damn. Well, looks nice so far. Came back to this thread to find out what happened. Cheers.

Re: 2007/08/16/skype-outage/

Aaron — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:55:37 -0000

Well, if it makes any difference, the markets are taking a mild hit overall. EBAY is doing better than AAPL and CSCO right now and is almost in line with the DOW.

Re: 2007/09/10/poweredbydanger/

Aaron — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:39:37 -0000

Powered By Danger is taking its initial community from hiptop.com, Danger's previous community site which was a phpBB forum gone wild with a monthly newsletter. It also had a mobile blogging service but I don't think it got much use.

I'm not baffled by it at all. It helps builds device and software loyalty while service provider loyalty seems to be generally built by service contracts.

Re: 2007/09/19/nbc/

Aaron — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:52:29 -0000

So they still don't get the podcasting thing then. Well, it leads to some more hints as to why they parted with Apple.

Re: 2007/10/01/radiohead/

Aaron — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:11:52 -0000

It's "1 penny," by the way. "Pence" is plural the same way the US says "Pennies."

Also, when I ordered it I was able to choose Â£0.00 and my order seemed to go through.

Re: 2007/10/08/trillian-mac/

Aaron — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:27:01 -0000

Wow. That UI looks horrible.

Re: 2007/10/09/jaiku-google/

Aaron — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:30:28 -0000

Maybe they'll starve development on it like they did with Dodgeball.

Re: 2007/11/07/android-symbian/

Aaron — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:21:21 -0000

What a load of crap. One of the reasons that Google bought out Android years ago was because it was a group of people that had a TON of experience in developing OSes and software for mobile platforms, most notably the Danger hiptop and WebTV even. If you had to pick people to lead up developing a new mobile operating system, Andy Rubin, Brian Swetland and many people with Android are probably some of the top brains and some of the most experienced people out there.

Re: 2008/02/26/google-talk-chatback-widget/

Aaron — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:26:00 -0000

Disappointing that I can't seem to get it to work for accounts that use Google Apps.

Re: 2008/03/02/realnetworks-scrabulous/

Aaron — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:58:30 -0000

Re: "Hold on Scrabulous fans. Your game may soon return back to its former glory."

Well, it's not gone, and we don't need RealNetworks either.

Re: 2008/03/19/twitter-color-wars/

Aaron — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:04:51 -0000

Here's my take on it all:

http://twitter.com/s4xton/statuses/774282537

Re: 2008/04/21/twitter-usability-poll/

Aaron — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:44:27 -0000

They have commented on it:

http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/web_n...

This is a result of some of the caching changes we made during last night's maintenance window. While those changes have made the service more stable over all, there have been some unintended effects.

We're aware of the problem and are working through it. It may take a bit to resolve but we are on it.

Re: 2008/07/09/iphone-gps-reception/

Aaron — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:37:05 -0000

It's disappointing: imagine if someone created an $30 application that played like a TomTom or a Garmin NÃ¼vi... the whole consumer GPS market could change.

Re: 2008/07/13/software-development-cycles/

Aaron — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:01:18 -0000

Well, the traditional development cycle is out the window for web apps. You continuously get feedback and continue to add new features... at the expense of possibly buggier software. It's not like an operating system.

Somewhat joking: I wonder what the "version numbers" of Flickr and Gmail are and have been -- are we in the tens of thousands or have there been an indefinite amount of decimal version numbers?

Yes, it is frustrating to try to understand the development cycle and there is an abuse with terms (i.e. something some people consider "beta" isn't even "alpha" yet and sometimes there's betas that are much better than most people's RC's)... but the lines are blurred and it is only going to get worse, at least as far as web apps go.

Re: 2008/07/30/email-addiction/

Aaron — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:33:46 -0000

I didn't read the article, but that is an awesome photo.

Re: 2008/08/08/astroturfing-social-media-ok-only-for-liberal-agendas/

Aaron — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:42:37 -0000

One of the most ill-informed posts I've ever read on Mashable. Do you not understand the difference between netroots and astroturfing? They're the opposite.

Re: 2009/01/20/the-white-house-on-twitter/

Aaron — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:18:15 -0000

Are either @thewhitehouse or @whitehouse_gov actually official Twitter accounts?

Re: Review: Fauxliage : Delerium

Aaron — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:07:47 -0000

Cool. Thanks for posting this.

Delerium is probably one of the best shows I saw at the Quest and I dig a lot of the Leeb/Fulber projects. Didn't know about Fauxliage until I read this. Thanks.

Re: Free Ticket Giveaway: Nanking @ Lagoon Theater : Lou Reed

Aaron — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:57:27 -0000

Sounds great. I'll go.

Re: Hack Attack : Install Leopard on your PC in 3 easy steps!

Aaron — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:29:26 -0000

NO WAI HAX0RZ !

Re: Tweet and Meet Date and Details

Aaron — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:52:28 -0000

Welcome!

Re: Tweet and Meet Date and Details

Aaron — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:11:46 -0000

I vote for March 22.

Re: Tweet and Meet Date and Details

Aaron — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:14:37 -0000

Woah, the comments above were... from before this post was here.

Re: Things I’ve Learned About This Experience, So Far…

Aaron — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:22:33 -0000

This is the best post I've read on this site... by far. I've been following Eve's status throughout and I've been genuinely excited, concerned, scared and optimistic. Thanks for keeping us updated and informed -- it means a lot to hear how Eve is doing.