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Re: Product Camp Silicon Valley – Has Agile Broken Product Management?

mdoeff — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:29:43 -0000

Indeed you did! Thanks for a very informative session and for the link to the slides.

Re: Breaking Bad has gone off the rails

mdoeff — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 20:49:51 -0000

Dave, I'm a regular listener of the Breaking Bad Insider podcast. It's hosted by one of the editors on the show and every week they spend at least an hour with Vince Gilligan, the director of the episode, and usually one or two cast members. From what I can tell, it's the same writing team from past seasons. If you haven't already listened to it I highly recommend that you check it out. They regularly get into the various decisions that they make with the script. http://www.amctv.com/shows/...

Re: Airbnb Vs Hotels: A Price Comparison

mdoeff — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:25:40 -0000

Great analysis. Just wondering, what are you guys using for the map visualization and the top 20 lists. Tableau?

Re: DO NOT PUBLISH YET - STARBUCKS - SQUARE

mdoeff — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:52:05 -0000

This may have changed since I first tried it, but when I paid with Square at a Starbucks several months ago, I didn't get any Starbucks Rewards points. So why would I ever pay with Square at a Starbucks?

Re: 70 Pounds In – What I’ve Learned About Weight Loss

mdoeff — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 02:00:55 -0000

Congratulations on your incredible progress. I've been trying to lose weight for a little over a year. I've lost 25 pounds but I've hit a plateau over the past few months. This post is great inspiration for me to step it up and lost the next 25 pounds to get to my goal weight. I've been using LoseIt as well and based on your post, I'm going to look into Fitbit, Runkeeper, and Daytum.

Re: Google+ has made Twitter boring, here’s what Twitter should do about that

mdoeff — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:30:56 -0000

I'm really interested in what's going on at Google+ and I'm pretty active there but - I have to say - the long comment threads there are totally overwhelming and most of the comments I'm seeing there don't add much value. All they do is make the place look like a lot of work and it makes the stream not scannable at all. When I go back to Twitter it looks cleaner, more current, and I get much more value out of my time spent on Twitter compared to Google +. Like I said, it's still early for Google+ but it's not scaling well for me right now. Google+ is not a Twitter killer just like FriendFeed was not a Twitter killer.

Re: Dodgers fans speak out against violence ~ 22gigantes

mdoeff — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:08:41 -0000

This is good to see.

Re: Is our love of Instagram misplaced?

mdoeff — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:37:44 -0000

Settings > Instagram > Save original photo = YES. Problem solved?

Re: SF Bay Area Tech Companies on a Google Map

mdoeff — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:52:00 -0000

Thanks Ryan. The latest incarnation of this is on http://techjobsmap.com. I have a long list of companies that I need to add to the site but hopefully you'll find it useful.

Re: Locked out of my Twitter account

mdoeff — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:50:54 -0000

Have you seen this help page? http://support.twitter.com/...

Re: Locked out of my Twitter account

mdoeff — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:18:15 -0000

It's official - Twitter is more important than wine! Good luck getting your account restored. What a pain!

Re: The Family CRM Service

mdoeff — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:08:34 -0000

+1 for Highrise. I haven't used either of these apps but it looks like there is an app for Blackberry called Bridge (http://metova.com/display/B... and an Android app called Rooftop (http://staircase3.com/rooft.... And like others have already mentioned, Highrise supports tagging.

Re: Ben Folds and the Mystery of Merton, the Chatroulette Piano Guy

mdoeff — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:59:58 -0000

Maybe the terms of use violation was for unauthorized use of the song "Firefly"?

Re: Accounting

mdoeff — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:48:23 -0000

I'm sure you'll do it justice! Looking forward to it.

Re: Accounting

mdoeff — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:06:26 -0000

Great introductory post Fred. In future posts on this series it would be great if you could touch on the typical revenue models and the differences between those from an accounting perspective, the trade-off's, etc. For example, what are the revenue recognition rules that tech entrepreneurs should be aware of, especially for subscription-based businesses where revenue from a new deal might be spread over several years.

Re: FirstTake: What Google Buzz Means

mdoeff — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:18:56 -0000

Regarding "Buzz could have faster adoption rate than Twitter", despite the privacy missteps Buzz appears to have good momentum relative to Twitter at this stage. Leo Laporte was one of the most popular Twitter users and he said this about Buzz recently "I'm not sure if this means anything but it took me a year to get to 10,000 followers on Twitter. It only took me a week on Buzz." http://bit.ly/asBBmb

Re: The family tree is missing medical history

mdoeff — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:23:49 -0000

I think this would be vary valuable. Like you said, this is a bit of a hornet's nest when it comes to people overcoming their privacy concerns. I noticed that Geni is dipping their toe in the water with this. If you look at the Statistics page it gives you average life expectancy for male and female and longest lifespans for male and female. The Pro package seems to have some additional stats. Geni should definitely expand in this area.

I'm a big fan of Geni. We have a tree dating back to the 1500's.

Re: SONOS ZonePlayer S5

mdoeff — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:43:44 -0000

I really like how other music services are integrated into the Sonos - e.g. Pandora, last.fm, rhapsody and being able to synch what I'm playing across several different "zones" in the house. So it really depends on your listening habits. If you're mostly in one room and you mostly play your iTunes then Sonos is probably overkill.

Re: Google Wave’s unproductive email metaphors

mdoeff — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:34:40 -0000

Robert, does Rackspace have plans to implement Google Wave behind the firewall for internal projects and/or collaborative projects with customers? Seems to me that this would address many of the concerns that you have raised about noise, spammers, unknown users, etc.

Re: Ahead of the Curve - Monster of Folk This one... - bijansabet.com

mdoeff — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:12:10 -0000

FYI - Amazon MP3 store has a great deal on this - $3.99 and 48 hours before the official release. http://www.amazon.com/Monst...

Re: Serve Well and Be Well Served

mdoeff — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:43:42 -0000

The opening sounds a lot like Coldplay - Viva La Vida

Re: The anti-community list

mdoeff — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:22:06 -0000

This Net at Night interview with one of the guys behind Mr. Tweet is worth listening to: http://twit.tv/natn80

Re: The anti-community list

mdoeff — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:59:52 -0000

Have you taken a look at Mr. Tweet yet? I haven't used it much yet but it seems to factor in other factors besides popularity.

Re: Hello, iPhone OS 3.0 beta.

mdoeff — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:54:01 -0000

Great to hear that they nailed the copy/paste function. I was worried that it would be clunky.

Re: Your NPR Name

mdoeff — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:51:42 -0000

I'm Maike Vindeln reporting from San Francisco