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by jkincaid 16y ago
No. Was there something specific about the article that made you wonder that, or is this merely one of the knee-jerk reactions we get every time we write a positive article about anything?
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by jkincaid 16y ago
One other thing that has helped me keep my sanity: wash and fold laundry service. You take your dirty laundry, put it in a bag, and they'll clean and fold it for a modest fee (the place around the corner from me is around $1.10 a pound). In
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by jkincaid 16y ago
Yes, sorry for not being more clear in my original post. It sounded to me like fees from outbound international calls originating in the US will be used to subsidize the domestic US calls.
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by jkincaid 16y ago
One thing to note: the blog post says that calls in US and Canada are free at least through the end of the year. I asked about this during the Q&A (seemed like a pretty big asterisk) and they said they have every intention of keeping it
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by jkincaid 16y ago
No, more like "Hey, I've got this game that's sorta like Pong, want to play?" The game requires sitting within a foot or two of each other and using teamwork to steer through the 'physical' parts. I really don't think this idea is so far fe
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by jkincaid 16y ago
Depends on the person, I guess. When I mentioned to the Koduco guys that this seemed like it would be a pretty fun game to flirt/play with a date, they agreed.
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by jkincaid 16y ago
Writer for TechCrunch here. There's some good advice in the linked article, and ilamont's comment is great. That said, I disagree with the linked article's advice on how to personalize a story for the writer you're targeting. Their example
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by jkincaid 16y ago
Just talked to them. They claim it actually is a miscommunication involving Apple's 'Made for iPod' program and that the site should be back soon (apparently a third party retailer had marked their item as "On Sale" without permission, whic
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by jkincaid 16y ago
That's actually not what I said and you've put quite a few words into my mouth (I am not a big fan of the ubiquitous "ly's", to be honest). I doubt I even saw this email — 3 AM on a Sunday is not prime time for reading pitches. And, as I wr
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by jkincaid 16y ago
Yeah, even without the YC connection that alone would have probably made this enough to pursue.
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by jkincaid 16y ago
I'll bite (I wrote this post). I actually mentioned VisualWebsiteOptimizer at the bottom of the Optimizely post, but no, I haven't done a full profile on it. If the founder happens to read this, I'd be happy to check out the site — make sur
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by jkincaid 16y ago
I agree with you, I should have mentioned him. Added to the post.
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by jkincaid 16y ago
It's not really irony, we just have different opinions. I've been covering the issues for a long time and disagree with MG here (I'll probably post a response to him in a few days).
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by jkincaid 16y ago
If you don't like the stock Android keyboard (or even if you do) I'd highly recommend trying out Swype. It's pretty damn impressive. Not perfect, but it's definitely a strong alternative.
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by jkincaid 16y ago
Regarding this one: "Pretending your faults don't exist." Having seen quite a few pitches myself, one good thing you can do is point out your major flaws/obstacles before you're asked about them (assuming they don't clearly spell out your i
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by jkincaid 16y ago
This is totally false. We don't get a bonus based on traffic, and we never have (and hopefully never will).
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by jkincaid 16y ago
The email exchange was never that interesting to begin with. But if this is true then it means Apple PR lied on the record about the story, which would be significant.
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by jkincaid 16y ago
Apple has reversed the block and the developers are being invited to resubmit the app in its original form: http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/14/apple-reverses-block-of-osc... For what it's worth, I specifically asked them if it was the kissi
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by jkincaid 16y ago
At Google I/O they held a press conference immediately following the Google TV announcement where I asked about bringing the 10 foot experience to the web. One of the project's lead PMs answered (as did Adobe's CEO, to a limited extent). Se
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by jkincaid 16y ago
The Gmail team is most definitely aware of this and a fix is in the works. At SXSW this year there was a panel with four or five Gmail team members and this came up — they said it's related to the size of your inbox, and that it has a lot
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by jkincaid 16y ago
You think they unintentionally made the default setting for updates 'everyone'?
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by jkincaid 16y ago
This only gets you part of the way there. Icons, some menu options, the built-in browser, and I believe even the keyboard are still 'Sense-ified'.
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by jkincaid 16y ago
Speaking as a tech blogger who has seen thousands of these, I really don't know who they are written for. The trick is to simply skip over anything that's a quote (which often make up around half of the words). Those quotes are rarely actua
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by jkincaid 16y ago
Check out the story, starting on page 16 of the embedded Scribd doc in this article, of the police making contact with the guys who found the phone. They allegedly tried to hide evidence in a church and a bush.
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by jkincaid 16y ago
I'm the same way; if I am busy I put off eating for hours longer than I should. Unfortunately I find that if I don't eat anything for a long time, I get progressively dumber. I read something that said there's a strong correlation between
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by jkincaid 16y ago
This is the same kind of logic Facebook is using to justify their moves to make everything public, and it's flawed. These are different kinds of public. For example, with Facebook fan pages there used to be an option to hide which pages/gro
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by jkincaid 16y ago
FYI, Google Maps on Android actually has this feature built in (I believe you have to activate it under the app's 'Labs' section). Works as you'd expect — you tap point A, tap point B, and it tells you the distance between them.
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by jkincaid 16y ago
"Yes, people use the privacy controls, but never the fine grained stuff, it's all "don't show info to people that aren't my friends." Exactly. People didn't care much about the granular stuff, just that only their friends could see what t
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by jkincaid 16y ago
"I don't feel that Facebook told anyone that their data would be private. Maybe I'm just naïve, or a little bit of an exhibitionist." This was actually how Facebook got popular in the first place. The whole point was that it was more priv
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by jkincaid 16y ago
I disagree. They don't care if a bunch of Apple fanboys or tech bloggers get upset about something, because the general public usually won't notice. Daily Show gets watched by a more mainstream audience, and I suspect it's a demographic tha

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