This guy has upper management written all over him.
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FAIL.
Apple double charged me for the iPhone Developer program (I was given two memberships, for one individual).
2.5 hours and all I got was 5 minutes on the phone with someone who transfered me. This is terrible. Worse the recording kept saying I was about 15 minutes away from talking to a representative.
I’ve usually had good experience with apple support at least through the genius bar. But this one just plain blows.
“Allthough there are certain tells.. You have to wait. Because… youuu…….. I’m requesting time like I have to think about it”
Priceless. Of course it has to be a congressman’s son.
Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.
Finally got my first startupwear.com shirt. Originally this was intending to represent the user experience on twitter; however, in light of their more recent issues it seems to have taken on a whole new meaning.
1 down 3 to go
Startup life, powered by Rockstar.
Guess I’m going to have to hold back a bit today
Why I miss the West Wing.
Trying out Powerset …
Trying out the search engine Powerset, which has a very slick user interface, and neat concept but still has some issues to work out.
Check out the set of wikipedia facts it pulled out for me on a query for Steve Ballmer.
ouch.
I’m “Back”
So after taking a week off from my digital media addiction I have a few take-aways:I don’t need techcrunch (or mashable, venture beat, hacker news, digg, or anything else of the sort)
Maybe I’m just lucky because I have connected friends who send me enough things, but I didn’t feel out of the loop or that I had missed anything of any consequence.
I spend a lot of time on google reader.
I never really had a significant temptation to quit my plan early, but I did notice very frequently as I was working the mental “twitch” whenever I reached a minor stopping point or ran into anything difficult. While Google Reader is amazing, its also a great way to procrastinate on a daily basis.
There’s a lot of noise
Moving forward
I’ve severely trimmed my subscriptions: (Old OPML) Vs. (New OPML) We’ll see how long techcrunch remains in there. Hacker News is staying because despite its high volume, it has in my opinion the best signal to noise ratio of anything high volume in my opml. I intend to blog more, randomly J-Walking Less, and limit google reader to twice a day.
Online Sabbatical
I’ve decided to take a week off of my online media consumption. I have found recently I “j-walk” through too much time in google reader, reply to too many facebook messages and notifications, spend too much effort just keeping up with the flow of twitter.
I need some solid productive time on the computer because the rest of my life has gotten so thoroughly scheduled that its cutting back on how much I can do, and on top of that I have more work to do in the next few weeks than the last two months. So instead of cutting back on “real” social activity and sleep as I’ve done in the past I’m going to try cutting down my digital media consumption.
No twitter, No Google Reader (No Techcrunch, Mashable, VentureBeat, and 38 others), and no Facebook (except to work on my application), No Hacker News, etc…
I’ll be using freedom to help when possible.
See you in a week.
To reach the normal users, we must provide them value: some functionality, ease, bling, utility that they can’t get elsewhere. Good data begets users, and users begets good data.
Brad Fitz, Some thoughts on the Social Graph
