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Twas the Night Before Macworld

by Randy Stewart on January 8, 2007

in Apple, Consumer Electronics, Features, Microsoft, Portable Entertainment, Rumors, iTunes

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Twas the night before Macworld when all through the town
No MacBook was mooing nor turning brown

At Moscone, nerds were queuing with care
in hopes that Saint Steve would soon be there.

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Happy New Year

by Randy Stewart on January 3, 2007

in Features, Site News

I hope everyone had a Happy New Year or at the very least, a good winter break from all the hubbub in their lives. I was fortunate to have a very quiet Christmas that involved no travel. I hope that no one got stuck as a result of all the winter weather that happened.

A little update

Posting has been sparse over the last few weeks as I’ve been busy working with a number of early stage startups here in Seattle as well as launching the new blog over at Ditching Cable, so posting has been kind of sparse. Geek conferences MacWorld and CES will be taking up some of my time next week as well as a family trip back to San Francisco.

Over the coming weeks, I’ll be going back to my base in product design, gaming mechanics and social media. 2007 looks to be a very exciting year in terms of new companies, new ideas and new ways of doing business. It’s fun living in the future.

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Cool Tools – PicLens

December 15, 2006

This a very simple plugin for Safari that makes full screen slideshows from folders on Flickr and most of the other major photo sites. Nicely implemented and a great use of screen space.
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Ditching Cable has launched!!

November 28, 2006

In the last few months, I’ve become more and more disgruntled with my cable service. The cost is high and I simply don’t watch enough television to justify the price. The video quality is poor and the DVR makes me not want to watch television. The selection of video on demand and [...]

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My Jellyfish addiction

November 22, 2006

So, I’ve thought a lot about how gaming mechanisms can make sites more fun to use and my friends at Jellyfish.com have made a very addictive experience.
Jellyfish is yet another comparison shopping site, like Shopping.com, Epinions, NexTag, Yahoo! Shopping, Froogle, yadda, yadda, but they have a few twists up their sleeve. First, they incorporate [...]

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Boxbe – make spammers pay

November 9, 2006

Spam. This is the cost of doing business on the internet, right? Free and easy communication with friends, co-workers, partners, etc, but the cost of this ease is that it is easy (and close to free) for anyone to send you email.
I dunno about you, but I got better stuff to do than [...]

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John Battelle and Economy of Intention

November 1, 2006

I had a great time at last week’s Blog Business Summit. I met a lot of people whose work I respect a great deal and people that I found that I had a lot in common with. John Battelle is someone that I hold in very high regard because he inspired me very [...]

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Looking back to look forward

October 6, 2006

I remember first picking up Wired Magazine because its heavy stock cover and non-standard size. Most magazines at the time were all basically the same size and shape and generally of varying paper weight from light to completely flimsy. I’ve always been a bit of magazine nerd and also being a computer nerd [...]

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Cool Tools – Monolingual

October 5, 2006

Every so often I find something that saves my butt in some way. I’ve recently moved to using a Macbook as my primary machine. I immediately upgraded the hard drive inside, but my drive was filling up pretty quickly. Having XP and Mac OS X on the same device is great, but [...]

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Bringing them back pt. 3 – Levels

September 27, 2006

In video games, levels are the natural extension of points. Once you receive so many points or have accomplished so many tasks, you are awarded with a new level. If we model this to real life, you could equate this to accumulating wealth, social standing or a position at a company. Games [...]

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Bringing users back in droves part 2 – Earning points

September 21, 2006

Ahhhhh… earning points. This is an old chestnut. Earning points in games doesn’t really need much explaining. Shoot Space Invader, get points. Points are all about keeping score (duh) and then comparing your score with your friends.

There are at least two types of points used in community websites, social points and [...]

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How to bring people back to your site in droves

September 20, 2006

So, you’ve built your totally kick ass web 2.0, long tail, peer to peer, social networking, beta meme review wiki that has all the paradigm shifting, AJAX created reflections you can shake a stick at.
You’ve been on TechCrunch, Engadget, Boing Boing and you’ve been properly Dugg. You’ve gotten great press and lots of people [...]

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Fill your iPod, fill your head

September 8, 2006

Here’s a little weekend fun for you and your iPod.
I’ve found that my iPod usage is a little unusual. First, my music collection is somewhere in the 130 gb range (most of it legal) and that while I do listen to music on my iPod, I listen to podcasts and watch video podcasts more [...]

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Facebook faces community wrath

September 6, 2006

Congrats for the milestone, Facebook. I think that it happens to all communities when they get big enough. In every online community, there are people who complain. In some cases, like Slashdot, they do it all the time. Running a community website is hard. Sure, users are basically creating all [...]

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Job Interviews

September 5, 2006

I’m a terrible interviewee. I get nervous. My palms sweat. My throat dries. My mind blanks. When I’m in an interview, I rarely show the dynamic, confident, fun, creative person that I am.
Seth Godin talks today about how bad the interview process is and how the best way to bring [...]

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Small Business and Social Media

September 5, 2006

A very good friend of mine is relaunching her seasonal store in San Francisco this fall. It’s a really great non-profit business that sells items made by local artists. I talked to her the other day and was trying to convince her that even though the store is local, she should try to [...]

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