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Evan Williams posted a message on Twitter
“Did you know you can send a direct message from the Twitter update box on the web? Type ‘d username’. Now less scary/more clear. Try it!”
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Interesting.. can you do this to someone who doesn’t follow you? - Daynah
@Daynah I don’t think you can DM someone not following you. That would be quite spammy. - samgrover
Mona, I’m here! :D - Daynah
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Tamar Weinberg posted a message on Twitter
“curious: what are your favorite iphone/ipod touch games? free or paid - though the former is preferable. name one or many!”
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I play Putt Putt Golf often. Bejeweled is a good standby. Morocco, Checkers, Dominos. (Now I sound like I’m 65 years old) - Louis Gray
Sudoku, Diner Dash, Galcon!! - tj hanton
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Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader
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I like this because I agree with it. Unfortunately. I wish GR did have something to worry about. :-) - Dave Winer
he’s fine .. kid with a good idea … it has some years left … all you tech guys are the ones who made it be more than it is, a kind of ego-status biggest dick measuring stick … sorry, it’s not … it is just an aggregator, and a nice one - Gregory Lent
agree with@davewiner - wish GR did have something to worry abt :) - Kingsley Joseph

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App Spotted: Twhirl

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Twitter desktop client based on the Adobe AIR platform.
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App Spotted: Firefox

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Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and a large community of external contributors, that runs on various versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and many other Unix-like operating systems. Firefox started as a fork of the Navigator browser component of the Mozilla Application Suite. Firefox has replaced the Mozilla Suite as the flagship product of the Mozilla project, under the direction of the Mozilla Foundation. It’s light, secu…
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App Spotted: Notepad

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Notepad is a simple text editor included with all versions of Microsoft Windows since Windows 1.0 in 1985.
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App Spotted: RescueTime Data Collector

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RescueTime is a web-based time management tool (currently in public beta). We offer: * The ability to see exactly how you spend your time. No data entry, no effort– Your time gets tracked down to the second without you having to actively track it. * Instant and easy time-management analytics. Instantly know how much time you’re spending on a particular app (like “Microsoft Word”), site (like “Google.com”) or a category (like “Communication”). * The ability to set t…

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App Spotted: Safari

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Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. and included in Mac OS X. It is the default browser in Mac OS X v10.3 and later. It is also the native browser on the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. A version for Microsoft Windows has been released with support for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Safari uses Apple’s WebKit for rendering web pages and running JavaScript. WebKit consists of WebCore (based on Konqueror’s KHTML engine) and JavaScriptCore (based on KDE’s JavaScript engine named KJS)….
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App Spotted: Microsoft Office Outlook

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Microsoft Outlook or Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, and is part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an e-mail application, it also provides a calendar, task and contact management, note taking, a journal and web browsing. It can be used as a stand-alone application, but can also operate in conjunction with Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to provide enhanced functions for multiple users in an organizatio…

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App Spotted: iTunes

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iTunes is a digital media player application, introduced by Apple in 2001 at Macworld Expo in San Francisco for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The program is also an interface to manage the contents on Apple’s popular iPod digital media players. Additionally, iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store (provided an internet connection is present) in order to download purchased digital music, music videos, television shows, iPod games, audiobooks, various podcasts, and featur…
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App Spotted: GoToMeeting/GoToWebinar

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App Spotted: Google Talk

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Google Talk is a computer application for Voice over IP and instant messaging, offered by Google.
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App Spotted: Yahoo! Messenger

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Yahoo! Messenger is an advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic ‘Yahoo! ID&’ which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail, where users can be automatically notified when they receive new email. Yahoo! also offers PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service, file transfers, webcam hosting, text messaging service, and chat rooms …
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Kingsley Joseph shared an item on Google Reader
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i want those pants!I have a yellow pair, just not that yellow. - Kingsley Joseph

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Kingsley Joseph shared an item on Google Reader
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brilliant. you can make almost anything more valuable by adding some social - Kingsley Joseph

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Shared “What Is The Deal With This Stupid Lighter iPhone App?” on Google Reader

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brilliant. you can make almost anything more valuable by adding some social

Everyone keeps talking about Smule’s virtual lighter iPhone application called Sonic Lighter (iTunes link).

I wasn’t impressed: there are no less than ten different virtual lighter apps in iTunes, which is what I’d call a saturated market. And it gets better, because Sonic Lighter costs $.99. The official Zippo iphone app is free. The basic functionality of all of these is similar - you have a virtual lighter, you light it and when you move the iPhone the flame moves around.

The number of downloads for Zippo isn’t available; Sonic Lighter says they’ve had 70,000 downloads already. But here’s one way to compare them: that the free Zippo app has been available since September 18 and has just 27 reviews. Sonic Lighter, which has only been available since Wednesday, already has 44.

Here’s why people are going crazy for Sonic Lighter, and are willing to pay $.99. Smule has built in social and viral features that are helping this spread like mad, and they also give this ridiculous but effective incentive to use the app all the time.

You can optionally share your location information with the application, and when you light it you show up on a virtual earth-like globe. France and Japan are going absolutely crazy with users, which you can see quite clearly from the virtual globe and the screenshot to the right. The longer a person keeps the lighter going (I have mine sitting here burning while I write this), the more”KiloJoules” you burn. And that helps contribute to the geographical teams that are sprouting up and trying to be the brightest on the globe. Oh, and you can blow on the microphone and extinguish the flame.

I’m not kidding about this. You can actually view a version of it here, along with a listing of the brightest cities. I’m determined to move San Francisco and San Jose up the list (they should really be combined for fairness in my opinion).

Sonic Lighters can also ignite other lighters on other iPhones, which is a fun party trick if you’ve had enough to drink. Pretty soon iPhone users in the room who don’t have the app will be happily paying $.99 based solely on the geek peer pressure. This video shows that feature in action.

So why is this working? I told you loyal readers back in August. Unlike its competitors, it’s effectively leveraging location awareness and social networking/human team building instincts to create a bit of a phenomenon. The result is a viral spread.

Some facts about the first few days after the app became available:

  • First phone-to-phone ignition somewhere in the Muir Woods National Monument on Monday, September 15th at approximately 5:00 pm PT
  • Since then, the flames have spread across six continents, eighty countries, and 3,204 geographically unique locations
  • There have been 68,514 unique ignitions representing 3,977 unique locations across the globe
  • Smule can rank the cities of the world by Kilojoules burned day, reflecting real-time data accumulated from usage of the Sonic Lighter

There are some smart people behind Smule, which has raised capital from Bessemer Venture Partners. CEO Jeff Smith previously co-founded and ran Tumbleweed, an email security software company which he took public on the Nasdaq and grew to $50M in sales before stepping down as CEO. Along with Jeff, Smule was founded by a group of Stanford and Princeton music PhD’s, including Dr. Ge Wang. He’s also a Stanford professor at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) and director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra. It also turns out that Sonic Lighter is not Smule’s end goal. Rather, its a demonstration app for a new audio programming language called ChucK.

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Shared “On the Street…Andre Benjamin, Florence” on Google Reader

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i want those pants!I have a yellow pair, just not that yellow.


So it was the last day of Pitti, really hot in Florence and after being outside all day shooting the heat was starting to get to me.
All I wanted to do was stop into a few shops on my way back to the hotel and then spend the rest of the night working on images in my air conditioned room.

At around 6:45 I popped into Boggi. The place was about to close and there was only one other guy in the shop.
Now, I had just watched the movie Semi-Pro on the plane on the way over and the guy in the shop looked surprisingly similar to Coffee Black. I didn’t think it was him because it was just so out of context. I got up the courage to ask if he was the guy in the movie, and just about the time he said yes I remembered his name (thank God!). Of course I knew all about him, but again because it was so out of context I was blanking.

Anyway, I told him I did a blog called The Sartorialist and now he was all excited because he said that he loved the blog and looks at it often. Now I’m totally blushing - I know a lot of people look at my blog but i never think it is someone like him (or Kanye!) (and by “him” I mean any big star)

So , of course I ask if we can go pop outside and take a fast shot.
We find a great background and the photo above is that moment. Honestly, I had to take a few shots because I was still so psyched that this was happening.

We went back to the store and he ended up buying the blue knit shirt that I recommended (I’m wearing mine in the Style.com video a few post down).

Anyway, that is the back story of this photo.

ps. I will make a prediction now that Semi-Pro will clean up at this years Oscars!!
If you haven’t seen it yet RUN to buy the DVD - Will Ferrell Rocks!!

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Robert Scoble posted a message
“Happy Birthday FriendFeed! (nice cupcake and balloons!) Sorry I won’t be at the party, but sending love from Inc. and Fast Company’s headquarters in NYC.”
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bona feta et toi FF - Jeremy Campbell
where’s that party at? - Kingsley Joseph
Name dropper :-P - Jesse Stay

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Voted on “Delivered Ideas - Winter ‘09 Release” at Successforce.com

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In about a month all 47,700 Salesforce customers will have their hands on the Winter “09 release. We are going to deep dive into each feature but I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the ideas you posted to the Ideas Category on the IdeaExchange that are being delivered in this seasonal release.

Pictures are worth a 1,000 words - 1430 Points

Merge Duplicate Ideas - 1350 Points

Status Fields for Ideas - 1110 Points

Idea De-Duplication Tools - 870 Points

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Shared “Sinfest for 2008-09-30″ on Google Reader

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