Smart Phones that Know Their Users by How They Walk
This kind of passive biometrics used to replace password protecting your phone isn’t quite ready yet but it’s a great idea.
You can pre-order the Boxee Box now and clearly lots of people are.
Interview with @ev, @jack and @biz in Dec 2006 when Twitter was operating inside of Obvious Corp
i smiled during the part when Jack says that he now has 90 followers.
Almost four years later and it sounds like the number of features they’ve removed (separate friends list vs those you’re following, nudges, 20 less characters) is similar to the number they’ve added (retweets, lists, search, now link wrapping). Such a focused product. It’s funny to me that they talk about how it’s not useful and that’s what makes it fun. Now it’s so useful I think they’ve forever changed information consumption.
“He was on his way to a party, and he didn’t remember where the address was stored. Was it a Facebook event, or in an email, or in his calendar? It was a pain to try searching all these things from his phone.”
Paul Graham quoted in The Other Half Of Search: Greplin Is A Personal Search Engine For Your Online Life
This is one of those ideas that you can’t believe doesn’t already exist.
This is pretty wild:
Here’s a a demonstration video of EmoRate, a software program that uses the Emotiv 14-electrode EEG headset to record your emotions via your facial expressions. In the video you’ll see EmoRate record my emotions while I watch a YouTube video, then index that video by emotion, and then navigate that video by simply by remembering a feeling.
“Most UGC sites try to spend time converting lurkers to contributors. Don’t. 90% of all users will never contribute anything to your company. They are there to ingest content.
I wish Twitter understood this better. If they did then they would run marketing campaigns to let users know that “it’s OK to turn up and just consume content. Twitter’s great for that, too. You don’t ever need to send a Tweet to love Twitter.” I never understood why they don’t communicate that more broadly because I think most people’s fear of Twitter is that they don’t want to tell the world what they ate for lunch.”
“Let me propose a total grassy-knoll/two-shooter conspiracy theory so you can talk me out of it. What if Google agreed to Verizon’s stance on wireless net neutrality in order to keep Verizon from making a deal with Apple for the iPhone?”
