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  • 04.25.08
    I Totally Don’t Feel Like Working Today. asides | (0)
    You too?
  • 04.22.08
    Chasing Dave asides | (0)
    If you're setting out in pursuit of the elusive Editor of theregoesdave, you might find him hard to track down. Despite advanced location technology and near-constant updates, you may have a hard time catching a glimpse of this rare creature. This is in part because he's developed a rare ability to camouflage himself to blend in with his feed reader which is his natural habitat. I spend way too much time behind the keyboard researching new mobile web product offerings and repeatedly blowing up my phone from testing too many mobile applications. Last week I ventured to the Washington blogger meetup ...
  • 04.21.08
    My Online Status: Torn asides | (0)
    V. Once upon a time, people set their online status using their Instant Messenger away status. Twitter made status public and syndicated it for the world to see. Facebook integrated status messages into our social network profiles. Now everyone has started including the ability to set status on their site from Myspace to Linkedin and all hell is breaking lose. These online status updates help us to share what we're doing with our friends, loved ones and even business associates. We can share our latest news and challenges with everyone we know. Since they're broken down into chunks as small ...
  • 04.21.08
    Call for Mobile Web Standards asides | (1)
    When looking at the state of the Mobile Web today, it's invigorating to see so many companies in recent history that are creating mobile interfaces to their services. Many of the major portals have redesigned their mobile sites to include more rich content than just simple lines of text. The major social sites have nearly all developed both a mobile WAP interface and one specifically for the iPhone's Mobile Safari browser. Wait a minute... major companies are designing two mobile web interfaces? To me, while it's great to see designers rethinking usability in the mobile web, the fact that developers ...
  • 04.17.08
    Timewaster Thursday: Super Blockquote asides | (0)
    So you're sitting in your cube just waiting for Friday to finally show up, and you need a little distraction. BoingBoing has a new flash breakout clone where you destroy blocks of letters instead of the typical blocks. Unfortunately there aren't any powerups and it doesn't track your score, but you do get to kill off those pesky words things that are made up of those confusing letters. There's a bonus ninja for anyone that is able to master all 2 minutes of the game. Yeah, next Thursday I'll find a "real" time waster. There's always boxhead: the zombie wars if ...
  • 04.05.08
    What’s in a Name? Skoogle Phone asides | (2)
    Yesterday I speculated about Google's potential deal to buy Skype and whether it may have implications for the Android handset. The story immediately became the most popular one I've ever written and made it to the front page of Digg with a lot of help from my friends. Big shout outs to everyone for the love! In the months prior to announcing the Android mobile phone platform many bloggers and industry folks called Android the Google phone. With the addition of Skype, a Digger called BlackIse jokingly called it the Skoogle phone. I think it's kind of catchy and want to ...
  • 04.01.08
    Stop pointing asides | (0)
    In a recent article by the New York Times, technology is to blame for the distancing of our children from their parents. More specifically, text messaging, is what's causing the American family to disconnect. The article continues on by saying that the kids of today have some sort of advantage over their parental units, based on the fact that cell phones are so small. It's become increasingly hard to spy or keep tabs on their children's conversations. New obscure acronyms also used as an excuse to prevent Mom and Dad from figuring out whats being said ...