Introducing: Highlighted Posts
Every now and then, a post comes along that’s meant for big things. It could be pulling the wraps off your new project, promoting your next show, raising awareness for a cause, or just sharing a truly incredible photo.
Today you’ll have a new option to Highlight those extra-important posts. For one dollar, your post will stand out in the Dashboard with a customizable sticker to make sure your followers take notice!
At least Tumblr is trying to find an innovative way to make money instead of overloading the site with ads or pushing “promoted posts” from P&G into your Dashboard.
To all the people freaking out about this: Calm the **** down, take a breath, and enjoy your usage of the free service called Tumblr.
Good news, everyone: the upcoming Reeder 3.0 for iPhone (and hopefully iPad) will support Fever, an alternative to Google Reader with some slick features. Granted, you need basic HTML/PHP chops since Fever is self-hosted, but it’s my preferred feed reader and the only reason I don’t use it regularly is because there haven’t been any good apps. Until… well, soon.
Reeder is already the best RSS reader client for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and they keep making changes that improve their apps. I don’t have a problem with using Google Reader as the syncing platform, but I plan to give Fever a look.
Wired Magazine on texting and driving
But I’m not convinced the bans will work, particularly among young people. Why? Because texting is rapidly becoming their default means of connecting with one another, on a constant, pinging basis. From 2003 to 2008, the number of texts sent monthly by Americans surged from 2 billion to 110 billion. The urge to connect is primal, and even if you ban texting in the car, teens will try to get away with it.
So what can we do? We should change our focus to the other side of the equation and curtail not the texting but the driving. This may sound a bit facetious, but I’m serious. When we worry about driving and texting, we assume that the most important thing the person is doing is piloting the car. But what if the most important thing they’re doing is texting? How do we free them up so they can text without needing to worry about driving?
At some point, we will have to face the facts and realize that we’ve been making a huge mistake for the past 70 years by building for cars first and humans second.
Their whole business model, in some ways, I think is based on drunk people trying to register their [domain] name and accidentally buying an SSL certificate.Merlin Mann on GoDaddy
More predictions of the future from the past.
How Steve Jobs' Pixar experience helped lead to Apple's iCloud
“One of the things I learned at Pixar is the technology industries and the content industries do not understand each other,” he said. “In Silicon Valley and at most technology companies, I swear that most people still think the creative process is a bunch of guys in their early 30s, sitting on a couch, drinking beer and thinking of jokes. No, they really do. That’s how television is made, they think; that’s how movies are made.”
Likewise, record executives can’t relate to technical people, Jobs said.
“People in Hollywood and in the content industries, they think technology is something you just write a check for and buy,” Jobs said. “They don’t understand the creative element of technology.
A German home improvement store is using the Google Maps “blurmany” fiasco as the basis for an advertising campaign.
