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December 2011
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Here's what I hope is the final scene of the upcoming Spider-Man movie.
Looking back about a year ago
Spent some time reading January 2011 thru November 2010 of my own blog this evening. Some stuff that caught my eye.
A look back at January 2011
Right around this time last year
Looks like I was thinking about tablets and blogging. I properly predicted Apple would reign supreme on the tablet front for another year. You didn't need to be Nostrodomous to figure that out though.
Looks like I was talking about the ever decreasing visitation of my blog. That's a trend that hasn't changed. Visits of 1 or 2 a day are not an uncommon statistic.
I was fascinated with a then new to me Kinect. I still am, but it's a shame that Microsoft hasn't been able to move faster to capitalize on it's capabilities. Maybe they will this year, or maybe the Kinect will just be a Microsoft Surface type thing that actually made it out of the lab before it was left to die.
I had some thoughts on check-ins, and went so far as to call it a fad. That might have been a bit strong, but it seems that little has happened in the checkin space over the last year. It's a useful utility at times, but doesn't seem to be much of a revolution.
January of 2011 I was talking about how Egypt shut down their internet and how Lieberman wanted a kill switch for ours. Looks like they're still working on that vis-a-vis SOPA. I'm sure they'll figure out how to get that thru eventually.
I notice that I had a link to Facebook statuses becoming ads you can't opt out of, that's not here yet, but it's coming soon.
RFID seemed to be a bigger deal. Not much seems to have happened with that this year.
Google was holding a Honeycomb event. There was alot of excitement but I'm not sure Honeycomb made much of a splash and now the tech world seems to only be focused on Ice Cream Sandwich.
Amazon had launched it's Kindle Singles, that worked out really well. I've bought some of these myself.
comiXlogy was talking about selling digital comics thru retailers. I'm not sure that really went anywhere, but it does seem like comiXology is still rising.
I completely forgot that Windows 7 has voice recognition. At the time I didn't have Windows 7 at home, and now I do. Microsoft are really should do a better job of trumpeting the capabilities in already has out there that people don't even know they on the computers.
I found a recipe for homemade Oreos I still haven't tried.
This is still pretty much true
I think alot of the social internet stuff that was exciting last year, is mostly becoming just another utility as we go into 2012.
Oddly enough we were just talking about Anne Hathaway as Catwoman last January, and the first real trailer just came out last week and the movie itself is still 6 months away. Crazy.
Ha. pretty much nailed the Touchpad.
Seems we we're worried about RSS dieing that was probably abit premature, but the slick Flipboard and Zite apps and their preselected feeds probably still aren't helping the cause much.
I still need to make one of these seats.
I seemed to be interested in the Looxcie. They have a newer one now, but I still haven't convinced myself I have much use for one.
Same post above has mention of 3GS iPhones for $50. I think those have worked out pretty well.
Back in January, we got our first look at the new Spider-man. And that movie is still 6 months away too. Methinks the hype cycles for superhero movies are just much much too long.
I had gotten Jenn a Snuggie that actually worked out pretty well.
A look back at December 2010
Last year on the 26th I made a sock puppet This year I picked up a jacket on the 26th for my Muppet. Not sure what it is about Christmas and puppets lately.
One thing apparent, I took many many bad iPod photos in Dec 2010
The Craig Fergeson Doctor Who Youtube last year around this time was awesome though:
QR Codes seemed to be a bigger deal They're around right now, and used occasionally but still not much of a splash and like RFID seem to have died down.
Last year I linked to this Jonathan Coulton Shopvac song. Still some really really good commentary on US suburban life in this song.
Last Dec, I was playing with iPod video and we did my Lego Mini Fig video series.
At least according to last December's blog, it was a slow news month, alot like this year. Maybe we should go back one more month to...
A look back at November 20110
Amazon had their Price checking app which got considerably more mainstream press this year
Interesting 2010 link about Student Loans exceeding US credit card debt. I wonder how that statistic has been doing this year?
There were a link or two about selling things via social networks, I've yet to see anyone use such an app on either my Twitter or Facebook though. The occasional post selling something, sure, and some indy comic book people promoting their sites or ebay, but never anything as complicated as Yardsellr.
Oh yeah, in 2010 there were some tablets besides the iPad.
Hard to believe that the Social Network movie came out over a year ago Good article looking at Facebook and the movie at that time.
It's been over a year since Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore America. There was a good speech.
Nothing really became of that though. And The Daily Show has been more or less lost in the wilderness since that.
Well that's some stuff that caught my eye and is probably enough for now. Here's to hopefully an interesting 2012!
Carrier IQ on millions of phones admit US operators
http://www.slashgear.com/carrier-iq-on-millions-of-phones-admit-us-operators-16202899/(Sent from Flipboard)
My friend Chris' companies' social game: Bomb Buddies
http://www.balancedworlds.com/bomb-buddies Cool!Sent from my iPad
Let's go surfing
A bunch of Flipboard and Twitter starred items from the past few weeks.
Institutions, Confidence, and the News Crisis
Clay Shirky (@cshirky)
12/2/11 3:53 PM
Institutions, Confidence, and the News Crisis j.mp/sSO47i (A reply to @deanstarkman)
Does Google+ Scale?
I’ve recently added more people/companies to Google+
I’m having a hard time seeing how this thing scales.
There are some people that really use this alot. But they are very verbose, so it is very time consuming to skim their posts to find out if I should read now or later etc.
I like Twitter’s model. You have 140 characters to sell me on your topic if you want to go long. It’s very efficient.
I realize that with Google+ I can view posts by circles instead of the main stream. but I have 10 circles, granted that isn’t alot, but hitting 10 different streams takes awhile. Plus it’s not sorting by people that is my real issue, it’s weeding out the people who post alot from the people who only post a little.
I’m fortunate that the people I follow in Facebook do not post a lot of links, mostly my Facebook contains personal updates from people. So when I look at Facebook, I’m in a “personal context”
Twitter is built for speed, it’s a newswire… I dive in and see what’s happening now, and the short updates make that easy (plus I can favorite and come back to lengthy links later)
Google+ feels more like a bunch of short blog posts all mashed together. Generally I manage blog posts in my Google Reader. In Google Reader, I have blogs in categories by topic, but I also cross index blogs in high priority categories like “Hot” or “Top” and I check those categories more frequently than the topic area tags.
Do I need to do that with my Circles in Google+? Do I need “Succinct Friends” and “Friend who post alot” to separate the two? Do I need to do the same with Work, Family and Internet People, Companies, and Industry Categories as well? Or do i just pick essential people and Put everything into a mishmash “Check first” (While Hot works for news feeds, i think it might be misconstrued on Google Plus) and leave everything else in individual circles to catch up to later?
But does that work? If I mark a story “read” in my Hot category, that story will no longer appear in my “Tech” category if the feed is double categorized. But there is no way to mark a post “read” if it’s in two circles in Google+ is there?
Dunno, I’m thinking at the moment that Google+ really doesn’t scale.