Pandora? Turntable? Spotify

Why? Is the social aspect important, or the fact that a playlist is made for you?

Newest offer – Headphones! $307 normally, but yours for $69!

But, just google the headphones:

Groupon saves me $4. $4.

They are now worse than spam.

Have an iPhone 4S?

The you have everything you need to bring to power of Siri and Nuance dictation to your Mac for only $19. Buying the full version of Nuance Dragon Dictate would cost you $199!

Using the the new version of iTeleport VNC app, you can dictate anything to your phone and it will input it to text directly on your mac running Snow Leopard or Lion.

The set up is easy, and can work even when no wifi connection is available.

This has saved me a lot of time, in fact I dictated this entire post using this process.

Just click where you want text to go, then dictate to your phone’s mic or headset!

-Ben

http://www.iteleportmobile.com/

I use and love Spotify. I use and love Turntable.fm. Together they would be amazing. Where is the video version of this?

My Consumer Desire:

I want to be able to play any television episode, without ads. I want to be able to play any movie without ads. {Current “in theatre” all the way back to the first video ever recorded.

I am willing to pay for this service. I watch a very little amount of television or movies, and I would be willing to pay as much as $15-$20 a month – as long as it had what I wanted, when I wanted it. I feel confidant that the average american – who watches more than 4 hours of TV each day and is quickly switching to on demand mind set – would be willing to pay more.

I also want to be able to see what my friends are watching, and join them in a movie or TV show, and watch it with them. I may not use it often, but when a friend is watching an episode of Firefly, I want to be able to spontaneously jump into it with them, and comment on it as it happens. With voice. And obnoxious mis-quotes.

I also want friends to be able to line up programming for me. If a friend has been ranked as a good selector of documentary movies by many friends who I think tend to like similar movies as me, I want to see that person’s movie recommendations. (Friend here used to mean “Person connected to me in a social network).

Questions: Is this a viable business model? Would license fees overrun this? Is it already in the works? How can I get a beta invite?

Evolution of a homepage from 37signals on Vimeo.

Facebook now autosuggests that friends Tag you in photos based on facial recognition. Sketchy. Duck that camera when you have a beer in your hand. Now it isn’t just your boss that could find it… Facebook already knows it is you!

From Lifehacker:

1. Head your Privacy Settings and click on Customize Settings.
2. Scroll down to the “Suggest Photos of Me to Friends” setting and hit “Edit Settings”.
3. In the drop-down on the right, hit “Disable”.

Innovation
noun
The action or process of innovating.
• a new method, idea, product, etc.

This menu bar is from Businessweek.com

The action of creating new things has become a topic for the mainstream. This says great things about our culture. It is, after all, what humans do best. We innovate, adapt, and create. We create tools to help us master our environment, we create tools to help us better connect with other humans, and we create tools that allow us to live better lives.

However – it seems like the topic is still too new for companies like Bloomburg to understand what it can be. It seems like they are using it as a sort of “soft tech” category:

This is a waste, and cheapens the idea of what innovation is. From Wikipedia:

In many fields, such as the arts, economics and government policy, something better must be substantially different to be innovative. In economics the change must increase value, customer value, or producer value. The goal of innovation is positive change, to make someone or something better. Innovation and the introduction of it that leads to increased productivity is a fundamental source of increasing wealth in an economy.^[2]

And

Schumpeter c.s. (~1930) states that “innovation changes the values onto which the system is based“. When people change their value system, the old(economic) system will change to make room for the better one. When that happens innovation has occurred. Innovation can be seen as something that does, not something that is.

North GA has some amazing roads for sport driving. I am looking forward to getting back up there before it gets incredibly hot here this summer.

From Dahlonega to Clayton

The Tail of the Dragon, starting in Deal’s Gap, NC.

This hits home as someone who simply stopped taking ADHD medicine in high school and never looked back.

Simply find something that interests you, then get really good at it.

Chances are you will not find this thing in school.

RedBox gives you a great incentive to confirm your email (which is not needed to use the service).

This builds their database, allows them to send you marketing, deals, and to track your rental history to suggest movies you may like.

The coupon is for $1. The cost of a one night rental. I have to drive to the store again, and still go through the rig-a-ma-roll of getting the movie from the box.

One of the benefits of “products as a service” is that it comes to me, on demand, when I want it. Netflix still wins here because I don’t have to get in my car.

Red Hook ESP has been something of a family tradition – My grandfather loved them, and by default, my brother and I enjoy them from time to time. We still find bottles from years ago tucked away in the cabinets of our mountain cabin.

They have just updated their bottles and brand image – Do you like it? I need to see them on the shelf and hold a bottle before I decide if I approve.

I think they made a mistake losing the yellow that has been part of their image for so long.

Original post (http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/redhook_line_and_sinker.php)

When waiting for something with a ticket (food, your turn a the meat counter, etc…) the only thing you care about is what number is yours.

On this ticket, my order number is buried and I have to search for it. By simply putting it one line higher, it would be much easier to find.