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2011 08 02 Nels Comments (0)

Apple Revamping Notifications: Best News I’ve Heard All Day

Knock knock. Who’s there? An interrupting notification. An interrupting notif… TWEET! Apparently Apple is going to buy a company to redo their notifications for them. I’m not sure why they don’t just have the devs who did the original system fix it, but then again, I don’t really care. As long as they care of [...]

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2011 02 11 Nels Friday Fun Comments (0)

Hamstrung Hulu

On TechCrunch Mark Suster compares Hulu to the oil cartel OPEC. I’m not sure what this point number 2 has to do with the cartel comparison, but I think it’s one of the more interesting points of the post: 2. Limited “Targeting” of Advertisements: The great promise of the Internet for advertisers was that they [...]

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2010 11 09 Nels Facebook
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So close

I’ve been about 10 seconds late for the train home at least 4 out of 5 days this week. I always think back to when I was daydreaming and walking a bit slower, or when I slowed down to use my phone/minicomp for a sec. Not like I’ve been in any hurry, but it’s frustrating, [...]

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2010 10 01 Nels Comments (0)

Quit the Twit

There is a reason that people who blog are quitting Twitter. Those people include John Mayer, Paul Carr, and (sort of) Leo Laporte. In case you didn’t hit the links (and who has time for that with all the Information Overload and whatnot?) the reason is: Length of Life. Not the life of the people [...]

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2010 09 30 Nels Blogging
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Groupon Fail Whale

I’m sure this is a situation that’s starting to happen more and more often as Groupon gets bigger and bigger (what up Chicago-based start-ups!) … Just a bit ago, (okay, it’s actually been over a month now) I went to Tank Sushi with my wife and a friend for dinner. We were going there because [...]

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2010 08 12 Nels The New Web Comments (2)

Evidently AT&T Does Know What Kind of Phone I Have

This one is a much better sell than the previous marketing email. Still kind of odd they’re going for the upsell iof adding a line with the 3GS instead of the 4G, but perhaps they did some checking and saw that I’m not actually eligible for the 4G just yet.

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2010 07 28 Nels Misc Tech Comments (0)

Doesn’t AT&T Know What Kind of Phone I Have?

Maybe they make more off the BlackBerry since they don’t have to give as much back to the manufacturer of the phone?

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2010 07 22 Nels Misc Tech Comments (1)

Apple Shutting Down Lala, Another Great Startup Obliterated

First: I Was A Lala User Second: Why Do Good Companies Ruin Startups? I Was A Lala User I’ll give Apple credit for giving a month of advance notice, but on the other hand (that first part was the first hand), why are they shutting down Lala before they launch iTunes.com? I must conclude that [...]

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2010 05 07 Nels Misc Tech
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As the iPhone evolves, so does Gmail

But none of the recently announced innovations are making my eyes light up like a kid first gazing on his Easter basket. First, from the Gmail Blog: Nested Labels and Message Preview. The Nested Labels thing actually did have me excited as though it were a chocolate egg or perhaps a Peep. But then I [...]

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2010 04 09 Nels Gmail
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