Ikea!!!

Having built a home on Ikea, our family relates.

Credit: The Jonathan Coulton Project.

Truly, the funniest 5 seconds on the web

Watch it once, funny, watch it 5x and it just gets better...

The Landlord and Farrell

Worth the watch...

Alanis and Parody - Brilliant

Not much more to say.

Whew, those were the days...

A couple old favorites from where Narragansett and Wabansia met...



Artful Dodger, nice.

Yep, this is it - iPhone is the right cell phone

The iPhone was just announced and well worth the wait. In 2001, I bought the gen 1 iPod when I saw how easy the iTunes store, file management and iPod connections were.

I've been waiting for an all-in-one phone/media device and with a bit more hard drive space, this is it.

OK, a nice first for me

Not that I want to get too excited, but I am happy to add these two bullets to my background.

US7,092,772

US7,082,339

The folks I worked with on that project are some great colleagues and friends.

Yes, Wii will play

You can see the full 2 minute ad here, and man, it is very cool.

Yes, Wii will be playing in our house very, very soon.

Can the Top Weekly for YouTube be more repetitive?

Simple interest really, I use Netvibes as my RSS reader and want to [try] to keep up with media stuff, and this is what I see...



So I watch the Faith Hill clip, but does it really need to be there so many times? I guess community posting has its shortfalls. If I want to watch YouTube without aimlessly surfing around, what should I do? I can watch someone's channel, but who's?

All I want is to watch some cool stuff, so then I find myself more at Digg Video which is a much easier, filtered experience. But then I'm not at YouTube, but at all sites, which I guess is better.

I've been reading more about bets being placed that there will be hundreds of YouTube-type clients. More options are better to a degree, but community selection in this wide arena helps a bit too.

PhotoKeith Blog is Up

His site is live, and he tells the story of his travels in China.

Good luck there, Keith.

Apple Spoofs

Some great new spoofs are developing on YouTube as a result of the new Apple commercial campaign. Here's one...



That Will, funny guy.

Profiles, psycho-evals and public persona

So PersonalDNA has a site where you can spend a few minutes and be evaluated. While this is an interesting personal journey, I've seen that people are now posting their evaluations on their blogs and in their profiles online along with other standardized personality profiling tests. While I applaud knowing who you are, I really am curious in such a personal display made public.

I've been to CCL in North Carolina and could go on and on about the value of that experience, but I'd never take a summary of that 3" binder and post it for the world to see. I would say that in knowing my own style that I can more readily tune my actions around other folks.

Hey, I'm an extrovert, but man, that's out there...

Diggnation - darn good stuff

I think the first of a kind is developing, and its Alex and Kevin of digg.com's Diggnation weekly podcast. Edgy beyond reasonable, raw and unproduced and, frankly, very funny.

The set up - two guys, beer and a mike. They talk about the website which is the modern version of a tabloid for techies. In the early days of Saturday Night Live, the energy and rawness of the skits lifted to a show that can be considered some of the best entertainment on TV during the 80's and early 90's. I might get a lot of slack in saying this, but I think that Johnny Knoxville's Jackass on MTV filled the void later on.

There's a lot to like about these guys and the show, well, if you like XBox 360...

This thought of not solving complex problems...

I heard Jason Fried of 37Signals say: "...solving complex problems isn't really what we're about..." Is it marketing spin? I think that saying that a company is in the business of solving simple problems is an interesting way to try to separate yourself from a crowded world. On a personal level, do we have so many problems that there are simple ones being missed by the many companies hoping to get our attention? He has shown quite a few examples that prove his point.

I believe the real power can be going for an even bigger prize - laser focus on big, institutional complex problems that people have and then take steps for them to solve those problems easier. Surely, Apple has been a beacon light of how to focus on really complex problems and deliver an answer that is stupid-easy. The back end of iTunes and iPod are unbelievably complex.

Really, I'm a 37Signals fan because of what they're trying to accomplishing. Delivering visionary products for a specific audience.

Doing more by doing less can mean doing more [by the company providing a platform that simplifies complexities] with less [so people can achieve really great productivity].