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Entries for week beginning June 7, 2009

June 12, 2009

My name is…

My name is…

Yes, I stood at a party, iPhone out, registering my facebook vanity URL. I am that person.

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Radio Spiritworld (Inter-dimensional)

“The only station broadcasting from the afterlife to the living world.” 30 minute radio show from Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz.

June 11, 2009

What is a Browser?

Google question 50 people in Times Square. Reminder to the nerds: Users don’t know what a “browser” is.

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BBC - Changes to international pages

Genuinely bothersome news from Auntie Beeb. They’ve decided to stop letting people outside the US switch to viewing the News site from a UK focus. That was the whole reason why BBC News has been on my browser toolbar since 1998! Hoping this will be reversed.

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June 10, 2009

Orphaned Tweets

“When people sign up for Twitter, post once, then never return.” There’s a whole lesson in User Experience right here!

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The Top 10 Most Absurd Time Covers of The Past

ZOMG Moral Panic! The things that have doomed America over the last 40 years.

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Exclusive: The Future of Facebook Usernames - Anil Dash

Anil Dash predicts the future of Facebook vanity URLs. Who’s going to be the first to register “mikearrington”, I wonder.

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Mr. Penumbra's Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store

Short story by Robin Sloan (Al Gore’s doppelgänger, dontchaknow) about “recession, attraction, and data visualization”.

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June 9, 2009

Obviously pleased with shelf.

Obviously pleased with shelf.

Sketched by a co-worker when I was wearing this t-shirt.

June 8, 2009

TomTom for iPhone

One of the more interesting demos at Apple’s keynote today - TomTom are producing an iPhone app, plus a souped-up holster that doubles as charger and GPS “enhancer”. No hints given as to the price, but tealeaf-reading based on TomTom’s previous Palm apps, I’d guess around $150 for the software, and another $100 for the dock.

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TwitterCounter Stats for rodbegbie

TwitterCounter Stats for rodbegbie

Can you spot the day that Twitter changed its algorithm for displaying friend icons so that early adopters such as myself didn't get disproportional prominence?

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June 7, 2009

Google's Wave of the future is genius, but will it work?

If you don’t have time to watch the Google Wave presentation video (1h20m), read this, Andy Ihnatko’s piece on why it’s got so much potential.

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IMDB: Rod Begbie

This cracks me up no end. I now have an IMDB page, thanks to a short film I helped write a few years ago (watchable on the site). Looking forward to when I’m indexed in the Oracle of Bacon.

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About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.