…Six years later, Crowley and I are sitting in a NoHo cafè pecking at our iPhones. Using Foursquare, an app Crowley cocreated, we are “checking in” to the restaurant. Like many mobile social applications that use GPS, Foursquare lets you broadcast your location to friends and strangers—and, of course, it lets you see where they are, too. Sometimes, when you check into a restaurant, store, or hotel lobby, a previous visitor will have left a tip (“Oatmeal is great here!”)—a digital note tucked under a virtual doormat….
Such a great post if you want to know how we should focus on every little thing in our daily life, they pulled put Foursquare from a simple game. We have a lot of inspiring stuff in our life, did we try to use them to get new ideas? Simply, brilliant.
I am noticing the increasing number of my tweets which is 33,286 tweets, and for that reason I asked a question on twitter:
My tweets=33,826. Honestly, Do I tweet a lot?
I’ve got a lot of replies says that I do tweet more than enough and the most annoying issue is that 90% of my tweets about Apple. My dear friend Jason, replied:
1) RT @MhdBadi: My tweets=33,810. Honestly, Do I tweet a lot? «< Really? You do? You could have fooled me. :P
2) @MhdBadi lol of course not bro. Just hate the fact that 90% of your tweets are apple related. I’ll destroy all your apply devices I swear :D
That’s funny for sure, but in addition to that, I want to mention why I tweet a lot.
- I don’t really mean to tweet a lot, it’s just a very addictive and interactive environment that makes me forced to reply and and tweet. I couldn’t get a reply and not reply back. There for, you can easily find that my tweets are less than 15,00 tweets and the rest are replies.
- I’m a Mac, I think this part doesn’t mean anything to you but it does to me. on the Mac, I have tens of twitter clients on the my Mac but I use Tweetie for Mac most of time. It’s really addictive and super fast app that I am really addicted too.
- I’m iPhone user, there is a fact says that iPhone has more twitter client of any other platform out there. and I use Twitter for iPhone.
- I’m iPad user, and there is Twtitter for iPad as well.
- I’m on twitter since May 1, 2008 which means that this number is totally logical.
The summery: I have a twitter client on every device or machine I use, Mac, iPhone, iPad and even on my PC. Twitter is everywhere I go. That’s the problem. What makes it really harder is that I am active more than enough, and once I love something I couldn’t stop it.
I hope you understand my point.
I remember when I wrote a blog post about Android on my old blog describing it as a young platform and it’s not ready yet for some reasons I mentioned in that post. I joined a conversation on twitter regarding that post, it was amazing and I understood a couple of things I didn’t know about Android.
During the conversation, I ended up with someone describing me:
apple-washed-brain
That was funny and annoying at the same time, because I am not. and obviously, that was just to say that you are judging this thing because you are an apple fanboy, like he meant to say, your points are unconvincing at all because of you Apple background. That wasn’t funny or useful at all since I am talking honestly. I described the annoying antenna issue and I said that it was a big fail when I first heard of it and the idea about thing issue has been changed to a super positive one since I bought an iPhone 4.
What I want to say is a couple of point:
- If I have different opinions than yours, then it’s not necessary to discuss something based on any “fanboy-izm”.
- It’s normal to meet people with different thoughts, opinions or even believes because what is good for me not necessary to be good for you, and vise-versa.
- Sometimes when we talk about gadgets, you couldn’t convince the one you are talking to of your thoughts, he love this gadget no matter how strange or odd that appears to you. It’s all about needs.
I don’t think that we are going to get a single point of what we are discussing if everyone is describing the other side as “washed-brain”. We might share some opinions, disagree on some, and discuss the rest, but we still need to show respect to others.
It’s harder than it sounds, and it took the better part of a decade to combine Swiss-quality timekeeping with the ability to write 1,440 different numeric phrases “by hand.” But now, when the assemblage is triggered, 1,530 steel and aluminum components, including 50 cams, 9 belts, 120 bearings, and 27 springs, launch into Rube Goldberg-like action.
Dressed in sleek glass and aluminum, the Time Writing Machine is clearly a creature of the 21st century. Yet Pierre Jaquet-Droz would recognize it at once. In our age of app-for-everything efficiency, what could be more heretical than a $371,700 machine that makes you turn a crank and push a button just to get the time of day?
No alarm? Grrr!
I was so excited due to releasing iTunes 10 and it was really nice to hear of a new feature like Ping which is the integrated social network tool inside iTunes 10. It’s so nice to follow your favorite artists and to be posted of their newest stuff, but it turns out that Ping is not available or accessible from the UAE or Jordan store, and I think the rest of the middle east especially arab countries.
What I dislike about Ping is that it must match your billing information which determine if your payment method (Visa, Master Card..etc) is accessible from the App Store. Unfortunately, my billing info are in the UAE store and I couldn’t buy app using the payment info I added to my account from stores like the U.S. store or UK. I must go to the app store I cam from and do whatever I want. It doesn’t matter if you are living outside the U.S. but your payment info must be acceptable for the U.S. store If you want to join.
I don’t know why Apple attached Ping to the billing info of each user, and I am wondering if they are providing access and features to the whole world or only for the U.S. store. Obviously, it’s limited to a few countries so far. Maybe they will support more countries, but yet it’s a very annoying issue.
I like Steve Jobs when he say “One more thing”. I think that this part of every Apple keynote is twice as important as the whole keynote. I do believe it always hides a lot of stuff and I wait it always because I know Apple is unveiling a new hardware or software.
Long live Apple, long live Uncle Steve.
Live Apple fall 2010 event coverage – gdgt live
I have always been thinking of making the move toward Tumblr but it took me a while to realize that I am too busy to manage a domain name and a storage, in addition to a complicated blogging like Wordpress. I have always wanted to blog on the go without caring about the quality of what I write.
Tumblr is great and seriously it has the most beautiful themes of all platforms out there. I do love the way I post to my blog and I believe that I have a lot of choices now and I can pick freely.
Now I don’t care about the storage of my blog or the database, I just blog what I love with a cool and really better domain. http://mhdbadi.us which I will continue renewing it with my tumblr blog.
I was paying for the .com, storage and support $58 per year, now I pay for the whole thing $3.99 only. Isn’t awesome? and I still have the same feature of wordpress, comments, themes, and almost everything.
