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The iPhone app I would buy today for $300 3 years ago

Is this feasible to build? Bonus points if you can figure how to cancel out external music while letting me listen to my own. You have a UI prototype and a pre-order for at least one at $300- someone please build it. If nothing more consider doing it as a public service.
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Towards a more useful high school experience 3 years ago

If you were tasked with re-architecting the typical high school experience with the end goal of “better equipping students for whatever they do next,” what changes would you make? Don’t confine your ideas to simple curriculum changes either, go nuts. Change …
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Email now suffers the problem of carrier pigeons 3 years ago

It can’t be assumed it will reach its intended recipient. It’s not actually a new phenomenon but it seems the deliverability of application-generated email has fallen to a point where a letter sent via the US Postal Service is more likely to reach its intended …
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Takeaways from running a yardsale 3 years ago

I moved offices and residences recently and took advantage of the opportunity to sell off a bunch of stuff. There were a handful of useful lessons that came from this experience and I wanted to post them here for the benefit of anyone else considering hosting a sale. Maintain a …
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50 acoustic artists you need to know 3 years ago

If you’re in a musical rut and need to change your tune here’s a list of my all-time 50 favorite singer/songwriters. I’ve linked to a live clip that’s a good representative song for each artist. Disclaimer: this list is HUGELY skewed towards male singers …
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Everything must go! 3 years ago

I don’t usually use my blog for this type of thing but if you’re in Phoenix, AZ and are in the market for computer equipment, musical gear or furniture check out the virtual yard sale below: I recently moved my office and residence and have a ton of stuff that …
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You Are (not) Here: the perils of LBS 3 years ago

I saw this post from my friend Andrew Hyde on the homepage of Tech Meme today and judging by the number of reactions he got his story struck a nerve. Long story short: in the course of using LBS apps like Bright Kite and Foursquare to announce his location he picked up a stalker who [...]
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“Getting to Plan B” is a must-read for every entrepreneur 3 years ago

I just finished the book Getting to Plan B. This is hands-down the best business book I’ve read in the past year. It’s got just the right balance of theory anchored by real-world examples to make the lessons resonate and stick. It goes a long way towards demystifying terms that get …
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Ten IT predictions for 2010 3 years ago

Here’s ten things I predict we’ll see in the IT/computing industry in 2010 (and yes, I’m biased about some given the world we live in at JumpBox): Self-healing applications become commonplace: We’ll see the rise of preventative and predictive technologies that fix …
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Feints and Disinformation 3 years ago

So $3MM worth of iPhones were just stolen from a Belgian warehouse. The burglars apparently dropped in through a hole in the roof that was cut directly above where the goods were stored. They succeeded in getting away with the merchandise but given the precision of the location of the hole, it …
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