December 2009
58 posts
Discovering new music with @Spotify. Cool stuff. *so* much nicer than iTunes. Lots of sites available for sharing your playlists too.
Unfollowing lots of people and putting then into Twitter lists instead. Adding lists as new columns in Tweetdeck. Organized goodness.
stayed up way too late playing with http://flavors.me Created my own Flavors site at http://garysherman.me/
RT @AustinJS: Hey! Put down the turkey leftovers and go check out http://developer-day.com/ — Austin Developer conference end of Jan!
lots of Christmas baking going on in the Sherman house.
1st time I’ve actually visited a Yahoo group via the web in a while. Great example of terrible user experience. 3 search boxes on 1 page?
the snow is coming to Boston, which means I gotta go.
. @spikejones we got out yearly USAA dividend as well. Even if its not a huge check, it totally changes the insurance co./consumer dynamic.
I’ll allow 5 seconds for tweetphotos/twitpics/etc to load in TweetDeck. After that - I don’t care about your pic so much. #limitedAttention
my cousin makes the nightly news. yikes. http://bit.ly/7LCHgZ
is there a good coffeeshop with free wifi in Waltham? there’s 2 colleges here, surely there must be at least 1 really good coffee shop, no?
Great day with customer followed by great evening with my friend Bill, one of my closest friends from college. Exhausted, but feeling great.
always enlightening spending a day with enterprise devs. what we may think of as common vernacular and usage is like Klingon to others.
the answers are not in your conference room. get out of the office and talk to your customers. It’s always a great learning experience.
. @bellware because transfer of knowledge is good. first hand experience is better. feel their pain. But you already knew that :)
RT @KathySierra Don’t focus on making a better [product x], focus on making a better [user of x]. eg: NOT better camera—better photographer
spent the day in the coolest corporate conference room ever. full of Rock memorabilia, album covers, 45s, etc. Rock freakin on!
re: previous tweet. Oh, and they’re a financial services company.
I dig the new @37signals Launchpad and single sign-on. And the switchover to the new system was easy breezy.
“Now, more than ever, we need to shake things up” Seth Godin’s new free ebook: http://bit.ly/6gFWpB
nice to be back in Massachusetts. I’ll be here all week. If you’re in the area - ping me.
at ABIA, on my way to Boston. Surprisingly quiet here. and the TSA agents were all super friendly. nice.
ugh. egg nog hangover. kinda glad the nog is only around for a short time each year.
just returned from a party tonight with the bestest of friends. seriously. I am truly blessed with the friends I have.
Looking forward to a few drinks with Dovetail/Clarify/CRM folks next week. Spread the word! Hope to see you there! http://bit.ly/4rVUAq
nice tagline: “Yeah, we’ve got a ton of features. Take a deep breath… you don’t have to use ’em all the first day.” http://bit.ly/7DVu0X
Don rickels?
RT @BubbleFusion: We measure minutes since last deploy on our home page: http://bubblefusionlabs.com/ #continuousdeployment #leanstartup
RT @Oatmeal: -new- Why I’d rather be punched in the testicles than call customer service http://digg.com/d31CRnr
looking forward to my trip to Boston next week. Visiting customers, friends, and family. Any Boston peeps care to get together next week?
Bluelounge - StudioDesk →
I freakin love this desk.
WatchEric Ries - The Lean Startup on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
RT @pjsherman: “Initializing” = developer-speak.
I have some Google Wave invites available. DM or email me your email address.
. @coryleahy I wish. If it did, I would have used it already on @eshermans desk!
impressed with Google Voice transcription. I can scan the voicemail message in text much quicker than listening to it.
still loving my clean desktop thanks to a simple double-click in Fences. http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/ #uncluttered
what the heck is a zhu zhu pet hamster? it looks like a cat toy.
saw a request for help from someone still running NT4 as a production server. NT4? seriously? someone’s CIO needs a beating.
RT @LYHD: Help desk love gone TOO far. Have you checked out the latest video? It’s a bit NSFW http://bit.ly/6kaqXr
Blogged: Dovetail / Clarify Happy Hour : Massachusetts Edition: While I’m in Massachusetts next week, we’re spo… http://bit.ly/6OqyGc
Blogged: Customizing Dovetail Carrier: Kevin has started his first in a series of posts around customizing Dovetail… http://bit.ly/8telai
moving my website to use tumblr http://bit.ly/4Yp8Db
interesting to see Clarify and Vantive listed on a salesforce presentation slide. Of course, in the outdated tech category.
RT @SunniBrown: This is what I mean by not confusing people in presentations!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-coding_theory
A little too much help desk love (NSFW) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Q8KFjSqUE #LoveYourHelpDesk
awesome. Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcxF9oz9Cu0 (via @chrisbrogan)
Just realized that Google Calendar recently added availability lookup for event attendees. timely. http://bit.ly/8nCq6k
eff it.