Where is Waldonna?

June 9th, 2009
Line waiting to get into the Apple WWID Keynote 2009

Christopher Allen took this picture while waiting for the Apple keynote today to be opened. Click on the picture to get  the bigger picture.

What struck me is how everyone is looking the same, and in addition, I would totally fit in.

It may have been a Monday morning problem, but not a lot of smiles there either.

Where is Waldonna? Or are only guys receptive to the Apple distortion field? Seriously, I studied the picture and I see only one woman.

How come, that Waldonna is not as interested in tinkering and developing stuff? These days in any other field but Computer Science there are more women studying it than man. It is frustrating and I am happy to organize a Future Salon to tackle that problem.

Putting a Band together

June 5th, 2009

San Mateo Highlands, my hometown has it’s own 4th of July parade plus Fireworks already on the night before. It’s like a small town in the middle of the Bay Area. I love it

I am on a mission, not from God, but for maximum fun for the most people involved. I am trying to get a Ragtag Marching Band together for our parade on the 4th of July.

Remember: Music self-played is happiness self-made. That happiness is squared when you make music with your neighbors with the goal to entertain all of them at the down to earth local 4th of July parade.

SJSU marching Spartan trumpet player signed up. That made my day. You can join too.

Picture taken by Mark & Marie Finnern.

SlideShare Karaoke Toastmaster Table Tobics Mashup

June 5th, 2009

The YouTube for slides: SlideShare has a nifty little game they call SlideShare Karaoke. You put in a keyword and it randomly selects one deck of slides for you to present.

SlideShare Karaoke

If you want to improve your presentation skills, there is no better way than going to weekly Toastmasters meetings. I am at awe how well run that organization is. Read the rest of this entry »

Nina, Unicycle and I ;-)

May 25th, 2009

While Nina learns how to balance and coast on the walk-a-bike (bike where the pedals are taken off.) I took out my Unicycle today. Would be great to master staying in one place with it. Which is hard, as you have to go constantly back and forth, that my wheel is a relative big one doesn’t help with that goal.

But it really makes a huge difference to Nina and me, if we are both trying to get better at driving a bike.

The beauty is, we move at about the same pace. It was a breeze to get to Levy’s (friend of Nina’s) house, which is just on the other side of the school yard.

To take off the pedals is getting very trendy around here. If I ever find the time I will post pictures of getting a bike from a garage sale and how we converted it to a pushbike aka walk-a-bike as Nina and I like to call it.

Picture taken by Mark & Marie Finnern.

Pasta Master …

May 21st, 2009

In the mid 80s there was a pasta scandal in Germany. No one trusted the ready made pastas in the shop anymore. During that time I once showcased how to use a Pasta Machine in a shop. We actually sold I think 16 of these machines that day. I was wearing an apron and a baker’s hat. It was quite the experience.

Now almost 25 years later, we got one of these machines, they are almost unchanged. I was struggling to get the consistency of the dough right, but as you can see from the picture, Nina was helping me, which made it all good.

Since then, the best wife of all made some linguine with semolina flour, which were much better than mine. We had them the last two days. Yummy!

Picture taken by Mark & Marie Finnern.

Smack Button in Twitter Follow Email Please

May 4th, 2009

Update: I should try this more often suggest improvements on my blog. I wrote and posted this entry on May 4th. Two days later Twitter changed their email notification. I am convinced that it was co-incidence and the change was in the works for a while. They also don’t call it “Smack”,  but more civilized “Block” this user. Thanks Twitter team.

The only thing missing are the last 5 posts of the new follower, but I guess they were afraid that this additional database call would tax their system too much.

This morning the Twitter Follow Spammers spiked for me about 10x. It is frustrating and I feel a bit helpless, as I don’t want to go to every spam follower’s profile to block. Others just switched off all follow emails, which I may be forced to do too.

In addition to my previous request to enhance the Twitter follow email, I would like to have a smack button in it too:  This Twitter user is a spammer <smack>. Actually I could only do it when I have the additional information: Twitterer since, number of followers, posts, last 5 posts, …

In the background Twitter could have an algorithm running taking into account: Posts, followers, conversations and number of smacks to throw people off the system. If they want to continue to be successful they need such strengthen their immune system.

I am afraid that soon we will all get “@<your twitter name> check this out !!! Cheap. <link>” Which will destroy your vanity Twitter search. A Smack button needed for that too.

Craigslist please open up like Twitter

April 15th, 2009

Twitter’s attitude to other companies using their data is a very agnostic one. It can almost be summed up in: If what you are doing increases Twitter adoption, and is not taxing our systems too much, we are fine. They are only a bit over two years old and it is amazing the little cottage industry that sprung up around them that is accessing their data and enhancing the experience.

One early example was Summize a search engine that Twitter acquired and is now part of Twitter.

Yesterday it hit me thinking about how different the world would be if Craigslist had the same attitude to third party hacking.

Yes, there is the famous HousingMaps mashup of rent and real-estate listings with Google maps, but not a lot more. Craigslist doesn’t have an API (that I was able to find), so the mashups are done using screen scraping tools.

I posted my thought on Twitter and Craig Newmark the founder of Craigslist responded:

finnern: @craignewmark Where could we be if Craigslist would be as open as Twitter with APIs and use of data. Way beyond http://www.housingmaps.com/

craignewmark: @finnern maybe, what do you have in mind? anyone in general community asking for that?
about 3 hours later from TwitterFox · Reply · View Tweet

finnern: @craignewmark the beauty of Twitter attitude is: We don’t know all the things that the general community is asking for: Surprise us.
about 6 hours ago from TwitterFox · Reply · View Tweet

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Would you pay for Someone’s Tweets?

March 14th, 2009

Jeff Nolan askes an interesting question: What do you think, can a twitter stream be monetized via subscription?

Celebrities can and I am convinced will within the next 6 months. It is such a low hanging fruit. Lance Armstrong could easily charge $5 a month and thousands of his almost 300K followers would sign up to be part of his life.

Celebs can turn the price wheel to make it more or less exclusive.

Twitter enable that functionality and take a little cut, that would be a nice revenue stream.

You can take it even further. How much would you pay for someone to follow you? Lance is following 39 people at the moment. For many people it would be enormously valuable to be #40 I think up to #100.

It would be a direct monetizing of fame, leaving out the tabloid middleman.

Of the people I follow personally I would pay for Tim O’Reilly’s tweets. They are high signal, engaging and mostly in the areas of my interest. Thankfully I am convinced that will never happen.

Arnold Lather Up

February 22nd, 2009

Yesterday I twittered about the lack of water in the Golden State:

California needs 20% less water use this year http://is.gd/klQZ: While showering lather up with water off. Same while brushing teeth.

Today I remembered that Antanas Mockus mayor of Bogota faced with the same problem solved it by taking a shower in front of running TV cameras:

When there was a water shortage, Mockus appeared on TV programs taking a shower and turning off the water as he soaped, asking his fellow citizens to do the same. In just two months people were using 14 percent less water, a savings that increased when people realized how much money they were also saving because of economic incentives approved by Mockus; water use is now 40 percent less than before the shortage.

Being filmed is anything but new to the California Governator. Therefore my call to him:

Arnold Lather Up

Stop the flow of water while you do and ask us fellow citicen to do the same. We need your action hero status to turn off the phoset and save our precious fresh water resources.

A lot of women will be really happy too. Of course it would be even better if this issue would be picked up by the current commander and chief in Washington. I think that would make even more women really happy ;-)

There goes the Neighborhood II

February 2nd, 2009

The Eichler on 2304 Bunker Hill Drive last week finally got trashed :-(
It is loud and very distressing. We are looking for relief during the day. If you have a furnished apt., or in-law … that could give us relief while this is going on, let us know.

Demolition picture taken by Mark & Marie Finnern.
We started a set of pictures regarding 2304 Bunker Hill Drive.

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