Elect to “un-status” from time to time – for a day, a week, or even a month – and notice the space that arises.
I like this. I’ve been trying to be more mindful of my surroundings starting with the small things. Today I went jogging and didn’t bring headphones. Instead I relished in the moment and took in the sights sounds and smells as I went on my way.
The outrage over this Path address book upload issue is interesting. It’s a good discussion to have but in my mind there are other privacy issues we should be way more worried about.
But I didn’t write this post to talk about that issue. I found the response from Path to be quite interesting:
We believe that this type of friend finding & matching is important to the industry and that it is important that users clearly understand it, so we proactively rolled out an opt-in for this on our Android client a few weeks ago and are rolling out the opt-in for this in 2.0.6 of our iOS Client, pending App Store approval.
First of all they added the opt-out feature to Android *first*. That’s odd, given that their app was iOS-only for the longest time. Their user base also *must* be larger there. Is the Android team just more on the ball than the iOS? I doubt that, given they haven’t added the notification control that the iOS version has. Maybe the iOS team was busy working on a bigger ‘yet-to-be-released’ feature. Or are Android users more sensitive to privacy? Definitely a sign that Android has become an equal contender to iOS at least in terms of development Maybe I’m reading way too much into this, but it does raise a lot of questions.
Second is the ‘pending AppStore approval.’ There *has* to be a better way for development shops like Path, especially with small code-base updates and especially for things of this nature. The developers at Path aren’t going to add in code that sends costly SMS message to Nigerian short codes. This doesn’t *quite* fall under the ‘expedited emergency security hole’ approval process Apple has but there really needs to be a middle ground. A middle ground for companies that produce one of the top 5 social media apps currently in use.
I was really excied to see that Path includes the ability to push checkins to FourSquare. I don’t know about you but I’ve been going through “Social Media burnout” so its nice when they become more integrated.
However, I found one small issue with the Path Foursquare checkins and that is they won’t show up for anyone querying Foursquare via the API. This seems to be due to the fact that Path sends the check-ins without any geo-location data so FourSquare considers them a ‘record keeping’ check-ins rather than ‘full’ ones.
It’s something to consider if you have any sort of app that consumes user checkins (like we have at the co+Lab). I’ve confirmed this behaviour on the Path app on both Android and iOS
On the weekend I came across the newly released Any.DO app. Now before you say “ANOTHER to-do app??”, let me tell you this one is different. Any.DO sets a new UI bar way above anything else I’ve seen on Android. It looks beautiful and is amazingly intuitive. Drag and drop tasks, swipe to mark as complete, auto setting of call-backs everything is dead easy. Even if you don’t use task-manage on your phone, check it out for the sheer beauty of the interface.
I was looking for an off-site backup for my WHM VPS a while back and figured I’d use S3. A few minutes of research found that it wasn’t all that hard to do. I essentially followed the link above but added a step to encrypt the backup files with AES256 before sending them to S3.
This is a really nice way to cut down on the amount of files in your SVN repo AND make it easy to stay up to date on your current version of WordPress. Thanks to Adrian Schneider for sending this link me way!
http://ottopress.com/2011/creating-a-wordpress-site-using-svn/
I’ve travelled solo and I’ve travelled in a group. My most recent trip to Panama and Costa Rica with Gap Adventures was awesome: Independent enough to let me do my own think while taking care of some of the ‘mundane’ planing details like finding quality (i.e. non-sketchy) accommodations. I highly recommend responsible & sustainable travel companies such as GAP and Interepid vs the ‘discount shops’
Interesting comments on the Ruby community from an ex-.NET developer (and author and MVP). I’m still mainly on the .NET (and PHP) side of the fence (for now) but like what I’m seeing from some of the the open-source communities.
Yikes. Looks like Dropbox updated it’s TOS to include an excusive copyright to all of your stuff. The interwebs have been abuzz about this all day. Dropbox just issued an update claiming that the objectionable terms are only to be used in the context of operating the services. Thoughts?
