Dopplr Stats

July 15, 2009Asidesdopplr, StatsMatt

I just got my Dopplr stats for the first half of the year. “You took 28 trips, which added up to 221,054 km or 60% of the distance to the moon. You spent 72 days at home, 109 days traveling. Your personal velocity so far this year was 48.12 km/hr, which is about the same as an elephant.” These stats are the #1 reason I use Dopplr, it’s just fun to play with it.

Typekit has announced that they’ve been acquired by Adobe, I’m excited for Bryan, Jeff, and the whole team and can’t wait to see what they launch next. Had the pleasure of working with Typekit as an investor and as a partner in WordPress.com’s Custom Design feature.

Postiecon

May 6, 2007AsidesMatt

“So, PostieCon (a conference sponsored by PayPerPost) was among the most controversial things I’ve ever done. People really hated that I was speaking there. I got constant crap from my friends and foes alike because of my decision to speak there. But, it turned out they didn’t have enough attendees so they postponed it to November.” — Robert Scoble

Teach when you are filled with wonder, before you become a boring expert.

— Mark Pilgrim

Greek Blogger Camp

May 9, 2007AsidesMatt

At the end of the month I’m going to Greece for the Greek Blogger Camp on Ios Island. It looks like it is going to be fun, and the registration is very reasonable (30 euros) so I hope to see some of you there.

ReadWriteWeb covers the WordPress.com / Federated Media deal which will give high-end bloggers access to run advertising from FM, which is significantly higher quality than alternatives like Google Adsense, which has been declining in quality and is no longer a great choice for bloggers. Proud to be part of the empowerment of the Independent Web, which is the dark matter of the internet.

A great piece in the New York Times today: How do you parent without a future, knowing that you will lose your child, bit by bit?

“Apple Lossless, also known as ALAC, is a lossless audio codec Apple developed some time ago for digital music. The codec compresses music files anywhere from 40-60 percent of their original size with no discernible loss in audio quality or fidelity.” — Apples ALAC codec is now open source. About a year and a half ago I started re-ripping all my music in ALAC, it’s fantastic, especially now that iTunes can down-convert when syncing to iPhones / iPods.

Little Quake

May 9, 2005AsidesMatt

Apparently we just had a small earthquake here, but I didn’t notice it. Living in California is always full of surprises. 🙂

WordPress Meetup

June 6, 2004EventsMatt

Wow, this is very exciting—a WordPress meetup! I was just browsing around came across this post on Blogging Pro saying that there is now a WordPress meetup on the fourth saturday of every month. The very first one is coming up on June 26th. Funnily enough though I don’t travel very often it looks like I’m going to be out of town that week. (Any San Francisco WordPress users up for a meetup?) You can bet that I’m going to try and make as many of these as possible. I know at least a few very active WordPress users are in Texas, with developer Ryan Boren in Dallas and a few people in Austin. It would be very neat to have a yearly event where we all got together. BBQ is on me.

Since I last saw it Meetup has gotten some nice enhancements. I’ve been burned at a couple of meetups where I was the only person that showed up. I’ll have to give them another chance.

Staff Must Wash Hands

April 22, 2006AsidesMatt

Staff Must Wash Hands and a story of propietary soap.

I ended up on the Forbes 30 under 30 for Social / Mobile this year, which is good because I only have two more years to make this sort of thing before being demoted to less exclusive “100 under 100” lists. For something more meaty check out this in-depth interview with Japanese devleloper magazine Gijutsu-Hyoron, by Bart Eisenberg, which included some pretty thoughtful questions.

Facebook Platform

May 29, 2007AsidesMatt

I actually dig the Facebook platform, but this quote is hilarious:
“And looking over press coverage of the announcement today, you’d think it was the late ’90s and Six Degrees had made Flooz its official currency and offered free Kozmo.com deliveries to all its members.”