Good morning movie liners. We’re doing a “Twitter Special” today in conjunction with Steven Vore.
Here’s the line, in Steven’s Twitter stream, good luck!
Ok, quick, what movie! Send your guesses here.
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Not only do we have “Darn Good Coffee”, we also keep folks jacked with Monster! Gotta love it, legal addictive stimulants, what could be better? Ah, yes, there’s also great snacks all over the place. It’s going to take every bit of will power I possess to not eat all day.
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SLO Coffee
A San Luis Obispo gem, Black Horse Coffee.
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NY Times, not so smart
BoomTown, Kara Swisher: “The Times’ lawyer, Richard Samson, sees it differently, apparently since it is a paid app rather than a free one, noting in its June 3 notice to Apple, which came two days after the Times’ article about Pulse:
“The Pulse News Reader app, makes commercial use of the NYTimes.com and Boston.com RSS feeds, in violation of their Terms of Use*. Thus, the use of our content is unlicensed. The app also frames the NYTimes.com and Boston.com websites in violation of their respective Terms of Use.â€
He also complained about how the Pulse was marketed in the App Store”
Emphasis is mine. The NY Times really wants to go out of business. If I were the developers of Pulse I’d create a “knucklehead list” and ship it with the app. The knucklehead list would be updatable remotely so when other knucklehead’s would like to join in on the fun the Pulse guys could update their list on the server and have the application automagically remove the RSS feed from their app.
As for the NY Times. I really don’t get this, not at all. They are publishing an RSS feed for heavens sake. If you don’t want people to read your content via the web, REMOVE YOUR FEED. Instead you come down on the little guy that’s taking advantage of something you published.
Knuckleheads.
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LEVEL secret
There you have it! A secret of LEVEL’s success, darn good coffee.
Apple.com: “Thomas uses Voice Memos to make notes to himself about particular sections of the vineyard, and he takes video to help convey his impressions to people on his staff. “And,†he says, “the GPS is accurate enough that I can mark a spot, take a picture, and send an email with a note saying what I think needs to be done with this particular section of the vineyard—or even this particular vine.†“
Yep, the iPhone has changed the game. When I read a story like this I always wonder what they did before the iPhone? I also wonder if they’ve created an app to help them on the winery? What about the iPad? Very cool stuff.
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Pay it forward
Mac Indie: “One of my primary goals in starting MacInde last year was to catalog and recognize all the tools that are available to Indie Mac/iPhone developers that can make your development life easier, faster, more efficient, etc. I’ll bet that if you tried to re-create all of the production quality code out there that we’re all using in our OSX and iPhoneOS apps thanks to this community, there’s probably 5-7 man-years of effort that you’d need to spend in doing it.”
Support your local Mac Indie! There’s a lot of really great free, and open source, Mac/iPhone/iPad source code floating around out there. Help these guys out if you can. I know I need to.
Shameless self promotion: Need Objective-C/Cocoa code to shorten a URL, or communicate with ping.fm, click here.
NOTE: I haven’t built that code in a LONG time, in fact, I haven’t built it for Mac since upgrading to Snow Leopard. It built without error for iPhone OS and Mac OS X the last time I did build it. Your mileage may vary. I definitely need to spend some quality time with it.
Brian Hoff: “This might sound familiar to some most of you: I received an email from a potential client inquiring a new website. After a few emails back and forth, the talk of money came into the equation, only to have the client question why my rates where so high as “they too were freelancers or small businesses.†They also asked if I’d consider slashing my rate by two-thirds. How about this one: I received emails looking for a $1,000 website because large firms I’ve contacted charge in the six-figures.”
I’ve heard from indie designers and developers that tell this same story. Because they’re small people believe they’ll cut a deal. It’s hard to make a living cutting deals to every Tom, Dick, and Harry on the block. You have to learn how to say one little word, no. I’m sure it’s tough to do, but you have to do it for the sake of your business, otherwise you’ll get buried in work you don’t want, and when something good comes along you’ll either have to pass on it or you’ll kill yourself trying to get it done.
Pick your battles. Easy to say, hard to practice.
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Movie line of the week answer
We have a winner!
Congratulations to Mr. Steven Vore, who correctly guessed…
Mr. Baseball
See you next Thursday.
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Armando Galarraga, class act
Detroit Free Press: “‘He feels so bad — really bad,’ Galarraga said of Joyce, more than a half-hour after the game. ‘He hasn’t even changed out of his uniform.'”
He really is a class act. He knows he got a perfect game, and he seems to be happy with that.