and one day I’ll get around to signing up
Got invite for check.in beta (it’s for checking in to all your various Foursquare-y things at once). They deal with naming conflicts between different services by a “magical matching process” which, when it fails, asks you to tell it which entries correspond to each other. Pretty good trick and something I sort of embarrassingly hadn’t considered—the repository of checkin-able locations that includes how they are listed across the different services is a huge asset and if the power-users of these services really care enough to use more than one at a time then surely they can be convinced to make their own lives easier by providing the information to consolidate their favorite spots into a single check.in location.
Right now check.in is just foursquare, britekite, and Gowalla (and the last only “experimentally”). Interesting dilemma for other services—opening up an API to allow check.in checkins probably means more users but a lot of those users will have their interactions totally mediated by another application. Raises the question of what any of these companies hope to accomplish in the long term. Also, shouldn’t Facebook just buy this thing if they’re serious about storming the location “market” (is it still a market if maybe no one is really making money yet?).
The goal of the Transformative Apps program is to place the right mobile software applications (“apps”) into the hands of warfighters as the apps are needed. As a result of this program, a diverse array of apps of national security relevance will be realized using an innovative new development and acquisition process.
Also, the document change log notes:
Added: Mar 17, 2010 4:10 pm
Modification 1 to DARPA-BAA-10-41 does the following:
Exchanged “Android” with “Open source mobile platform”
But how will we win the wars of the future without iPads!?
(It was also probably more fun to read when you could pretend it was just about real androids and not phones)
I guess everyone except me knew about this twenty pens thing (which is weird in its own way), but I still think it’s a funny looking signature.
darkwingdach:
I can’t tell if you’re joking? He had to use twenty pens in the course of that signature, so there’d be chum to gift. It’s his lengthy signature. He also has his crazy quick signature that he uses at the signing table for books and whatnot. I’ve never seen whatever normal signature once lay in between.
fiatluxemburg:
Wait, Obama’s signature is completely ridiculous?
Also, it looks very much like he drew that pear-shaped “O” in multiple segments. That must be pretty embarrassing, to screw up your really weird “big O around some other letters” signature and have to go back and fill in parts when you happen to be signing into law the centerpiece of your domestic legislative agenda.
Wait, Obama’s signature is completely ridiculous?
Also, it looks very much like he drew that pear-shaped “O” in multiple segments. That must be pretty embarrassing, to screw up your really weird “big O around some other letters” signature and have to go back and fill in parts when you happen to be signing into law the centerpiece of your domestic legislative agenda.
obsoletethebook:
A friend for a friend in public place! Why would anyone ever want to tell things to their friends in public?! No wonder this thing didn’t fly.
(HFBD Twitter via nevver)
If only they’d known to call it the notificatr instead.
Alternatively,
I guess “the future is joy-proof” isn’t something I don’t believe.
a BMW slogan, which is false
