Coco’s jetlag (Taken with Instagram at Home)
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Watch case that turns iPod Nano into cool looking and well functioning watch. In a order to get these made, design team turns to us (the consumers) for pre payments. Result: Over $200K so far. Amazing!
Amazing wingsuit / BASE-jumping video by Jeb Corliss as he is preparing in Switzerland for the big event in China. Look especially for that little canyon part where he flies just few meters above the ground as he enters the canyon - Amazing.
Onboard footage is shot with GoPro Hero HD cameras.
I’m really looking forward for couple movie premiers within next few weeks: Wall Street - Money Never Sleeps and The Social Network. First Wall Street is still my Top 10 movie of all times and The Social Network just looks good and I have, of course, read the story many times over, so I know what to expect. Greed is the main theme on both movies.
Labor Day weekend at the Catalina Island. Place has interesting history, as chewing gum king Wrigley used to own the place and his family moved it to Catalina Island Conservancy as late as 1975.
Lets face it: About $1 per song is too expensive and in-fact paying per song is a model that won’t work for social network about music - Ping.
Reason: So much of music listening via “social networks” is discovering what your friends listening and taking their recommendations. Generally, I don’t want to pay a buck to hear those songs, but I am happy to do it for $10 monthly fee (Like Spotify Premium).
Biggest music battle is still to come: Apple bought Lala and closed it down, so clearly that team is now working on streaming version of iTunes. Zuckerberg has said that “Spotify is awesome” and it’s UI and integration to Facebook in Europe are much better than iTunes/Ping/Facebook. So, for US market, I bet there is something going on with Spotify+Facebook+Facebook Credits. Facebook has to do some sort arrangement with 30% commission of Credits as the margins on music might not be good enough for such a big percentage, but I am sure some adjusting has been done already for Zynga, etc. Also, we shouldn’t count Google out - They activate 200,000 “music devices” everyday now, so it is pretty natural to build something around that…maybe a Music Market Place?
Meanwhile, here in Pasadena, I have my Good Charlotte channel on on my Pandora and life is pretty OK.
Kris Holm is the father of offroad unicycling and even though this clip is few years old, it is still amazing how he rides those North Shore trails. Kris Holm unicycle is still on my wish list…someday.
Why we do what we do, and how we can do it better? Great TED talk by Anthony Robbins
I been aiming too high with my blogging and result has been non-consistant blogging. Now new goal is to aim low, make it so simple and easy that I should not have any excuses for not to blog.
Also, as less is more, I will only blog when I cannot fit what I have to say into tweet….lets see how well that goes.
