Michael Galpert
be well, do goodOperation Inbox ZERO
Gmail – Inbox ZERO
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i have successfully removed all 200 outstanding emails from my inbox. I hope to maintain my inbox at zero daily. I was inspired by Merlin Mann’s talk that he gave at Google Recently. You can view the video here and his slides are here.
If you have sent me an email in the past 2 weeks to which I have yet to respond to, I apologize.
I will be tackling that task tomorrow.
If it is of timely concern feel free to re-email or twitter or im or call me. 
tumbling over the web
Ive been tumbleloging over at msg.tumblr.com
My Tumble Likes:
i like how quick and easy it is to share web stuff with out feeling the need to provide my 2 cents.
My Tumble Dislikes:
I dont like that commenting is disabled. I understand that this is somewhat antithetical to tumblogs as a whole, but it would be nice if it were at least optional per post.
maybe now ill have more time to focus on longer posts here on my weblog
FYI: I HATE THE WORD BLOG
Pretty Pownce has Potential
I received a pownce invite today from Nate. It is the much coveted invite in the web2geekosphere right now (search ebay for proof). Laughingsquid has a solid writeup .Others attempt to compare it to twitter
I think the driving force right now for the hype is due to a variety of factors:
* not everyone has an iphone they can play w/ and it gets boring talking about something you dont have
* ppl are bored of the facebook apps that are currently out there (dont worry Jake Jarvis has a Pownce app out)
* The diggers now have a way of private messaging each other (aka better way of gaming digg)
* It does its job “send stuff to your friends” pretty well (emphasis on pretty: even their about page is visually pleasing.
* last but not least the exclusive role out ala gmail ( i wonder if they are tracking the swarm of invites i would love to see how that would look on a map over time.
I think pownce has great potential. I personally hate receiving fwded funny links or videos via email and im while at work (since i get easily distracted) I like the potential of having an on/off switch. The only problem is that I have to wait for all my friends to get invited / adopt pownce as a means of sharing webcrap.
I’m assuming if you read my blog you care what I share, you can follow me on pownce(@msg) if you want an invite to pownce I have a couple left, im saving them for friends
Random comments:
Pownce isnt perfect (yet) I continually have trouble logging in from the homepage and am forced to login at the next page.
I’m assuming I will use the AIR client more often so it shouldnt be too much of a problem.
I was warned that pownce followers are worse than twitter followers so I made sure as soon as I signed up was to disable all notifications:
Dude this is just great:
Facebook Developers Meetup NYC (Part 3) – Mark Zuckerberg Q&A
Last week Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance at the Facebook Developers Meetup in NYC.
I wanted to get this up before tomorrows Facebook App Hackathon that will be held at the Iridesco Offices. Be sure to RSVP HERE , space is limited.
What: Facebook App Hackathon
Time and PlaceDate: Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Time: 6:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: Iridesco Offices
Street: 224 Centre St, 3rd Floor
City/Town: New York, NY
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Facebook Developers Meetup NYC (part 2)- Dave Morin Q&A
(Not sure if videos display in feed readers, if not you can view it here)
I compiled the questions posed to Dave Morin into a 5 minute clip. You can easily fwd to specific questions by scrolling over the video.
If you are interested in seeing Dave Morin’s Facebook Developers Meetup NYC introduction video you can here
(I will provide all videos in one post once they are all uploaded)
Facebook Developers Meetup NYC (part 1)- Dave Morin
Last night Dave Morin, Senior Platform Manager at Facebook, beamed in from WWDC to kick off the first Facebook Developer Meetup in NYC
I will try to post the rest of the videos some time later, so stay tuned for Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg.
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On behalf of all attendees I would like to thank Amit Gupta for coordinating the event and Kristian Hansen (of Cresa Partners) for providing the space.
UPDATE: I would also like thank Dave Morin, Mark Zuckerberg, Meagan Marks, Kevin Colleran, Brandee Barker, and all the other Facebook folks that helped out.
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Myspacers Know How to Cut and Paste
Last night I had a mildly heated discussion on “real users” with Nate. I dont have time to get into the details of our discussion, but for some reason I cant get one of his comments out of my head.
Nate was trying explain the fact that Myspacers know how to use CSS and therefore they know more about how the internets work. Just because these 18 ppl know how to use CSS well on myspace, doesnt mean that the vast majority of myspacer do. The rest just know how to copy and paste the code, know what CSS is!
The following came to me on my way in to work today:
Just because I knew this code growing up:
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, B, A, select, start.
Didnt mean that i knew how Contra worked.
It was just a quick fix for getting more lives
Anyways, I cant wait for the innonate conference that will be held on the Westheimer farm. All myspacers are welcome. (no knowledge of css required, but you must promise that you are over 13.)
[UPDATE: Thanks Charlie for providing the correct Contra code]
Flow AND Me AND You AND Stowe Boyd
I just came across this amazing presentation Stowe Boyd gave at Reboot 9.0, and needed to share it ASAP
I plan on watching it a couple of more times before posting my thoughts.
A lot of his points hit home pretty hard.
FLOW- Stowe Boyd
The Video
The Slides
