–via Youtube.

Artoyz posted a sneak peek at the upcoming Auto project by Superdeux.

–via ToyCyte

This kind of thing continually reinforces something I’ve thought about a lot since the App store was released, which sounds horrible to say but it might be true: Apple is creating an ecosystem of the kind of customers I don’t want. With the ridiculous approval process leaving bugfixes to take over a week to show up, with prices being driven down to nothing by farting apps… it just feels hostile to me. While I have plenty of great customers who have been raving about the app, all it takes is one little issue and it all comes crashing down.

A nice article that exposes some real flaws in the Apple iTunes App Store. We should be encouraging developers like Garrett to continue creating awesome applications, not discouraging them with a convoluted process.

buy Ego

– via Garrett Murray

Shuffle is a great way to get reacquainted with bands that go unplayed for a while. It is amazing what forgotten gems it can find. What use to be an easy task of taking the ipod off of shuffle and having it just play an album straight through instead becomes a difficult one while driving. Currently it is a multi-step process to make this happen and something I don’t find myself doing a lot. What I would like to see is a button that turns off shuffle and takes you to album mode of that song that you were just listening to. I envision the button towards the bottom right of the album artwork and would only show up when in shuffle mode. Something that is easy to select while at the same time keeping your eyes on the road.

So Mr Jobs, what do you say, a little more functionality to keep us commuters safe?

Two things really changed the direction of my forecast: a book by Jeffrey Zeldman and an ad on Craig’s list. Perusing Craig’s list a couple years ago I stumbled upon a front-end developer position at Revolution Health. An e-mail, an interview, and two days later I was putting in my two weeks’ notice and officially starting my career. The initial feeling was very interesting: a large, open area full of like-minded individuals, all amazingly smart and incredibly fun to work with. The passion was contagious. It started a domino effect for me. I had to learn everything I could, read every blog post, listen to every podcast, go to conferences and take part in the technology scene in the DC area.

Fast forward 2 years…

On Monday I will take a slightly different route to work. Instead of walking it will require a car (and probably a lot of other cars for that matter). Revolution won’t be the final destination anymore but it will always be my starting point. It was a great ride and I will always be thankful for the opportunity they gave me. I believe in the cause and know in my absence they will be fighting the good fight to empower consumers and play a role in fixing the health care system.

Monday, June 2, will be my first day joining the amazingly awesome team at Mixx. After working with Jason on politweets and twittertale I jumped at the chance to share office space and feed off his awesomeness (putting him up for next year’s international day of awesomeness king). However, after stepping into the office and meeting the others, I know the awesomeness doesn’t stop with Jason. I am really excited to join the team and already have some ideas (you know me: can’t stop the ideas, can only hope to contain them).

So thus starts chapter two. The funny part is, I still have no idea what the next three years will bring. But this time, I like that feeling.

in the afternoon on the 28th and decided to have my own little start-up weekend (well my weekend allotted for 8 hours). I have always been interested in quotes my whole life and even though there are probably a million sites out there devoted to them, I wanted to do it my way. What I came up with is reciteable. The design is bare bones and broken (page view is totally hosed will fix tonight), the content is lacking but sign up for the rss feed and enjoy.

Think about all the products that are pushed before your eyes in some form of advertising each day. Not many companies can accomplish so much in such a small period of time. I will also pass on some credit to the Ad Agency behind the ads. I am sure it is a shared vision that sets them above the rest

There were more than 250 people in attendance, some of them can be seen on Flickr here and here.

I met a lot of interesting, smart people who all have the same common passion, technology. There were also some companies in attendance demoing their goods and services.

• Animal Attraction – an online dating site that aims to connect pet lovers
• BuzzXYZ powered by Blogdigger – helps track the buzz online
• Clearspring – services for building, deploying and tracking widgets
• Sportsvite – online community is bringing sports lovers together for on-the-field fun
• PatentMonkey – fully search-able US patent text database
• Wine Library TV – showcased their wine site & were recruiting more “Vayniacs”

Many companies were represented. Too many to name in fact. I will say that it was also great to put some faces behind those companies I have heard/read so much about. Viget labs is a small web consulting firm out of Falls Church. They are probably most known for their work with Britney Spears and Other Music/Enteraintment types. In a prior life I was a recruiter and constantly on the hunt for something they called “web standards people”??? Well how the times have changed, we know share the same passion and try each day to spread the word about semantic markup and web standards. People please don’t hurt the web!!!

There was another event last night that I had to miss unfortunately. Refresh DC took place last night and sounds like it was another home run. If you haven’t been to the monthly meetings, it is a great place to meet some of the smartest people in DC.

Well I am off to @media next week in San Francisco. If you just happen to be one of my 5 loyal readers and are also attending don’t be shy.

Twitter

A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right here on the web!

There are many many blog posts out there that talk about how Twitter is just a fad, and only used by a select few. In today’s scenario nothing could have worked better, “answers on your phone, Im or right on the web”. The officials talk about how big the campus is, how most of the students commute, and how some were in route to class. A simple message posted to a system like Twitter could have touched all of those instances and perhaps saved some lives.