August 13th, 2009 § 0
Oddly enough, It didn’t occur to me to post a link to my new website-slash-journal, //REMarkify, here.
The logo that isn't technically on the website.
In case you’re wondering where I got the name from:
June 23rd, 2009 § 0
The business of being an online aggregator of information is a competitive one; sites such as FriendFeed, Facebook, and Mint are all vying for your attention making it hard to choose one. Usually one site will have one service, but not another. Maybe it’ll have a good mobile app but few partner services. Or, maybe it’s just something no one ever uses.
Pageonce blows all of them away. I was just shocked at the sheer amount of online accounts that I was able to include in their service, all in one, so let me just list what I added:
As the service grows, I imagine it will include just about everything under the sun. Personally, they hit about 90% of the services I use, and 100% of the ones I use frequently (I was pleasantly surprised to find my credit union and student loan holder).
For the most part it’s purely informational; you can’t do much to interact with said feeds, but that’s the major appeal of this as well. If you wanted to interact, you would do so on desired site (which is more secure, anyway).
The real clincher for me was having all this account information not just in one website on my desktop, but on my iPhone. Pageonce launched version 3.0 of their premium application (there’s a free one as well) which brings all of this information to the palm of your hand. There is a Blackberry app available as well.
Granted it’s a little on the slow side; it is after all, pinging all of your online accounts at once. And, as this may be a deal breaker for many, but trusting all of your online account information to one site can be a leap of faith. As it is, the site is well secured, well encrypted, and is covered by all the large online security companies. They do mention in their privacy agreement that they won’t use your data for marketing purposes and that you own it entirely, something Facebook has struggled agreeing to.
Definitely a service to keep an eye out for.
April 13th, 2009 § 2
And it’s about time it stopped. We (and by we, I’m especially pointing the finger at you, guys) have lost our purpose.
Something I’ve noticed in the past few years is how things we do every day have given way to this non-critical, safe, conflict-avoidance mentality. We have become masters of non-offensive, bland, politically correct language.
But, I’ll argue, conflict is a good thing. It presents a wide color of opinions and beliefs, not necessarily precluding that one is more right than another. There’d be no resolution or diplomacy without it.
Facebook is a great example of this; while there is an option to ‘like’ a post, a converse does not exist. I’ve seen this in countless examples elsewhere in our society. Are people so afraid of criticism that they can’t accept that someone might not agree with them?
We don’t discipline our children anymore, for fear of someone yelling child abuse. How are they supposed to know what’s right, when nothing’s wrong? My mother raised me tough, and while I don’t always see eye-to-eye with her, I’m saltier for it today, and know that I can take on the world.
This does not mean an end to equality between the sexes. If anything, it’s time for men to start pulling their weight and act like the men we’re supposed to be. If my grandfather were alive today, he’d tell us to grow a pair.
We are living in rough economic times. The day of the push-over is coming to a close. DiCaprio is out, Hamm is in. Our first duty was to get off our butts and elect the right people into power. Mission accomplished. Now it’s time to pull up our sleeves and get some work done, because no one is going to do it for us anymore.
Chivalry is back.