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Inc. Magazine: Jason Fried

I’m always interested in the day-to-day schedules of Internet entrepreneurs. I found this Inc. Magazine interview featuring 37Signals founder Jason Fried to be a candid look at his daily life.

Applications that help people get things done. (developed by 37Signals)

Applications that help people get things done. (developed by 37Signals)

Read the interview here.

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Monday, November 2, 2009 at 3:16 pmSubscribe by reader Subscribe by email

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Twitter’s new beta: Lists.

In just a few short hours of navigating my way through Twitter’s beta release of Lists, last night I gladly welcomed the new features. The Lists feature looks to become a faster way to add and drop users from your follow list.

Here’s a few things you may need to know about Lists on Twitter:

• Any user can create a List.

When celebrities create Lists they add hype to the site. Who is Al Gore Listing? Am I on Timberlake’s List?

• Lists can be public or private.

• Any user can follow your List, assuming it’s public.

• You can follow someone on a List and you don’t have to follow them as an individual.

• Lists is now a key stat.

On your profile page, Twitter calls out the number of users followed by you, the number of users following you and the number of times you’ve been listed. @johncmayer has been Listed 2,393 times thus far. ________ How will this effect the culture of follows and unfollows? Think about it. It’s very offensive if someone removes you as a ‘friend’ on Facebook. And yet it’s only somewhat disturbing if someone unfollows you on Twitter. Language is everything. Lists are more about the topic at hand (photographers, illustrators, non-profits could all be Lists) and less about egos and personalities. I think this could make the unfollow even less offensive. A power user will follow and unfollow users for their meaningfulness. I think this will put casual users on the fast-track to using the site more. As soon as the network of Twitter applications absorb Lists into their own features, we’ll be able to fully enjoy this new feature. For now, we must use it on the site itself.

Do you have Lists yet? What do you think? How will Lists change the site? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

A List in action, on the site.

A List in action, on the site.

My profile, with my Lists at right.

My profile, with my Lists at right.

A listing of my Lists

A listing of my Lists

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To follow the development of Twitter’s List beta, simply follow @nk, a Twitter staffer and lead developer for the feature. Developers, you can also keep tabs on official API changes by following @twitterapi. To sample my Lists, go here: http://twitter.com/bergrbergr/lists

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Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 7:49 amSubscribe by reader Subscribe by email

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Prison Break meets iPhone.

Canabalt appears to be a great gaming concept for iPhone. On their website you can tap the pseudo-screen to jump off buildings and through windows. Jumping through windows is my favorite.

8-bit graphics. Mono-internal speaker sound. Heck. Yes. Play “Canabalt” now.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 9:02 amSubscribe by reader Subscribe by email

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