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December 31, 2007 at 10:15 pm
· By Micah Laaker
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I’m compiling a wishlist for Apple for their 2008 efforts, as mentioned in my previous posts. It’s not comprehensive, strategic, or anything else… just things I think would make their products even better for users like me. Apple.com User Profiles Before anyone goes and says there are currently user profiles on Apple.com, I’d ask you […]
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December 30, 2007 at 10:05 am
· By Micah Laaker
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As mentioned in my previous post, I’m compiling a wishlist for Apple for their 2008 efforts. It’s by no means comprehensive, strategic, or whatever else… just things that might make their products even better for users like me. Or maybe just me. Customer Lifecycle I mentioned earlier that 3 folks in my family purchased a […]
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December 29, 2007 at 9:43 pm
· By Micah Laaker
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I’ve been known to be called an Apple fanboy before… mostly by those in my family (three of whom then purchased MacBooks in the last year). That’s OK; I am a big fan of Apple. While a Mac was not my first computer (that honor goes to the VIC-20 followed by a series of Apple […]
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December 25, 2007 at 10:37 am
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Carrie and I are having ourselves a merry little Christmas, though Jonah remains a bit undecided. (Posted from Twitter.)
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December 11, 2007 at 10:16 pm
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I picked up an Apple TV tonight. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the foresight to also pick up an HDMI cable. (Posted from Twitter.)
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December 10, 2007 at 1:13 am
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I’m excited that Black Sheep, the zombie sheep movie, is a real movie. Looking forward to watching this week, after thinking it was a joke. (Posted from Twitter.)
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December 8, 2007 at 2:07 am
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Mr. Laaker is testing Twitter integration. (Posted from Twitter.)
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December 8, 2007 at 1:06 am
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Mr. Laaker is integrating Twitter into his site.
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December 4, 2007 at 11:14 pm
· By Micah Laaker
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Yesterday saw the release of Digital Arts magazine’s December issue, whose cover story featured 14 designers politicking about design trends for 2008. I was able to bring a little color to the subject around distributed experiences, whether those be widget-based or more akin to Facebook’s apps model. The Future Design 2008 article spans a number […]
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November 22, 2007 at 1:30 pm
· By Micah Laaker
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In light of tomorrow being 2007’s Black Friday, here’s my deal-of-the-day for Mac users. Tomorrow, November 23rd, 2007, go to Amazon.com and buy the Microsoft Office 2004 Student/Teacher edition for $125 with free shipping. Then, do two things: 1. Get a $100 rebate right away for buying on this particular day. 2. Fill out the […]
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November 18, 2007 at 11:17 pm
· By Micah Laaker
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I’m a big fan of user library software. I bought a license to Delicious Library as soon as it came out, and then undertook a process of hacking a number of CueCats to assist in scanning my book, CD, DVD, and game library. Once I began that quest, though, it struck me as odd that […]
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August 19, 2007 at 11:29 pm
· By Micah Laaker
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I recently attempted to install the Adobe AIR SDK on my MacBook Pro so that I could compile AIR applications. While Adobe’s done some great work at developing and exposing their tools early to the public, I could not find a set of instructions that resulted in a working installation. Luckily, Yahoo! Developer Network co-worker […]
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May 5, 2007 at 4:00 pm
· By Micah Laaker
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Tom Coates recently announced the news I’d been dying to share: Yahoo! will be hosting an open Hack Day in London this June. We have all the official information up on the Yahoo! Developer Network blog, as well as the official open Hack Day site. And, as with last year’s event here in Sunnyvale, this […]
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April 25, 2007 at 11:12 pm
· By Micah Laaker
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A recent poll found 62% of Americans feel that the US action preventing the genocide in Darfur should be among our top foreign policy objectives. That’s more decisive public opinion than we have surrounding the next steps surrounding Iraq and Afghanistan, Venezuela, and Israel and Palestine. Yet we as a country and as individuals continue […]
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April 12, 2007 at 10:33 am
· By Micah Laaker
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One of the great benefits of working at Yahoo! is participating with a diverse pool of colleagues in our quarterly Hack Day competitions. Google has its weekly “20% time,” where individuals go off and build whatever they’d like; Yahoo! takes a less time-intensive, but fundamentally different, approach which really resonates with me: Every 3 months, […]
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