Kiran’s Weblog

Digital Receipts - A Concept (still)

I have written several times about this. Wanted to post a graphical representation of what one such a system might provide. On top of being green, it provides great opportunity to make consumers smart, to inform them about better deals, recalls etc that they might not even know otherwise. Of course the catch is that there should be no paid marketing allowed using the data in this system, paid marketing on such data would pretty much kill the user enthusiasm on this.

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Online Storage Comparison

Inspired by a lifehacker article, I started to do a detail comparison of the online storage comparisons. I did capture all their compete traffic details but I haven't completed the rest of the details, anyways below is the current comparison:

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Dear Ameritrade, pls don't send two copies of the same magazine

u know me and my wife live at the same address. u know we are still married, both our accounts are linked. so why do u send me two copies of the same magazine?

Sent from my iPhone

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Using purchase history to do smart alerts for recalls

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Can Car Companies stop the yearly cycles?

Software industry has some variety, some aggressive 3-6 month release cycle, some follow 18 months cycle. Every company has a reason, has a process for adopting different release cycles.

Car companies I don't get it. Every year they need to have new models, every year they flush out last year models. Some models get few feature additions, some get a whole lot but in the end the whole manufacturing cycle is effected. Can the car companies not stop the yearly cycles to save manufacturing and other process costs? Will anyone lose a beat if they take longer cycles? Would not that give the car companies more time for innovation then trying to please the consumers with a new model every year with minimal improvements?

I would much rather have the car companies get me to a concept car then give me incremental improvements. Every manufacturer has a concept car that we would love to own today. I was at the auto show in San Jose this weekend. I am not a fan of Dodge but I love their concept car Dodge Zeo http://www.dodge.com/en/autoshow/concept_vehicles/zeo/

What do you think? Should the car companies change their delivery cycles?

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Evaluating PostBox mail client on my mac

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my next little gadgets

I was going to buy IronKey Personal to secure all my critical data an a thumb drive. Robert wrote about Knox-it.net, which lead another little device that has an integration with 1Password. I already use 1Password to auto login to all my accounts. UPek's finger print driven device is integrating with 1password. That is so cool. http://www.upek.com/solutions/eikon/default.asp# 

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twitterfon iphone app is crashing

is it just me? retried several times. it loads tries to refresh and then goes down. frustrating. maybe time to buy tweetie app.

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Where is Digg for tweets?

There are many tweets that are pure short messages, some are useless. However there are many interesting tweets exchanged on twitter. Re tweeting does the job to a little extent. However, it creates lot of redundancy for example:
ev RT @schwarzenegger "This is a real Twitter account for those following. Thanks for the add!"
I already got this message as I follow Mr. Governor.
Even worse if I like something Tim O'Reilly tweeted, it would be funny for me to retweet. I have 75 followers and he has 23,000+ followers.
FriendFeed has it with the likes feature. Twitter could use it too. 

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Twitter Hacker Says Admin Password Was 'Happiness

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