I have been waiting for the Moto 360 ever since I saw the first few teaser photos online a few months ago. I have even actively been searching Google News every other week or so to see if I missed anything. And now it’s finally here. It’s the first smartwatch that doesn’t look as ugly as an average looking blobfish. No offence, blobfish. 9 am PST, September 5, 2014....
Building a brand online is hard. Very hard. Most people you interact with have never met you in person. They have no idea who you are. What they see is your name. Maybe a Twitter handle. But that's not how they start recognizing you. It starts with your profile picture. Your avatar. That leads me to the most important rules of being memorable online: Be consistent Stand out Consistency is important....
Over the last few years I have been living in a bunch of different places and countries, usually for 3 to 9 months in each place. Yet I felt that I didn't get to see enough of the world moving at this pace. For some reason I thought that visiting every country in the world before I turned 30 sounded like a good idea. Call it a quarter life mini-crisis or whatever....
I've been using Unblock US for a while to access Netflix content from different countries for a while now, and for most of the time it worked really well. Until a couple of days ago, when it seemingly got stuck on Danish Netflix, which is generally not so good. Due to the fact that I share the same IP address with about a hundred neighbors, and one of those neighbors has started to use Unblock US, the service was unable to figure out which of our accounts was in charge....
Watch the talks from Habit Summit for free » startupletters: With the thousands of apps and startups appearing every day, it is difficult to predict if a product will flop completely or become the next Snapchat. The one thing that successful products tend to do really well is creating habits. After some time you use them without even consciously deciding... Did you miss the Habit Summit this week? No worries, the talks are already online and available for free....
What you did not know about Rapportive » startuplettersblog: I hope most of you already use Rapportive for your Gmail or Google Apps account. If not, go get it now! So what is Rapportive anyway? Basically it is a free plugin for Chrome (and Safari, Firefox ++) that removes the ads on the right hand side in Gmail and replaces them with useful... Okay, so you are probably already using Rapportive on a daily basis....
Travel agents or others that pay for access can easily see how many available seats are left in a given fare class for a given flight. There can be a number of reasons for why you would do this, for example if you want to see if it may be possible to sweet talk yourself into an upgrade at the gate or just see if you should hurry up and book before the flight is full....
Two days ago my good friend Nir Eyal and Ryan Hoover published Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. And what a fascinating read! Let me start out by giving you a little piece of context. I have been following Nir's work for the past two years, and for the better part of that time I have been helping him managing his now massively popular blog. I have also attended multiple of his talks, and have even given a talk on the topic myself this previous summer....
Amazon recently announced that the promised Goodreads integration for Kindle Paperwhite was ready. However, they have only slowly been rolling it out “over the air”. Dislike waiting? Get it now! Head over to Amazon’s software update page for the 2nd gen Paperwhite and download the 5.4.2 update. Connect your Kindle Paperwhite to your Mac or Windows computer (it will show up as an external disk in Finder/Explorer) and drag and drop the update_kindle_5....
I will collect all of the hacks and howto guides I make in one central place. Here!...