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Foursquare Needs Some “Personality”

My friend Mike and I were talking about Foursquare a couple nights ago and we decided that Foursquare needs to have a “starter” friend that you can choose to follow when you sign up. This person, we’ll call her Lady K., is not some token-friend to make you feel better that you don’t know anyone [...]

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A Suggestion Re: Time Sensitive Tweets

One of the initial promises of twitter was that it was going to crank our social lives to eleven by keeping us über-connected to our friends and potential hook-ups. In that theoretical twitter-infused world your pals would tweet: and you would tweet back: And all of those previously-missed moments of friendship would finally be captured [...]

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An Open Letter to Manufacturers of Treadmills

Please allow the user to turn the display on and off during their workout. When I use a treadmill I am obsessed with how much time I have left. So much so that I can never stop looking at the timer. I’ve tried putting a towel over it, but eventually it just slides off (usually [...]

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