19th Jan, 2012
Go out and take a walk. Lovely weather in Palo Alto. (Taken with instagram)
“When you try to copy Apple, it’s like trying to copy an oak tree. You have to plant the seed and watch it grow then see what it came up with. You can’t then just watch what it became, go to Home Depot, buy a whole bunch of lumber, paint and fake leaves, then build something. Because what you build is going to be half-assed and not an oak tree in any way, shape or form.”
Can we please stop this meme now? Shit Silicon Valley says
The Ubuntu HUD reminds me of the “Just Type” from WebOS
Go out and take a walk. Lovely weather in Palo Alto. (Taken with instagram)
It’s a Girl!
(Source: youtube.com)
How can you not want this car?
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Craftily stitched together dialogues to for a dialogue. Also wonder what would it look like with SOPA/PIPA
Samsung’s Smart Window
This is seriously amazing.
(Source: youtube.com)
Color App - Pool Hopping Commercial
And that is how you should NOT make a commercial. Also not fair for the guy who had to stand out of the pool to shoot them having all the fun.
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A good friend asked me this question a few days back and I thought more about it this weekend. So here are some quick thoughts why I feel people share stuff online:
Ego Boost
Like it or not, a majority of us share stuff online with the final motive of being liked and commented upon. It is one of those things everybody does, nobody likes to accept. All my posts about my new gadgets belong here.
Journaling life
In lack of a dead simple tool that lets you journal your life and all aspects of it, people choose to use the services that they love to journal their life. Half of my Instagram and Path pictures fall in this category.
Your perspective of the world
I know many people in this category. People who share with the simple purpose of sharing how they see the world through their eyes. Or just an opinion. The other half of my Instagram is this. Random photos of oddities I witness everyday.
Random thoughts that cross your mind
I post almost every “safe for work”, not highly opinionated thought that crosses my mind on Twitter. I am guessing there are more like me. It is more like an alternate blog that just takes a lot less time to post on.
No matter what you say, people share for some random combination of the above reasons. Their is most of the time, not just one reason to share this. Like everything else, it is complicated.
