Armen Chakmakjian's Blog, page 23

Kindle subscription updates…

Well I still get the Atlantic.  At 1.25 a month I do get at least that much enjoyment reading it on the Kindle.
I just cancelled my free trial subscription to the Financial Times.  I did that with much regret and I might consider getting it again after trying out a couple of other subscription offers. [...:]

Some Twitter Stats…meaning also how much activity goes into my FB feed now…

So I thought this was quite interesting as people claim that I am twittering all day.  In truth if you look at this graph, the cluster of my tweets are all after 8PM. Meaning, I don't really tweet all day, just in a huge cluster at night.  Consider it like Leno or Letterman only in primetime.

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Kindle vs iPad: My take after the media blitz

So being that I have to eventually salivate over an iPad, but already have a Kindle 2, I'm going to venture this review based on browsing the web, watching Steve Jobs's introduction of the product and just my general sense.
1) The iPad will be a big hit.
2) The kindle is already a hit and will [...:]

A Marketing Experiment via tweets…

With all the SEO experts, social media experts, marketing gurus and whatnot, I thought I'd try something.  I've scheduled 4 tweets on peoplebrowser to appear every 5040 minutes, each one about 20 minutes apart about my book, Urtaru.  These will repeat 9 times each.  Given my social network map which I talked about in [...:]

Google and Net Neutrality

While the phone and cable companies are getting apoplectic on the net neutrality issue I thought that the last line in this article in the WSJ today was really funny…so I dugg it…
WSJ.com – FCC Crafts Plan-B for Web Traffic
"For its part, Google said net-neutrality rules would "keep the Internet awesome for everybody" although it [...:]

Follow up: Pulse Smartpen and Livescribe Software (specifically handwriting recognition)

So as I wrote in my last blog post I was hoping that the files generated by Livescribe were searchable via text (aka OCR my handwriting).   @philbog told me that Evernote does OCR of pdfs and images and then @macktucket said from across the room that the livescribe had an app you could buy.
Anyway, [...:]

Pulse Smartpen and Livescribe Software

So I got one of these for Christmas, Thanks Honey!
Of course the technology is neat, and on that alone I'd at least play with it.  For me it's not just the technology itself, its how to use it with other stuff.
So for the not-so-technical, the pulse pen is a pen with a bunch of electronics [...:]

Here's the killer-app for 2010: Anti-Social Media

So a former colleague of mine and an entrepreneur mused on his facebook page:
How many friends are too many friends? and how many enemies are too many enemies?
Or are a thousand friends few and an enemy too many?
Being a smart-ass, I had to reply to this:
Hey, you're an entrepreneur, you should start a site called InYourFaceBook…instead [...:]

Google Chrome Beta for the Mac

So I spent some time tonight using Google Chrome Beta for the Mac.  I use Chrome (as well as every other browser except opera) on a daily basis on my windows machine at work.  On my personal mac, I had Safari and FF3 on the mac side, and IE8 and Chrome on the XP partition.
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Drrrroidddd

So I upgraded my old t-mobile htc g1 to a verizon motorola drrrroiddddd this past weekend.  It's an awesome upgrade.  the G1 was dying under the weight of the software upgrades on 1.6 and the newer apps.  And t-mobile's phone coverage was adequate but spotty.  Verizon's phone coverage is much better.
Anyway the first thing i [...:]