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Why I Hate Text Messages

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Josh Kim
on January 29, 2008
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Finally, someone put it into words.

The True Cost of SMS Messages

via my ISP: $1 via SMS: $61,356,851.20

Lovely. So think twice before you send out that text. I’m happy I have a lovely 200 text cushion before I have to start paying anything, and I tend to refrain from using if at all possible.

This really isn’t a problem with the users: this is largely a case with the big companies. It shouldn’t have to be this way… I shouldn’t have to pay extra to get the same data, when it costs the phone companies exactly the same. Or at least, very little… I’m sure the actual traffic of text messages against phone calls are nothing, and yet, they’re probably making money hand over fist on texts.

I hate you, big companies that don’t look out for their customers. Jerks.

iTunes Rentals: $3.99 for 24 hours?!

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Josh Kim
on January 9, 2008
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Bloomberg

I guess through Time Warner Cable, it’s about the same price, so it’s not that bad. But that doesn’t mean this is all good with me, either. I expected this to be cheaper…

But maybe possibly the media is in HD? Pretty please?

I LOVE Marc Andreessen

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Josh Kim
on November 12, 2007
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Rebuilding Hollywood in Silicon Valley’s image

Amazing read. Read NOW.

Now I don’t have to write on the subject. Wee!

Sergey Brin

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Josh Kim
on October 4, 2007
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Never seen him speak before in anything. I’ve seen pictures with him and Larry Page, but never have I seen him interact with a crowd or hear him speak. He seems very unassuming and amiable guy. Why can’t UIUC get him or Larry Page to come speak here…?

Of course, the next best thing is a YouTube video of him speaking.

I was able to access this through Berkeley’s new YouTube page. Berkeley is definitely doing something truly wonderful by letting all this content be available. Of course, there were podcasts of courses available, but this is the first time all these video lectures are available for mass consumption.

That, and more students can sleep in if necessary.

One huge takeaway: Take something simple, and take it to a certain scale. Then you have the momentum to build something great.

Need to create something to have some weight to throw around. Hopefully, I’ll be able to bring you some updated stories with HanMeta this weekend.

Hey Look! It’s “Delicious Monster” Online…! Kinda…

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Josh Kim
on April 18, 2007
in Content and Media, Project Ideas and Web Applications
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Wil Shipley’s Delicious Monster taken online.

The thing is that with Delicious Monster, you have the bar-code scanning feature, which is amazing. That way, you don’t have to do as much work as typing in all the metadata on the books, CDs, DVDs you want to input. AND all the prettiness that makes it a beautiful Mac OS X application. What more can some who’s bought all types of media “products” (not content, mind you… oh, the post ideas floweth: Difference between product and content).

With yoursharade though, you get the niceties of the social networking features of the Facebook API. I can definitely see this growing to be an advertising-powered web app, including leveraging (I’m using it again… uh oh…) the data stored about the user’s items to create focused advertising.

Of course… we all see what the next step is: putting the two together. Earlier, I had the idea/concept like yoursharade, but never really decided to follow through with it… but man, it’s quite clever they’re employing the Facebook networks.

Which brings me to another point: Has facebook become the de facto standard for keeping “in touch” in the college community?

And why the heck did I cancel my account?

All these things… answered soon…