I just set up a SkyDeck beta account. Skydeck is a service that allows you to easily track and monitor your cell phone useage. You can see who you call the most, and sync your cell phone contacts with your other address books. While its not quite groundbreaking yet, there is some potential for expansion of the service and some cool thrid party apps (from TechCrunch):
1. You could write a plugin for Outlook or use Gmail’s API to display the last time you spoke to someone [on the phone] when you bring up an email from them.
2. Or you could go further and create an app showing in one place the history of your email, IM, Skype, and cell phone conversations with all your contacts (the cell phone is the missing piece - all the other data is already accessible).
3. You could write an app displaying every call longer than one minute in iCal at the date and time it took place, so that [a record of] all your calls appear in the same place as your in-person meetings.
4. 37Signals could add a note to the Highrise page for every call you make to a contact tagged “Business” in Skydeck.
5. RescueTime could display all the hours you spend on the phone alongside the applications you use and the web sites you visit.
6. FreshBooks could break out calls with clients on invoices for their customers.
7. LinkedIn could use ranking data to show which of the five people that we both know is best placed to introduce you to me.
8. You could write an app to bring all this data back to your smartphone. We will target some phones ourselves, but we can’t address every platform and we won’t stop anyone from trying.
9. You could write an app showing which of your Facebook friends you text [or call] most often. (You’d have to match on name because Facebook doesn’t disclose email addresses etc., but that’s not so hard.) Or use our measure of reciprocity to poke the friends that never call you back.
10. You could throttle tweets to your cell phone based on how many text messages you have left in your plan. (We track how many minutes and text messages you have left each day).
“But in order to get critics to the shows, and in order to get people to know about what’s going on, you need to have the CD, something that says, ‘Hey, we’re really serious about this,’ ” he says. “So much so, we took the time, effort, the money to print a CD, which is kind of this weird, anachronistic and uselessly expensive object. And then send it to you via, like, the post office, which is equally weird and anachronistic. I mean, we have an Internet system set up to avoid all this stuff. And yet there needs to be this marker of effort.” — Bill Brittelle, Co-Founder, New Amsterdam Records, Source
THE PRIZE
The winner will receive a backstage pass for his/her self and a friend to any show on the Hieroglyphics’ upcoming tour (see dates below). You will get a chance to hang out with the crew, mingle and have the most intimate concert experience possible. The second place winner will receive a Hiero logo t-shirt and an autographed copy of Opio’s upcoming album, Vulture’s Wisdom, Volume One.
THE CONTEST
We are calling all producers signed or unsigned, known or unknown - your name doesn’t matter as long as you have talent - to step up and remix Opio’s “Stop the Press”, the first single off his upcoming solo album, Vulture’s Wisdom, Volume One. From all submitted remixes, we will choose 5 finalists. The finalists will then go up for a pubic vote, with the winners being chosen by the people.
MORE DETAILS AND TOUR INFO
“All that bull(bleep)-ass calls they had out there. With Mike [Callahan] and Kenny [Mauer] — you’ve all seen that (bleep). You saw them calls. The cats are flopping all over the floor and they’re calling that (bleep). That (bleep) ain’t basketball out there. It’s all (bleeping) entertainment. You all should know that (bleep). It’s all (bleeping) entertainment.” — Rasheed Wallace, responding to the refereeing in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals (Source)
Here’s where I’m @ tonight, after the Pistons game:
Memorial Day Tribute
1 Hour Dilla, Proof & Aaliyah Tribute Set by DJ Benny Ben
Free Soul Food Buffet
Free Music Giveaways
No Cover!
Donations Accepted All Night For The Dilla Foundation
Drink Specials:
$2 Miller & Bud Lights
$3 Cuervo Shots
$4 Long Islands
Live Video Premier From Buff1
Hosted by: Trés Styles
Sounds by: DJ C4
Contact Trés for VIP Table Reservations ($25 + Bottle service)
Thursday May 22
Live @ PJ’s
Doors @ 10pm
21+ w/ID
No Cover
102 S 1st St. Ann Arbor MI 48104
If I was in ann arbor, i would probably be here tonight as well.
“Some of our guys are probably a little too sensitive about making mistakes. Raburn looked like he’d lost his best friend because he dropped a fly ball.” — Jim Leyland
NERD ft. Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco & Pusha T
Talkin' In My Sleep (Prod. By Black Milk) -
Elzhi
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listening to "Shove It - Santogold" -
santogold flew in completely under the radar for me, but im loving this album.