pointing out the obvious

Headphones should know when they are in use, meaning, when they are on someones head (full headphones) or in someones ear (earbuds). I don’t know of any headphones with this ability now, but it seems like a fairly straightforward concept.

If headphones knew when they were ‘in use’… my ipod would be smart enough to stop playing when my headphones were ‘not in use’, thus not burn through my playlist while I am not listening, or burn through my pathetic 4hrs of battery life (2nd generation ipod - yikes).

There are obviously edge cases - when the ipod is hooked into a stereo, computer or other connection, but that can be dealt with.

Wouldn’t smart headphones be great? Apple could produce and package them with the ipod, others would follow.

While not everyone reads blogs through a tool like bloglines, I think a lot of us do. While reading the other day, I realized that I spent less time on the blog posts that were just text than I did with the posts that incorporated a picture.

Sites like blogto.com have great feeds, pictures and all. They are really hitting their demographic by ensuring they have a rich feed. I’ve noticed others have started incorporating pictures as well.

It probably just slows the reader down enough to actually get into the meat of the post.

I’ve seen other feeds take those images to the next level, by incorporating advertising within the images. Although annoying, it’s a great idea.. if you’re reading feeds through a rss/atom reader like bloglines, you miss the opportunity to pay for your site through advertisements, so why not include the ad in the feed?

Someone created phase 1 - awesome.

We just need someone to add the “get directions” functionality to the same map.  It would be the ultimate tool.  I heard long ago that the TTC and Google were working together to create the ultimate ‘rider guide’, but I haven’t heard anything from it… and it was like 6 months ago.  Boo..

Interesting post by Rob. He suggests that software developers will bend over backwards for their company, as long as they are treated with respect, have decent hardware and are generally kept interested.

Interesting work is sometimes hard to do, while respect and decent hardware should be easy. Either way, the article outlines what devs are willing to do given the company takes care of certain aspects of the working environment.

Unlimited mochaccino’s would definitely keep me happy.

Quick one that I thought was interesting..

http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html

I’ll have to read again later, but the general feeling is that you shouldn’t sit around trying to come up with ideas for a business. You should be solving existing problems that you run in to every day.
Awesome.