I didn’t notice my own reflection in the door until I saw it on the desktop. Completely missed it on mobile.

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Then I realized: I was trying to text asynchronously as though I were having an email conversation and she was using text as a form of synchronous chat. I was irritated because I wanted it to be one or the other but it’s both, and that’s why this generation of users likes it so much; you can initiate a conversation as either real-time or taking turns and then switch it up as you like.

I’m a bit out in the cold on the texting thing too… hey, get off of my lawn!

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Social is a plugin that allows you to maintain a centralized conversation on your site, while also participating in conversations on Facebook and Twitter.

It’s amazing how cold medicine that is to be taken every 4 hours is effective for exactly 3 hours and 30 minutes. #30minutesofsniffles

I continue to think that it’s ESPN that has to be the true pioneer here. They’re the one content provider that has the cable companies by the balls. No cable provider can afford not to offer ESPN. So ESPN has the most leeway to do what they want without fear of retribution.

That’s probably true.

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In case you’re not familiar with Glassboard, here’s the deal: what Pair is to the bedroom, and Path is to the rec room, Glassboard is to the board room. (Hence “board” in the name. “Glass” refers to your phone’s screen.)

This is the first explanation of the name that I’ve seen. The name always struck me as invoking exactly the wrong mental connections (glass = open, where GlassBoard’s major selling point = privacy). The new app UI seems quite nice from my initial exploration – very Path/Facebook/Sparrow-inspired.

Disclaimer: I’m a fan and a friend of Brent Simmons.

(via The Loop)

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You can look at 39 plate appearances and decide that Ichiro can’t hit with men in scoring position, or you can look at 1,500 plate appearances and realize that he can. It’s really up to you, but what kind of conclusion you draw says a lot about your understanding of how the game actually works.

The Mariners are a confusing mix of new and old school.

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Congratulations to Brad on today’s launch of WP App Store. I’m very pleased to see this come to life. It’s an idea we toyed around with several years ago, but decided not to pull the trigger on – I hope it’s a huge success.

We’ve put our FavePersonal and FaveBusiness themes along with our RAMP plugin into the app store. If you’d like to check it out, download the plugin and start browsing. There is a great group of companies represented already and I’m sure we’ll see more additions as the project grows.

.@rands Early on the impulse is to build as much as possible. Over time you understand the limits of what can be maintained.

Fellow Colorado web geeks, I made you a t-shirt.

The code that comprises the white stripe is a full, working HTML page with canvas code that draws the Colorado flag. Yes, it’s very meta.

Want one? We’re taking orders for the rest of the month, then we’ll place an order to get them all printed up. These are priced just above cost ($15, plus $5 if you need it shipped) – we’re not trying to make money on them. I initially ordered a batch for my team, but thought others might like it as well. If early response is any indication, I hope to see a few of these around town this summer.

I think one big thing here is the positioning of the app. Maybe if this was titled “5by5 Pro” (clearly targeted at power users) it might make more sense.

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