Mail Pilot: Email Reimagined by Josh Milas & Alex Obenauer — Kickstarter -
Josh and Alex aren’t the only ones trying to improve our email experience, but their solution is the only one that piqued my interest. I backed their project on Kickstarter and can’t wait to try it out!
For a different take on email (which only works with Gmail currently), check out Fluent, which is being developed by 3 Ex-Google Wave engineers.
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Don't Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog) -
What if a little site you love doesn’t have a business model? Yell at the developers! Explain that you are tired of good projects folding and are willing to pay cash American dollar to prevent that from happening. It doesn’t take prohibitive per-user revenue to put a project in the black. It just requires a number greater than zero.
So, today I recorded a future episode of the podcast about this very theme (before I saw this post). I’m a happy paying user of Pinboard, one that even pays the extra money for the archiving feature. Not only do I believe this idea to be true but, as I announce in that upcoming show, I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is by sending, anonymously, cash to a service I use and love daily that has no outward discernible business model.
Here is my idea:
What if, 1% of the users of a particular free service of 36 million clients and growing, were to decide to drop $10.00 cash every month into an envelope and mail it to said service? What if that envelope had no return address? Perhaps there was an note inside that begged them to create a model to let us pay them to use the service. To make sure the service continued on once the bubble inevitably bursts and the VC’s take their payout and fly to the Grand Caymans.
My guess is that such a service would have to keep the money. Perhaps they would go through a couple of months of having their offices flooded with 300,000+ ten dollar bills. This might get to be a hassle so, perhaps, maybe, they finally get the hint and have a few million dollars of starting cash to launch a way for us to pay directly for this thing we use and love.
Crazy, right? Yep.
So, here is the address I’m sending my unmarked cash with the note in the envelope with no return address.
Tumblr, Inc., 35 East 21st Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY, 10010
I welcome those that care as much as I do to do the same.
Update: Forgot to mention, and I never ask this… Please reblog the shit out of this one.
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Hey, look! Congressional staffers turn out to be really good at predicting the behavior of stocks that their bosses legislate. Outside Capitol Hill, we might call that “insider trading.” Except US insider trading laws don’t apply to Congress.
Angry yet?
Occupy Congress!
Heinz Maier starting shooting less than a year ago, yet he’s already mastered the art of water drop photography. Check out his Splashes set on Flickr for more oohs and aahs.
It’s on the prowl
A new Lion-friendly version of QS boasting more than 40 additions, fixes and changes.
It’s been a relatively long time coming (4 months – a catching of breath compared to the semi-conscious release cycle of QS pre–ß59), but it’s here – an officially Lion–compatible version of Quicksilver.
Lots of good stuff in the latest build.
(Source: lovequicksilver)
Tubalr -
Tubalr is a beautifully-designed, minimal website by Cody Stewart that lets you search for and listen to music on YouTube without all the clutter.