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iPhone’

May 10, 2010
Posted by Ryan Graves

The benefits of UberCab

For Clients Our goal for all UberCab users, called clients, is for you to feel like a baller every time you use UberCab. We want you to not only arrive at your destination safely, simply, and efficiently, but we want you to arrive in STYLE. UberCab clients typically use their iPhone application (also works via [...]

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March 6, 2010
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Apple vs. Square, iPhone payment systems

This week I had back to back experiences with iPhone payment systems. I figured I’d document it here and show the differences between the two. Also I’ll shed some light on which, in my opinion, will win. First, above is the image I took after signing my iPhone based receipt generated by Square. I had a delicious [...]

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Posted Under Economics Technology

January 19, 2010
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Sleep Cycle Bio Hack

For those interested in how I slept last night, here’s your answer. This graph, capture by the Sleep Cycle iPhone App, shows when I was in my deepest sleep and when would have been best to wake up. I went to bed at 11:21pm last night and woke at 6:23am, 7 hours and 2 minutes [...]

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Posted Under Technology

December 5, 2009
Posted by Ryan Graves

Hot Potato Does Event Stories

Events are the things that bring us together, in real life, around a specific topic. Whether it’s a Victoria Secret Fashion Show, or a Monday Night Football Game, or an app launch party, people collect together in real life or with a shared common experience like watching the same TV show at the same time. [...]

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November 4, 2009
Posted by Ryan Graves

Monetizing the App Economy

These days it seems like 25% of the ads on TV are for app this or app that. The iPhone app store just hit 100k in applications. Now the Verizon/Motorola/Google Droid comes out and says iCan do everything that the iPhone can’t. You know, Droid Does. One of the coolest things about this Droid phone [...]

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Posted Under Delivery & Execution Economics Technology

September 22, 2009
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Finally Take Control of Your WordPress Menu

I don’t normally post a bunch about WordPress hacks, but since this caused me trouble for so long I thought I’d go against that norm. These 3 plugins have really made the menu on this blog simple and easy to manage. I highly recommend adding them to your plugin army and make WP that much [...]

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Posted Under Mistakes & Lessons Projects

August 25, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

Communication Segmentation

I have to give some cred to Blake my co-founder of ActionsTalk. Blake recently wrote one of the best blog posts I’ve read in a while about how he’s handled the problem of “information overload” and efficient communication. As you know I am about tech for value’s sake not tech for tech’s sake and Blake [...]

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Posted Under Delivery & Execution Technology

June 27, 2008
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Instinctiv.com makes the shuffle feature smart-er.

Instinctiv.com want to make your iPod or iPhone smart! They describe the features of their application this way: “The random shuffle was a cool feature when it first launched. But, let’s be honest, it left out the most important element: you. After all, your taste in music isn’t random-it’s instinctive. That’s why Instinctive Shuffle was [...]

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Posted Under Technology

June 15, 2008
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Qik on the iPhone

Qik is a service where you can live feed video from your cell phone to the web. It has only been available on certain Nokia models but with the release of the 3G iPhone, Qik is now available on the iPhone. This will sky rocket user numbers for Qik guaranteed. While streaming a Qik video [...]

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Posted Under Technology

June 10, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

Steve Jobs at WWDC (in 1 minute)

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Posted Under People & Leadership

June 9, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

Apple’s MobileMe: just another attack on Windows

For those of you who are still Windows “die hards” (I can’t imagine why?) it will become harder and harder for you to stick to your guns. As Apple’s MobileMe makes people’s digital lives easier and easier to manage it will become increasingly impossible to ignore the superior UI that Apple is offering and are [...]

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3G iPhone is out!

The pictures say 1000 words. For a play-by-play go to

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