When we wrote the User Profile feature for SpotDJ, we decided we wanted something a little more interesting than just filling in your username and password. We came up with the idea of presenting the user with three questions, randomly selected from a list that we could easily change. I think it was Grant who [...]
Turns out that the method of integrating online chat and television that I co-invented as a Microsoft intern was approved late last year and nobody told me:
http://www.google.com/patents?id=F0R9AAAAEBAJ&dq=kleper&ie=ISO-8859-1
My favorite part of the patent application (which I didn’t write) was the sample chat between the WebTV co-founders, which includes this gem:
Bruce: This is the best movie of [...]
Ever listen to a song and realize that when you were a kid, you totally misinterpreted the lyrics? In 4th Grade, I was really into the Beastie Boys because my friend Arthur was really into the Beastie Boys. But rap was new to me, so I looked to Arthur to explain some of the finer [...]
Back in January, when I expressed my frustration over the lack of a Third Party API for the iPhone, everyone seemed certain that Apple had confirmed this as a fact. Now everyone seems certain that the iPhone runs a full version of OS X and will have a developer API.
Neither of these things make much [...]
