Ted Gilchrist

Props to Brightkite for helping get VnoTed working again. The world is again safe for democracy. #tropo #voxeo #democracy #safety

Ok, I've been a little harsh on BrightKite. Here's my new approach: Take advantage of these little API's but don't allow them to become a point of failure. So I'm going to re-factor VnoTed so accounts are stored on Unca Google. If Brightkite is under construction, I'll route around it.

Dividing line: Grownup companies keep their API's up and running, and don't just spuriously go dark when things are broken. I think I'm going to start sticking with grownup companies. No offense to non-grownups, but it gets a little frustrating to have your app stop working until the struggling startup can spare the resources to fix the issue.

Google Wave for me is like swimming in Maine. It's great, and invigorating, but I can't stay in too long, because I start to get numb.

Aunt Rosie is quite simply "the bomb".

How'd he do dat? (http://andrewhitchcock.org/...)

What kind of person says "methinks"?

Checking the Waves every morning takes me back to my youth ...

Prediction: My thread-killing skills will be transferable to Google Wave.

Funny. Wave is for talking to your friends right? But I'm watching the number of public waves grow before my eyes. People crave the social , (in the large), angle.

Will you trust me when I say this is funny? http://www.facebook.com/video...

Once they get Rosy the translator bot working, I'm good to go on the Rio wave.

I hate it when people use younger versions of themselves as avatars. Full disclosure: I'm not a Surf God anymore.

Funny. I'm currently engaged in an "old-style" tangle of overlapping Gmail threads. In the righteous Wave World, this wouldn't be happening, dude.

Evernote, Vlingo, Google Wave, all enabled within past 48 hours. I feel like a techno-toddler again.

Ready to surf some righteous Google waves. Which end of this thing is the front?

Ironically, I have a Google Wave sandbox, but not a Google Wave account. It makes me want to say "Goo goo ga ga".

Mirror mirror on the wall. Send a Google Wave invite to moi. Merci.

Rebranding: I have just built a Tropo application that helps you perfect your diction: #tropotrans

Fwd: Using htttp://vnoted.com egilchri made a voice update at Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:08:22 GMT #tropotrans - http://tropo-transcription.app... (via http://friendfeed.com/liberal...) (Click the link to see the transcription. I guess talking slowly doesn't help)

Tropo transcription update: It's getting better, but you decide: http://s3.amazonaws.com/mitavno... And here is the transcription: http://tropo-transcription.app...

I'm writing a voice app to use Voxeo transcription. I plan on posting to FF and Twitter, in text, by dictating with voice. Won't pull the trigger until what comes out bears a passing resemblance to what I actually said. Not there yet.

Using htttp://vnoted.com egilchri made a voice update at Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:24:54 GMT #californiatrip - http://maps.google.com/

Using htttp://vnoted.com egilchri made a voice update at Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:47:18 GMT #californiatrip - http://maps.google.com/

Using htttp://vnoted.com egilchri made a voice update at Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:10:47 GMT #californiatrip - http://maps.google.com/

Using htttp://vnoted.com egilchri made a voice update at Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:33:53 GMT #californiatrip - http://maps.google.com/

Using htttp://vnoted.com egilchri made a voice update at Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:39:19 GMT #californiatrip - http://maps.google.com/

Using htttp://vnoted.com egilchri made a voice update at Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:23:19 GMT #californiatrip - http://maps.google.com/

Using htttp://vnoted.com egilchri made a voice update at Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:35:08 GMT #californiatrip - http://maps.google.com/

Using htttp://vnoted.com egilchri made a voice update at Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:16:11 GMT #tropo - http://maps.google.com/