Max Beatty

This is more of a jour­nal entry than a blog post, but I hope other new col­lege grads and those about to be can take some­thing from my expe­ri­ence. To sum­ma­rize — I worked, I trav­elled, I waited, I made it.

Social net­works are great except you can’t always be there to see every­thing that’s going on. Peo­ple are always friend­ing, fol­low­ing, com­ment­ing, and direct mes­sag­ing. The default from the begin­ning has been to email you about this. Then came the SMS updates from AIM, Twit­ter, Face­book, and Brightkite even MySpace ::cringe::. Finally, push noti­fi­ca­tions came […]

Yes­ter­day, the pop­u­lar Twit­ter / Face­book / MySpace desk­top app Tweet­deck updated its iPhone app and I wasn’t impressed. In fact, I was dis­ap­pointed in the direc­tion they took with the triv­ial fea­tures they added. The big “addi­tions” included Face­book inte­gra­tion, video inte­gra­tion via 12seconds, land­scape com­pos­ing, and Bit.ly sup­port. Instead, I would have liked […]

I love find­ing new desk­top wall­pa­pers that I can hide in the back­ground behind the dozens of win­dows I typ­i­cally have open. Every so often I’ll catch a glimpse of one of the nearly 150 I’ve col­lected over the years. Know­ing that I’ll be get­ting a new work com­puter in a few weeks, I wondered […]