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Remember the Milk turns Gmails to Tasks! →
June 2007
4 posts
Anthropomorphized Google Checkout
GCheckout: I know... shh SSH here he comes!
Paypal: Hey guys... what's up?
GCal: Ohhh not much. Hey so listen Paypal, did you ever get that other thing going?
Paypal: What other thing?
GCal: Y'know that... other business line thingamajig? With like, the cellphones and the magic money beans or whatever?
Paypal: Money beam.
GCal: yeah... whatever. How's that working out for you?
Paypal: Couldn't get it off the ground, those mobile carriers just wouldn't be reasonable, and we've had to keep a lot of resources tied up in anti-fraud.
GCal: Mph, that's just... eh-heh, that's just too BAD man. So you've just got the uh, the one thing then?
Paypal: Uh, yeah I guess. Why?
GCal: Well the thing is... it's just you stop! no YOU... youtoldmeicouldtellhim! well i-it's just that Checkout here's been telling us how he's gonna be doing everything you're doing for FREE for the rest of the year and... well... if that's all you've got, well, we're just wondering what you think about that, Paypal.
Paypal: !...well, I mean I guess we've still, you know, we've still got the auctions...
GCal: Oh yeah that's right! I almost forgot! The auctions! So what, you must do like over a million of those a day right?
Paypal: Yeahhh, that sounds about righ-
GCal: Uh-huh, well we do about about a million auctions a MINUTE pay piddly, so what you got to SAY?
Paypal: Checkout is, is this true?
GCheckout: You heard it.
Paypal: You're really going to zero margins? But- but we talked about this! We both said there's plenty of room for both of us!
GCheckout: Situation's changed.
Paypal: What's changed? Nothing's changed!
GCheckout: Law 48 dawg. Yo, let's roll GCal.
GCal: Yeah that's right, we rollin Paypal. We rollin.
Feature Request: GMail
When I’m using GMail, I want a GCalendar widget on the side that works as follows: Widget header has checkbox labelled “Check here for followup reminder.” Check box activates the widget (unchecked, the inputs are greyed-out so as not to distract). Inputs let you choose future date for followup reminder. Event Title field auto-populates upon check with “Followup emailhandle...
YouTube gains a foothold
Adding YouTube to my Firefox search bars today. Online video is now officially part of my “web toolkit” and not just a place to watch 13 year-olds fall off the roofs of their garages when I’m bored. In other news, clicking the drop-down arrow on the Firefox search bar when visiting YouTube.com includes the option to Add “YouTube Video Search,” browsing just keeps...
“How did you get your start in business? Did you “fall” into your...”
– What’s Your Story? By Scott Ginsberg
May 2007
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Grotto
100 Forsyth St New York, NY 10002 (212) 625-3444 Easy to miss. Located downstairs from street level. It’s “garden level” in an apartment building on Forsyth. Group at bar conversing in Italian, always a good sign. Garden patio out back. Not much greenery, but the decayed brick walls of the surrounding apartments/tenements are beautiful, especially in the changing light as the...