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bad Popularity Dialer
Oops, the FCC gave us a citation.
We’re figuring out what makes sense (and what’s legal!), and the dialer should be up again soon.
Popularity Dialer on Bbc world service
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Bbc world service, originally uploaded by bantic.
Jenny and I had an interview with the BBC World Service last week. I was at the BBC World Service Studios on the
west side of NYC, she [...]
Popularity Dialer on DailyCandy tomorrow
The Popularity Dialer is going to be featured on DailyCandy’s Everywhere edition tomorrow. I just had a nice phone call with editor Jean to confirm the types of calls and how it works.
Update:
Yep, it ran today. Popularity Dialer in DailyCandy. Here’s a screenshot:
Popularity Dialer Redux
This makes me more excited than when I discovered there was a Popularity Dialer Typosquatter (at popularitydAIler.com): The British TV station Channel 4 created a spoof video using the audio from the Female Popularity Dial. Here it is:
Popularity Dialer Video
Jenny and Sai made this video about the Popularity Dialer in the spring. I finally put it up on Youtube last week so it would be up there for our KROQ interview. Check it out. The music’s great.
popularity dialer on KROQ
Jenny and I are going to be interviewed on KROQ tomorrow, Thursday, June 14th, at 8am Pacific time to talk about the Popularity Dialer. We’ll be on the Kevin and Bean show.
I used to commute 30 miles from Santa Monica to Santa Fe Springs to work at McMaster-Carr and I used to listen to [...]
Here I come, Amazon EC2
In my email this morning:
This is a brief note to confirm that we’ve enabled your access to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) limited beta. We hope you enjoy the service and wanted to point out a few resources that will help you get up and running quickly. Please be sure to visit the [...]
Asterisk Lecture @ ITP
Dennis Crowley (co-founder of Dodgeball and ITP alum) asked me to come in last night and give a little intro talk to his Ubiquitous Computing for Mobile Devices class about how Asterisk works and how some of the apps I’ve built (like the popularity dialer) using it work. I was honored to have been [...]
The Popularity Dialer in Stuff Magazine
The Popularity Dialer is in the current issue of Stuff Magazine. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it’s in the “Douche-O-Meter” section.
