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Hi. My name is Kevin Rose. Here I share my thoughts, ideas, and random things I find online. For work, I'm the founder and site architect of Digg, and a co-founder at Revision3 and Pownce (acquired by SixApart). When the internet is off, I climb rocks, drink tea/wine, read books, and explore San Francisco. Thanks for visiting.
Predictably Irrational
The Miracle of Mindfulness
How to Practice
Got my hands on the beta of TweetDeck for the iPhone -- I can say now that it's going to replace tweetie as my default twitter iphone app.
Features include:
- Column based friend groups! (like TweetDeck desktop)
- TweetDeck desktop syncing (make a change on the iphone and it's reflected back on the PC)
- Facebook toolbar like status updates
Can't wait for the release!
I can't stop playing w/AT&T's Text-to-Speech demo. For some reason I find it funny to make confusing voicemail messages for the people calling my cellphone. A few examples I created:
- Several ways to contact me (.wav)
- My computer voicemail is having a conversation before they help (.wav)
- Fake iPhone v3 software (.wav)
- Too many calls (.wav)
When you are finished making your own, hold the phone up to your computer speaker to record the vm onto your phone. Have fun w/it.
"RT" or "retweeting" is simply taking a twitter post from someone else and forwarding (rebroadcasting) it to your followers. Here are a few common ways to retweet a message (all do the same thing):
RT @originalsender: original message
retweet @originalsender: original message
retweeting @originalsender: original message
Retweeting can be a great way to add followers, as it pushes your @username into foreign social graphs, which in turn results in clicks back to your profile. Make sure to track your retweets using retweetist.
To retweet this post, type:
RT @kevinrose: Retweeting (RT) explained: http://tinyurl.com/whatisrt
If you enjoyed this post, add me at twitter.com/kevinrose - thanks!
- Be mindful
- Practice Zazen
- Build a better Digg
- Start a small tea website
- Climb several times per week
- Camping w/friends
- Video blog
- Fish w/my Dad
- Read a book a month
- Less drinking
- Make time to date someone seriously
- Run a 5k (Feb 1st)
- Budget
- Try a new restaurant every other week, asking for their "most popular dish"
- Weekly Yoga
- Write more 'paper' letters
- Design a font
- Start coding again
- Drink more water
- Take a cooking class
- Create an iPhone game
- Go on a date w/Jennifer Aniston
- Tea tasting in China
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