Nathan and his Open Ideals » Search Results » peek http://openideals.org ... and the trouble it often gets him in Sat, 07 Aug 2010 05:10:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Peek and Xtify sponsor "Cool Peek App" contest! http://openideals.org/2009/02/17/peek-and-xtify/ http://openideals.org/2009/02/17/peek-and-xtify/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:35:16 +0000 nathan http://openideals.com/?p=211 In recent months, I’ve been carrying around a Peek email device, or what I call the “One Hundred Dollar Blackberry”. It is a great piece of hardware, made by an honest-to-goodness New York City hardware company (not many of those!). I am also a big fan because I think their simple features and price point make this a great device for small business, non-profits and community/political/labor organizers…. all phenomenons of which I am a huge fan!

Peek has teamed up with Xtify to sponsor a contest, which should be a lot of fun… see the details below!

In full disclosure, I am doing some consulting for Peek right now, so I admit to a certain bias… but I’m definitely not getting paid to put this on my personal blog!

Dear Contest Entrants,

Thank you so much for your emails about signing up, there is a lot of interest in the competition!!! We have put up the official competition website here – http://contest.geekypeek.com. You can sign up directly in the contest forums.

The prizes are cool – fame, fortune and opportunity!

We tried to make things as easy as possible in terms of development. All you need is the Xtify APIs and whatever messaging/email API you want to use to send emails to the Peeks. We’ll post a lot more details on the forums to help you build your app but this should get you started.

To get your minds motivated here is a sample app built around location, www.meetmoi.com. Location-based dating!

All of us from Peek and Xtify will be available and monitoring the boards to help you guys build your apps.

Bon chance and I look forward to seeing what you all build!

Xtify & Peek

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    • ]]>     http://openideals.org/2009/02/06/links-for-2009-02-06/feed/ 0     My Christmas Vlog on a Flip Mino HD http://openideals.org/2008/12/29/my-christmas-vlog-on-a-flip-mino-hd/ http://openideals.org/2008/12/29/my-christmas-vlog-on-a-flip-mino-hd/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:50:34 +0000 nathan http://openideals.com/?p=175 MC bought me a swell gift for Christmas – the Flip Mino HD – a tiny wonder that delivers on the promise of high quality video in a small package. The only real issue I have with it is that being so small, it is difficult to keep steady. Perhaps with time and practice I’ll improve. However, the upside of the stealth profile is that almost no one notices I am filming them at all, allowing me to capture people in very natural moments. Also, according to my buddy noneck, you can hack your flip, adding a wide angle lens to it!

    Anyhow, enjoy this four minute peek into my Christmas day revelry….


    Christmas in the Colonies from natdefreitas on Vimeo.

    This was definitely the year of gadgets for me, as I also was given a Polaroid Pogo mobile printer and a ThinkGeek Wifi Finder T-Shirt! More on these awesome toys in a later post…

    Many thanks to Snr. Sufjan Stevens for the tune… go buy his Christmas album if you like it!

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