Your email account must look verify different to mine, which consists almost entirely of marketing spam and GitHub notifications… I don’t recall the last time I sent an email.
White-label software products--comprised of daily deals and social gaming--might boost a newspaper's online ad sales temporarily, but at what cost to the identity of the local publisher?
I feel fortunate enough to live in a small, quirky, University town in which the residents still value (and support) its 65-year-old weekly print newspaper. In fact, the paper does a terrific job engaging the community in local government and has a strong presence at local events.
I'm not sure if the technical solution to saving local media is turning readers into online gamers and shoppers, but rather developing a unique online forum for engaging residents in the beat of local issues and interests.
I suppose every community is different, and that's exactly the point I'm trying to make, but I hope local businesses will continue to support local media (so long as the editorial voice is there).
The key to remaining relevant to the business community in a small town is to provide the online services that they need to buy anyway. If the newspaper doesn't help local businesses make the transition online, someone else will.
What does a one-year old do on an iPad (or other tablet for that matter)?
For those who are parents--are there certain apps/games you let your young ones play around on? Or, is the behavior demonstrated by the child in the video learned primarily by way of observation?
Definitely. There's a number of blogs dedicated to apps for toddlers. Not sure about a one-year-old, but my two-year-old was finger painting, dragging letters onto words, and rearranging dinosaur parts, and browsing YouTube for videos of trash trucks (he got his older sisters to enter the search terms). My original iPad is basically a dedicated kid computer. The older kids write school papers on it (Pages + keyboard dock), the younger kids play games (educational and otherwise) and sometimes Netflix videos. We do have an XO laptop, and it only gets dug out of the bin when one of the kids is playing "going to work" and needs a faux laptop to lug.
Imitating their parents.
Something that I believe is quite deep in our brains, children can't help it. My daughter imitates how my wife picks up the phone when she answers a call. It is hilarious they are a perfect little mirror for all the things you constantly do. They copy them like a true comedian, overdoing the most significant aspect and dismissing the "context" that make you feel normal while usually doing them.
Look up an app called "Rattle". My kid figured that one out at six weeks.
Also, "pocket pond" style things work pretty well with infants. Basically anything where stuff happens when you touch the screen. Though it helps to pick apps where it's difficult to pull up blocking menus. It's amazing how quickly a random-clicking toddler will find his way to the purchase screen in the App Store in most apps.
My one year old loves looking a pictures on the iPad. But she is really just as fascinated with flicking the home screens back and forth and seeing what happens when she presses the different little pictures.
Thanks for the tip Ben, regarding questions for the HN community; it's been noted.
I'm interested in learning more about this "directory of startup tools" you mentioned. Will it be a self-compiled directory, or something more collaborative in nature?
No worries, happy to help. What I'm working on right now is a manually curated directory for the MVP and hopefully I can get it to ramen profitability during that phase.
Then will spend some time to work out the algorithms to do the automatic curation of the services & tools. Hence my interest into exploring probably & statistics modelling / machine learning further.
