Dan Kantor

Sun, Feb 7th
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Feel Good Track Of Rosemead by Family of the Year.

I first heard of this band in December at the SF Music Tech Summit when a member of the band sat on a panel talking about artists using social media to promote themselves. One thing that is sometimes lost in the conversation about how artists need to promote themselves and sell their art is that the product still needs to be great. Good promotion will make someone listen once. Great product will keep them listening. So when this album popped up on CDLP this week, I was curious enough to hit play. The promotion (guy sitting on a panel) did its job. And guess what? The product was great too. I ended up buying it from Amie Street. I later found out the band is selling it for a Radiohead-like name your own price on their website - http://familyoftheyear.net/. I totally recommend picking it up.

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Sat, Feb 6th
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Just bought my first album from Amie St. Songbook by Family of the Year for $6.47. http://bit.ly/93BcVB

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Fri, Feb 5th
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cable guy coming in the next 2 to 6 hours

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Wed, Feb 3rd
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Gmail has silenced me!

Back when I was at ITP, I took a class called ‘Rapid Prototyping of Social Software’ taught by Sean Kelly. Of the many brilliant things he said, one that has stuck with me is the idea to have your software send you emails to be notified of events and things. He said gmail is perfect for it since you can create labels and filter things very easily. That is exactly what I have been doing for the past 5 years.

The other day, I started using some PHP software to send emails from my gmail account as opposed to from the built-in Sendmail. I did this to help with emails getting through spam detectors.

I’ve been testing this for the past few days, sending 2 emails every minute to myself from a cron job. This works great but one side effect was that the emails are originating from my gmail account. Well, Google now thinks I might be a spammer since I am sending a lot of email. They have now blocked me from sending emails. The FAQ says it will only be for 24 hours. It’s kind of insane not having the ability to send emails. If you don’t hear back from me today, now you know why!

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Tue, Feb 2nd
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freaking out! #LOST

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It’s insane how easy it is to set up a load balancer on ec2

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One of my favorite feelings is when I fall in love with an album after not liking it at first. Vapours by Islands is officially there.

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Wed, Jan 27th
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RT @billychasen: LEAKED: Photos of the iPad mini http://bit.ly/cUYv4N

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RT @jherskowitz: Come one/come all to LimeWire Open House. http://bit.ly/bJeOIV. Learn, network, brainstorm and chat about our disappoi …

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