Michael Doornbos Just your average evil genius

11Mar/097

Why is Evernote asking to be paid bad?

One of my most used programs is Evernote.  I use it all day, every day.  From my Mac, my Ubuntu boxes, my Blackberry and my iPod touch.  I'm a premium user which costs me $45/year.  A reasonable price to me.

Last night, they updated the Mac client to include a small ad box in the lower left hand corner that serves some ads (and a bunch of really awesome features).  It's a small box and as a premium user I have a preferences option to disable it (which I did).  There has been a minor uproar this morning about privacy issues and some people using the words "Evernote is adware".

As of right now I have no reason to believe that they are mining my notes information to serve me ads (a privacy issue which would be a serious problem considering what they do as a service).

It's standard practice for web services to have a free add supported version and an ad-free paid for version.

I'm not sure I see what the fuss is all about.

They provide a great service and want to make some money.  What's wrong with that?

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11Mar/090

Evadot

I launched a new site: Evadot.com yesterday. Check it out, let me know what you think and tell your friends.

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9Mar/090

I should know better than to leave home without paper and a pencil

I've been doing a lot of writing lately. I gave myself a deadline of today to finish an article I've been thinking of for a week and spent the whole day having writers block.

As soon as I walked out the door to pick up our Chinese takeout for the evening, 100 ideas came swarming into my head. In my Jeep was a pen, but I cleaned it over the weekend and there was not a scrap paper in sight.

The moral of the story is twofold:

  1. If you have writers block, a simple change of scenery can unblock you
  2. Never leave home without some 3x5 notecards in your car
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6Mar/090

Twitter Updates for 2009-03-06

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3Mar/092

A little perspective

Here's a quote I overheard this week about the economy in the US:

"You have to close your laptop because you can't stand to look at your retirement fund any more."

Let's think about this for a second. This one sentence is very indicative of many of the situations I hear people in. This sentence indicates a few things:

1. You have power in your house (ie, it's warm)
2. You have internet connectivity
3. You have a portable supercomputer ON YOUR LAP that is connected to a global network of computers that allows unlimited communication with almost anyone in the world
4. We assume that if you have the 3 above, you have some sort of food.

For you, it's not THAT bad. You're smart. Really you are. DO SOMETHING. Invent something new. Start that novel you keep saying you're going to write. Solve the world's energy problems. Pick something and DO IT.

And while you're at it. help your neighbor out, I know you know someone who has lost their job and might not eat tonight but would never tell anyone. That is a real problem.

Your retirement will bounce back. And if it doesn't, you're not starving, so keep that in mind.

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