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Dear Internet,
Continuing on the theme of “Ben Brown leads a charmed life,” CHECK THIS OUT: Lifehacker plugged by lil’ web service app SendTab not once but TWICE this week, sending a huge blast of traffic and new signups our way. We signed up our 5000th user last night, and sold our 1000th copy of the iPhone app.
Much of the hoopla is due to the fact that an independent developer named Ingo Dean has released an unofficial Android client for SendTab. Android support has been a popular request, so it is awesome that someone in the community stepped up and provided a solution!I’m not sure I will ever care enough about Android phones to do my own ports. More than anything like desire to earn money or reach a specific audience, my interest in building things like SendTab is so that I can use things like SendTab. Like a hobby. Or, looking at the actual financial stats, like a crazy hobo song I sing in the subway station, hoping to entice passers by to chuck quarters at me so that I will shut up.
And hobos can’t afford extraneous Android devices.
SO YEAH, awesome, thanks to the internet, hobos can send links from Safari to Android to Chrome to iPad to iPhone back to Chrome, and the only people left out now are those still using Internet Exploder like assholes.
Katie and I are attending a LABOR AND DELIVERY class tonight, where we will learn that we are hideously underprepared for the impending explosion of our child from imaginary realm in her belly into the real world. This is normally the time of year when I am busy preparing to launch some new product or feature at SXSW. My feeds are already filled with SXSW news and chatter. But this year, instead of (or in addition to) unveiling something new for people to click on, the world will be forced to reckon with a new Brownce.
Now, if I can only convince Katie that we should name it Lucifer.
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