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	<title>Jesse Wilson&#039;s Tech Blog</title>
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	<description>Welcome to the home of Jesse Wilson. I&#039;m a Master&#039;s candidate at USC, a Product &#38; Marketing Specialist at Spark Networks, and a technology addict.</description>
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		<title>Google Voice Feature Requests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you're not using Google Voice yet, I recommend looking into it. It can be seamlessly integrated with any Android phone, and while much more difficult, can be useful on an iPhone too. Having an iPhone 4 myself, I use Google Voice for 95% of my calls and texts. However, this post is about the improvements that I would love for Google to make, which I think would dramatically improve the user experience. I wrote this before I began working in product management, so please do not judge my Product ability by this post.

1. The option for conversation view all the way back in time with a given person. I only see brief conversations with each person but I like my iPhone view where I can see our back and forth communication on one page all the way back, thousands of texts into the past.

2. Sync with pictures from Facebook and let photos be high res. My iPhone can do that (actually right now it's not working but it has worked in the past), so why can't Google? I call and text people with the same name as my Facebook friends because they're the same people. Sync their emails from Gmail, phone numbers from GV, and pictures from Facebook. Also the pictures GV stores are tiny and don't use the iPhone's caller photo quality potential.

3. Improve "Find duplicates." I have "Marcus" and "Marcus #" both containing the same 2 phone numbers. I have no idea why it's not finding this duplicate. I know I have others like this but I don't know how many.

4. Who are these people in my "Most Contacted" list? Haha I haven't contacted some of these people in over 2 years, yet some of the people I text every day don't appear here.

5. Improve contact search. When I type "8620" it's not finding Marcus with phone number "5554298620". Of course this number is an example but you get the idea. When I type 8620 into "Send a text message" box it does find him, so this must be an easy fix.

6. Marcus uses Google Voice and I have his GV number saved with his contact info. He has a picture assigned to his Google account but when I click on his contact info link it shows no picture. Pull his picture, link to his blog, twitter handle, and any other info he publishes there from his Google account.

7. Put my outgoing text at the top of the inbox when I send it like my iPhone does.

8. Let me record outgoing phone calls. You can require both parties on the line to press a key on the phone to confirm intentions.

9. Let me create a Call ID so when I call a land line paying for the service it'll show my name. Businesses would obviously pay for that feature.

10. Incoming Call ID. When someone calls me from a business (or anyone with Call ID set up on that line), Google should know who it is and show its Call ID in my inbox, along with links to its website, Yelp page &#038; Google local business listing.

11. Enable MMS. When I send a picture from my iPhone through Google voice it never reaches its recipient.

12. For a fee, let businesses record all incoming calls. Before connecting the caller with the GV user, announce, "All calls to this phone number are recorded, to proceed, press one or say yes."

13. Give me the option to connect via VoIP when connected to WiFi.

14. Let me use "in-network" minutes when calling another AT&#038;T mobile subscriber.

15. Let me accept faxes to my GV number.

16. Enable a bunch of features CallFire has. Charge extra for them if necessary.

17. Is anyone testing your iPhone app? It's terrible. I'm getting double-notifications of texts and missed calls. Enable me to disable app notifications!

18. Hire me for more tips and foresight.]]></description>
		<link>http://jesse.la/2010/12/09/google-voice-feature-requests/</link>
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		<title>Greasemonkey Scripts for Dating Sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But it’s not in the users’ best interest to click around aimlessly. Fortunately I’ve discovered some sweet scripts from the source of my killer Facebook hacks that help correct this problem in big ways.]]></description>
		<link>http://jesse.la/2010/08/12/greasemonkey-scripts-for-dating-sites/</link>
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		<title>OKCupid&#8217;s MyBestFace Would Be Awesome &#8230; If It Worked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OKCupid  recently unveiled MyBestFace, a feature that helps its members determine their most attractive profile pictures. You have to earn the report by voting on other members’ photos, and others do the same for yours. Each photo you post requires you to vote on 20 pairs of photos. You have to choose which person you’d rather go on a date with (and skip is not an option).]]></description>
		<link>http://jesse.la/2010/06/04/okcupids-mybestface-would-be-awesome-if-it-worked/</link>
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		<title>ChatVille: Chatroulette meets Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today when I opened my favorite instant messaging client, Digsby  greeted me with an announcement: “We're excited to announce the launch of ChatVille, a brand new Facebook game we created for discovering cool new people! ChatVille let's [sic] you video chat with random Facebook users in a safe environment while earning compliments, unlocking badges, and leveling up in a race to become ChatVille Champion! http://bit.ly/ChatVille_Release  PS: First one to unlock the Digsby Badge gets a free iPad!”]]></description>
		<link>http://jesse.la/2010/05/20/chatville-chatroulette-meets-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Book review: What Would Google Do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In What Would Google Do?, Jeff Jarvis conveys his perceived lessons learned from successes of the technology success stories  over the past decade. He draws on best practices from Etsy, Craigslist, Amazon, and of course Google. I took notes of interesting, new concepts as I went but sadly didn’t end up with much. This helps me make the case that if you’ve been following blogs and news in this space you need not bother with this book.]]></description>
		<link>http://jesse.la/2010/05/10/book-review-what-would-google-do/</link>
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		<title>Book review: Freakonomics &#8211; A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They do not argue that economics causes societal issues; rather they use economic models and experiments to explore complex issues, including racism, crime trends, abortion effects, medical malpractice, student and teacher cheating, and effects of parenting. They explore correlation and causality between distant patterns in society to convey an underlying human nature at work. In doing so they manage to prove that conventional wisdom is often wrong.]]></description>
		<link>http://jesse.la/2010/05/10/book-review-freakonomics-a-rogue-economist-explores-the-hidden-side-of-everything/</link>
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		<title>Switching to Disqus and Facebook Social Plugins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently gave my blog’s social interaction mechanisms a complete overhaul – again. I watched Facebook’s F8 conference live on Facebook and was immediately inspired to add the new Like Button on my blog. See Zuckerburg’s presentation if you missed it.]]></description>
		<link>http://jesse.la/2010/05/09/switching-to-disqus-and-facebook-social-plugins/</link>
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		<title>Intro to O.C. 4/26/2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we met one of my favorite speakers to date, William Quigley, Managing Partner of Clearstone Venture Partners.  Quigley concentrates on its Internet and communications related investments, and gave our class a priceless education about how VC’s work, the stages involved in building a startup, how to select an industry to invest in, and how to pitch our companies to a VC.]]></description>
		<link>http://jesse.la/2010/05/09/intro-to-o-c-4262010/</link>
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		<title>Lessons from Founders at Work: Stories of Startups&#8217; Early Days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jessica Livingston’s Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a first-hand account of the creation of 32 of the world’s most influential tech companies. Each chapter is an interview with a different company’s founder. The stories are often laugh-out-loud funny, and will make you wonder how the world could have possibly doubted today’s most useful technologies.]]></description>
		<link>http://jesse.la/2010/04/19/lessons-from-founders-at-work-stories-of-startups-early-days/</link>
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		<title>How to Enable Facebook Connect on a WordPress Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever find yourself excited to respond to a news or blog post, but dread the registration process? I often begin the process and then leave the site when I discover how much info it wants from me, or when I remember that I’ll have to verify my email address and log in after I fill out 10 forms of ID. Facebook Connect solves this problem. Knowing its many benefits, I had to set up Facebook Connect on my own blog. The setup is a little advanced but I figured I’d write a guide to help my fellow APOC students set it up on their own blog. ]]></description>
		<link>http://jesse.la/2010/04/11/how-to-enable-facebook-connect-on-a-wordpress-blog/</link>
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