Manton and Daniel talk about Daniel’s success in finally sending an email to customers, and the negative repercussions of sending too infrequently to be considered “permitted.”

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• Red Sweater News – Sign-up form for Daniel’s company mailing list.
• Mailchimp – Popular email marketing service.
• Mandrill – Mailchimp’s transactional email service.
• Planned Downtime – Mandrill’s announcement about a several-hours downtime.
• SendGrid – Marketing and transaction email service.

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Daniel talks with Manton about the just-announced Planetary social networking startup, and how it compares with Micro.blog both in terms of vision and execution. They talk of the challenge of changing human habits when marketing innovative products, and whether Planetary could help Manton by increasing awareness of the need for more social networks. Finally, they examine Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods and the comparable marketing challenges they have in “preaching to the choir” of core supporters while trying to attract the attention of less likely customer bases.

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• Planetary.social – An “open and humane alternative to Facebook,” by Tom Coates and crew.
• Decentralized, Open and Humane – Twitter post from @tomcoates announcing the service.
• Excited to Invest – Biz Stone of Twitter announces his investment in Planetary.
• @rabble – Tom Coates founding partner in Planetary.
• @blaine – Early Odeo/Twitter employee who tweeted in support of Planetary.
• Micro.blog – Manton’s decidely different alternative to Twitter and Facebook.
• Scuttlebutt – The centralized social platform on which Planetary is said to be based.
• Ello – Another alternative social network that has not been a huge draw away from Twitter or Facebook.
• Beyond Meat – Plant-based meat company for which Biz Stone is an investor and board member.
• Impossible Foods – Another popular plant-based meat company.

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Manton and Daniel talk about the FBI’s renewed demand that Apple provide iPhone-cracking services. They discuss when it would be acceptable, if ever, for Apple to provide such assistance, and the slippery slope of saying yes even once. Daniel follows up on his growing sureness that he will drop support for Blogger from MarsEdit, and Manton talks a little more about his upcoming book on microblogging.

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• Apple Rejects AG Barr’s Claim – The Verge covers the FBI’s request to unlcok a phone, and Apple’s refusal to comply with it.
• The Software Equivalent of Cancer – Nick Heer writeds at PixelEnvy about his experience with iOS Recovery Mode software updates.
• Indie Microblogging – Manton’s forthcoming book which will (probably) include a section on alternative platforms.
• Hatching Twitter – Nick Bilton’s book on the history of Twitter.
• Blogger – One of the earliest blogging platforms, now being neglected by Google.
• Medium – Evan Williams’s latest blog-publishing company.

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Daniel talks to Manton about his ongoing struggle to support Google’s Blogger platform in MarsEdit, and his inclination to drop support for it. They talk about weighing the merits of supporting one platform or another, and the virtue in general of latching onto growing platforms instead of dying platforms.

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Links:

• Blogger – Google’s well-neglected blogging platform.
• RFC 5023 – The Atom Publishing Protocol. Standard API on which Google’s Blogger API is based.
• Micropub – W3C Recommendation standard API for web publishing.

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Manton catches Daniel up about his looming book deadline, taking stock of the effect of overworking oneself. Daniel talks about getting past his hangups that might be blocking business success. And in the spirit of the New Year, they revisit a list of Manton’s 2005-era ambitions, and Daniel’s 1999 New Year’s Resolutions.

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• Indie Microblogging – Manton’s forthcombing book.
• Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us? – New Yorker article including a mention of Micro.blog.
• 43 Things – Wikipedia article about an aspirational TODO site that Manton used.
• Manton’s 43 Things – Internet Archive preservation of Manton’s 43 Things list.
• 43 Folders – Merlin Mann’s one-time productivty blog.
• Roderick on the Line – Podcast with John Roderick and Merlin Mann.

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