February 2012
3 posts
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Google, Path, and Privacy
I just read John Gruber’s article about Google violating Safari users cookie settings.This was very bad practice by Google. There was no excuse for their behaviour. I don’t see how anyone can defend it (and in the last week I’ve heard many people try). Safari was set not to allow 3rd party cookies, and they explicitly ignored that. Sure it may have benefited some of their users,...
parislemon: To Catch A Hypocrite →
I really hope these guys get sued. Make sure you watch Jason Kincaid’s video too, well worth it!
parislemon:
Yesterday, Jason Kincaid posted damning evidence of VEVO, the online music video entity jointly owned by a few major record labels, committing piracy at their boozy event at Sundance this year.
Watch the video, then read Jason’s full story. It’s worth it.
Today, VEVO’s CEO has...
January 2012
4 posts
pacograph asked: yea man. i hope your right about ping. apple seems to like to take baby steps and then suddenly before you know it, "WOW, THIS IS AWESOME!"
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Ping: The Key to an Apple TV
I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned this before, but I believe Ping is more than just a failed attempt by Apple to enter social networking. Ping will be an important aspect of the rumoured Apple TV.
In it’s current form Ping could work as a recommendation engine built into your TV. Instead of getting conventional channels you will get channels of content based on what you have...
Zach Waugh: Google as a time machine →
Really interesting. Hopefully they do this, definitely possible with Street View although it depends how often then send the car around. There will probably be great historic data in the major cities and then patchy data throughout the rest of the world.
zachwaugh:
I had the thought last night that if Google sticks around for the next 50-100 years, and maintains Google Maps, then it could...
We Are The 0.6% →
parislemon:
Hard to pick the most ridiculous element of these updated numbers.
Is it that just 0.6% of Android users have Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) two months after it launched?
Is it that of the remaining 99.4%, only 55% are upgraded to Gingerbread (2.3), which came out over a year ago?
Is it that over 30% are stuck on Froyo (2.2) which is 20 months old?
Is it that 8.5% (something like 10...
December 2011
1 post
parislemon: Dear Google+ →
parislemon:
Earlier today I noticed something funny. My Google profile picture — the picture associated with my Gmail account, my GChat account, my Google+ account, etc — had vanished. A bug? Nope.
It turns out, Google — without telling me — went into my account and deleted my profile picture. Why?…
November 2011
13 posts
X
parislemon:
When I left my full time gig at TechCrunch last month, there were a few things on my plate that I was still looking into. One of those was “Google X”.
I first started hearing about Google X in March. I was told it was the codename of the group Sergey Brin took charge of after he handed off control of Google+ — then-called “Emerald Sea” — to Vic Gundotra and Bradley Horowitz. The way...
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Groupon IPO Shares Pop 40% On First Trade, Debuts... →
parislemon:
Wait wait wait!!! But but but!! Ponzi scheme! Should have sold to Google!
Yeah.
Groupon just went public with a market cap now 3x what Google was offering them. We’ll see if the good times last — now that they’re public, they’re going to have to show real growth in the numbers — but it’s pretty clear that either way, Groupon did the right thing in not taking that deal.
Good for...
Oink →
parislemon:
The first app out of Milk is fun, I’ve been testing it out for a while. Rate anything around you, not just food. More importantly, find the best things around you. Great for beer. And it’s only going to get better at scale.
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JetBrains: AppCode - Day 1
I know I’m not the only developer that’s starting to hate Xcode more and more. Xcode 4 could have been the saving grace but it just made things worse. I love the IDE itself and the way everything is integrated but between the poor performance and constant crashes I’ve had enough.
Fortunately JetBrains new Objective-C IDE AppCode hit V1.0 this week. I decided I would spend one...
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Storyboard
In iOS 5 Apple introduced a new UI design tool to Xcode. Called Storyboard it is the begining of an Interface Builder replacement and a great tool for prototyping your interface. Rather than having Nib’s for each view controller, all your view controllers are stored in one Storyboard file.
I initially thought this was a stupid idea and that they shouldn’t try fixing something that...
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'Thanks Steve'
I never had the opportunity to meet Steve Jobs, or even to see him speak. But he still had a massive impact on my life. If Apple never brought out the iPhone I would not have my own business. I would most likely have went to university with my friends. I would be studying (something - I’m not sure what) and my life would have followed a very different path.
But now, I develop apps which...
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Predictions for Apple's Fall 2011 iPhone event
2 new iPhone models: an iPhone 4S and an iPhone 5.
The iPhone 4S will be an ‘updated’ iPhone 4. It may have an improved antenna design and will include a Qualcomm chip to enable both GSM and CDMA.
The iPhone 5 will have a completely new ‘teardrop’ design. It will have 1GB of RAM and a processor upgrade to match the iPad 2. It will also include an 8MP camera and a slightly...
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Facebook has created something special
Yesterday Mark Zuckerberg presented the opening keynote of Facebook’s f8 developer conference. In the days leading up to the event Facebook rolled out lots of changes (the ticker, smart lists, updated design, news feed changes) so they obviously had something big planned for f8 if they didn’t have time to talk about these other enhancements.
And they did. Timeline and Open Graph....
Incoming: A Native Gmail iPhone App. Finally.
parislemon:
Ever since I bought the original iPhone in 2007, there’s been one app above all others that I’ve been sorely missing: Gmail. Of course, back then, there were no native third-party apps. But a year later, when those came, Gmail was still nowhere to be found.
At first, the talk was that Apple wasn’t going to allow another mail app on their device. Then it was that Google was simply...
October 2011
1 post
The Real Zack Morris: The State of the Art is... →
zackarymorris:
I stumbled onto this post the other day through Hacker News. Basically Ryan Dahl (the guy who wrote node.js, a web framework that makes running web servers easy with javascript) called out the deplorable state of software today.
I fully agree with him.
And here’s why - I’ve seen…
Fantastic post, worth reading.
September 2011
4 posts
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Bing Bleeding Billions →
parislemon:
It’s not just that Microsoft is losing money online, it’s that they’re bleeding it. And it’s getting worse, not better. The company has lost $9 billion online since they started breaking out the numbers in 2007 — $2.5 billion of that was in the past year.
And Bing has accounted for $5.5 billion of the total losses.
And what is Microsoft spending all that money on? Stealing market...
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Another 'Android form the perspective of an iOS...
I’ve dipped my toes into Android before. I even took a short class on it. But I still couldn’t ‘get it’. Every time I downloaded and installed the SDK and Eclipse I never got anywhere. A few weeks ago I bought Android Market membership on a whim and this spurred me on to try and actually get an app completed and onto the Market. This is my experience of Android development...
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Zach Waugh: How I name my apps →
zachwaugh:
For the last couple of apps I’ve made, I’ve been creating a sort of mind map to help me come up with the name. Finding a good name for an app is hard, but having a somewhat formal and repeatable process has made it much easier for me.
I say “sort of” mind map, because there aren’t really any…
August 2011
2 posts
An iOS Developer Takes on Android
nfarina:
Recently, we released the Android version of Meridian, our platform for building location-based apps.
We didn’t use one of these “Cross Platform!” tools like Titanium. We wrote it, from scratch, in Java, like you do in Android.
We decided it was important to keep the native stuff native, and to respect each platform’s conventions as much as possible. Some conventions are easy to...
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Why I switched from Gowalla to Foursquare to...
When I decided to start using check-in apps I went with Gowalla. The reason was their design. At the time Foursquare’s design was not nearly as good as Gowalla’s and because I assumed at the time they both did the same thing, I chose the nicer looking one.
After a while using it though I switched to Foursquare. The reasons were tips, and specials. Actually getting something valuable...
July 2011
3 posts
“In our culture, we’re suspicious of strangers. They’re a threat. They lurk in...”
– word
David Weinberger, linked from an older post on Caterina’s blog (via cacioppo)
GroupFoursquareOn →
parislemon:
Foursquare + LivingSocial, Gilt, and maybe Groupon. Interesting, but the execution of this will be key. If it’s simply tacked on, it could flop. If done correctly, it could be huge.
Why wouldn’t Foursquare just build a deal product themselves? Because they have 75 people. The key to all of these services is having hundreds, if not thousands, of sales people. That’s a main reason...
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Google+ will kill Facebook
I’ve been playing with Google+ for 11 days now. I finally managed to get access a few days after the initial launch. Unfortunately, as invites were very scarce and I really wanted to try the product, I had to buy access (for £1 on eBay). Fortunately though, to my surprise, the seller was not scamming me and actually invited me to the service.
I immediately started setting up my Circles....
June 2011
3 posts
Beware The Buzz About Google →
parislemon:
The author here smartly looks back at some of the initial buzz surrounding Google Buzz to see what it may mean in terms of today’s buzz for Google+.
My initial Buzz post is one of the examples, as I stated the line (which was also my title), “If Google Wave is the future, Google Buzz is the present.”
And while the author gives me credit for a “healthy dose of skepticism” as well,...
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'P' is for Pandora
Over the last few days I’ve been watching Pandora’s performance in the market closely. I was interested to see how the music service would perform. It’s losing money, it’s competing with 3 technology juggernauts (Apple, Amazon, and Google), and it’s part of an industry where piracy is rampant and getting ever easier. In other words: a difficult market to compete and...
The Web And The Other Web →
parislemon:
Joshua Topolsky on the transition from MobileMe to iCloud:
That means that when the cutoff date of June 30, 2012 comes around for users, the web-based email client, calendar, contacts app, and other components of the web suite will cease to exist. You will no longer be able to log in and check your mail through a browser, change calendar events, or edit contacts.
For what it’s...
April 2011
1 post
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How can Microsoft remain relevant?
For the last 5 years Microsoft has been taking a beating. They are still a huge company, with massive revenues, but Windows has been floundering (at the very least in the public mind) and they don’t seem to be doing much about it. Sure, they responded with Windows 7 - which is a great operating system - but they are still making a huge mistake in my humble opinion. They focus the vast...
March 2011
1 post
Marco.org: Bag of hurt →
marco:
In 2008, Steve Jobs was asked1 if and when Macs would play Blu-ray movies. He responded candidly:
Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. It’s great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech is so complex, we’re waiting till things settle down and Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace.
The implication is that Apple doesn’t believe that Blu-ray will
Great post. I think Apple...
February 2011
1 post
Design Language News: Remnants of a Disappearing... →
designlanguage:
Because the primary input method of the iPad is a single piece of multitouch glass, developers have incredible flexibility to design unique user interfaces. It’s hard to appreciate the variety of UIs though, since turning the screen off removes virtually all evidence of them. To spotlight these…