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March 9, 2010

Does Google See You as a Spammer or Purveyor of Quality Content? « PixelBits

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I really do need to pay more attention to SEO. Not that I think I have a lot of important or useful things to say, but when I do have something I actually want found (public software projects, for instance) I am often frustrated by how hard it is to locate them.

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Posted by Beau Simensen 
March 8, 2010

Use Appcelerator Titanium to build mobile apps for iPhone & Android and desktop apps for Windows, Mac OS X & Linux from Web technologies

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Not having a Mac capable of doing software development has seriously hindered my ability to attempt to create legitimate iPhone applications. Titanium makes some big claims and I am tempted to give it a go to see what all the fuss is about.

If it delivers on its promise, being able to build an application that can be used on iPhone, iPad and Android would be pretty great, especially for a sans-Mac programmer.

I am a tad skeptical as to whether or not software like this would actually be useful for anything terribly complicated. But in those cases, I imagine it would make more sense to actually work at the native software level anyway.

UPDATE

Unfortunately, after digging for the FAQ I discovered that this still requires having access to the Apple SDK so this does not actually help anyone build an application on Windows or Linux. This is really too bad.

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Posted by Beau Simensen 
March 3, 2010

Daring Fireball: This Apple-HTC Patent Thing

This Apple-HTC Patent Thing

Apple has the clearly superior product and is winning handily in the marketplace. Whatever benefit in the market Apple hopes to achieve by this suit to me seems likely to be worth far less than the loss of good will and prestige Apple will suffer if they vigorously pursue this case (let alone if they initiate more such suits).

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An interesting dissection of the recent patent filings against HTC by Apple.

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Posted by Beau Simensen 
February 22, 2010

"Dear FaceBook Friends, I’m De-Friending Most of You [It's Not You, It's Me]"

Dear FaceBook Friends, I’m De-Friending Most of You [It's Not You, It's Me]

Dear Facebook Friends,

I’ve been wondering when and how to do this for a while now but the time has come for me to bite the bullet and clean up what I’m doing on Facebook.

For 99% of you – this means that I’m about to de-friend you from my personal account on Facebook.

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This is something I was considering awhile back but didn't actually get around to actually doing.

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Posted by Beau Simensen 
February 19, 2010

Kevin Rose's 10 Tips for Entrepreneurs - ReadWriteStart

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Kevin Rose, Digg's founder, spoke this week at Webstock in Wellington, New Zealand and covered 10 amazing tips for entrepreneurs. They were truly insightful - and obviously came straight from the heart and soul of someone who worked a day job and built his dream after hours. This is our take of what he had to say.

1: Just Build It: You don't need anyone's approval and in fact, you probably won't get it, so don't even try.

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Interesting list, but I really like the first point: Just Build It.

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Posted by Beau Simensen 
February 12, 2010

New iPhone apps up, Android apps down post iPad announcement

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While not surprising, this is a little disappointing. I would love nothing more than to see more developers go Android.

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February 12, 2010

Google Buzz and the Five Principles of Designing For Meaning - Umair Haque

Google Buzz and the Five Principles of Designing For Meaning
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I am torn on Buzz, but there are plenty of interesting things to learn from it. Umair Haque evaluates Buzz against his five next-generation product & service design principles — the principles of "design for meaning."

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Posted by Beau Simensen 
February 10, 2010

Filter Google Buzz conversations without hiding them entirely

Lifehacker has a guide for hiding/removing Google Buzz from our Inbox. A better solution for me was to filter Google Buzz conversations to its own label instead of simply archiving it. This way the comments still stand out from the rest of the Buzz.

They mention this as being optional, but it is really easy to miss!

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February 8, 2010

Amazon S3 now supports Object Versioning

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One of the things I like about services like Dropbox is its ability to transparently keep track of multiple versions of a file. With S3 supporting versioning natively, it seems like S3 buckets could pretty easily become an effective version aware backup solution.

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Posted by Beau Simensen 
February 4, 2010

Seesmic for Android updated! Multi Accounts, remembering scroll position and more

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It has been interesting seeing how these third party apps for Twitter have been evolving. With the exception of maybe IM clients, I have rarely moved from app to app so frequently. I realize that part of that has been because I have had to find apps for web, desktop, iPhone and now Android, but still. The turnover and lack of loyalty between updates has been a new experience for me.

I have recently switched to TweetDeck for my primary desktop client as Seesmic Desktop does not support list refresh. However, there seems to be little competition in the Twitter client category on Android. Seesmic, as far as I can tell, is the way to go. And with this update, it becomes far more useful, especially to anyone who manages multiple accounts.

Here are the main features in this update:
  • Adding an Extra Large text size option
  • Your profile information (avatar, number of following and followers,...) will now be updated automatically
  • Changing your Twitter account password will now be handled by the application
  • Composer now auto-corrects and auto-capitalize your words and sentences
  • Notifications are now cleared when the application is accessed from Launcher
  • Easily changing default account from the application's Settings
  • Can remove a Twitter account simply by pressing on it
Read the full announcement on the Seesmic Blog.

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Posted by Beau Simensen