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Prognosticating the Future of Mobile Audio
10 hours 43 min agoSeven years ago, at Project BBQ, I predicted a "convergent technology" device that would be a phone, a camera, an iPod, and a web browser -- two and a half years before the first iPhone was released. Peter Drescher 2011-11-27T08:36:35-08:10
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Four short links: 3 November 2011 - Getting Feedback, Colour Design, Discovering Musicians, Weather Prediction App
10 hours 43 min agoFeedback Without Frustration (YouTube) -- Scott Berkun at the HIVE conference talks about how feedback fails, and how to get it successfully. He is so good. Americhrome -- history of the official palette of the United States of America. Discovering Talented Musicians with Musical Analysis (Google Research blgo) -- very clever, they do acoustical analysis and then train up... Nat Torkington 2011-11-03T03:18:36-08:11
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Four short links: 31 October 2011 - Solitude and Leadership, Data Repository, Copyright History, and Open Source Audio
10 hours 43 min agoSolitude and Leadership -- an amazing essay on the value of managing one's information diet. Far more than yet another Carr/Morozov "the Internet is making us dumb!!" hate on short-form content, this is an eloquent exposition of the need for long-form thoughts. I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is... Nat Torkington 2011-10-31T14:19:40-08:12
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You say you want a revolution? It's called post-PC computing - An examination of the post-PC wave and its major players.
10 hours 43 min agoSpurred on by a Googler's rant against his own company and Apple's release of a new phone, a new OS and a new cloud infrastructure, Mark Sigal wonders what the "post-pc" revolution really looks like. Mark Sigal 2011-10-24T10:36:49-08:13
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Developer Week in Review: Talking to your phone - Getting serious about Siri, Open Office on the rocks, and Google embraces SQL.
10 hours 43 min agoThis week, we ask if Apple's Siri has more than novelty value, and decide it does. Open Office needs you (or at least your money) to stay afloat, and Google bends to developer pressure and finally adds SQL support to its cloud computing platform. James Turner 2011-10-21T10:36:49-08:14
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Four short links: 21 October 2011 - Mozilla's Projects, YouTube Insults, iPhone Ultrasound, RoR Intro
10 hours 43 min agoWhat Mozilla is Up To (Luke Wroblewski) -- notes from a talk that Brendan Eich gave at Web 2.0 Summit. The new browser war is between the Web and new walled gardens of native networked apps. Interesting to see the effort Mozilla's putting into native-alike Web apps. YouTube Insult Generator (Adrian Holovaty) -- mines YouTube for insults of a... Nat Torkington 2011-10-21T10:36:49-08:15
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Fighting the next mobile war - Recent moves by Apple and Google could ignite the external accessories space.
10 hours 43 min agoWhile you'll likely interact with your smartphone tomorrow in much the same way you interacted with it today, it's quite possible that your smartphone will interact with the world in a very different way. The next mobile war has already begun. Alasdair Allan 2011-09-28T00:09:23-08:16
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Four short links: 12 September 2011 - History Repeats, Fuller Feeds, Open Source Dev, and The Long Sunset of Business Models
10 hours 43 min agoHP Emulates Next (BoingBoing) -- In mid-1993, a few months after CEO Steve Jobs had shuttered the NeXT factory, and was in the process of switching to an all-software company#8212;a path that led to its later acquisition by Apple#8212;the lights were turned back on in its Fremont, Calif., factory. NeXTWorld's rumor columnist, Lt. Sullivan, reported that the U.S. military... Nat Torkington 2011-09-12T12:41:19-08:17
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Developer Week in Review: HP fires up the TouchPad production line one more time - HP's unique take on marketing, James Gosling leaves Google, and Apple continues its tavern distribution program.
10 hours 43 min agoThe TouchPad's $99 price point proves enticing for consumers and mdash; oddly mdash; HP itself, James Gosling leaves Google, and a possible iPhone 5 leak bears a distinct resemblance to the iPhone 4 leak. James Turner 2011-09-01T15:27:25-08:18
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ePayments Week: The rise of location-triggered offers - Very local deals, iPhone users ready to spend, and Androids attract crapware
10 hours 43 min agoPlacecast offers merchants a geofence to corral customers. Also, UK researcher YouGov says iPhone users are more willing to buy with their phones, and telecoms bury Androids with crapware. David Sims 2011-08-25T12:34:57-08:19
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Ruminations on the legacy of Steve Jobs - PC, mobile, music, film, post-pc: Steve Jobs played an important part in disrupting them all.
10 hours 43 min agoApple, under Steve Jobs, has always had an unrelenting zeal to bring the consumer mdash; and humanity mdash; back to the center of the ring. Here, Mark Sigal argues that it's this pursuit of humanity that may actually be Jobs' greatest innovation. Mark Sigal 2011-08-25T08:04:53-08:20
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ePayments Week: Is "0000" your passcode? - Bad passcodes, in-app payments for all, mainstreaming mCommerce.
10 hours 43 min agoIn the latest ePayments Week: 10 iPhone passcodes make up 15% of all those in use. Also, Google In-App spreads its wings beyond the Chrome store, Isis signs deals with major credit cards, and execs expect mCommerce to be mainstream in 4 years. David Sims 2011-07-21T09:56:39-08:21
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Four short links: 7 July 2011 - C64 Presales, Coding Lessons Learned, Feedback Loops, and Continuous Integration
10 hours 43 min agoCommodore 64 PC -- gorgeous retro look with fairly zippy modern internals. (via Rob Passarella) Designing Github for Mac -- a retrospective from the author of the excellent Mac client for github. He talks about what he learned and its origins, design, and development. Remember web development in 2004? When you had to create pixel-perfect comps because every element... Nat Torkington 2011-07-07T08:05:53-08:22
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Strata Week: Google Plus focuses on data control - The launch of Google+, Yahoo spins off Hadoop, and a book full of iPhone location maps
10 hours 43 min agoGoogle launches Google+, saying "It's your data" and giving users better control over sharing. Yahoo spins out its Hadoop division into a separate company. And a self-published author creates a book out of his iPhone tracking maps. Audrey Watters 2011-06-30T07:38:58-08:23
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Head First iPhone and iPad Development is out!
10 hours 43 min agoHead First iPhone and iPad Development is shipping as we speak, which is very exciting! Updating Head First iPhone was a daunting task this time around, there have been lots of developments with iOS development since we printed the first... Tracey Pilone 2011-06-30T07:38:58-08:24
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FMOD for Android
Sun, 11/27/2011 - 21:53FMOD for Android is like peanut butter and strawberry jam, together for the first time! Peter Drescher 2011-06-19T07:03:53-08:24
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Disastrous implications of new Apple patent for blocking cellphone video
Thu, 11/03/2011 - 19:58Apple has patented new technology to disable cellphone video based on external signals from public venues. Now imagine if that same technology were deployed by repressive regimes. Tim O'Reilly 2011-06-16T17:33:11-08:24
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Developer Week in Review: Oracle sends Hudson on its way - Can Hudson and Jenkins get together now? Washington checks in on location. And why are you so stressed?
Wed, 11/02/2011 - 07:56Oracle casts another piece of Sun from their portfolio, Apple and Google defend themselves from big-brother accusations made by, um, Big Brother, and it turns out you probably have a pretty sweet job, after all. James Turner 2011-05-12T10:35:32-08:24
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Four short links: 10 May 2011 - Car Monitoring with iPhone, Multitasking, Privacy, and Cool Unix Tools
Mon, 10/24/2011 - 07:25ODB to iPhone Converter -- hardware to connect to your car's onboard computer and display it on an iPhone app. (via Imran Ali) Multitasking Brains (Wired) -- interesting pair of studies: old brains have trouble recovering from distractions; hardcore multitaskers have trouble focusing. (via Stormy Peters) Social Privacy -- Danah Boyd draft paper on teens' attitudes to online privacy.... Nat Torkington 2011-05-10T09:06:17-08:22
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Four short links: 9 May 2011 - iPhone Anonymity, Fabbed Souvenirs, Perl+Go=Campher, and Javascript Slides
Mon, 10/24/2011 - 07:25UDID DeAnonymization -- a developer exposed an API that connected UDID to other information such as Facebook ID. The API has been closed, but it remains true that your iPhone has a primary key and darn near every app developer has a database linking your UDID to other details about you. Apple requires this to not be public, but... Nat Torkington 2011-05-09T06:32:06-08:23
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