How to Report the News
Brilliant…
NY Times: When iPhone Apps Are Too Smart
The big secret of iPhone apps is coming out of the bag: most apps that are downloaded are rarely, if ever used. While I’m not saying we’ve jumped the shark here, it is important to note that if the New York Times has picked up on this fact, then it’s approaching common knowledge. Read their article, “When iPhone Apps Are Too Smart” here. So, for every zealous owner whose iPhone is loaded with little-known programs that predict asteroid fly-bys, there…
Geo Location Services and the Coming War for Our Whereabouts
Over the past few months I’ve been messing with Foursquare…the geo location service-based social network-game. Frequent readers will possibly remember that I’m not a really big fan of sharing geo location information, even though I’m perhaps one of the few who has directly had his life saved by cell phone geolocation. Foursquare is an interesting study. By turning the geo location service into a game and allowing the most frequent visitors to locations to earn the title of “Mayor” of…
No, Uh, We Don’t Have an App for That…
Think about this: much of the “web traffic” we see now doesn’t actually go through a web browser at all, instead a lot of traditionally “web” type interactions are now happening on smartphones, etc. through applications. It’s pretty cool stuff. On my phone I have all kinds of neat stuff, such as the Navionics app that allows me to carry around every navigational chart for the eastern seaboard of the US, and navigate in real time, which is great if you’re a…
Friday Music Video
This one is a left-handed request. A “new” reader requested it, in an off handed way… The Foo Fighters – “You’re So Vain” from the 2008 Grammys.
MA Senate Campaign, Change is in the Air
I don’t talk publicly about politics much. Not that I don’t have something to say, but more because I think our votes are personal things. I respect your right to use yours however you want. I live in Massachusetts. That makes it easy to be apathetic about politics, as we’ve got a one party state government. Personally, I am an an independent. Throughout the fall, I watched as the Democrats argued over which of them would become the heir to “Senator Kennedy’s…
DeLurker Day!
Today is DeLurker Day, the day in which bloggers like myself celebrate our readers by offering you an invitation to leave a comment. I know there are a lot of you out there that read this blog almost daily, but as you know, there aren’t always a lot of comments. Take the time and let us know who you are and what you like, don’t like and what you’d like to see here or in the world in general, in…
New Book, Site & Forum: LoveYourGeek.com
Last night Karl Susman opened his new site which I developed over the holidays. The site is to support his new book, “Love Your Geek”, which was released over the weekend for the Kindle and will be arriving in the full splendor of print on February 1. Many of you will know Karl from his WestsideGadgetGuy.com podcasts, and if you don’t you ought to check them out. The site is a combination of WordPress and BBPress Forum, designed to foster…
New vBulletin Theme – Discussnames.com
One of the first tasks I’ve tackled this week was updating both the software and the theme on Discussnames.com. A fairly simple project, but one with big rewards for the Afternic.com crew, I think. The project was fairly simple. Take one vBulletin site that had a completely separate look and integrate it into the look and feel of the Afternic.com site. No small task, but luckily one I had some level of experience with, having worked on the http://domainersadvantage.afternic.com WordPress…
New Project – Afternic.com
As of Monday, I’m now working as Senior Software Engineer for Afternic.com (to be clear, one of the senior software engineers). It’s probably the right time for a change, I’ve basically been working full time on Splitcoaststampers.com now for 14 months and after our server migration project, it had become more of a maintenance project. The good news was that we had a site that was falling over several times a week and we got it stable to the point…