I received a message from Amazon this morning letting me know that the Kindle Developer Kit application process was ready for the general public. I clicked the link and was taken to the KDK site, only to be told that Safari isn’t supported.
Overall, I think the iPad is an interesting device and once the dust settles I think the price point will be attractive for a supplement to our “main” computers. The iPad will fill a spot for people who consume more than they create – a large audience, for sure, and one most of us fit into depending on context and day-part.
Many have chimed in, ahead of the Apple tablet announcement, on whether the new Apple device will be a “Kindle killer”
We lost a cute house and an amazing opportunity… but gained… an amazing opportunity?
I don’t have a big announcement drafted, but if you are a friend or colleague who uses my Barbarian Group email address, please switch over to my tobyjoe.com address.
I wanted to bootstrap a Monk project using DataMapper. It was very easy, so I extracted the skeleton and put it up on GitHub.
I created a skeleton for MonkRb that leverages CouchDB and Sinatra.
One of the questions I ask when working on a new project is, “Where will people use this?”
The macports install of CouchDB requires Erlang (naturally) and Erlang requires WxWidgets and Tk, which are probably pointless for most uses, and won’t compile on 10.6.
Microsoft Office web apps will not officially support IE6. But they also won’t block it.
It’s shorter than I would have liked, and took longer to write, but it’s nice to have it in my hands.
An episode of FLOSS featuring David Heinemeier Hansson rekindled my interest in Rails.
Planning to drop support for IE 6? Instead, redefine “support” and stay positive.
Out of 43 million copies of their circular, 6500 people interacted with their AR tool. Wow.
Twitter and Facebook are be honeypots for brands. We reach in and pull them out when we want, but otherwise keep them at bay.
Every iPhone and iPod Touch owner I know hates iTunes. Apple should take notice.
I have this new rule I’m working on: If it’s easier to buy your product than to engage with your marketing, you’re doing it wrong.
With the insanity around the Yahoo and Bing/Microsoft relationship, I wonder if Twitter – or an app built around it – won’t become the search and recommendation tool we all really want.
Installing an iPhone app is work. If you make users work, you owe them something valuable.
Admittedly, my opinion is that mobile advertising should shrivel up and die. That said, if it’s going to exist, the UX should be at least tolerable and, preferably, stellar.
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