November 2011
32 posts
“Android is currently the dominant mobile platform in China. But the majority of...”
– What You Need to Know about the Chinese App Market - Quixey Blog
parislemon: The 15-Inch Air →
parislemon:
There is a lot of talk out there right now about the supposed 15-inch MacBook Air. I haven’t heard anything specific besides the usual whispers of new product numbers floating around out there. It seems pretty likely that something is coming.
What’s a bit odd about this talk is Apple’s …
How to Get 8GB Extra Dropbox Space for Free with... →
The Birth Of An Idea: Ads To Rebrand Girls | Fast... →
Foursquare Checkins Reveal Holiday Travel Patterns... →
25 Worst Passwords of 2011 →
Top 5:
1. password
2. 123456
3.12345678
4. qwerty
5. abc123
Amazon will take over Android app distribution –... →
Very interesting read, and a very logical conclusion.
“One of the biggest draws to the Android platform, the “open” Android Market, has just been sidestepped and made largely irrelevant for tablets. If the Fire sells anywhere near its target volumes, Amazon has hijacked the Android app retail channel for the long term: most sales of Android tablet software will be through the Amazon...
iPhone 4S Becomes Second Most Popular Cameraphone... →
parislemon:
It took just 5 weeks. The only one ahead of it? The iPhone 4.
By the way, numbers three and four? The iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS.
One Android phone did manage to beat the original iPhone though — the HTC EVO 4G, places a distant fifth. Let’s remember that the original iPhone is over 4 years old.
Wait, actually, looking at the data, Flickr isn’t even counting the original iPhone...
BBC: How Israel turned itself into a high-tech hub →
Cycle Gap: John Gruber Has Some Career Advice For... →
‘This is an extraordinary time to be an Apple developer’
Parody: Siri Stuck in an Argument →
Hilarious!
CollegeHumor are doing it again :-)
You Want Me To Do What To My What? →
parislemon:
How nice, Google is allowing you to opt out of having your wireless access point (read: your wireless router) included in their Google Location Server (read: their giant location database). All you have to do is append “_nomap.” to the end of your SSID.
That’s great — 99% of the people who will want to do this will have absolutely no idea what any of the above paragraph means.
I...
Making badges a real reflection of your real-world... →
Lost in Translation: The 50 Americanisms That... →
nightline:
As collected by the BBC:
14. I caught myself saying “shopping cart” instead of shopping trolley today and was thoroughly disgusted with myself. I’ve never lived nor been to the US either.
23. To put a list into alphabetical order is to “alphabetize it” - horrid!
36. Surely the most irritating is: “You do the Math.” Math? It’s MATHS.
Cisco study reveals just how important Internet... →
Android Market Ranking Algorithm: The New Black... →
While you won’t find much information on this, savvy Android developers are aware of one of the big secrets in mobile; The Android Market is ranked via a Black Box algorithm. Most people just assume it is sales/downloads. I’ve even seen articles written where there was an assumption…
WhatsApp reaches one billion messages, a day →
The Connected Enterprise (Yammer blog) →
Android Market: How does Android marketplace... →
Awesome list by TNW! →
‘#2: When you talk, they think about users.’ So true :-)
MG lost the faith in Google →
Great read.
