June 26th 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
Yup the blogotronicsphere’s gone nuts for FriendFeed the ultimate social aggregator machine thing.
I could detail examples of this nuttiness but you’d be better just Googling it and oggling the results.
I got a side interest in urban art (formerly ’street art’ until Bonhams had a sale of it and called it something different, it’s all a matter of semantics). I see it in the street and I feel all warm and fuzzy, I point at wheatpastes and tell anyone around me who the Artist is, a habit my wife has long been able to ‘tune out’ from, but my daughter and nearly born, smile and kick respectively.
I also like mobile phones, particularly iPhones which means I’m a bit Nathan Barley on occassion, which is weird Read the rest of this entry »
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June 6th 2008 | Posted by:
yann
Who said that developing isn’t hard work?
You’d better watch this Apple “Safari Technologies Evangelist” running into humid trouble after her presentation about Key Practices for iPhone Application Development…. Quite funny and weird to see that online, they could have recorded it again, no?
Watch out this fun one and other great iPhone SDK presentation videos here: http://developer.apple.com
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May 3rd 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
The effervescent Kara Swisher over at All Things Digital has a neat follow-up to an article from last October about how Zukerberg’s much vaunted Facebook platform has simply allowed inane zit popping apps to flourish and further dilute any real business model.
“But, so far, as popular as those apps have become, what Zuckerberg and the widget-makers have wrought is mostly silly, useless and time-wasting and the kazillion users of these widgets are pretty much just acting like little children.
I never thought I would call the often frivolous AOL (TWX) back in the day–very simply, a Neanderthal version of Facebook–a mature offering in comparison… Read the rest of this entry »
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March 13th 2008 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
“The decision to expand YouTube’s application programming interfaces is the smartest move by management since it agreed to lighten Eric Schmidt’s wallet to the tune of $1.6 billion in 2006.”
So says Charles Cooper at News.com.
He goes on, he’s really very excited:
“With the announcement, developers get more direct access to the service while it also facilitates the proliferation of so-called “chromeless” players without the traditional YouTube interface and branding.
Eric Schmidt: YouTube everywhere? Why not?
I don’t want to get all giddy on you but this is a big deal. Read the rest of this entry »
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November 1st 2007 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
Call yourself a ‘Creative Technologist’? WTF! Where are you going with this whole designer toy/Star Wars vinyl mashup thread? Huh? Stop talking to yourself.
Designer toys are often grouped with a love of street art, urban apparel, limited edition trainers and one year, 1984 when I was given my first Han Solo figurine purchased from a toy store in Tossa De Mar.
What exactly is a designer toy? Read the rest of this entry »
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October 3rd 2007 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
Post opener and what have I learned? Enterprise Widgets are a ‘next big opportunity’, personalized widgets that serve an enterprise purpose. Mike Arrington thinks developing for the iPhone is a big opportunity and I
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October 3rd 2007 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
First thoughts, they’ve re-named the Business Stage the Entrepreneur Stage, so if it was about the organisation of money before, it’s about the dream of money now.
Overheard a couple of bearded knapsackers talking about how much they wanted to meet Om Malik and a suited thug talking about how much he wanted to meet Leah Culver ‘on account of her photo’. On both counts I’m a little creeped out and shall be carefully monitoring the difference between a web app conference and a World of Warcraft convention, which I should stress, I have never been to. In a world of mashup perhaps there is a business opportunity in mixing the two together, Orcs delivering sermons on widgets?
Which leads me into October 3rd being the day Widgets Went Wild, at least in the UK. I saw on the tube an advert for the UPS Widget, he’s kinda beige and a bit like one of those kid’s troll dolls and he always carries a magnifying glass. Genius, turn a portable internet application into a funny little genderless toon.
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September 20th 2007 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
Om Malik, the man who would be Bond’s next villain has a great article about Google attempting to turn widgets into ads and it’s inherent dangers.
’I give you voice over internet protocol Mr. Bond ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha…. (strokes pussy), ha, ha, ha, ha…’
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September 20th 2007 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
I did a little research into ‘appvertising’ and discovered this crazy guy talking about ‘killer appvertising’ way back in January 2006, when You Tube was but a suckling infant at the breast of Mother Web.
He does use the phrase ‘advertisers need to make it as easy as urination’ which if I hadn’t just credited, I would have happily deployed at some conference I’m yet to be invited to speak at.
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July 12th 2007 | Posted by:
Adam Martin
Pownce, this thing is like a geek Teletubbie back in 1996, you all want one, your kids need one (er substitute kids with Diggish types and early adopters, which given the mixed metaphor about kids is a little weird!), but you can’t get one, you have to be invited, or in my case buy an invite on ebay for £2, less than a freetrade already degraded bio-recycled carbonized coffee and offers a much higher buzz that lasts a lifetime. Or so you would believe with all the evangelizing in the blogosphere.
What is Pownce? According to the very pretty powder blue and brown site: ‘Pownce is a way to send stuff to your friends. What kind of stuff? You can send just about anything: music, photos, messages, links, events, and more. You can do it all on our web site, or install our lightweight desktop software that lets you get out of the browser.’
So far so simple, so sweet (a term they are also fond of using). So it’s email yeah? But email that stalks you, hiding behind bushes waiting to pownce - nice image, clever marketing. Read the rest of this entry »
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