Platforms and Priorities (38)
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By Amanda Walker, Software EngineerThe initial public beta release of Chromium (the open source project for Google Chrome) builds and runs on Microsoft Windows, but we are actively working on versions for Mac OS X and Linux as well. I'm one of the people focusing on the Mac version. In this blog post I'll explain a bit about how we're approaching the challenges of building a product on multiple platforms and what our goals are.In ...
Direct Line Saves iPhone Users From Automated Call Hell (70)
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Add this to your list of must have iPhone applications. Direct Line (iTunes link) is a service that helps you automatically navigate phone trees to get right to an operator (exactly what companies don’t want you to do). Install the application, browse of search the included companies, and select the one you want. Direct Line then calls the number and preselects the appropriate choices to get you to an actual person. The service operates much ...
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Roger Åberg said:
Genialiskt! Någon måste göra en svensk version
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Ooble said:
Great. Now I need an iPhone.
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Nick said:
BEAUTIFUL! Another tempting reason to check out the iPhone.
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glongman said:
neat idea. Incredibly difficult to keep the "maps" of company call tree up to date. I would venture to guess its harder than what we do at Overlay TV to import videos from sites like Veoh and Tudou - their sites change frequently.
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Austin said:
I hate you iPhone, why doesn't Verizon love you?
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Haltse said:
now that my friends.. is genius. I've been using a site to do this but Holy heck in a crap basket this is too freaking cool:) If it works:D
Meet the Godfather Behind Mob Wars’ (Real) Money: Super Rewards (12)
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Popular Facebook game Mob Wars has recently been rumored to be the most profitable app on Facebook. While that will never be known for sure, one thing is clear: Mob Wars is making a lot of cash. Probably in the tens of thousands of US dollars per day. How? One large reason: Mob Wars has baked incentivized CPA offers from Super Rewards directly into the game, and expertly tuned its virtual economy to drive offer ...
Detailed Summary of Feed Story Changes & Implications for News Feed Distribution (5)
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One major change in the new Facebook redesign is the combination of the Wall and Mini-Feed. And while the change is certainly significant from an end-user’s point of view, it is even moreso from a developer’s perspective. The News Feed system has been overhauled, with new publishing methods and story sizes for developers to utilize when creating feed stories. Feed Story Templates All feed stories are now required to be published using templates, which must ...
Kontagent Offers Powerful Analytics for Facebook Application Developers (4)
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Although Facebook has increasingly provided more and more application analytics to developers over the last year, developers who require more insight into their users’ behavior must roll their own analytics toolkits or turn to third parties. We recently profiled top Facebook application analytics providers, and new startup Kontagent is emerging as one of the most powerful early products. Kontagent was originally an app company started by Albert Lai and Jeffrey Tseng. The company built such ...
How Smith finds boutique hotels (2)
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Lara Dunston asked us recently how we went about finding the wow-inducing boutique hotels in our collection. Juliet has been blogging about what checkboxes a hotel has to tick before it gets into the Smith collection (and a darned fine job she did too), but that doesn’t explain how we’ve got to the front desk in the first place. So how do we research our hotels? Sadly (for us), the answer’s not as straightforward as ...
Nike Running App for iPhone? (1)
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A French site has released screen shots of a new not-yet-available iPhone App to bring Nike’s popular exercise monitoring software to the iPhone. The Nike+ sensor slips into your favorite pair of running shoes (Nike probably would prefer they be their own and they make a line of shoes with an appropriate place to plant the [...]
Inside the iPhone 3G dropped call complaints (4)
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Experts and analysts of all stripes are trying to explain what's wrong with the iPhone 3G, but their answers are frequently supported by bad science, outlandish claims, and pure speculation. Here's what's wrong in the reports, and why a simple firmwa...
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CHC said:
Good article summing up all the sources of iPhone 3G whining.
Video: Shanghai Moves (1)
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Peter Kirby of Daedalum Films captures the pulse and rhythm of the city in this mesmerising collage of images that he shot in downtown Shanghai and Qibao district, as well as the Shanghai Wildlife Park and zoo.
The iPhone gets yet another use: measuring car performance (3)
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Piracy in Context: There Are Bigger Challenges in China (1)
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I found a great blog post last month at BizCult that puts the problem of piracy in China into context. Sure, intellectual property rights (IPR) are a big deal - and a problem in China. China Success Stories has a recent piece on how to secure your IPRs in China (Part 1 and Part 2). But IPR is not at the top of the list... The BizCult piece points out a very simple truth. When ...
Turn-by-turn GPS app for iPhone working, waiting on Apple (2)
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One major GPS maker has a working turn-by-turn navigation system already developed for the iPhone. Thanks to Apple's silence on the SDK and whether it forbids turn-by-turn GPS apps, however, it can't be released to the public. Other GPS companies are playing the waiting game too.Read More...
Inside Facebook » Ben Ling Heading Back to Google (3)
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While 10% of Facebook employees may have come from Google, the tide is now flowing in the opposite direction too. Ben Ling, who decided to leave Facebook this week, is headed back to Google to lead YouTube’s monetization efforts, Kara Swisher reports. The move back to GOOG comes only 10 months after Ling left Google Checkout’s e-commerce platform group to run Platform product marketing for Facebook. YouTube’s former head of monetization, Saschi Shef, recently left ...
