Android Developer Challenge Winners
30 May 2008 / 0 CommentsPretty good apps.
The quality of the latest Android interface has gone beyond my expectation. It’s looking very promising. Google might actually got something.
Downtime have been plaguing Twitter for some time now. Twitter is not real time IM, so I don’t really care if I don’t get an update immediatly, but not being able to send your tweet is the most frustrating — especially when you’re using a desktop client; it keeps blocking. Twitter is a sort of [...]
The feature I’ve been waiting for a long time is now available in the latest Mac OS X 10.5.3 upgrade; alongside with synchronization support for .Mac, Exchange and Yahoo!. UPDATE: People report problems; it works only if an iPhone or iPod Touch have been connected, and all Gmail “one-time” contacts gets imported in your address [...]
Paul Graham: No matter how determined you are, it’s hard not to be influenced by the people around you. It’s not so much that you do whatever a city expects of you, but that you get discouraged when no one around you cares about the same things you do [...] Unless you’re sure what you [...]
Tomorrow, Google will announce (at the Google I/O conference) a princing plan for App Engine and its availability for everyone. Pricing seems quite competitive compared to Amazon Web Services.
Nick Halstead from fav.or.it talk about how he would build Twitter from scratch: [...] in general terms of complexity of building large scale web applications this is pretty simple stuff (fav.or.it has far more complex problems!). I understand that the twitter people now have the extremely hard task of slowly improving each module rather than [...]
A silent post on Techcrunch with just a title — “Twitter!” — generated more than 200 300 comments including hilarious Seesmic videos. People are definitely angry about Twitter’s downtime.
Jason Calacanis about Seesmic: I hated the name, I hated the design, and I wasn’t big on the concept of a video version of Twitter [...] Today I’m glad to say I was 100% wrong about Seesmic. I still hate the name, but I love where he has taken it. Video comments on blogs are [...]
Just discovered Songza, Songza is the single best place to search for and listen to music on the Web. Find a song and listen immediately, in one place. Like an Internet radio where you can choose the content, with a nice and elegant interface. Songza is legal, they pay for licenses. I just wonder how [...]