Archive for June 2008

NoiseRiver Adds Personalized Filters to FriendFeed

27 June 2008 / Comments

Karim A. founder of NoiseRiver:

NoiseRiver is a web application based on the friendfeed’s API that aims to extend friendfeed with some notions like: interests and neigborhood. You still have all the flow that is in friendfeed but the flow is, from now, on colored. Green meaning that you’ll probably like the entry and [...]

Bill Gates Says Goodbye

27 June 2008 / Comments

Today, Bill Gates is retiring as an employee of Microsoft he founded in 1975, to focus on his philanthropic foundation.

Love him or hate him, Bill Gates created an entire industry. Thanks to him, he made the PC technology affordable to everyone. We can enjoy his legacy.

This is an end of an era. I wish him [...]

Rogers Announces Abusive iPhone Rates in Canada

27 June 2008 / Comments

Today, Rogers has announced its data plans for iPhone 3G. With no surprise they all suck pretty bad.

No Unlimited Data, No Flexible Voice Plan

The iPhone 3G comes with 4 plan. None of them include unlimited data, which is quite dissapointing.

The premium plan, comes at $115 per month with a cap of 2GB and 800 minutes [...]

Apple Accepting iPhone Apps

26 June 2008 / Comments

I received this email notice from Apple. Apparently, the App Store is now open to submissions.

A pre-release of iTunes 7.7 and the iPhone SDK beta 8 are available for download on the iPhone Developer Center.

The video of the “Publishing on the App Store” session from WWDC 2008 is also available on the site.

Android Expectations

25 June 2008 / Comments

John Gruber:

Google’s dependence on hardware and carrier partners puts the final product out of their control — and into the control of companies whose histories have shown them to be incompetent at design and hostile to users.

I agree and I already told that before. What makes the iPhone great is because it’s a [...]

The Main Difference Between Twitter and Plurk

21 June 2008 / Comments

Plurk is a new microblogging service that support threaded conversations. Darren Rowse pretty much nailed the differences between Twitter and Plurk:

The responses that emerged on Twitter were a whole lot of individuals responding to me in isolation. Your followers on Twitter don’t know what other people have answered [...] but the problem [...]

Concrete 1 – iPhone 0

19 June 2008 / Comments

Yesterday nite, I dropped my iPhone on the street and it had a violent encounter with concrete. The phone works fine but the glass is completely broken.

I can’t replace the glass part, because it’s glued to the LCD screen. You have to buy the whole unit that cost almost $300.

I was about to buy a [...]

SproutCore, Apple’s Cocoa Flavored Open Web

17 June 2008 / Comments

Daniel Eran Dilger about SproutCore, the framework behind SproutIt and now Apple’s MobileMe:

The company is now pushing Cocoa-inspired development outside of Mac OS X and the iPhone to a broader scope: the web. Apple has already demonstrated its ability to deliver rich web applications with the kind of direct interaction and offline state [...]