It’s clearly a trend I’ve seen in the last conferences I’ve been to — everyone is exchanging their Twitter profile.

Tapbots are beautifully designed utility apps for iPhone and iPod Touch. After the success of WeightBot, the two designers have decided to go full-time. After about 2.5 months of nights and weekends and about 70 custom classes we finally released Weightbot 1.0. Designing a great app requires a lot of time and effort, more than [...]

Twitter is such a simple service overall, but look at a few screenshots of these apps, especially the recent ones, and you will see some very different UI designs, not only in terms of visual style but in terms of layout, structure, and flow.

Ars Technica has published an article about a problem with the upcoming Apple Push Notification Service for the iPhone. Like I thought, they’ve pointed out that this service will require iPhone developers to setup a complex back-end infrastructure to support the service — as opposed to using background processes. Depending on the type of service [...]

The makers of WeightBot — a popular and well designed iPhone app for tracking your weight — are talking about the design of its sequel, ConvertBot — a beautiful unit conversion app.

In 1993, Dan Linton, owner of a hugely successful BBS called Software Creations, visited Texas and made his way to id Software. This is the footage he recorded one night in November 1993. Shown are several of id’s employees at the time: Jay Wilbur, Shawn Green, John Romero, Dave Taylor, Sandy Petersen and Adrian Carmack, [...]

After the hosted blog platforms, it’s now the time for hosted microblogging platforms. Evan Prodromou has recently announced Status.net, a paid-service for dedicated hosted instances of Laconi.ca, the Open source platform that powers Identi.ca. Status.net, according to Evan, will provide for both small and larger communities to have a branded environment to host on. It [...]

I’ll be attending the Mesh Conference, Canada’s Web conference being held in Toronto on April 7th & 8th of 2009.