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As I watched the iPhone 4S and Siri announcement today, I was reminded 3 years ago when Siri was kind enough to drop by the AdMob offices. They came by to demo and get feedback on their app. At the … Continue reading →

You know what’s easy to come by? Ideas. You know what’s hard to come by? Ideas. I’m sure everybody has doc sitting in the cloud or on their desktop where they jot down the best ideas that come to mind. … Continue reading →

A small blog post for those attempting to create multiple UITapGestureRecognizers handled by one function. Coming from JavaScript, it’s easy to “attach” arbitrary data to elements or objects and references them on the event handler. (el.rel = ; var photoId … Continue reading →

The CR-48 is the pilot program for Google’s new Chrome initiative ChromeBook. CR-48 is a basic non-branded ChromeBook handed out to a lot of Googlers as a Beta program. I brought mine on vacation last week to Asia to experience … Continue reading →

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at Google’s largest conference, Google IO. It was 30 minute overview of how to build a business instead of just building a mobile app. Don’t just build a mobile app. Build a … Continue reading →

After Gawker had a massive security leak, I began to rethink my password solution. I had essentially 3 classes of passwords, high, medium, low. High security passwords, used for financial instituions, were unique for each site and saved in an … Continue reading →

After seeing Leah Culver’s blog post entitled “iPhone Pull to Refresh“, I was disappointed when I clicked through to find out that it was an ObjC library and not a javascript library. So I set out to see how hard … Continue reading →

Every web developer knows that browsers have a max number of concurrent connections that can be opened to a host at a time. Modern browsers have anywhere from 6-8 per host. You can test this on my simple concurrent connections … Continue reading →

Mozilla released a Firefox Heatmap which provides some insight into how they arrived at some of the Firefox 4.0 UI decisions (such as combining the stop and reload button or making the search button not button-y). You can also glean … Continue reading →

An interesting signup form for Automattic’s new VaultPress service. Target audience is tech savvy so non-standard form inputs won’t cause confusion.

From Tapulous Blog, founder Bart Decrum: As part of Disney Interactive Media Group, we’ll develop more games, more quickly and with the resources of the world’s leading entertainment company. Congrats on the exit, it appears Tapulous went in the right … Continue reading →

I’ve even playing another LBS game called SCVNGR recently and I realized what a genius move Google Ventures made when they invested in the company. Google’s mantra has always been to organize the world’s information. The most unstructured information at … Continue reading →