Apple keeps landing in hot water with their App approval process.
A few weeks ago Facebook developer Joe Hewitt announced that he would stop making iPhone applications because he was fed up with the way Apple is running its App store. The main problem facing Joe, as well as many other developers, has to do with Apple’s policies on the applications. “My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s policies. I respect their right to manage their platform however they want, however I am philosophically opposed to the existence of their review process. I am very concerned that they are setting a horrible precedent for other software p…(more...)
Tags: App Store, Apple, Apps, Facebook, iPhone, Joe Hewitt, Online, Technology
Hungry?There have been two clear winners that have emerged from both the technology industry and the economy in the last twelve months: the Apple’s App Store and fast food. Thanks to Apple’s prodigious marketing of their iPhone smartphone, and the global financial crisis ushering people to reach for their pizza coupons rather than their dinner jackets, both iPhone and pizza sales have gone up spectacularly since the beginning of the financial crisis. Domino’s Australia has made an ambitious first attempt to finally marry the two in a free iPhone app suitably named “Domino’s”…(more...)
Tags: 3G, Apple, Delivery, Domino's Pizza, Financial Crisis, Food, Internet, iPhone, On Demand, Online, Pizza, Pizza Hut, Recession
Whether or not you had a Geocities account, it's hard to deny the part it played in moulding we way we all use the internet today.
The closing of Yahoo!’s GeoCities service marks the end of a chapter in the evolution of the World Wide Web. Services such as GeoCities offered the world a web as Tim Burners-Lee had designed it – all of a sudden anybody could stake their claim to their very own corner of the World Wide Web, without the need for in-depth technical know-how, and all for the cost of a dial up plan. In a world predating Twitter, where the word blog was largely unknown and to own a dot-com was to merely buy into a corporate fad – Geocities gave a voice to those who were previously muted responders, foreve…(more...)
Tags: Amateur, Andrew Keen, GeoCities, Online, Tim Burners-Lee, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0, Web Design, Web Evolution, Yahoo!
Google Wave - The next big thing or just a glorified chat program?
What if you could mix your emails, your chat program and other social media together into a single application? Imagine a tool designed purely to help us fulfill our dreams of digital omnipresence – so that that we can all finally become a master of all domains… Well, the brilliant minds at Google have developed what the IT and media crowds are pegging as the next big thing – “Google Wave”. A few people have described it as “turning email on its head” and Google spokespeople describe it as E-mail developed for the users of today-rather than 40 years ago (when email was first developed). So let’s take a look at what Google Wave is all about! A wave – in essence – is always moving, ever changing and never still; it is truly dynamic. What Google has done is to turn emails, which are considered ‘static’, into something that’s more dynamic. For all intents and purposes Wave is a glorified IM/Chat program (such as MSN, Yahoo Messenger and AIM). The major difference being that it mixes IM & chat with emails, and has potential for rich media such as large file videos/pictures and the ability to communicate with new ‘fads’ such as downloading and updating one’s twitter status’. Here’s an example of how the whole ‘Wave’ process works. Here’s a brief example of how it can work for you [from Mack Collier’s website “The Viral Garden”]. “I can create a Wave that’s 5 paragraphs, and send it to Beth. Beth can then go in and break up the Wave and reply to each paragraph. I can then reply to each point Beth made. Now let’s say at this point we decide that we want to bring Amy and Jason into our Wave and get their ideas on what we’ve been talking about. First, they are going to see a Wave that’s probably confusing as hell, because it will be my original 5-paragraph Wave, which was then broken into 5 parts (where Beth replied to each paragraph), and then I replied to each of Beth’s replies. So it looks like a complete cluster to anyone that joins the Wave at this point. But Google Wave would give Amy and Jason the ability to ‘replay’ the wave and see how it was created. They could first see the 5-paragraph wave I wrote, then see Beth break it down into replies for each paragraph, them my replies to her replies. So it’s less confusing” Source: http://moblogsmoproblems.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-first-date-with-google-wave.html One hundred thousand (that’s 100,000) public invites were sent out on 30th September this year and don’t worry too much if you weren’t one of those lucky ones. You can sign up with this link below or wait for someone to contact you/wait for the wave to reach you eventually! https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignup/ Both Google’s press release information and the experience of beta users reveal a lot of excitement but in varied cases it seems to be a lot of hype about something we can potentially (and currently) do without. It is however an application that may become a standard amongst other e-mail providers such as Live hotmail and Yahoo Mail – so that’s where the value lies. However unless there are a few improvements between now and the launch date, I will stick with the old, static, snail (e)mail.…(more...)
Tags: chat, email, Google, IM, social media, Wave, web technology
They're convenient to browse and organise your purchases, but there’s still the trouble of getting them home.
Whenever I’m near, in, or even thinking about JB Hi-Fi, I always end up buying something from their DVD selection. Recently I bought popular TV series ‘Heroes’ season 3 on DVD which set me back a whopping $70. It came to my attention as I was feeding an addiction I’d like to call ‘JB disease’ that Australians are able to purchase media such as CDs and movies/concerts/TV shows at their whim, thanks to their availability and accessibility – which has skyrocketed in recent years. To acquire your new favourite sitcom you could simply go down to your local store and purchase a shiny new copy, buy i…(more...)
Tags: Always-On, Blu-Ray, CDs, DVDs, iTunes, JB Hi-Fi, Music Stores, New Media, Online, TV Shows, Video on Demand, Video Stores
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