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devoluteon Android now forces apps to include proprietary code for push notifications

^ this is commonly known as 'whataboutism'.

devoluteon Mou 1.0 coming early 2015

Same here. It's changed the way I write. I recall how much I've already contributed though! This 1.0 release as been a long time coming.

devoluteon Link shorteners hurt the user experience and destroy the Web

In my experience, from working amongst marketeers, bit.ly is still used not because of its link-shortening abilities. It's used because of the analytics and insight it can provides.

Even on sites with comprehensive analytic packages integrated, bit.ly (and services like it) will be used because the people doing the "social media" work an the people responsible for the performance of the website online are sitting in different places and not talking to each other.

The result is this division of statistical data for each party to beat each other with.

devoluteon The crushing lameness of April Fools Day on the Internet.

It's not possible to be genuinely funny when the real objective is defined by traffic and 'clout' metrics.

devoluteon Manchester City Council

It feels like the Manchester one is a bit too 'old school' (i.e. maybe started in print) designer lead.

For example, rollover states are either missing, inverting to hard to read colors, or... weird. Who designs buttons without designing and testing rollover states?