niravs

good luck with getting into anything good with insane amounts of time & effort. capital is cheap.

Social apps. Neglected. Especially voice + social.

that's a scam and a fake account.

this piece literally tells only half the story — the execution part.

what makes a great product manager is the raw product level insights and instincts that very few individuals have about the product itself and the direction the world is actually moving in.

this is basically the conjoined triangles of success kinda BS.

Alternative to your desktop client.

http://www.goofyapp.com/

The Twitter app for iPad does an incredible job of solving the side-by-side portrait orientation split view problem. I wish the native mail app behaved like this.

Chad Etzel wrote a pretty good Android app already! It's super well done.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jazzychad.hn&f...

Not to mention placing calls. That's a huge part of the interface.

What about voicemail transcriptions? These are sent by a slightly different address.

Services on top of Prowl have been doing this in the exact same manner for quite some time. Glad to see a service like Notifo supporting this though. It has a somewhat nicer interface than the Prowl app.

Did you install 4.0 on a device you use regularly? If so, are there not many bugs hindering your usage? I've been thinking about doing this as well but Apple recommends against it.

More specifically, if you receive more than one notification, the former is pretty much lost. Your app icon is annotated with a number but you have no idea what happened if you have several icons already annotated.

The speed is awesome but some of the UI elements really bug me. For example, there is no elastic scrolling unlike other all other iPhone apps. Although, somebody pointed out that Apple has a patent on "elastic scrolling" which may be a reason for Opera leaving it out. I bet you can't implement it outside of what the SDK provides you.

Also the multi-touch isn't as smooth as mobile safari.

The above link requires you to pay to read the white paper. I found the PDF through the researcher's website in case if anyone is interested.

http://cornellpsych.org/people/travis/materials/Carter-Gilov...

EDIT: Looks like it requires to have Google as the referrer. Simply search for the title and it's the first link.

I'm shocked.

The app is still somewhat crippled though, all links from other Apps can only be opened in Safari. So, not the same as switching a browser on your desktop or laptop. Nonetheless it seems like a step in the right direction.

Both Chrome & Firefox are supporting this from the beginning. It's certainly a great start.

Interesting discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1254839

This was posted few days ago for anyone who missed it.

Dropbox API is on its way according to their forums.

Keep an eye out here: http://code.google.com/p/dropbox-api/

Seems unlikely. It's awfully difficult to integrate an acquisition like EtherPad so quickly. I've read that they've been working on a real-time architecture from the ground up for a while. Plus, I think the Etherpad team joined Wave, not Docs.

What if Opera gains significant share on the iPhone? Now Apple doesn't have as much leverage against Google.

That's really what I meant to say.

I highly doubt this will be approved. There is no way Apple is letting a third party come and play on their turf in the mobile browser market. Not to mention this would mean Apple would not have full control of who the default search provider is.

They've been doing it for a while now. Many content companies & individuals drive traffic through YouTube by providing small clips. Even Viacom did this (which is one of Google's arguments against them in the copyright case).

If everybody's C starts to look like what Chicken Scheme generates then you've (Apple) just detected Chicken Scheme.

As I suspected, iAd API's are tightly coupled with the OS and dead simple to utilize. I just wrote a sample app. Too bad Apple won't allow further discussions on the subject matter. Everyone who views the new beta API references are under NDA.

This was detailed in the presentation. Using Google's Admob ads presumably will not be as seamless of an experience for the app developer.

It'll be harder to implement things like keeping the user in the app while viewing the ad or adding video/photos.

What if using Apple's ad network is few lines of code? No library to import, or have a 3rd party dependency on your app.

Serious limitations and certainly by no means a seamless experience. For example, you can't get updates on SMS messages unless you use a hack (like Prowl).

Or you can use the iPad simulator (if you have the SDK).

To make this work somewhat seamlessly, check out DropZone. It's a pretty cool mac app that allows all sorts of stuff to happen around drag and drop.

http://aptonic.com/

(It has a Dropbox extension as well)

It was extremely unintuitive to figure out how to delete files (you have to hover over the icon, and an x will appear).