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Siri – What Will You Do For Me in 2012? #iphone #developers #api

December 29, 2011

As 2011 closes it is becoming more obvious that Siri really changed the perspective on how we communicate and use smart phones. Siri is beta for a reason. It doesn’t always work and you still have to learn to work with it. This is a post covering a few of my own observations and what [...]

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Reading Links for September 9th

September 9, 2010

My del.icio.us links and notes. Investment in 3rd Party Twitter Startups Down 50%, Says Report – This doesn't surprise me. via 3G Doctor Blog – great FaceTime use cases for mobile screen sharing – I liked this post. it's the use cases which make it more plausible. there's also a belief here that hasn't manifested [...]

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Why I’ve checked out of the Twitter Developer System

August 11, 2010

I wrote this post on June 30. I’d been reflecting on whether or not I should post it and wasn’t prepared to while I still held some hope that my efforts may pay some dividends. Since then I’ve concluded that the opportunities for developing around Twitter are for more established and wealthy players only. I [...]

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Skype Developers Long Ago Moved On. — We are looking for the next thing.

September 11, 2009

When Skype was sold in 2005 I effectively turned my back on them. More than most I’d put in hours working on my business and theirs. I was effectively an unpaid Skype evangelist before Skype blogs, before people even realized the power of blogs and social media. Social Networks hardly existed at the time. Helping [...]

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SV iPhone Dev Meetup

February 17, 2009

Last night I went to my second Silicon Valley iPhone Developers meetup. Tim Burks is the organizer (13 so far!) and both times I’ve been impressed by the speakers and what I’ve learned. I’ll go again. If you want to get in next month you better say “Yes” now. I Tweeted about a couple of [...]

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Twitter and the Business Model 2009

December 30, 2008

I wrote this post a month ago. I’ve decided to post it. Especially after seeing Ev’s video comments just before Xmas. On the one hand I’d like to thank Twitter for the opportunity it presented to me in 2008. Twitter the organization rather than the community continues to leave me out in the cold. I’m [...]

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Sage Advice for API Providers

March 31, 2008

Gabe Wachob writes simply the best advice post I’ve seen from a developer to an API Service Provider. We’ve worked together on a few projects and Gabe’s passion shines through in this one. What struck me is it holds true for any product; the customer (developer) is always right. I also believe it is easy [...]

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