Today I was investigating the LinkedIn API. Most developers who want to create a social app have tended to use the Facebook API but I was looking at an idea that was business focused so LinkedIn would be a better fit. While the API is fairly full featured, there are some big differences compared to [...]
When you are building a server on a cloud like Amazon’s EC2, its quite typical to create a shell script to automate the process. This saves you time when you need to create a test server or god-forbid, your production server dies. But one of the challenges in creating these scripts is that some packages [...]
I don’t normally write about non technical issues but today Apple released their 2010 Supplier Responsibility Process Report. As someone who had an office in India for about 5 years, this is an issue that is dear to my heart. Most of us have accepted that businesses need to have some of the work done [...]
On the weekend, a new version of jQuery was relesed (1.4.2). What was already a good library has been optimized and runs even faster. Those that make heavy use of the library might want to try and upgrade. And obviously, any new projects should start with the latest version.
While reading a blog post about Netflix this morning, there was a link to a presentation describing the company’s values. Now lots of companies have something like this and normally its pretty cookie cutter. But if you have a minute, check it out Netflix’s as its quite different. And refreshing. A few key take aways… [...]
What Amazon’s one-click checkout and Apple’s iTunes store have proven is that by removing the friction from the payment process, sales will dramatically increase. In fact, in the case of iTunes, it was the magical key to getting people to pay for music and for mobile apps. So it was significant yesterday when Facebook announced [...]
There has been some buzz yesterday about 24 of the worlds mobile phone carriers announcing that they will create their own app store (Wholesale Applications Community). We’ve known for a while that they are upset about being cut out of the revenue from app stores. My daughter as an example spends $20/month on iTunes. I [...]
