Unreasonably Grumpy

I woke up this morning feeling grumpy. This seems to happen about once a week for me. I don’t know the exact cause, but if I were to hazard a guess, I would have to pin it down to not sleeping well. It’s not necessarily a lack of

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Is Google Now A Game Changer?

Prelude Someone was drunk on the App Store review team this week, or were they? Google Now landed on our iOS devices today, and it looks fantastic. Whilst I've never used the service as it currently stands on Android, I've heard nothing but good things from

What Is The Point of The Check-In?

What's the point of the “check-in”? I've been pondering this lately as I re-evaluate my various social apps that support this kind of "feature." Last year I quit Foursquare as I increasingly felt like I wasn't getting much value out of it.

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More Than A Nerd's Version of Twitter

I rarely get excited about companies that decide to start new social media services. Especially ones that end up trying to replicate a lot of functionality that already exist in previously established big players. I could list many micro-blogging style services -- some with varying business models from open source,

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Android's Core Missing Features

I have been keeping a close eye on Android since its inception. A few years ago I played around with a few different devices -- even dedicating an entire month with them as my sole phone. I never switched devices. I thought that not only was the UI/UX lacking

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Patter for iOS

If you've been on App.net for a while, you owe it to yourself to try out Patter. Initially just a web app for both private and public messaging, this weekend a native iOS app was released that brings much of that functionality to your iOS device. Patter

Enough with The Blue Icons

If you haven't noticed yet, perhaps this isn't a problem for you. The App Store in its current state contains a glut of apps with blue icons. Why do people keep choosing this colour for their app icon? All things considered, blue is probably one of

Why I Moved to WordPress

The past week has been a busy and tumultuous one. I, like Harry Marks, have moved away from Squarespace. Over the years I've used various free blogging platforms such as Blogger, Typepad, Tumblr, Posterous, and Wordpress.com. In October of 2010, I switched to Squarespace after hearing much

Google Reader Goes Poof

The entire Internet, or rather a relatively small — yet significant — percentage of people raised their fists to the sky when Google announced that Google Reader would be discontinued in July of this year. I don't know what the numbers were, but I can only assume the user basea

Staying "Cool"

I do love Steve Wozniak, but he really has no idea what he's talking about when it comes to Apple most of the time. He think Apple needs to stay "cool" and open up iTunes to Android and Windows Phone. Apple does not need to do

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Initial Thoughts on Posthaven

So the Posterous people who are now at Twitter are creating a new blogging platform. Okay. There a million out there already. I appreciate that they’re trying to satisfy existing customers. The effort is notable, but I remain skeptical of who will pay for it. The challenge I see