Monthly Archives: January 2011

Feature requests

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Nev

I’ve talked about emergent development before but the evolving nature of Twitter is self-evident. Many “features” of Twitter are things that are not official concepts designed by Twitter but devices that were adopted by users. The use of the @ … Continue reading →

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Holy wars

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Nev

I’m not talking about battles waged in the name of faith and religion here. Being prone to hyperbole, developers have come to use this term to describe the personal reasons for why they prefer one thing over another. For instance, … Continue reading →

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What can be achieved

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Nev

I noticed an article about the Strauss family in the Metro the other day. They have managed to reduce the amount of rubbish they throw away over a 12 month period to a single carrier bag. It seems like they’re … Continue reading →

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Working together

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Nev

Last year when the PayPal and Bump iPhone apps merged I thought it was an act of genius. I think that collaboration of data and services between applications and websites though licensing deals and APIs is the way of the … Continue reading →

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All in one place

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Nev

Keeping your applications up-to-date used to be a bit of a hassle. The answer may just be the Mac App Store for your desktop which launched last week. The actual process of updating OS X software had already been made … Continue reading →

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Topical storms

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Nev

Just like in 2007, 2008 and 2009 blogging was declared dead in 2010. Once again, they’re wrong. At the end of last year the team over at WordPress offered up a couple of challenges to bloggers by suggesting topics for … Continue reading →

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Time keeps on slippin’

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Nev

So sang the Steve Miller band back in the ’70s. Time marches on inexorably to the mathematically rhythm of the universe. The almost clockwork movement of the planets allows highly accurate predictions to be made about things like eclipses – … Continue reading →

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