(since I’m getting more and more requests for this lately, usualy from “regular readers”. Sigh. Do PR drones really believe the rest of the world is so stupid and gullible?) No. I run Google Ads for research reasons (it’s a live site where I can fiddle with it, try out […]
Monthly Archives: November 2010
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How long do you want to be an Assistant Product Manager? Assistant Product Manager 4 Life Job Summary Reference IS0012 Location Horseferry Road Hours 37 per week Closing Date 03 December 2010 at Midnight DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION * Channel 4 Online is responsible for creating and managing Channel 4 multiplatform experiences […]
Adrian just wrote an excellent article for the Telegraph, on the role of physical Universities, and the extent to which they’re rapidly becoming irrelevant, eclipsed by low-fi educational resource on the internet. QFT, a few hilights that fit *entirely* with my own experiences, both as an undergraduate, and as a […]
As Tom puts it: “Spelling curtesy of Iphone” “Periods everywhere? Sorry, this email was composed on Google’s Nexus One” Mobile signatures: a new artform…? Other good ones out there – any favourites? (the less imaginative, literal one above is mine, I think. Now in hiding, since I’m back on iPhone […]
We launched an app this week that’s been exhaustively tested: 2G, 3G, 3G S, 4 iPod 2/3, iPod 4 OS 3.1, 3.1.3, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 10+ different human testers Apple’s own testing (App-review process) …and yet we’re getting 1-star reviews on the app store, citing “this app crashes on startup”. […]
I’m an idiot. It only just occured to me today to wonder how common a name “Markus Persson” actually is. My first reaction on playing with Minecraft was: “Ah, this (much success, this quickly, with this style of game) is what the WurmOnline guys would have loved to achieve, I […]
Google’s settled the Buzz privacy lawsuit; OK, but not that interesting. What’s interesting is that I received this email from Google, even though I’m a UK user of gmail (if this is TL;DR then just focus on the final paragraph): Google rarely contacts Gmail users via email, but we are […]
As an iPhone developer, I often encounter companies that try to save a lot of money by making a mobile website and then claiming (to their partners / customers / advertisers) that it’s an iPhone app. In some cases, I believe this is a good idea – they don’t have […]
Ubisoft just bought Qazal – one of the last providers of networking tech for games. Congrats to the Qazal folks; although the price isn’t mentioned, I’d imagine a lot of them have picked up a nice windfall from this. The problem Two problems: one immediate, anti-competitive, affecting games using this […]
Gah. The world of PHP modules is a horrid mess. And sites going OAuth-compulsory are highlighting of late just how much so… I just had a plugin fail, with no error message, even though I had it all installed correctly, and all pre-requisites. After much messing about (much wasted time), […]
Short note for anyone with my cell number: I’ve finally got my new number working in an iPhone, so within the next day or so I should be running both UK numbers again (my old UK number has been phone-less for about 8 months now). It’s been a long journey, […]
http://www.danceswithferrets.org/meeblog/?p=662 “In addition to introducing new practices and processes to our office that transformed our day-to-day operations, Dean introduced me to Dogging!” FWIW … I’d be a *lot* more likely to hire someone with that on their resume/profile than I would someone with “Dean is professional and valuable member of […]