Google Agrees: IE6 Must Die
Kudos! Wondering if i can leverage this somehow to influence my current employer. 
much ado about flash
there has always been lots and lots of noise about the iPhone (and now the iPad) not supporting flash. i have always wondered why as i always tend navigate away from sites that use flash to one’s that have a html interface. today i read an article on mashable titled : Adobe Calls Out Apple for Lack of Flash on iPad
my thoughts :
i can see why adobe, who own flash and hence vested interest, is making such noise. but i think the time has come to think differently.
like YouTube and Vimieo, we have to start serving video on the web using HTML5 and bring forward the adoption of HTML5 compliant browsers. it’s time for change. it’s time for leadership. let’s walk our users away from IE and towards other mordern browsers.
question is : will those that matter, the giants of the web world, those that have the mindshare and the attention of their users, show leadership ?
an update
This is a long overdue post. I can’t believe I have not posted here in 6 months. During this time Expedia has kept me well truly under the pump. We have been hard at work migrating components of our site onto a new application which runs on a shiny SOA stack.
Here are some links of a few things I have worked on during this time @ Expedia
- Hotels Travelguides : http://bit.ly/6jQHt6
- Hotels Geo Sitemap : http://bit.ly/8Q0o4O
- Flights To : http://bit.ly/67KiRM
Outside work I have been busy with travel which was highlighted by our September trip where we spent the entire month in trains and on ferries as we journeyed from London through France, Italy, Greece, Egypt and then back to London.
I am also involved in organising the first ever edition of WhereCampEU : http://wherecamp.eu.
The new year brings with it some new challenges and I am hoping I will be able to devote more time to the blog this year. Some immediate topics I want to blog about are URLs, design patterns like PRG etc.
Happy New Year!
recent applications on dock
Have you ever wanted recently launched applications in your dock like next to the other spring loaded folders like Documents and Downloads. Here’s how to do it :
Launch Terminal and paste the following 2 commands one at a time
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others \
-array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'
killall Dock
have fun!
fowa itinerary
I am definitely heading to FOWA this year and I wanted to list the workshops I am attending here.
- How to build Facebook Connect + openID into your site ?
- How to build a Web App from A – Z ?
The full list of workshops can be found here. Ping me if you are attending and want to catch up for a beer after the workshops or at the FOWA Party.
fowa 2009
2009 is flying by very fast. It’s already August and FOWA is just around the corner again. The lineup this year looks to be very interesting and I will be trying my best to get to this conference. If you are going then do let me know and I would love to catch during or after the conference to discuss web apps over beers.
spoonfed @ geomob
Spoonfed is about 2 things : helping people find events and helping event organisers market their event.
Making it really easy to find events and advertise events. Publishing high quality event data is REALLY difficult.
- incentive structure for UGC is non-existent
- finite shelf life
- insane amount of fragementation
- editors are expensive
answer : We buolt a publication platform designed for this job
- aggregates direct from event owners
- employs techniques from SAS project management tools
- provides editors with polishing tools reduces research
Got the data, now what ?
- www.spoonfed.co.uk/london
- mobile : what’s on around me right now ?
- content partners
Revenue
- Bullsyeye-SAS
- digital marketing platform for event owners
- mobile & email meet CRM meet social media
- What does it do ?
- email and mobile marketing
- manage your customers
- social media integration
- disseminates your events around the web
- Subscription model launching soon
What we find exciting :
- Yahoo Placemaker
- Flickr’s geotagged photo’s
Location is entrenched on this site. Not just on search but also for setting up email alerts etc. Services like upcoming are potentially competitors but Spoonfed founder feels (as do others) that are not competitors. But what about Eventful and other’s who are location based event advertising platforms. Spoonfed founder feels they wont last long… He must know something I do not.
location based advertising
CTo of location based advertising startup adphonic presenting.
Previous options
- Lots of location-relevant services and apps Consumer interest in location sharing.
- Lots of market buzz.
- Expensive operators-based solutions.
- Limited mass market options
iPhone, iPhone, iPhone
The iPhone is the breakthrough location-aware device. Evolution of iPhone geolocation/GPS APIs. iPhone 4.0 enables true open LBS development as it enables user location access into the browser. Providing instance access to exact location (or somewhat exact) of user at the time of the page being loaded.
Locatable, an Jailbroken iPhone app, developed by the CTO of adphonic provided location based OSM maps.
The gelocation API for advertising is here.
- sites and apps on equal footing
- no intermediary storage system required
- the starbucks example
What do advertisers want ?
- If not where you are, where you’re at
- Technographics != mindset
- Location is a piece of an integrated context, not just GPS coordinates
- home or work
- business or pleasure
- on the move / having a coffee
- location + behaviour -> offer selection
- say you are a few blocks from tesco, and at this point in time consistently you have headed in and bought a bunch of things, say in preperation for dinner, allows advertisers to send you a sweet deal to entice you into the Tesco and buy some goods using the special offer just for you.
So what is adPhonic doing ?
- self-service mobile advertising network
- public launch tomorrrow, 1 july
- HQ in London, staff in Paris & San Francisco
- state of the art feature set
- comprehensive targetting
- advanced reporting & analytics
- open publisher integration API
- intuitive user interface
- seeking location-based ad trial partner
How are they capturing my behaviour?
geomob – june 09
geomob london meetup is tonight at the British computer society where a host of neo geo lumniaries are set to speak on various neo geo topics. I believe a few places are still available so do come along if you are free, in london and interested.
