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android sdk available - grab a chunk of the $10 million
google open social… huh? what? to heck with that noise. the hottest thing to come out of mountain view is android. omg, this is looking so good!
take a look for yourself - and take a peek at the vids.
sergey and company are ponying up $10 million to give to the best android mobile apps. that is pretty sweet incentive. google will have no problems getting developers to build android apps (even without the $10 million). the sticky point is going to be getting phones in the wild that run the android stack. that is the big challenge, and i hope they pull it off because if they do this is a game changer!!!
november 12th, 2007
android - google becomes a man
although, google’s announcement of open social has gained all the press as of late, the android announcement is much more exciting to me:
open social - don’t believe the hype
unlike the hurried, half-baked open social thing, android has been in the oven for quite a while (@ least in our sense of time) - google acquired the company in august ‘05 and at the time the company was 22 months old
android will be available for any phone manufacturer to install and build on top of - not just one - take that apple
the phones should be affordable and the power of mobility can be shared amongst all
it will allow for extensive use of third party apps - developers, developers…
apps will in time live on portable devices other than phones like car navigation systems
i heart mobile
the sdk will be available soon - i’ll be taking a look. the only funky thing is that apparently the vm will not be java me/midp-based but some kind of c-based sdk. that is not necessarily a bad thing but it does mean that the existing suite of java me apps may not just work on android powered devices.
november 9th, 2007
bode miller
i am indifferent on bode miller. i know the media has not exactly put him in a good light, but i don’t know him so i can’t say.
but i love this quote i saw in a skiing mag while i was at the gym today:
“it’s about more than just winning. you want an inspirational performance.
you always have a chance to win. i mean if everyone else crashes, you win.”
this applies across many domains… so, the next time you think about putting down the competitor think about this. maybe you really should be pumping him/her/it up instead, if you are ready to bring your a game (if you got one) chicken
november 8th, 2007
you drinking the newsgator-aide
after getting home from the defrag conference tonight, i was psyched to see emma and ava still up. asher goes like a fireball all day and just crashes at eight. i took the girls into ava’s room to read and couldn’t help but muck thru the old clothes in the dresser… (anyone at defrag will get this or take a look here). i’m serious - i did this and it brought out a mixed bag of emotions.
anyway, shortly after that ava (she just tuned 2) looked at me and said. “dad you at denver today… you at gator-aid”. you drinking the drink too?
november 6th, 2007
google open social - don’t believe the hype
at first glance, google’s open social sounds like a great thing. open… social… two great tastes that go great together, right? maybe not. “open social” sounds a lot like an “open marriage” – on the surface some may think this sounds fun but after thinking about it for a minute you quickly realize it’s a bad idea
here are some of the thoughts that crossed my mind:
for anyone that has developed java apps (especially mobile), the idea of write once run anywhere sounds great but is a pipe dream. when you have competing “hosts” attempting to implement the open social spec to their advantage it sounds like a recipe for disaster.
the first and likely best open social application will be one that takes all my contacts/friends from the also ran social networks and drops them into fb or myspace.
the effect is actually opposite of that intended (and i suspect google hopes that they are this social network aggregator)
how will linkedin feel when i yank all my contacts from there and drop them in fb? yep, kinda like the “open marriage” concept where you come home from work to find you best friend in your house wearing your pajamas.
wait a sec… we already have the ability to write web applications that will run across all web properties…. they’re called widgets.
an open social spec has to be very limited in scope in order for it to work across all the social networks. this leads to fragmentation (see point 2) and leaves developers wanting more and only being able to build lightweight applications.
why is google defining this – if it is truly going to be an open api shouldn’t this be a true community effort rather than a closed session of top secret meetings?
young, eager developers get all pumped about the concept and start cranking out these applications… the first place they build for is orkut (in the orkut sandbox) . orkut gets some life kicked into it. when they attempt to move the application onto another social site all they may end up with is sand in their face.
it feels like an attempt to slow down the momentum that fb has been racking up with some buzz words.
as a developer, the notion of building a deep social web app once and having it run everywhere sounds great, but so does the idea of living off the grid in some remote hilltop with my family and dogs and building cool applications for the fun of it (well sounds fun to me @ least). unfortunately, neither one is gonna happen any time soon. or perhaps, google is truly not evil, has good intentions, and can pull it off and all the social networks will hold hands… time will tell.
october 31st, 2007
iphone ota sync
for all you iphone junkies out there, take a look at what fabrizio and company have cooked up. i have been lurking around the mobile open source blog for a while and am always impressed with the stuff they are cranking out and discussing. nicely done once again!
october 28th, 2007
circular advertising
ran across this after launching my newsfriends - newsgator facebook application:
hmm… not sure who benefits form this (okay, well i do know) but still got a little laugh from it.
october 26th, 2007
i know what facebook outta do with all the cash
ah…. just kidding. i really don’t use fb that much…. yet! but i clearly see the massive potential here. once we move past the “craplets” (took that one from seth goldstein) and we will move on, i suspect fb is gonna be a place i and many others spend lots more time. facebook is only going to get mo better and better over the next year or so.
after that, well we’ll have to wait and see
october 26th, 2007
microsoft gets a big hand in the facebook cookie jar
looks like msft “won” the right to invest a big bucket of money in facebook for a share of the pie…
over the last week there has been lots of speculation over who was going to win the “battle” - google or microsoft. but was this really a battle or something inflated by bloggers and journalists or a play by google to inflate the price? msft has had deep relationships with fb in the ad space, and google has announced they are going to open up the google social graph around igoogle and orkut via an api in what seems like a direct response to fb’s success.
this was a no-brainer for msft and facebook, and it seems like a great fit.
october 24th, 2007
go lance go
so it happened again… the first time i chuckled. by the tenth time it annoyed the shit out of me. this time it was three guys in a four runner. they pull up beside me (i am on my road bike) and they start shouting “go lance… you’re #1 - can i get your autograph”. hah!
i give them the look like “grow up you boneheads”, they stop for a minute, speed up, and start taunting again.
next time you feel like jacking with a cyclist… don’t do it:
i am just trying to keep my body fit
i am just trying to keep my mind fit - after 30 minutes of trail running or an hour or so of cycling i get into the meditative zone and clarity abounds, you’ll see maybe
i am trying to keep the environment fit
i am trying to keep my wallet fit - save about 200 bucks a week
[some day when you grow up, have a family, and become a productive member of society, this will all make sense]
and finally, not all cyclists have tooth picks for arms and struggle to tie their shoes. i for one only started cycling after sacking football and wrestling in college. you may catch a like cyclist on a bad day (like the day after a root canal), catch a red light, and get the five-finger autograph
ps… okay, maybe it’s just punishment for all the stupid shit i did when i was a kid. okay, i guess i can laugh again.
october 11th, 2007
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