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Fun Reading 10/3/2012
* Great Lumia ad that is pretty well thought out and cool.
* Lets this be my small vote for ending pagination on internet :) Fully agree with @fmanjoo on this. Certain website (see bleacher report!) are so guilty.
* Please unsubscribe from your paper catalogs with Catalog Choice and save some trees. Google Catalogs is here for you just a couple of clicks away!
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fun reads - 08/28/2012
* Hilarious look from Forbes at the Silicon Valley culture :) Cant say I am actually shocked by any of these
* I remember the sticker shock the first time I tried to use Uber... Not going back to it because I am obviously very price sensitive when it comes to cabs.
* So it looks like I will need to buy that unlocked iPhone, wait for t-mo to upgrade their network to support iphone 4g band because I am certainly not going to get that iphone from t-mo itself ;) On the other hand I may just buy the next windows phone 8 device and call it a day. More on that in another post.
* Would you go work at yahoo? Marissa's ideas about turning around yahoo's roadblocks seem kind of elementary at this point. However, it does look like she has to basically start from scratch, which is kind of amazing considering Yahoo's location and history. On a side not, I would actually like to know what the mandatory gym orientation is :)
Fun Reads 08/24/2012
* Facebook with 500 TB of our data per day... Oh Zuck you know a lot about me but I guess still not well enough to actually make a useful news feed ;)
* Groupon and Zynga are just tumbling down so these types of executives heading out news items are not really surprise
* DuckDuckGo is awesome, if you have never used it then do yourself a favor and try it out. Bang functionality alone is worth trying out a new search engine. Here is an interview with their founder Gabriel Weinberg who is a very, very smart guy. Definitely worth a read.
Fun Reads - 08/22/2012
* Cant help but laugh at some of these logos, i guess not every big company strikes gold every time (Apple's original logo is cringe inducing but then again Nokia's was a fish:)
* Blackberry's fall from grace is absolutely staggering, check out the report from Fierce Wireless on Q2-2012 Phone Shipments.
* Google Maps with 20 petabytes of data... I would love for @mashable to do something similar with Nokia's map division as well. Would be a really interesting comparison.
* Pathetic that in this best traffic apps article by @mashable there is not even a mention of Nokia Maps, Traffic.com, inrix, Google Maps.
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Fun Reads - 08/15/2012
* Check out the following hortonworks/teradata aster webcast - For those with Hadoop analytics needs this may prove quite informative
* Tablet market is blowing up way faster than expected and check out their impact on e-commerce. I wonder what will be the final impact of Windows 8 RT and Windows 8 Pro. If Surface really becomes available at $199 it will make these numbers look comical.
* Take a look at hustleboards, which are essentially disposable forums, this is awesome and could prove just incredibly useful for setting up all kinds club activities, etc... :)
* Finally, this article from Steven Pressfield really hits home when it comes to "art" of writing. In the end this is why I post short links because really nobody has time to read and they really dont care :)
Daily Read - 07/27/2012 (WP8 Screenshots, creationism, api documentation by braintree, opportunity backlogs)
* Windows Phone 8 Screenshots hot off the press - XBOX Music is the key, hope that it turns on faster than the WP7.5 Spotify app :)
* Will not comment on results of this poll, but I find the numbers fascinating
* Best practices of API documentation by braintree
* Getting rid of product roadmaps in favor of opportunity backlogs? I like the idea a lot :)
I am going to watch an absolutely ridiculous amount of Olympics this year. Definitely topping my personal and quite possibly world record :) Already put volleyball, team handball, tennis and waterpolo... Should be a strong serbian showing in at least 3 of the 4.
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4 quick links - 7/11/2012 (Mobility Exercises, Engineering Management, Gimbal, Usergrid by Apigee)
* Mobility exercises - this is great stuff if you have been sitting all day. I swear by thoracic rotations, they are awesome for general mobility! Also if you have not invested in a foam roller do so now without delay because your back and legs will thank you
* Why engineering management is on its way out - This article just strikes a cord as I have seen this happen in a couple of different companies now. 3rd paragraph in particular is just a very insightful dig at Agile in large companies and got to appreciate the wit :)
* Gimbal - context awareness platform by Qualcomm for iOS and Android. Seem to have talked about this a bunch over the last few years. Glad someone is doing something about it.
* Here comes Apigee again with Usergrid - this feature allows you to easily add turn-key user model and organization to an existing application. Hmm... could think of a few instances this could have come in handy over the last few years when we were hacking around trying to create our own homebrew stuff for user management.
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4 quick links - 07/05/2012 (Nokia & Hollywood, Tomatoes, Facebook engineering, nba draft suits)
* This one still hurts... I clearly remember the story that inspired this blog post... how nokia got bamboozled by Hollywood
* Why store-bought tomatoes taste like cardboard. Well its all genetics
* how facebook ships code (please take a look at these numbers :) - yes this is definitely not easily replicated
* had to throw this one in just for pure fun of it... No comments needed... worst draft suits ever
4 quick links - 06/28/2012 (trigger.io, leap motion, product owners, api cachiness)
* Simplest way to build Apps for windows phone - trigger.io - cloud compile competitor to phonegap.... pretty cool but $299 a month is a bit steep...
* If you havent taken a look at leap motion before this video is just awesome... Imagine 3D maps utilizing this technology :)
* lead engineers as product owners... curious to hear people's thoughts on this, i know i have a lot of my own. The biggest one being that it is really, really hard to find someone to fill this role and then even harder to get someone to accept this type of role because quite honestly this is a ton of work.
* API cachiness factor - Apigee guys with another great blog post if your business utilizes APIs. This may be the best blog along with programmable web on the subject.
4 quick links - 06/25/2012 (cranberry juice, digital maps, financials, 1st woman with a doctorate)
* Cranberry Juice battles courtesy of Gawker - great read about things our children eat/drink :)
* Slashdot comment battles over quality/creation of NAVTEQ maps - ah the hatred...
* Wisebread's view on thinking about what financial success means to you
* From Modern Historian, 334 years ago today first woman was given a doctorate Great to see history is many times much more interesting than fiction!
Three quick links - 06/21/2012 (Blackberry, Big Mac, iFTTT)
* Blackberry 10 hands on - Couple of interesting concepts such as "peeking" but other than that this seems too little & too late.
* Why does a big mac look different in a restaurant vs. the ad - All I can say is wow :)
* If you have never used IFTTT it may be time to start with the new look - Basically what if this then that does is that it checks for certain actions you perform on sites like facebook, twitter, google reader and allows you to perform other actions. For example, star an item in google reader and you can put it into your read it later list or you can send yourself an email indicating that the temperature is over 70 degrees in the morning.
4 quick links - 06/19/2012 (Factual Monetize API, Coyote, EC2 outage, Mobile Maps)
* New Monetize API from Factual - read more about it here and here, Groupon, Yelp and Living Social are already signed up.
* Coyote now collects more than 10 billion GPS probe measurements on annual basis.
* Lessons learned from Amazon EC2/EBS (Elastic Block Store) outage. Great read for sys admins, dev ops
* Mobile Maps use in numbers - some of the numbers are pretty staggering
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I have been asked recently about windows phone development and how it compares to development on other platforms. This article captures views from a few different companies and their thoughts on WP. Personally, I am still lacking Springpad, Mint, watchESPN, Dish Network, official Dropbox client, official Read It Later client. This is on top of certain apps which are subpar compared to their iOS and Android brethren, such as Spotify, Wonder Reader, YouTube, Trip Advisor and Twitter. Finally, seeing the number of daily application updates on my iPad and comparing those to my Lumia 900 (where i do have less apps but still...) it makes me realize that individual developers just may not have the need or desire to support the 3rd ecosystem despite their best intentions and feelings about the development environment.
4 quick links - 6/17/2012 (Amazon S3, oAuth, Facebook Social Science, Google Transparency Report)
* A little late from my side but had to share this - Amazon S3 reaches trillion records! Check out some of the amazing numbers shared in the blog post!
* Understanding OAuth - great post by Lifehacker showing how OAuth works and the benefits it provides to end users that utilize it on daily basis.
* Want an inside look into Facebook's social science teams and how they analyze us on daily basis? MIT Tech Review gets just that with a fascinating peek into the intersection of big data, social science and sheer potential that Facebook represents today.
* Wow, doubling of takedown requests by US Government to Google in the last year. The level of detail Google has on these requests on per country basis is pretty staggering. Having said that 40% compliance rate in US must not make the lawmakers very happy ;)