Sep
12
2010
Link: Marco.org – Most common words unique to 1-star and 5-star App Store reviews
Marco Ament:
I wrote a script to crawl U.S. App Store customer reviews for the top 100 apps from every category (minus duplicates) and compute the most common words in 1-star and 5-star reviews, excluding words that were also common in 3-star reviews.
Sep
09
2010
Link: The Things He Carried
Fascinating article by Jeffery Goldberg of The Atlantic. He teamed up with security expert Bruce Schneier to highlight how inadequate the TSA’s $7billion security theatre really is.
Sep
09
2010
Stephen Hood:
[…] it may surprise you to learn that Google Instant is actually five years old. Yahoo built it back in 2005.
(via Google Instant is an example of how Yahoo could have won in search)
Sep
08
2010
Engadget reviews the new iPod Touch. Apart from the lack of a GPS, looks pretty nice. I’m ordering one now.
iPod touch review (2010) — Engadget
Sep
06
2010
Link: TV3 anchor lets rip online at coverage
Typical sensationalist reporting by the NZ Herald. Mike McRoberts made a single comment via Twitter which read:
actually what it reflects is a poor decision by 3 not to go with continuous coverage throughout the day. No lead in.
He hardly “let rip” as the Herald reported.
Sep
02
2010
General opinion is extremely positive:
Engadget: “we think the company has set the gold standard for Android tablets”
Gizmodo: “A limited look at the Galaxy Tab showed me all I needed to see: this thing is great”
Tim Bray: “Showing off Android is part of my job and this will help me do my job better.”
SlashGear: “we’re very impressed by Samsung’s first attempt at an Android slate”
TechRadar: “The screen size, hand-friendliness and simple ease of operation make this a potentially awesome gadget – now we just need to find out the price to see if it’s going to be really popular”
Sep
02
2010
Link: Compromising Twitter’s OAuth security system
Ryan Paul:
Sadly, Twitter’s extremely poor implementation of the OAuth standard offers a textbook example of how to do it wrong.
Sep
02
2010
Link: Skype Mobile for Android now works over 3G *and* Wifi (but still Verizon-only)
There’s lots to like about Android, but this really pisses me off. Why does the rest of the world have to miss out on using Skype on Android because of some exclusivity deal with Verizon?
Sep
02
2010
Link: 2degrees winning Vodafone customers
“On Saturday August 28th at 12.52pm a mobile user ported their Telecom 027 number to 2degrees, and in the course of doing so became the 100,000th customer to port their mobile number to New Zealand’s newest mobile network,” beamed a statement from the company today.
