Robert Scoble interviews Nextstop guys who chose to go with a web app instead of a native app on the iPhone. Embedded video explains why and talks about some of the pitfall.s
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"Yes, the original festival is scheduled according to the pagan calendar. Must have been before they had accurate watches. I really do prefer the colder temperature and the snow does a lot to lighten up the mood."
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"Seems like a logical progression. Look at what happened to the PC. Who would have thought a web-based solution could threaten such full-featured packages such as Word or Excel? The question is how long it will take for mobile browsers to normalize and support phone features such as GPS, camera, and phone."
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Now the Internet has broken down the entire news package with articles read individually, reached from a blog or search engine, and abandoned if there is no good reason to hang around once the story is finished. It's what we have come to call internally the atomic unit of consumption. I certainly don't believe that the Internet will mean the death of news. Through innovation and technology, it can endure with newfound profitability and vitality. Video didn't kill the radio star. It created a whole new additional industry.
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"Great idea. Put a Yahoo Pipes type of front-end to it where people can share their filters and you've got the makings of a really interesting ecosytem."
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"Google buy Foursquare? That would be ironic. They were the original Dodgeball guys who famously left Google because of the lack of attention they were getting from management."
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The Designing Social Interfaces patterns wiki is a companion site to the book that Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone are currently writing for O'Reilly Media.
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"Thanks for sharing your experience. Everyone should have the chance to play Santa at some point in their life and have the, "privilege of witnessing innocence, happiness and anticipation." Well put!"
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"I don't remember what this contraption was called but the 6th graders used to give the other kids what they called "high-rides" which Becky describes above. The ring was jammed up against the pole with a several of us hanging on for dear life on the other end while they spun the thing around at top speed. It was a process of elimination, they would keep going until only one of us remained. I think there was woodchips around the immediate base but of course by the time you were thrown off the top end of the ring, a good 15 feet up, the centrifugal force would throw you well beyond any soft landing onto the rough asphalt beyond."
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It would be almost zero work for the company (foursquare) to add a second flag – perhaps titled “this is my freaking HOUSE” – which immediately deletes an address and prevents it from being re-added without proper verification. Sounds like a no-brainer
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John Battelle and Time O'Reilly update their pivotal Web 2.0 whitepaper to recognize the rise of mobile contexts, information shadows, and the Internet of Things.
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