Facebook are famous for their hacking culture and employees frequently participate in internal hackathons to try out new ideas and generally build something cool that will impress their peers. Reportedly as many as 70% of hackathon projects ship and notable Facebook features such as Timeline were the product of hackathons. In addition to internal hackathons Facebook frequently teams [...]
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Karmr – social sharing and rewarding of positive actions
It is undeniable that social media is a hugely powerful thing. Be it the ability to share your life’s experiences with friends and family on Facebook, follow up-to-the-minute buzz on Twitter or create photo or video logs of your life on Instagram or Vine, social media is well and truly part of modern society. Is [...]
Karmr and startup metrics for fat pirates
As some of you may know, Karmr is a social network for actions. It works a lot like other social networks except that, in the same way as Instagram and Vine chose to focus on a specific media type, we chose to focus on a topic type – things that people did. There is an [...]
Radial and rectangular sinusoidal damping functions for iOS game dev in Cocos2d
I had to make a function that morphed the contents of an area in a Cocos2d game recently and I came across the problem of blending the effect inside my affected area with the outside. To overcome this and remove the sharp transition that was visible I created a couple of damping functions – one [...]
Asynchronous processes in Android – Extending the AsyncTask class
A common requirement in any data driven Android app is the ability to download data asynchronously. This might be to lookup locations for a Google Maps view or to acquire dynamic app data. In order to do this you need to create a nested inner class that extends the AsyncTask class. To do this is [...]
I predict: #Nokia – #wp7 tanks. #Microsoft remember business customers and buy #rim. @selop fired, #samsung buy nokia for patents & #Meego
So that’s what I tweeted. Why? Well, lets break it down: #Nokia – #wp7 tanks Both Microsoft and Nokia are companies that have had huge success but both of them are struggling to compete in the smartphone arena with the iPhone and various Android handsets. Nokia spent a huge amount of time and money developing [...]
The future of eCommerce – mCommerce?
I was lucky enough to be invited into the Magento Mobile introductory Webinar which was very interesting and very well put together. The content will shortly be available on the Magento website. So, what is this mobile commerce, or mCommerce to the cool kids, all about? Well for starters mCommerce sales already account for $2.5 billion per [...]
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