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I will use this space to write about things that interest me in the web industry in order sharpen my point of view and build my context... - Ben Hedrington
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Bringing powerful tools to people who get it rather than changing the masses... >> "...the users who 'get it'" http://zd.net/awDxsX— August 30th via Twitter
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GEO++ (More GEO for you non programmer types!) >> ""Just at the beginning of location," says SimpleGEO CEO" http://j.mp/aZyqXK— August 30th via Twitter
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People with passion you can spot from a distance always win... >> "Professionals, amateurs and the great unwashed" http://j.mp/dn184p— August 30th via Twitter
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So true in my life... >> "Live TV Is For Old People: Time Shifting And Online Make Up Nearly Half Of All Viewing" http://j.mp/a7Tpxb— August 30th via Twitter
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Good read... >> "CMO Matrix: How Social Technology Must Integrate with Traditional Marketing, a Horizontal Approach" http://j.mp/di2RqJ— August 30th via Twitter
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Turning off HTC Sense UI on the HTC EVO 4G, Incredible and similar Android phones.
If you are lucky enough to have one of the new smoking fast, beautiful Android phones from HTC the Incredible or the EVO 4G you have little to complain about… but… well… some of us just aren’t in love with … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Web
Tagged Android, evo 4g, Google, htc sense ui, incredible, senseui, turn off
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Wow… ‘spy’ Plays a Small Part in Helping Volcano Stranded Travelers
Photo: Sverrir Thor It’s so humbling to see simple social networking tools like spy which I created on a whim be discovered and serve purposes on a level I never would have anticipated. I first saw this when people found … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media
Tagged eyjafjallajokull, getmehome, iceland, spy, stranded, travellers, volcano
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Building on the Open Web for the future… there isn’t an App for that.
This post is cross-posted from AppliedHTML5.com Photo: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid There is an interesting article I picked up today in Fast Company that quickly and succinctly cuts to the point of what these critical moves forward on the … Continue reading
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Early Experiments with Web Sockets
This post is cross-posted from AppliedHTML5.com Photo: z6p6tist6 Web Sockets are set to revolutionize the way the “real time web” works, today most websites use AJAX as a way to fake a real time dynamic experience… think a stream of … Continue reading
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Experiment: Browser Based Geolocation – HTML5 Points the Future of the Web
The adoption of HTML5 and its surrounding cast of powerful new features is going to be a huge boon to web users and points towards a very positive direction for the future of the web. From the smoother interfaces of … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Development, Mobile Web
Tagged Android, Apple, Browser Based, future, Gears, Geolocation, Google, Google App Engine, HTML5, iPhone, JavaScript, jQuery
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A Hands on Post From and About Google’s Chrome OS
In order to get my feet wet with Google’s Chrome OS (in it’s current developer build state, Chromium OS properly) and test a real world workflow with this “web only” device I figured I’d put together a blog post with … Continue reading
Installing Google Android for Mobile Browser Testing on Mac OS X
Browser testing is critical to any web developer, designer… really any web professional. You need to know how your users or customers are seeing your work through the multitude of browsers and devices available to them, new ones become available … Continue reading
Posted in General, Mobile Web
Tagged Android, Browser Testing, Google, How To, Install, Mac, OS X, OSX, SDK
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Embedding my first Google Wave into WordPress!
This is a test! Below I embedded my first Wave “Hello World… I mean Wave!”… The first of many likely… let’s see what it looks like out in public… I know many of you probably can’t see it… This is … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Development, General, Mobile Web, Social Media
Tagged Google Wave, Wordpress
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Best Buy speaks Google App Engine at Google I/O 2009
I was very excited to not just attend but be a part of Google I/O 2009, Google’s annual developer conference. A Best Buy contingent of Steve Bendt, Gary Koelling and myself as well as uber developers Curtis Thompson and Thomas … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Development, General
Tagged #io2009, Best Buy, Google App Engine, Google IO, HTML5
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Problem Solving: Get Google App Engine working on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)
By default the Google App Engine SDK doesn’t run on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackelope)… You can fix it! After a little searching I noticed neither posts about this issue nor a quick fix were top of the Google rankings… hoping … Continue reading