February 2012
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December 2011
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Unoccupy and do something
In Toronto the occupy movement lasted six weeks and cost the city $714,000 (source http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20111223/occupy-toronto-costs-city-111223/20111223/?hub=TorontoNewHome)
Now imaging those hundred or so people did something productive instead of destroying a beautiful city park, decreasing visits to area businesses (except for the occupiers that would spend time at...
November 2011
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Indigo exits next
The massive (in price and implications) news that Ratuken is acquiring Kobo (http://blog.kobobooks.com/rakuten-to-acquire-kobo/) left me a little dumbfounded to understand the deal. (Disclaimer: I was contracted by Indigo to build the iOS ebook reader prior to the Kobo spinoff)
One the price, $315M means about a 6x return for investors of the last round just a handful of months ago. Yes the...
October 2011
1 post
Getting back at it
There have been several issues on mobile, startups, politics, and life that I’ve wanted to discuss that are too limited by 140 characters.
February 2011
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Task Ave: We Care #1 - Saving Your Battery →
taskave:
There have been several comments and questions on the App Store, the Twitters, and via email concerning the use of GPS and its effects on the battery life of your device. Let’s answer those questions and clear up some misconceptions. We’ll start with what you need to know, then get into the…
January 2011
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Erin Bury's random musings: Location-aware... →
erinbury:
Some amazing projects have come out of Startup Weekends around the world - Foodspotting anyone? So it’s no surprise that Toronto’s first Startup Weekend in September was full of innovative ideas. The winner of the competition was Task Ave., a location-aware reminder app built by some of my…
August 2010
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Erin Bury's random musings: The 8 iPhone apps I... →
I’m pretty obsessed with my iPhone. I used to live in BlackBerry world, blissfully unaware of what I was missing. But now I’ve crossed over and there’s no going back. I’m not so hard-core that I have the iPhone 4 on pre-order, but I’m obsessed enough that if it dies I have mini panic attacks.
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April 2010
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WatchHow to scroll google reader on the ipad
February 2010
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Connecting Google Buzz and Twitter
Sending tweets to Buzz
1. In Buzz click on “X connected sites” next to your name
2. Click to “Add” Twitter, enter your Twitter handle
3. And you’re done
Now there is no authentication going on here, you are just telling Buzz to pull in all the tweet from the screen name you gave it. You don’t have to enter your own, but why would you want someone...
December 2009
4 posts
Kindle Xmas day sales is a story
It’s been interesting to read the reaction to the vague report of ebook sales for the Kindle http://mashable.com/2009/12/26/kindle-ebook-sales/ and the ensuing discussion. In particular, that it is a non-story.
The argument goes something along the lines of “sure all the books were bought before Christmas and the Kindle gifts drove up the ebook sales numbers”. This is a...
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The iPhone sucks for developers.
smack416:
I keep seeing this mantra repeated again and again, with the latest attack coming in Dave Winer’s “zealotry sucks” article where he concludes:
“I thought about returning my Droid and decided to keep it. Because while it is a piece of shit phone, at least it’s good for developers, and Verizon knows what it’s doing with its phone network. It sucks less than the iPhone. But it still...
November 2009
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“My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s...”
– Joe Hewitt, developer of the Facebook iPhone app. (via davidkaneda) (via balanon)
Testing Tumblr for iPhone
This is a test
Moving
So i never got around to resurrecting my old WP database to restore this blog so I’m starting fresh with tumblr and will possibly import all those old posts if I ever find the time.
I’ll be slow to start here, but expect it to pick up once it do. Twitter stream http://twitter.com/mhp has been my primary communication medium, but the 140 char limits the ideas I have shared.