CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-06-20 00:42:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

You guys can't miss these awesome videos from Chrome Mobile Summit 2013:
Mobile Performance
http://youtu.be/tADvcuYn8Po
Mobile Media: Images, Video, Audio, and WebRTC 
http://youtu.be/bSADRSs6m8o
Tools and Testing
http://youtu.be/SOO9Kb1-JJU

2013-06-19 15:39:57 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 5 +1s)

Good story about how Pocket got started and is now a popular verb.

2013-06-19 00:50:16 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 5 +1s)

DevTools port forwarding allows localhost URLs to work on mobile

+Umar Hansa shares his new workflow:
1. Chrome to Phone my localhost URL from desktop
2. Remote Debug the mobile localhost page and enable port forwarding
3. Refresh and observe that no command line was needed!

Keep in mind that Port Forwarding is an experimental feature.

Chrome to phone: chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-chrome-to-phone-ex/oadboiipflhobonjjffjbfekfjcgkhco?hl=en
ADB Extension: github.com/repenaxa/ADBPlugin

Full size animation: http://cl.ly/image/200y1f2L0I2u (6.2mb)
See +Paul Irish's Google I/O video for more cutting edge devtools features: http://youtu.be/x6qe_kVaBpg

2013-06-18 23:11:48 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

One of several reasons I put the brakes on AirBNB trips.

2013-06-19 09:35:51 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 21 +1s)

In which Russel Brand schools the hosts, who keep referring to him in 3rd person, and leaves them speechless. Watch from 6:00-8:30 if time-pressed.

2013-06-18 15:14:24 (5 comments, 3 reshares, 21 +1s)

Not sure if/how I can embed a Vine here, but this is awesome.

https://vine.co/v/blrW6wMzEpa

2013-06-18 15:08:42 (1 comments, 7 reshares, 5 +1s)

Those Buffer guys definitely have a solid grasp on social media, here's their take on the wording.

2013-06-18 14:27:29 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Interesting results from an experiment I ran recently to switch Google+ from downloading CSS via XHR to using the link tag.

We were using XHR to download CSS (this was to work around an issue in IE - exceeding the limit on the number of rules in a single stylesheet; for convenience we used XHR for all browsers). When it came it our attention that XHRs are requested at low priority (unless they are sync), we decided to run an experiment to see its impact on G+ latency.

In SPDY capable browsers this resulted in a big latency improvement. In Chrome 27 we saw a 4x speedup at the median, and 5x at 25th percentile. In Firefox 21 we saw a 5x speedup at median, and 8x at 25th percentile. No significant impact was seen at the 99th percentile.

In conclusion, in a SPDY world, XHRs are requested at low priority (except sync XHRs), and are opaque to the browser. Using declarative markup... more »

2013-06-17 14:02:03 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

\o/ I thought this would take another 10 years! Looks like the EU is serious about cutting all roaming charges, and that includes internet access (which the EU have previously not bothered much about).

Taking a short train ride shouldn't end up costing you several pounds/Euros per MB. Let's hope this passes ...

2013-06-17 09:38:18 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

I wanted to revisit an article I wrote about common design mistakes a year or so ago and list common things in Android apps that should be avoided.

2013-06-16 11:18:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Good non-aggressive  #microcopy  in Plus profile photo upload.

"This photo is very small. Do you have a better one?"

2013-06-16 10:31:00 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 9 +1s)

As was announced at Google I/O, the PHP runtime for App Engine has been launched (https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/).

We've just announced the Google App Engine WordPress plugin, which wires together some WordPress features with App Engine APIs, for now including:
 - Sending e-mail using the Mail API.
 - Uploading and serving media files to Google Cloud Storage.

See the post for info on installation and configuration.
And while Google App Engine for PHP is in Preview, keep track of what's new on  http://gaeforphp-blog.appspot.com/ -- itself a Wordpress install running on App Engine.

#appengine #php 

2013-06-15 07:37:57 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

Please watch the 1st episode on Monday Jun 17 @ 1pm Pacific Time on Google Developers Live! :)

https://developers.google.com/live/shows/4910830172766208

2013-06-14 20:26:18 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

+Paul Kinlan I forgot to ask about your Android HDMI screencasting. I can do HDMI out from Android, but what do you pipe that into?

2013-06-14 20:24:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Nailed it!

2013-06-14 20:23:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Ouch ... good argument for politicians to renew their domain names.

http://higginsforcouncil.com/
via https://twitter.com/vielmetti/status/345631041043722240

2013-06-14 09:34:27 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

+Billy Shakespeare! Is this something to do with you? #dream40  

2013-06-14 03:32:16 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

Nice license plate!

2013-06-14 01:25:18 (7 comments, 4 reshares, 7 +1s)

This is by far the best take on iOS7 I've seen. Exactly my thoughts (just put into a much better form than I could evert put them). I'm happy that iOS has taken the best features around and made them even better. Now Android has to catch up and make our phones even better. Competition is good for us, the consumers. This will push Google's team to work even harder than they have before.

If you don't yet follow +Marques Brownlee or have subscribed to his youtube channel do it now. It's one of the best sources for level headed and well informed discussion starters and thoughts about tech.

2013-06-12 16:52:40 (14 comments, 3 reshares, 15 +1s)

Further thoughts on current challenges in mobile web development. +James King turned this around in less than 24 hours!

2013-06-11 00:37:07 (3 comments, 9 reshares, 11 +1s)

Fries is an awesome mobile UI development framework (yes, not just for prototyping!) for Android apps using just HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

Check it out on: http://jaunesarmiento.me/fries/

#android #framework

2013-06-11 00:27:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Pleased to be transferring Control Freak extension to +Dmitry Sorin, who recently patched it to sync across Chromes. There's so much more it could do and looking forward now to seeing it evolve.

(It was based on jQuery 1.4 til he patched it!)

2013-06-11 00:14:39 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Moving keychain passwords to the cloud, now that iCloud has 2-factor authentication, reminds me of those studies where people drive faster if they're required to wear seatbelts.

Not actually a bad thing; it's just an example of fixing the risk level and reverse-engineering it by adjusting the influencing variables.

2013-06-11 00:00:16 (16 comments, 3 reshares, 19 +1s)

I'm sure everyone's guilty of one or two of these :).

2013-06-10 23:07:38 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

This morning, 18 signatories representing a broad coalition of individuals from across standards bodies, organizations, browser vendors and groups signed a declaration of principles laying out a vision to change the way we develop and standardize the Web Platform. #extendthewebforward.

2013-06-10 19:26:18 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/

So glad to hear multitasking is coming. And I like how it's adaptive...tries to figure out the best time of day to sync.

2013-06-10 14:50:23 (13 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Linode Managed hasn't exactly turned out to be what I expected. Anyone using Rackspace Managed Cloud or similar?

2013-06-10 08:05:52 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Listening to Episode 14: Bitcoin, Bankrobbers and Billionaires (just noticed the new episode!)

2013-06-07 23:01:45 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 9 +1s)

Firefox OS Tablet Hands On at Computex 2013

Ok I have to admit that we weren't really allowed to do a hands on which in my opinion was a huge disappointment!
How can we report about a new and promising platform when you can't even let us play with it for some minutes?

2013-06-07 22:47:55 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 8 +1s)

LOL !!

2013-06-07 17:48:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

The word “almost” has an unusual property: its letters (a, l, m, o, s, t) appear in the word in alphabetical order. There are other words like this that have at least six letters, as shown in the picture. The longest of these is aegilops, which is a type of grass.

If, like me, you enjoy this sort of thing, you may be interested in the web page where I found this information (http://goo.gl/b54Je). That site contains as many word oddities as anyone could want, and some more.

#words   #wordsmith  

2013-06-07 17:07:25 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

A very well written summary of the mobile web.  I really like "There is no pixel-perfect" section - I remember getting screamed at by a well known publishing brand for saying that their image only rendering of magazine pages is not what we want on the web.  Apparently pixel perfection trumps accessibility, search-ability and search engine index-ability.

http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/mobile-first-web/

2013-06-07 14:37:15 (1 comments, 63 reshares, 47 +1s)

http://www.masswerk.at/404

2013-06-06 12:05:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Some HN-related sites and communities.

I added a link to this one of course!

2013-06-06 11:39:39 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

"UX isn’t graphic design and it isn’t web design and it isn’t (just) making wireframes. An experienced UX practitioner will guide you from research to product launch."

2013-06-06 11:10:44 (5 comments, 27 reshares, 65 +1s)

2013-06-06 11:11:57 (2 comments, 8 reshares, 33 +1s)

So...Is this true, iPhone users?

2013-06-05 21:15:00 (2 comments, 25 reshares, 17 +1s)

Superb video filtering with WebGL

http://seriouslyjs.org/

2013-06-05 21:02:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

20 patterns of Developer Experience

2013-06-05 21:00:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"Design your API for developers first, they are the main users. In that respect, simplicity and intuitivity matter."

2013-06-05 20:59:02 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Conclusive proof everything tastes kind of like chicken.

https://twitter.com/dcurtis/status/342369740175581185

2013-06-05 15:04:18 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 3 +1s)

+Dion Almaer and +Ben Galbraith on building great products with the web, as the web gets ever more complex.

2013-06-05 14:09:42 (0 comments, 19 reshares, 21 +1s)

>mfw I get the jokes

2013-06-05 07:37:41 (4 comments, 6 reshares, 13 +1s)

Ever lose your keys or get locked out? (Don’t worry, we all have.) Fret no more! An electronic door lock and a pill can change all that. Swallow this vitamin authentication pill and turn yourself into an 18-bit authentication token.
Learn More: http://goo.gl/ntmnn

(Photo: http://www.theverge.com/)

2013-06-04 22:15:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Simultaneous Chess in style.

@ Brick Lane

2013-06-04 15:30:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Want to be able to build home screen web apps like forecast.io for Android? Please star this bug: http://crbug.com/153066

2013-06-04 15:24:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Just the whole idea of Paxman grilling Scoble makes me giggle.

2013-06-04 12:42:08 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

Friendly non-warning signs by +National Trust.

http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/30/warning-signs-at-historical-sites-tell-visitors-to-relax-and-enjoy-themselves/

2013-06-04 11:03:37 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

via latest Stack podcast