Switching to a Lumia 800 Windows Phone

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Today marks the first day of a total immersive switch to a Lumia 800 Windows Phone. I will be using the phone day-in and day-out for the next 4 weeks. I’ve never been away from an iPhone device for longer than 1 week since the original iPhone launched. So I will be recording highs and [...]

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Confoo 2012. Mobile API, Design & Techniques

If designing a web API is hard, designing a mobile API is even harder. With heavy constraints such as bandwidth, latency and CPU power, developing a mobile API is a challenge for the service provider and the application developer. As mobile devices become ubiquitous and connected, offering the best user experience in mobile application is [...]

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HTML5 for mobile development is a low octane gasoline

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More and more we are hearing people present and discuss the virtues of HTML5 as the new revolution in mobile development. How it will solve publication delays with the AppStore; how it will address all mobile platforms with a quick sweep of the magic wand; how much easier it is to rework a brand’s current [...]

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Using Campfire for discussions and fun

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Everyday, at WhereCloud, our team connects virtually using Campfire from 37Signals. Campfire is a collaborative chat system that allows a group of users to share text messages, in addition to pictures and tweets, via a web interface. In retrospect, it’s interesting that we use a chatting system when everyone’s desk is no farther than a [...]

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Path2 and lessons in mobile design best practices

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Loic Le Meur (@loic) recently did a very good interview with Dave Morin (@davemorin), CEO & Co-Founder of Path, at LeWeb 2011. In this interview, Dave was very straighforward and candid about the journey his team took to build the second version of Path (aka Path2). I have captured what I think are the key elements of [...]

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