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- Through The Eyes of Success Documentary Featuring Boris VVZ
- 5 Ways Apple Can Make The iPad App Store Much Better
- iPhone 4 Pre-orders in US Start Shipping
- Notepad.cc: The minimalist notepad in the cloud.
- How To Get Emails Notifications From Your Facebook Fan Page
| Through The Eyes of Success Documentary Featuring Boris VVZ Posted: 20 Jun 2010 02:03 PM PDT
In the first edition of this series we followed Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, co-founder of Twittercounter & The Next Web Conference and blog. We got to witness his success first hand during “The Next Web Conference 2010″. Through the eyes of success is a series by KBIRI and Eye-wear.nl, in which you get a glimpse of what the world looks like through the eyes of a genuinely successful entrepreneur. How does it feel?, what is at stake? Are there moments of doubt and stress? How does he cope with it and especially once success is accomplished what is the first thing he does? Eye-wear.nl gives the people this opportunity because it believes that success is just a matter of how you look at the world. PS. Special thanks goes to Eye-Wear.nl & Bernd Damme for supplying Boris, Tessa and Arjen with some nice Tom Fords.
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| 5 Ways Apple Can Make The iPad App Store Much Better Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:13 PM PDT
While it continues to sell like hotcakes and new significant apps appear nearly everyday, the iPad platform has at least one glaring weakness regarding apps compared to its big brother the iPhone: the iPad App Store ain’t that great. This isn’t a scale problem either – the problems below have been there since the iPad launched. Here are the ways in which we think it can be much better: Redesign the “Featured” page from scratch
The “Featured” page in the iPad App Store is pretty much useless. First of all, the number of apps that it displays is minimal. Secondly, do we really need to know what Apple’s staff think are good apps? Third, the navigation is really clunky with those small arrows – more on that below -and the “In the Spotlight” at the top of the page frankly make the apps look horrible. Fourth, on both the “New and Noteworthy” and the “Staff Favorites” there are a very limited number of apps that scroll around without telling you you’ve reached the end of the list. Of the four ways to find apps in the iPad App Store, this page is by far the worst. Auto-refresh to show more apps on the Top Charts
Of the current options to discover apps for the iPad in the App Store, the Top Charts screen is probably the best way. Not only does it look good in both portrait and landscape views, but the side-by-side comparison of paid and free apps is quite useful. That said, it would be nice if it was possible to just scroll down on one column at a time, as sometime you’re looking to spend some money, and sometimes you’re not. The best way to make this page better, however, would be to load more apps at a time. As it is right now, you have to hit the (poorly placed) “Show More” text – which if they are going to keep this less-than-idealshould really be a big button – numerous times if you want to drill down to see more apps. It’s slow and annoying to go through only 10 apps at a time, and would be much better served if it simply auto-refreshed when you get to the bottom of the page. Also, does anyone (other than Apple and developers) really care what the “Top Grossing Apps” are? Wasted screen space. Get rid of those awful small navigation arrowsOf all the problems of the iPad App Store, the small navigation arrows to slide screens is probably the biggest. Why is this necessary on a multi-touch device? Why can’t we just slide the screens from left to right like in nearly every touchscreen app there is? Those arrows just don’t make any sense whatsoever. Improve comments on apps pages
The way that comments on app pages are set up are another annoying part of the iPad App Store. First of all, the number of overall comments never seems to be right. Secondly, why only show 5 reviews at a time – most reviews are only a few words, and again, having to click the “Move” text just takes too much time (and again, why not a bigger button?). Build it for the iPad not for a PCWhile writing this review, we’ve come to a realization – the iPad App Store is ironically the much more like what we would expect for a PC with a mouse interface, and not built around the tremendous multi-touch capability of the iPad. Hopefully, Apple will simply trash most of it (though as we said, with a few modifications, Top Charts should stay) and give us a new store, maybe in time for the iOS4 launch on the iPad this fall. If Apple doesn’t feel like innovating, then they should just port the much more intuitive iPhone App Store to the iPad and be done with it. Original title and link for this post: 5 Ways Apple Can Make The iPad App Store Much Better |
| iPhone 4 Pre-orders in US Start Shipping Posted: 20 Jun 2010 10:21 AM PDT
Multiple sources are reporting that iPhone 4 pre-orders have been shipped, with a June 23 delivery date, or one day before the launch of the phones in stores. If you have received your shipping confirmation and see a different date (or anything else you wish to share) please let us know in the comments!
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| Notepad.cc: The minimalist notepad in the cloud. Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:29 AM PDT
Visit Notepad.cc, start typing in the white area and the text is saved. Grab the short URL on the bottom of the page, add a password too if you wish, share with others or visit the URL on other devices – works great on the iPad. You can collaborate on pages but you won’t see changes in real time a la Google Wave, I was hoping you would – probably the only down side. There are other simple web based notepad ideas out there (see SimpleNote, Simpletext) but nothing that manages to remain this simple and still include a few notable features. If you’re a developer however, you should definitely check this out. The app is developed by Jacob Bijani, Tumblr’s Creative Director. Original title and link for this post: Notepad.cc: The minimalist notepad in the cloud. |
| How To Get Emails Notifications From Your Facebook Fan Page Posted: 20 Jun 2010 02:42 AM PDT
Email notifications on Facebook? Yes, but only for comments left on groups and personal profiles. Unfortunately that's how Facebook currently does things. No email notifications for the administrators of Facebook Fan Pages. How to solve the problem? It’s a hack but it's a simple one. I found out about it thanks to a suggestion by @dogwalkblog. 1) Just click on the 'Like' option at the bottom of the entries you post on your Facebook Fan Page. You'll receive an email notification every time someone comments on it.
2) Make sure that all the boxes under 'Links' in your notification account settings are checked (Account Settings > Notifications > Links)
Why this is useful? This is a great way to monitor comments on recent and especially previous updates. Without email notifications there's simply no other way to be notified on any interaction on older updates shared on your Facebook Page. If you have any other suggestion or tips on how to get Facebook Fan Pages email notifications, do in the comments or via twitter @vascellari (please remember to link back to this post so it will be easier to track and aggregate the conversation, thanks). Original title and link for this post: How To Get Emails Notifications From Your Facebook Fan Page |
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