November 3rd, 2010 § § permalink
This morning a client was panicked that we have been banned by Google because Google analytics was showing zero data for yesterday. A quick check on a few other accounts and everything was clear: a pretty nasty bug is causing this. From what people on twitter are saying it has been going for the past 10 hours.
No official reaction yet from Google Analytics blog but expect one soon. My estimate is that is just a reporting error and all the data should appear soon.
Summarizing, google analytics reports missing is just a display bug.
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October 31st, 2010 § § permalink
See below a 44 min presentation done by Aza Raskin on how inception could be performed by brands using our social streams. The presentation is focused around the idea that big companies, with our acknowledgement, may alter our past (tweets/images/personal videos) for a new breed of product placement.
Keynote for the John Seely Brown Symposium at University of Michigan from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
You’d might think that this sounds like fantasy and is never going to happen, but also people thought that 1984 is just another dystopic novel.
October 28th, 2010 § § permalink
The Yahoo Messenger team has kept their promise made when they launched the 2.0 version of their Iphone / Ipod Touch app and today they released version 2.0.1 that enables video calling for Ipod Touch users that have the latest (4th) generation.
This is a big step not only for Yahoo but for all the Iphone / Ipod Touch users that will benefit from the new standards imposed by Yahoo. Let’s see who’s going to be next:
- Skype? They have the infrastructure as Fring used their API to do the same thing. It should be very easy for them to turn it on
- Google? They don’t have a custom Gtalk Iphone / Ipod Touch app but would add value to their current IM offering
I know that there are other apps around that provide the same features, but let’s face it. Without multi platform integration and forcing the users to subscribe to yet another service is freaking epic fail.
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October 24th, 2010 § § permalink
A few days ago I’ve received a newsletter from the Etacts team regarding an update of their product. Today I wanted it to give it a try but surprise surprise is not compatible with the Firefox 4 beta. This is one of the most basic mistakes done by startups.
The idea is: when you have a young product targeted to early adopters, you make sure that you blend well in their environment. Otherwise, like in the case of Etacts, you are going to loose the momentum and all your PR and development efforts are going to be less efficient
October 12th, 2010 § § permalink
As was previously announced, Yahoo Messenger 2.0 is now live on the Apple Store. Unfortunately this is not the best app and is missing the basic things:
- As an app specifically builty for iOS 4.1, the icons are not made for the retina screen and look like crap
- Even though the Ipod Touch 4th gen has 2 cameras and works with Face time, Yahoo made this version compatible only with Iphone 3GS and 4
Hopefully, based on user pressure we will be seeing a new version pretty soon that fixes all this issues
UPDATE:
And here we have it, an official answer from the development team, on their official blog:
We’re working on support for video on iPod Touch 4 and hope to release an update very shortly. Appreciate your patience.
Sherrine
Yahoo! Messenger Team
So, I just hope that short means short 
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