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About Me
I'm an advisor to Zaarly and the CTO and co-founder of Artisan Global LLC. We make location-aware mobile apps with maps. I also enjoy surfing, snowboarding, golfing, yoga, and music. I love my family and our cats Remy and Twiggy. They make sure I don't work too hard.
Tweets from ReallyVirtual - “the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it.”
Marco Arment on Removing the Free Version of Instapaper from the App Store
There are many reasons given - the effect on branding is insightful:
If you have a free version of your app, that will be the only version many people will ever see. So, for the Free users, that app — that extremely limited app that lacks almost all of Instapaper’s best features — is what they think Instapaper is.
Square’s Keith Rabois: Websites are dead, reinvent for mobile | VentureBeat
Totally agree:
Source: bijan“the website as you know it” is “dead, dying, will be dying,” and that the future lies in reinventing Web experiences on the mobile phone.
many smart folks have been saying this for a long time and it’s so damn true.
ArcGIS API for iOS 1.8 Now Available
Lots of great new features including:
- Continuous panning across date line
- Sketching and editing
- Routing
- Local geometry engine
- Custom callouts
- Time aware layers
Don’t forget to check out the updated developer samples!
QuakeFeed in ArcWatch Today
Our QuakeFeed app was mentioned in the April issue of ArcWatch today.
Spatial analysis is also increasingly possible on mobile devices. QuakeFeed is an app from Artisan Global that runs on iPhone. It allows the listing, mapping, and querying of current earthquakes anywhere in the world. This image shows epicenters of quakes in and around Japan according to data taken from a smartphone a week after the major earthquake struck.
Twilio Engineering Blog
A blog to watch. Looks like they’ll be covering some heavy topics.
Hashable now supports searching by location
Cool integration of location into an already useful app.
Ever have trouble remembering someone you met – and wish you had a way to look them up based on WHERE and WHEN you met them?
Presto! There is a powerful new feature in your website address book that lets you sort your contacts by where and when you connected with them.
SimpleGeo Announces Open Data Licensing
Interesting move by SimpleGeo:
It is our belief that facts should be free, as in freedom.
Product Design at GitHub
Every employee at GitHub is a product designer. We only hire smart people we trust to make our product better. We don’t have managers dictating what to work on. We don’t require executive signoff to ship features. Executives, system administrators, developers, and designers concieve, ship, and remove features alike.Everyone is a product designer
How the iPad Is Really Eating the PC
Becoming part of children’s culture. The single biggest way that the iPad is setting the stage for the decline of the PC is that iPad is winning the hearts and minds of children. […] If you’ve got kids, you know that children are obsessed with the iPad. The brand mindshare for iPad on America’s playgrounds is shockingly high, right up there with Disney. These kids will never, ever have any interest in using a mouse.
