Solution for Flash Dev’s wanting to make iPhone Apps
I think I have come up with a solution for the Flash developers to get around the new changes in Apple’s Developer license agreement.
Alex Eckermann
Click a link to go a site? Facebook knows what you did there.
Its public knowledge that Facebook log’s your movement on the site but little known is that when you click on a link to go off of Facebook it logs that too.
Why? To be creepy? Most likely but not entirely.
Lets say I click on a link from a friend to go to a site about F1 motorsport and Mark Webber’s latest crash/accident/breakdown. Facebook log’s that you left the site to go to www.markwebbercrash.com (not sure if that site exists, just an example).
What that has the potential to do - meaning its theoretical and somewhat a conspiracy theory - is sweap the page you went to and find keywords. In the example it would quickly find out that the site was about motorsport and mark webber.
What happens next? Well when your back in Facebook they could directly target ad’s at you for F1 memorabilia. Yup its all about advertising.
The amount of data that they farm and can use to target you is phenomenal.
Obama buying a Star Wars Pop Up Book!
officially the coolest president. ever.
i hope he actually bought that book.
2 Cents: “iPhone mania sees app creators miss out” [The Australian]
Article: The Australian, iPhone mania sees app creators miss out
[…] companies failed to realise that there were barely a million iPhones in Australia compared to more than 20 million handsets from other manufacturers.
That may by true. However, the other mobiles may not have the capability to install App’s or have a marketplace to buy apps from. Sure most phones from 2004 have had WAP browsers but has anyone actually tried them? They are horrible!
I believe that the iPhone is one of the first devices to bring the actual web to the mobile space, by allowing actual HTML and CSS. It is in no comparison to the other 20 million devices that may be phones like the Nokia 3310. I feel its comparing Apples (hehe) with Eggs, not even in the same food group!
incredible photos of the Russian Lun (“Hen Harrier”) ekranoplan at its current resting place in Kaspiysk.
photos of the inside here
(via BoingBoing, and submitted by Philip J. Hollenback and “lighthead”, thanks)
These planes-boats are awesome!
Tides turning? Gaming coming to Mac in a big way?
Steam announced it will release a Mac version of its Application soon. Which is very promising.
But this morning I stumbled onto this over at Engadget. Razer makes some specific gaming peripherals and having them make ALL new products work on Mac is big.
They know something we don’t yet? Which makes me think maybe its just more than a Steam Desktop App they are porting.
Is 2010 the year that gaming finally switches to a Mac? I could then blow away my Boot Camp partition :D
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