8 posts and columns on Web app

News Byte

The “New New Twitter” Goes Global With Mobile Web Update

in Social on May 7 at 1:26 pm PT

Twitter pushed out an update to its mobile Web application on Monday, allowing users of smartphones and low-cost “feature phones” alike to view the same Twitter redesign first unveiled in December. As the majority of the world’s cellphones are still low-end devices (a.k.a. not smartphones), it’s a push to put the same version of Twitter in the hands of more global users — especially those who aren’t able to afford a shiny new iPhone.

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Financial Times Buys App Developer Assanka

in Media on January 5 at 4:57 am PT

The Financial Times has purchased Assanka, a London-based Web and app developer. The FT has already been working closely with the 12-person shop on projects like the Web app it built to replace the one it removed from Apple’s App store, as well as an Android app. FT CEO John Ridding announced the deal via an internal memo this morning.

Exclusive: Aviary Launches iPad Extensions Today, Keeps on Pivoting

in Mobile on October 10, 2011 at 10:00 am PT

In the next move of a massive pivot away from Flash, Aviary, the New York-based media editing start-up, released a new SDK for iPad developers today.
Aviary iPad

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Early Adopter: Think That Restaurant Looks Shady? Donteat.at Lets You Know for Sure

in News on February 25, 2011 at 10:01 am PT

It’s happened to everyone—the terrible fallout from eating at that unfamiliar restaurant with the spoons that were a little too greasy, or the chicken that was served a little too rare. New York University junior Max Stoller feels your pain, and built donteat.at to keep his fellow New Yorkers out of unclean restaurants and the gastric turmoil that inevitably follows.

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Thinking Outside the Dropbox with Minus–A New Image-Sharing Tool

in News on December 2, 2010 at 4:00 am PT

Friction: It keeps our shoes on, it’s a buzzword at product meetings and UX conferences and it’s the sticking force that keeps money in people’s pockets. So, reducing it can mean changing the game for an entire arena–just look at eBay’s PayPal and Netflix. Minus, a sharing service currently limited to images, mixes some HTML5 and cutting-edge Javascripting to lower the friction in online image sharing about as far as it can go without eliminating the drag-and-drop.

Google Buzz Makes Gmail Less Socially Awkward

in Mobile on February 9, 2010 at 10:27 am PT

Can a microblogging twist on Gmail raise Google’s profile in social networking? We’ll soon find out. At an event at company headquarters today, Google announced Google Buzz, a new Twitter-style status update system for the email service that will allow users to share their everyday mundanities and inanities and follow those of selected contacts.