What a great surprise app release this is. You may remember that Panic created a storm when they blogged about the internal HTML status board they created for their development team, displayed on the wall on an HD TV.
Status Board for iPad by Panic
Facebook vs. The world
You’ve got to hand it to Facebook. With the announcement of Facebook Home they may well disrupt mobile advertising and handsets in a really significant way. A very shrewd move.
What will Dropbox become?
Dropbox has nothing but a somewhat trusted brand despite repeated password hacks, and a smart filesystem driver/integration, and as a result of this a sizeable user base. Those are all that differentiate it from the army of file sharing web sites that existed prior to it. They do not have a “sync” service, they have a last-write wins distributed filesystem. There is nowhere else to go with the service as it stands.
Now Dropbox buys the iOS Mailbox app, which was previously only for Gmail. Next Yahoo announces it will be integrating Dropbox into Yahoo! Mail to make it easier to transfer large files. Will Dropbox really add their own e-mail service to the Mailbox app? Or will they cut a deal with Yahoo! Mail?
Trying out Philips Hue lights
I recently bought a set of Philips Hue LED bulbs to try out. I feel there is some potential for innovative apps for them, so I wanted to use them for a while to get some ideas firmed up and see how it feels to live in the future.
Starting a new blog
It’s time to start something new.