I have started this blog to keep track of all the interesting stuff I read about. In some cases, friends of mine have shared their cool stuff with me. I try to keep the headlines and descriptions short, so you must follow the links to read and decide for yourself if a topic is worth your time. Want to contribute? Just comment on any of the stories and I will be notified instantly.Sina Weibo is a Chinese microblogging website, but more like a hybrid of Facebook and Twitter.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
The Cyclops Cap
This is an interesting concept, but it looks too bulky. And if I want to change caps, I have to buy a different one.
My praps for caps is much simpler and does not have these problems. Plus it's only $1 for two praps. The Cyclops Cap is going for $85.
CAPTCHAs Are Broken
Smartphone Arduino Shield
From TC:
Your smartphone is packed with tons of sensors — many of them the same types of sensors that you might want to strap on to an Arduino by way of a shield. It's got Bluetooth. It's got WiFi. It's got gyroscopes, and accelerometers, and a touchscreen that can emulate all sorts of keypads and display types. Why not let your smartphone share those capabilities with your Arduino, effectively allowing it to provide the prototyping functionality of dozens of different shields? That's the idea behind 1sheeld.
Very cool for prototyping future hardware projects.
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
CardFlight: App Dev Payments
CardFlight provides an SDK for app developers to incorporate payments into their apps.
From TC review:
While other companies like Square and PayPal have provided businesses with the ability to collect payments with mobile credit card readers, businesses are reliant on the provider's apps to process those payments. CardFlight provides its clients with card readers, and also gives them an SDK to build payment processing into their own branded apps.
CardFlight has SDKs available for both iOS and Android platforms, and connects with 23 different payment processors. The company's gateway also allows clients to connect apps with their own internal CRM, inventory management, fulfillment, and reporting and analytics tools.
Friday, September 27, 2013
ScreenHero: Modern Screen Sharing
With ScreenHero two people can work together on the same document with two different cursors.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Mixing Designs With Friends
Studio is an app with which you can mix and remix pictures or designs with your buddies. There is even talk about remixing with branded designs.
On Studio, you can remix other people's designs by swapping out the base photo with one of your own, and then re-share the design.
There are controls for just about anything, with options to rotate and crop the photo, add filters, adjust brightness and saturation, as well as adding the aforementioned text, borders and designs.
For example, my sister could share a photo of herself on the beach with a special border and the text "Hang Ten." I could then remix that photo and place the same border and text on a picture of my 10 toes hanging over the edge of a surfboard.
Friday, September 20, 2013
Monday, September 16, 2013
Best Responsive Table
Here is some awesome response code for table data that looks great on PC, table, or phone. Very great work indeed.
Friday, August 23, 2013
Thursday, August 08, 2013
Capture Phone Screens 4 Testing
Now you can capture the screens a user is seeing on your site, just like you can do today with regular PC browsers. This is good for improving your site by collecting visual feedback from all your users.
Whether the app is in beta or live, Watchsend users can specify exactly what pages they want to record, which are then encrypted and secured in its data base. All recordings come with screen annotations of taps, swipes and presses, as well as a timeline of the user's actions. App developers can then go in and view them, using very specific search terms to navigate the vast number of videos collected.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Monday, July 15, 2013
Privy Manages Ads on Networks
Use Privy to manage all your running and scheduled sales and ads on various social networks, like Facebook.
Here is an excerpt from Techcrunch:
Afterwards, they can then use Privy by entering their "chalkboard specials" — the limited-time offers they run for a specific time frame, plus a photo and description of each. Marketing teams can do this as the offers come up, or they can load them up to a year in advance if they're better organized and prepared. Privy then automates the distribution of those campaigns to the various services and sites the company uses.
From an online dashboard, businesses can see at a glance which sites are driving customers, and drill down into customer info, data on redemptions, reviews, claims, and more. Customer data can also be both imported and exported to Mailchimp and Constant Contact and CSV, to allow for more personalized targeting of the audience segments.
Tuesday, July 09, 2013
Froont: Responsive Design Editor
You really need to check out Froont and get a free account. It is an online drag-n-drop website designer that will output responsive design html/css.
It has a very cool slider with which you can instantly see what the site will look like on different size screens.
Plus its all done online so there's no install or download.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
StreetFight: Hyperlocal Biz News
An interesting blog about local SMBs. Here is one entry about thoughts on self-service ad platforms:
Over the past decade, self-serve advertising platforms have been seen as a potential lynchpin for creating successful hyperlocal business models —potentially bringing down the cost of merchant acquisition and management to the point where serious profit can be made by aggregating smaller-sized SMB ad insertions. But self-serve is easier proposed than done. And many companies have found that while their self-serve platform works just fine, many small business owners require the kind of high-touch hand-holding that only a real-life salesperson can provide.
MyAds: Self-Serve Ad Platform
Self-service advertising platform for the Rubicon Project.
Summary from Programmable Web:
The MyAds API allows users to develop applications that create and manage their MyAds advertising campaigns. Through the API users can gain access to campaigns, accounts, performance and more.MyAds is a self service ad platform that lets users build and customize ads to reach new customers. The API uses SOAP protocol and responses are formatted in XML.
The Rubicon Project
In contrast to a small company, if you are a premium publisher or large company wanting to explore what ad revenue you could be making and use the right technology to sell and trade your advertising space, then look no further than The Rubicon Project. In their own words, here is a summary:
The Rubicon Project is the leading technology company automating the buying and selling of advertising globally. REVV, the industry's largest independent technology platform is used by more than 500 of the world's premium publishers to transact with more than 100,000 advertisers across a massive marketplace that powers more than 180 billion ad trades per month.
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