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Dear HN: I am not interested in your f*cking opinion 16 Nov 2011 | 09:39 pm
I’m increasingly annoyed by our commenting behavior on the web. There are those that take the time and effort to share thoughts, opinions, services and content with the world, and there are those, sit...
Announcing the Appsterdam Zwapp Channel 27 Jun 2011 | 12:43 am
Appsterdam Yesterday I was invited on stage with Mike Lee where he officially kickstarted the Appsterdam movement. Instead of a product pitch I decided to talk about the things I can do to help the A...
How can you help the Appsterdam movement that @bmf just kickstarted 27 Jun 2011 | 12:40 am
Mike Lee kicks off Appsterdam Yesterday Mike Lee (@bmf) kicked off the Appsterdam movement in a big room full of passionate developers in Amsterdam. He spoke of his dream, to make Amsterdam the centr...
Help the iOS developer community to innovate on inter-app communication 10 Jun 2011 | 06:52 am
The Apple iOS platform allows inter-app communication using a technology called Custom URL Schemes. A Custom URL scheme can be used to open a specific app from another app. Try typing the URL “twitter...
The competitive advantage Apple holds over Google isn’t iOS5 or iCloud 7 Jun 2011 | 07:28 pm
I followed the Apple WWDC 2011 conference yesterday via the live blogging service of Engadget and Twitter (wasn’t in SF at the time). You can find an overview of all things announced here. The expecta...
The TechCrunch and HackerNews effect on Zwapp 30 Apr 2011 | 10:13 pm
I’ve been extremely quiet here the past few months. really missed the blogging, but when you are running a small startup and doing about thirty different jobs in it, it seems blogging is just not poss...
About the open versus closed debate: Advice to Jobs and Rubin 20 Oct 2010 | 05:58 pm
Steve Jobs seems to be on a crusade to defend his iOS platform against Google’s Android. The Google camp is using the open versus closed argument. Steve decides to reclaim that discussion by introduci...
The iPad is a great social computing device 22 Sep 2010 | 07:53 am
I was reading a post on my iPad about the usefulness of the iPad and I thought I’d chip in some of my own experiences. For me the iPad has a couple of huge advantages and several important drawbacks....
The Wired website will soon be “no longer needed” 18 Aug 2010 | 07:25 am
If you are Wired and you write an article “The Web is dead. Long live the Internet”, then you are bound to get people in the technology sector to read and respond to it. It’s a crap title for a prett...
On investors, competition and decency 17 Aug 2010 | 02:30 am
Part of the process I’m in now with my new company (more on what we do in another post later) is that I’m always in contact with potential customers, companies, competitors and investors about our pl...
