Around 4 AM PDT this morning, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling unveiled the latest addition to the massively successful series: a website called Pottermore, which will feature, among other things, Harry Potter eBooks (which have never been legally available to date) and thousands of words of new content describing the characters and world of...
First you must understand your target audience. If you’re developing applications forkids you must make the application easy to use and easy to understand. For example,consider eliminating text labels, popup menus, etc.When I started developing “My Little Artist” the hardest task for me was to create thebrush icons. The easiest way was to make...
Member of Parliament Malcom Turnbull, former leader of the opposition, said that the Coalition wouldn’t rip up the fiber laid by the NBN if they win the next election in an interview with the ABC. Turnbull said that while the Coalition maintains its position that the NBN’s goal of accessible fast broadband for all...
Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how managed security services can help you focus on what you do best in this report from IDC: The Extended Enterprise: Manage Complexity, Cost, and Compliance. Continuing our series of business apps for the iPad, today...
Early adopters may love to check in at nightlife hotspots on Foursquare and Facebook Places, but what might location technology look like once it moves into the mainstream? Fast-growing startup Life360 is aiming for that mainstream market and has interesting plans. The company offers a free app for family members to track each other’s...
We have done almost 90 roundtables so far and, based on this extensive experience of learning directly from entrepreneurs about their core issues, 1M/1M has just launched a new assessment tool for entrepreneurs. It is a quick self-assessment that you can apply to calibrate where you are in your business-building process. We have also...
How do you know what “most users” use? Do you have any statistics on that? I don’t understand why it seems impossible to understand that some users perform the more simple, less distracting user interface. I was told by one person that we were “resistant to change” when if the NewTwitter was an improvement...
Today at their offices in Menlo Park, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers is celebrating the third anniversary of the iFund. Technically, the fund started in March of 2008 alongside the first iPhone SDK, when the firm announced that it would be investing $100 million in iPhone applications made by third-party developers. That...
That’s big news for e-books as the bestselling series will undoubtedly be wildly successful in its new e-format. (It’s as good an excuse as any to reread all the novels, right?) But the announcement is significant in a number of other key ways, not just because of Rowling’s decision to release the e-books now,...
Hacker collective of the moment LulzSec has just released a torrent of data it claims to belong to Arizona law enforcement, in what it calls “Operation Chinga La Migra” (or literally translated ”Fuck the border patrol”). I’m still downloading the 446MB torrent that they claim contains hundreds of classified documents including personal emails, names and phone numbers....