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Re: Jason Calacanis’ 30 tips for startups

Bradley Howard — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:35:10 -0000

Most of these tips apply just as well for established businesses who want to grow and innovate. Good article.

Re: Jason Calacanis’ 30 tips for startups

Bradley Howard — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:34:57 -0000

Most of these tips apply just as well for established businesses who want to grow and innovate. Good article.

Re: Need to book your hotel for #FOTB?

Dave Stewart — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:22:20 -0000

Laterooms.com - sorted me out this afternoon at a very nice hotel 500m from the venue for £207 (half price) Sunday, Monday & Tuesday nights!

http://www.laterooms.com/en...

Re: Sessions to look out for at #FOTB 2010

Ubelly — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:16:05 -0000

Almog has his FOTB schedule here: http://www.almogdesign.net/...

Re: Forget Hot Tub Time Machine–Here’s the YouTube Time Machine!

Justin Johnson — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:08:37 -0000

Yes! We really want to add other countries into the mix, once we're out of alpha. Just need ppl to help curate them!

Re: Maintaining creativity in the face of day to day drudgery–all is revealed at #dConstruct 2010

Jack Armley — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 08:59:16 -0000

Thanks @ubelly for covering this, how great to re-live the day! Also, the IE9 preview looked very exciting; looking forward to the beta, UI and all!

Re: How to play video in HTML5

thebeebs — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:29:19 -0000

@Jam It's minor from a developer presperctive. I would generally encode video using something like ffmpeg as I engest the video into my site. The video sites I have run in the past used to encode to many different formats for all the various devices we wanted to support.

From a hosting and stoarage side. Encoding more than once is a big problem... well if you have a lot of videos. As you say. It's a high Cost.

IE6, IE7 and IE8 dont't support HTML5. Thats why when IE9 comes out I'll be encouraging everyone to upgrade to IE9.

Re: How to play video in HTML5

Jam — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:27:27 -0000

When you say "it's minor to support both codecs", you are saying that content owner should encode everything into multiple formats just in case a user has a browser that doesn't support H.264? Isn't that very high cost?

How will your code snippet here work in IE6? IE7 or IE8? Will they support HTML5?

tx,

Jam.

Re: Windows Phone 7 – resources for designers

thebeebs — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:03:16 -0000

Loved the talk today. Particularly the popcorn reference

Re: Using Bing Maps as a tour guide

Spooner — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:24:03 -0000

@JamieT - Thanks for the feedback, this is using features available to us here and now. Bing Maps is constantly evolving and adding new features - in the last few days we've had the release of OpenStreetMap: http://bit.ly/9ZIx5B and Sexy Maps: http://j.mp/axWqlb (I'm sure that's not an official title). Follow @BingMaps on Twitter for up to date information.

Re: Using Bing Maps as a tour guide

jkth — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:27:35 -0000

Cool.
Tho how much better would it be if a list of gigs were marked up with microformats specifying where & when - and I could then pass the URL of that page to Bing Maps which would suck out the where & when and stick it onto a map.

That's where we need to get to. Make the web work for us, not against us!

Re: Underbelly Thinking Digital Wall of Fame

wayne smith (cal) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:37:00 -0000

Haha. I only just managed to track these down since I'd lost your business card. Great little wall of shame there. Just one thing though, you got me and david king mixed up in all the photo's :) as much as I'd love to be david, he's the pi tattoo, Im (wayne smith) the bad pointer and arm tattoos :)

Re: Big Brother Deep Zoom Commemorates Final Series

Martin Beeby — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:13:59 -0000

I covered some of the subtle techniques they've used over at my blog: http://www.thewayithink.co....

Re: BizSparkCamp for Windows Phone 7: Life’s a Pitch

ubelly — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:39:05 -0000

Hi - great to meet you! It was inspiring to see the brilliant ideas and passion for developing on Windows Phone 7. Great day!

Re: BizSparkCamp for Windows Phone 7: Life’s a Pitch

Melville Carrie — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:48:46 -0000

Thanks :)

It was a great event (not just because we won) - good deep dive tech on the WP7 - good presentations and strong competition - some great business ideas there!

Melville Carrie

Re: Thinking Digital… and Diamond Shreddies

Herb Kim — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:00:34 -0000

Sara, really great work here. Looks like you got more 1to1 time with many of our speakers than I did! Thanks so much to you, Marc, Microsoft & Newspepper for turning this around so quickly and adding a really interesting and different perspective in remembering the blur of events and people that make up Thinking Digital.

Great to meet you and hope to see you again soon. For next year, we could try to help you out a bit more in scheduling chats with speakers, etc. though it doesn't seem you need much help in this area :-)

Thanks again.

Best regards,

Herb

Re: Bizspark Camp Review: GigJunkie

oliverbridgen — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:02:12 -0000

Great interview Ollie and thanks to all at Bizspark for taking the time to listen to what GigJunkie is up to! If you want to hear more about our B2B offering please get in touch through the contact section on GigJunkie!

Happy Easter to all and let's hope for some sunshine!

Team GigJunkie

Re: Building a Simple OAuth Twitter Application

TvvitterBug — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:23:34 -0000

Good article on OAuth!

Twitter has come a long way in helping developers implement OAuth.

TvvitterBug 1.4 Just released on the App Store is fully compliant with both OAuth and xAuth (browser-less authentication) utilizing a 100% organic implementation that insures reliability, keeps code size small, and real-time performance high. TvvitterBug is one of the "new breed" of Twitter clients for the iPhone, iPod, and iPad that bring a fresh approach to mobile Twittering that focuses more on achieving the highest quality "user experience" (UX), as opposed to simple "feature stuffing" that many of the "old dog" Twitter clients have recently gotten into.

You can look it up on the web at: http://www.tvvitterbug.com, or on Twitter.com/TvvitterBug.

Re: What We Found Out Yesterday

Jessalyn Johnson — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:33:49 -0000

Wow ... this is a great! Pretty informative as well! That has really helped me a lot in learning some of this stuff that I wasn't familiar with.