ymb mike bradshaw
Jaikus from ymb
Friday, 3 July 2009
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no celebs is one of the many upsides of jaiku IMNSHO
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all things change and not always for the better. Sure it's quieter round here nowadays, but we are still here, so welcome back
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Monday, 29 June 2009
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yep, still a few of us around :)
Thursday, 18 June 2009
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oh and i posted a picture to my ovi share public channel if anyone is bored, and wants to see why the Finns head out of the city for midsummer :)
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actually once installed the new ovi maps 3 is rather good. Helped when i missed the exit due to confusion between where i thought i was, and where i actually was.
The speed limit "dohickey" is also kind of cool.
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@alexleonard: before "hacking" the product code, see if Maps will install (can't see any reason it would not)
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depending on your handset's firmware, V2 might already be on there :)
Actually the previous V3 beta was not too bad. Some relatively major display issues on E90 internal screen, but then E90 was not on list of compatible devices :)
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@alexleonard: yep, you can pre-load the relavent country maps to a Memory card (all of Europe is about 1.5GB). There is potentially a small (1k?) for the assisted part to get the faster GPS lock, but other than that there should be no data connections.
BTW, i am complaining about Ovi Maps 3 BETA :)
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The firmware update went ok, at least it did once i realised that WinXP under VMWare makes my modern Unix Workstation kind of like and old DOS box i.e it can only run one program, don't touch anything, or it will all go wrong(kept loosing the USB connection :( )
Then the supper slow Ovi Maps updater, seems to have inherited the same random number generator that microsoft uses in it's progress bars.
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@eduardoresende: yes, Jaiku is owned by Google, but as a business they have to look at things and judge what return on the investment made they are getting.
I would guess that the cost for google (once the SMS part is removed) for hosting Jaiku is almost zero. As it then comes down to some server infra for the AppEngine and DB space?
But the things they get in return are -
They have a real world use of App Engine that they can get usage information from
that as one of the original MicroBlogging platforms, a user community, with experience
an insight/seat at the table on Microblogging federation discussions
Remember, these are my guesses, I don't work for google or have any inside knowledge of their thinking.
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Sunday, 14 June 2009
Saturday, 13 June 2009
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seems that FB ignores both dots and dashes (-) in names.
I was not going to both to join the "great land rush" to get a sensible name, but logged into FB to check my inbox, and at the top of the page was a link, and as it was still available i figured, why not.
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