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Facebook Marketing – Measuring sentiment 27 Feb 2013 | 04:58 pm
I read an interesting article today about using Facebook as a marketing research tool. Polls suck Big Data rocks Nielsen, Gallop, Newspoll, I don’t care, you all suck. Worked for a while (maybe) but n...
Interview with a google (vampire) 20 Feb 2013 | 01:56 pm
Turning down a job at Google is a strange thing to do for a programmer and I shouldn’t really call google a vampire because they aren’t. I’m sure they’re a great company to work for. I’ve read numero...
Find app.net followers from your twitter followers 19 Aug 2012 | 04:50 pm
I just hacked together this little tool. Its for finding your twitter followers on app.net, it only works if their twitter handle is the same on AppDotNet but it will at least improve discoverability ...
STYLEAID App 17 Aug 2012 | 06:00 pm
I recently built the app for Style Aid whilst working for Gatecrasher Advertising. A mobile game of Pass The Parcel was played on the event night (27th of July 2012), where 15 electronic parcels will ...
1 year today 23 Jul 2012 | 12:01 am
On this day I’d like to take time to reflect and in my regular blog style I’d like to point you to a blog post of Paul Bechheit the lead developer of gmail. http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com.au/2012/03...
Appirater github Fork 13 Jul 2012 | 05:00 pm
I forked appirater yesterday and have made a pull request to the master repo. It was a simple change but I believe a very important one. I’ve always added the appirater code to all the apps I’ve submi...
Facebook SDK 3.0 Beta 12 Jul 2012 | 05:45 pm
Facebook released an update to their SDK. coincidentally I only downloaded the SDK yesterday for a new project that I started on the weekend. Some great pre built code such as a native code friends pi...
Twitter and Facebook 2 Jun 2012 | 12:05 pm
I know its like comparing apples with oranges but I did a little experiment last night between Facebook and Twitter. I wanted to measure how many people are actually reading my facebook and twitter me...
Why page rank isn’t everything 3 Apr 2012 | 03:10 pm
I noticed today that this blog has a page rank of 2. Which is fine. (Although I’d like a higher one so feel free to link to this blog post!) One of my other websites that I have blogged about … Contin...
Will the iPad Fail: God no 8 Mar 2012 | 03:50 pm
I wrote this post whilst at Sumo Group but thought it would be good to repost it here since the Sumo Blog seems to have a few cob webs on it. At the time I remember thinking that the iPad … Continue r...
