June 2010
6 posts
another small step for Nokia, another small step...
There are five key announcements that will be important for developers: Availability of the Nokia Qt Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.0 Individuals can now register as Ovi Publishers Public beta of Nokia signing Symbian apps for free Availability of Nokia Smart Installer for Symbian Ovi Store intake for Qt apps The Nokia Qt SDK allows cross-platform development for both Symbian and...
what Nokia should do to lure developers to Symbian
First of all, Nokia should release estimates for the total number of apps for Symbian out there right now. Out there, not in the Ovi Store. I’m sure a forecasting/statistics department could do that. Then release a “total number of apps for Symbian” stat that adds the number above to the number of apps in the Ovi store. Is this cheating? Actually, no, it’s not....
iLBS
I do understand that the ‘check in, get points to beat your friends, get badges’ mechanic taps into what we call ‘game theory’ which dictates that if you give people things to do and rewards (even ones without any real value) they will have a natural compulsion to complete the tasks and collect the rewards. That’s great for Foursquare, the mechanic is getting people using their service in droves....
getting your own URL shortener
Bit.ly is probably the most used URL shortener in the world right now. Recently they introduced bitly.pro, which is a service that lets you shorten links on a domain you own. It’s still in closed beta, but thankfully I’ve managed to get an invite, and hence my own URL shortening domain was born, bvlad.net. You may see this (a lot) in the links I share on Twitter. So that’s the...
need.to.write.
I think may start to use this blog as my whining avenue. Fair warning. I don’t like to write. That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy creating content (or text, or words, or phrases, or sentences, or whatever else you may want to call it), the activity of writing is something I find rather annoying. The fact is that my brain goes through 200 different ideas (sentences) before I can...
iWeep
In his final post, Dan explains that the key reason for closing the site is because, “Nokia have stopped being as creative as they once were.” Dan goes on to cite bug-filled £500 devices and the Nokia N97 in particular. The main issue for Dan though was content: “All the [Nokia] phones ended up feeling pretty much the same due to the tired Symbian OS.” Dan then points out how Android came...