Earlier this week, I blogged that some people were too stupid to use QR codes. I concluded, by saying You’re not too stupid to understand how to make effective use of QR codes. The “commandments” are mostly just common sense. Use QR codes wherever they seem appropriate – but make sure that they’re scannable, work [...]
HTML is a complex beast. Especially when it comes to languages. I don’t mean the difference between English and French but between UTF-8, Windows-1252, and all the other methods for encoding text. When it goes wrong, you can come a cropper – take a look at this advert for the BlackBerry. Somehow a character has [...]
What Are Twitter Favourites? Twitter allows you to mark certain posts as favourites. You may do this for a number of reasons – because you thought it was funny or interesting, because you want to reply to it later, or as a general bookmark feature They’re Private, Right? Wrong. You can see any Twitter user’s [...]
I know a thing or two about mobile websites. The last 4 years of my life have been spent obsessing over them. I wouldn’t claim that the sites I run are the best in the world – but I’ve picked up a thing or two about how a successful mobile retail channel should work. Nokia’s [...]
I try so hard to like Nokia. Their hardware is second to none – but when it comes to software and services, they haven’t got a clue. They’ve just announced a new app store – Ovi Store. This is to replace the broken mess that is Mosh, N-Gage, Download and the current Ovi. Why do [...]
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