A List Apart: Vexing Viewports
A quick, pre-holiday post to mention with excitement the publishing of “Vexing Viewports“, an article on A List Apart that I co-wrote with Peter-Paul Koch (@ppk), Stephanie…
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How to handle software for small business employees in an app store world?
App stores have been great for consumers and developers. One-click purchasing is awesome. But as a small business owner, they cause us nothing but grief. In the boxed software world, I knew that if we…
Video: Essence of Content on the Web (Mobilism 2012)
Oh, I am excited! Video from my presentation at Mobilism in Amsterdam has been posted. I’m already excited about Mobilism for next year! In this presentation, “Cutting through the Crap: The Essence of…
Laying Down our Burdens: Steps towards simplifying the mobile Web
Developing on the mobile (or pan-device) web is hard. Maybe too hard. Yeah, kind of too hard sometimes. My days are spent chasing down the vital new frameworks (maybe not so vital, really, in retrospect),…
Maps fiasco demonstrates the need to be able to change default applications on iOS
Good news today that Apple CEO Tim Cook has acknowledged the problems with the iOS 6 Maps application. Now everyone is anxiously waiting on Google to release a new native version of Google Maps…
Come Aboard: Inspiring an Empathic Future-friendly Army
This past weekend, Jason and I were fortunate enough to participate in the second installment of "Mobilewood", a retreat-like gathering of hardcore mobile web nerds on Cape Cod. Last fall, we gathered in rural…
Pixels are ruining my life
It’s been a strange few years for the pixel, that unit we love to hate and generally blithely use anyway. First, there is the weird brain-bending device pixel versus CSS pixel math we’re all trying…
Apple’s Policy on Satire: 16 Apps Rejected for “Ridiculing Public Figures”
Mark Fiore can win a Pulitzer Prize for political cartoons, but he can’t get his iPhone app into the App Store because it “ridicules public figures.” Fiore’s award brought new attention to Apple’s rejection.
You Received a Hookup Badge: Why I Deleted My Foursquare Account
One of the recurring subjects of conversation at SXSW was the many competing location services. Attendees were using Foursquare and Gowalla extensively during the conference to help find their friends. I decided to give them…
Who Owns Your Retweet?
When you retweet something, do you expect someone else to be able to delete it? Previously, if you retweeted something, your retweet was your own. Only you had the ability to delete it. But with…