mattberg

"WHAT MAJOR WEBSITES DON’T USE SHARING BUTTONS?

The one that immediately comes to mind is Information Architects."

Welp.

The history of the term "lurker" was very interesting to me.

I am an active member of the shoe community NikeTalk, and lurkers are almost a daily subject on that site. Lurkers in a way are actually looked down upon from active community members (not me personally), since they get quick access to helpful information on shoe releases without out having to share anything to help others. If they saw this rule of thumb, it would probably be serious fuel to their fire.

Coinye already launched "due to legal pressure"? Didn't see mention of it in the article.

http://coinyeco.in/

A lot of it is environmental issues. Currently the codebase for the CMS developers is managed by global TFS repos. While the pure HTML templates are done by each local office in SVN repos. Good times.

One of the tricky things for me has been in the handoff from HTML template developers to CMS integration developers. The way we currently have things setup, the developers doing the CMS integration no longer have the ability to make small/quick changes to the main CSS file. It actually has to go back to the HTML developers for the revision, recompile the CSS, then back to the CMS developers.

would really like to know more about this as well.

what are the issues/implications of "just check out the subrepo directly into the superrepo, and rely on .gitignore in the superrepo to keep them seperated"?

Sorry if this has been asked, but I haven't seen anything on it yet. What about users that only signed in via Facebook? Any actions I need to take?

Agree, I send millions of Push Notifications via Parse and I am also quite worried. I love their interface and documentation so I really don't want to switch.

Thanks for the explanation. Those are the use cases I was kind of thinking, it just didn't seem 100% clear in the pricing page, especially when my use case would probably just be one or two tokens.

Can someone further explain the "gateway token" concept? From reading the site I'm not 100% clear on the meaning.

did anyone else think "Desgin" was a new framework for building mobile apps?

i was hoping to see in the article more about how to find this balance, sadly i was let down.

Agreed. Looking at this one:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.redinput.f...

I don't get it. How was that not free already?

yeah my app is J23. i will send you an email about the keywords.

I'm curious how you get an app's keywords? I didn't think that information was public. For example I tried your lookup for my app and it was incorrect.

so i assume the app could be used in a similar method to your previous concept, but with all of the backlash (especially from Facebook) you had to make it seem like you would want to hack yourself?

Agree about the options. When I have "hacked" one of my friends Facebook accounts when they left their phone around, I definitely had different thoughts on what to write. And maybe that is where my disconnect is, I can't imagine wanting to write what I would put on someone else's account as a joke on my own account. The idea is much funnier to me when used on someone else's account (their original idea I guess).

i am confused, why would you want to do that to your own Facebook account???

Definitely agree that he knows how to work the SEO. It just strikes me as funny to complain about a competitors app using his app name in their keywords, yet using "Timer :" is basically just using someone else's app name with a seemingly arbitrary character at the end. "Angry Birds :" sounds like a cool game.

Anyone else find it interesting he is so against black box tactics, yet his app name is "Timer :". I guess that is better than "Timer+++".

very impressed. a couple of questions:

is it possible to change the url of the app? for example my app title was pretty long and would be nice if the url was shorter.

how often do you check for updates on the screenshots and description, etc? i have an update releasing in the next week or so.

android???

this is interesting. over the last few days i was wondering why some competing apps were slowly dropping in the rankings.

previously they were higher ranked in search for a specific keyword in their title. but with the new changes and my app being highly rated, i am now #1 on that search.

the example receipt from the article shows a frustrating concept that has always bothered me. the included 20% gratuity value is actually 20% of the after-tax total, not the pre-tax total. what logic would exist to tip on any sort of tax?

are there any differences in terms of features between the Mac App Store version and the one you can buy directly from your site? curious if the "sandbox" in the Mac App Store caused any file system issues.

Curious about their decision to go with custom tabs at the bottom of the screen. Not being a full-time Android user, I always thought tabs were displayed across the top. Are more and more Android apps using tabs at the bottom?

this started happening at a local Chipotle i go to at lunch. you actually pay while in line, then order your food, then show your receipt to cashier as proof. seems weird to me in this setting because what if i change my mind on what i want to eat based on what looks good. i guess it is more efficient though.

i'm actually happy about this. i hate when my twitter stream gets flooded with people who use ".@" when replying to someone else. no offense to those people, but i generally don't care about your out of context reply that much.

Having just started using Parse for a recent iPhone app, I will say this is a pretty awesome feature. We have many channels that get automatically sent notifications using the REST API, so monitoring their activity will be very useful.

Titanium makes the impossible seem possible with native mobile apps. There are some speed/memory issues at times, but as long as you construct your app with best practices in mind you should be good.