So I just spent the last fifteen minutes trying to hack my way back into my BBpress forums at code.appfrica.net. The problem was that BBPress doesn’t consider admins the ’super users’ of the account. The ‘administrator’ rank just allows you to moderate the forum, not it’s look or anything else. To do [...]

Now that Twitter has purchased Summize and corrected some seriously boneheaded moves, their next major moves need to be in the mobile space.  VentureBeat makes some interesting points on this very subject. If I were the powers that be at Twitter I would be looking to snatch up all of the best thirdparty applications using [...]

If you’re a developer who likes to go to coffeeshops work with people around, stay away from some places that offer Wifi on T-Mobile. This is pretty silly because T-Mobile is one of those wifi providers that you still have to pay for. Yet, I’ve got less functionality than most free alternatives. [...]

Blog Networks is a social networking application that esentially turns Facebook into a massive database of blogs not unsimilar to Yahoo’s MyBlogLog.  The idea is to encourage reading by the casual reader.  I just signed up GosDot and Appfrica which you can check out by clicking the links.

I promise there will be some regular updates to this space soon. Due to my increased level of work with Appfrica I’ve been neglecting this blog but don’t worry updates are coming soon.  I recently started blogging/writing for a pretty big magazine out of the UK so I expect to focus the direction of [...]

I’ve been very much preoccupied with my web conference, Appfrica, so I haven’t blogged much lately but there’s been some really big shakeups this week in the Web sector.
The biggest is the announcement that Flickr co-founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield have decided to leave the company they sold to Yahoo! in 2005!  This is [...]

The waters ahead just got a little more Turbulent for Twitter, Google may be prepping the retun of Jaiku…

Jaiku is joining Google. While it’s too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you’ll find interesting [...]

From what I’ve heard, working at Google as a programmer is all about exploring exploring your unrequited love for web applications and new ideas. It’s no surprise, then, that the Gmail team is rolling out a javascript applet that allows customers to try out these new features.
It’s the new beta test model, where the [...]

In my post “Adobe Realizes it Gaffed”, I talked about some of the ways in which Adobe missed opportunities to capitalize with web based ventures. Well it looks like that argument was correct and the Adobe team is actively trying to catch up. On the heels of the announcement of Photoshop Express, Adobe [...]

WeWorkForFree is a design community that allows it’s members to upload and share their portfolios in order to raise money for international programs that benefit developing nations.
They do this by hosting contests sponsored by donors that need a job completed, but who are also willing to donate money to a good cause. [...]