Episode 12: Don’t mention the war!
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John Wolters (@jochenwolters) once again flies all the way from Germany JUST to grace us with his presence. Do we have good friends or WHAT? While he was here, he had great stuff to say about usability, iPhone web app prototyping, a new web image format (say it with me “weppppy”) and even got to critique some websites live before a non-studio audience (which we, naturally, discussed). Oh, and there was some web news thrown in there someplace. Give it a listen – and come back next time for another episode of Einstein, John & Sock Monkey!
- Steve & Ron (& John)
Episode 12 Show Notes
News Items
- iOS5 news: Twitter will be integrated at the OS level… Why and what does it mean?
- How Starbucks Is Paving the Way for Mainstream Mobile Payments
- http://mashable.com/2011/06/28/starbucks-mobile-pay-tech/
- While near field communication and QR code marketing campaigns are all the rage, the 2D bar codes pushing mobile payments are a little less sexy. Starbucks Card Mobile is a three-part system that includes 2D bar codes, scanners and mobile phone applications for iPhone, BlackBerry and nowAndroid.
- Allows Starbucks customers to pay with their phones at roughly 9,000 locations in the U.S.
- In fact, by March 2011, nine weeks after the nationwide rollout of its mobile payments program, Starbucks had processed more than 3 million payments.
- Starbucks Card payments now represent 20% of all in-store transactions.
- Mokk.me – prototyper for mobile web apps
- Google Swiffy launched!!
- http://swiffy.googlelabs.com/ - converts flash .swf files to HTML 5!! Woo hoo!!
- It’s in beta (acts like a beta)
- Maximum 512kb swf files
- Why Google+ won’t hurt Facebook, but Skype will hate it (Written by By Om Malik)
- http://gigaom.com/2011/06/28/why-google-plus-wont-hurt-facebook-but-skype-will-hate-it/
- Today, you can get to Google Plus by visiting a website – Google.com/+. But it also travels with you across different Google web properties, thanks to a Google Toolbar.
- Granular privacy that average folks can understand
- “Circles” – create groups of friends, colleagues, whatever
- With these groups or circles you can define who gets to see what kind of updates.
- “Hangout” – group VIDEO chat done right?
- Huddle: a mobile group-chat service
- Google at the same is also making Google Plus available as an app – for Android and the iPhone platform – ensuring that it is getting the experience right.
- I personally think Skype Video can easily be brought to its knees by Google Plus’ Hangout. And even if Google+ fails, Google could easily make Hangout part of the Google office offering.
- New WebP image format by Google: http://code.google.com/speed/webp/index.html
Feature
- Recent website panel review we ran at FCIP
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Social Media Minute
Blog Picks
- Steve: The Sartorialist – http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/
- John: Little Big Details –
- Ron: Damn You AutoCorrect (DYAC)
Book Club
- “Resonate” by Nancy Duarte
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