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Operatic sky
Since FX is one of the last great ripoffs in finance, this might actually be a pretty big deal.
The Currency Cloud Secures $4M To Disrupt The Trillion Dollar Foreign Exchange Market The Currency Cloud has developed a Foreign Exchange (FX) payments automation platform which supercharges the tired old world of cross-border business payments, aiming to reduce costs for business and make multi-currency payments more frictionless. Since FX is one of the last great [...]
SwipeStudy now with Facebook Connect
You can now register with Swipestudy using your facebook account, less user IDs and passwords to remember now thats a good thing! Swipestudy is a flash-card study tool for the smartphone age, very useful for studying foreign languages and preparing for exams and best of all its all free. You can see what people [...]
Ringmark
Good to see Facebook putting pressure on the mobile manufacturers to standardise their HTML5 implementations Try it here http://rng.it Facebook today addressed three challenge areas that make it hard for developers to build apps on the mobile web: app discovery, browser fragmentation, and payments. As part of the second one, Facebook released Ringmark, a new [...]
Summer at last
Social Media explained
This is how I discovered Pinterest I already new that only google employees post to G+ TheAtlantic: Abysmal Google+ Numbers: Users Spending 3 Minutes per Month on the Site
Amsterdam? Nope Darlinghurst
Good to see a euro splash of colour amongst the usual drab boring inner city Sydney architecture
Don’t mess with Genovese geese
Upended in Megeve
BestExchangeRates – adds retail UK GBP currency rates
https://bestexchangerates.com now available in 5 countries, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Canada and UK!
Snow monkey king
The Snow Monkeys of Jigokudani near Shiga Kogen, Nagano. After two kilometers of very snowy forest trail we came upon this amazing scene. It s good to be the king, but judging by the missing finger he s had to fight for the right to sit in the sauna and been attended to by the gang.
Japanese menus aren’t for the fussy eater
Organic buildings
Hong Kong buildings remind of some type of coral-like organic life form. A good example of the Porosity of Asian city living
Apple’s web-app directory has gone very quiet
Original post from April 18, updated for the 1 year anniversary of apple web-apps going dark! Being a developer of several web-apps for both pc and mobile phones, I read with interest way back in March the brouhaha regarding whether Apple had intentionally hamstrung web-apps performance on the iPhone by preventing their use of its [...]
Google Developer Day and My presentation @Creative sandbox
So I was off to Darling Harbour for the annual Geek-fest that is #gdd11, and was pretty impressed with the quality of the lunch boxes the talks weren t bad either. Actually the highlights were Timothy Jordan Julia Ferraioli s presentation on Using the Google+ APIs and also Eric Bidelman s Bleeding Edge HTML5. I even managed to [...]
SwipeStudy – now available on the Intel Appup store
Swipestudy is a flash-card study tool for the smartphone age, very useful for studying foreign languages and preparing for exams and best of all its all free. If you re running Windows you can download it as an App here otherwise just goto http://swipestudy.com on your PC or smartphone. You can see what people are studying [...]
Hong Kong UX
This Hong Kong street-scene snapped while rolling along up the soho escalator looks like a crazy UX drop down menu design
Why buzzwords like HTML5 are useful
But I think there’s actually a very good reason why we should, in fact, embrace the term “HTML5” as an overarching buzzword for this latest round of web standards and specifications. Our industry has proven on several occasions that we don’t get excited about new, interesting, and useful technologies and concepts until such a buzzword is in place.
Wikileaks Cablegate on HRH Prince Andrew
According to a dispatch in the Cablegate Wikileaks treasure trove, American Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Tatiana Gfoeller attended a two-hour brunch to brief HRH Prince Andrew Duke of York ahead of his meetings with the Kyrgyz Prime Minister. Much of the banter is actually quite amusing and a rare peek into the attitudes of the British royal family. "The crowd practically clapped. He then capped this…