Well, wow. Quite mind blowing stuff. It has generated a lot of comments which some I agree, some I don’t.
One type of comment is, “It’s too complicated”, I’m sorry but I do not buy that comment. It’s a concept it’s at least 10 years off and what may seem ‘complicated’ now might now be in 5, 10 or 15 years time.
Thinking beyond just this concept how interconnected must our lives and our data be to achieve it, what kind of a operating system will be used, will there be just one operating system, one programming language? Lots of questions that I guess only in time will they be able to be answered.
For a very long time I’ve been using Netvibes as my online feed reader, it really is a beautiful piece of software but this beauty can only go so far.
My main problems with it is the sheer amount of feeds I have, I don’t read them all(I know) but having some figures on what I use and don’t is very helpful for purging, also sometimes it’s the odd story I read from one feed which is updated once a month or maybe less.
Also for me it doesn’t seem focused on the ‘reading’ aspect of a online feed reader, there so many widgets, gizmos and do-dahs that distracts me from actually reading.
So, for the last two weeks I have been using Google Reader and must admit so far it is excellent. It show’s me the most recent posts so even if I miss a loads of posts (which happens a lot) I can instantly see what conversations are happening now and react accordingly if needed.
The UI is simple, I like simple as usual Google has focused on the function and not the form. Just wish many more companies would take this approach.
All in all thumbs up, what’s your experience been with it? Can you suggest anything else?
OK, this is really starting to annoy the hell out of me.
learning a new language and framework is hard enough with out a sodding NDA blocking any conversation on the subject and a host of much needed books.
You’ve got to question Apple’s motives for continuing with the NDA even after 2.0 and the 3G has been launched.
I can only think of two possible reasons for this:
To stop everyone from jumping on board and swamping the app store with useless crap
Because 2.0 was rushed and it isn’t finished, that’s evident with the numerous bugs and glitches in the core software.
Overall I’m throughly pissed off at the moment, as this is seriously hard to get the hang off and someone has beaten me to the punch on the app I wish to launch albeit it being a pretty shit version.
Well I’ve just downloaded the wordpress app for the iPhone 2.0 and o can honestly say so far(using it right now) I have not experienced any crashes or bugs in getting it hooked up to this blog.
First impressions
Well so far I haven’t seen any formating options are there any? I don’t know.
But all in all I think it’s a great app and will definately make me blog the moment more(at the moment I get a blog post idea and simply do not follow it up).
I will write more on this subject once I’ve delved a bit more into it.
Hi! My names Damian Poole, I'm a huge web standards advocate and HTML ninja, when I'm not coding elegant web sites I like to procrastinate my time on world of warcraft.
