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Cross websites, services and APIs

Submitted by shmilov on Mon, 07/02/2012 - 16:31

Few days ago, I received an email from Linkedin. They notified their users about an update to Linkedin's user experience. An update caused by Twitter's API update.

Does this makes sense? of course.

Welcome to Viber

Submitted by shmilov on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 18:01

Look who joined Viber and tweeted about it еarlier today.

Sales of smartphones to reach one billion in 2014

Submitted by shmilov on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 12:49

The growth of the smartphone market in China

Credit Suisse has announced that it expects smartphone sales to rise above the one billion mark in 2014. This impressive rise in figures is made possible by many different factors, a main one being the growth of the smartphone market in China.

Get free space, and now get more of it!

Submitted by shmilov on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 22:29

Whether it is a result of the competition, or a part of a strategic decision, Dropbox decided to do more of what proved to work for them and recently announced that users will now get more free storage.

My weekly awesome app: Clear

Submitted by shmilov on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 23:58

Since I launched my personal site and blog I was planing to write app reviews and recommendations. I could not make myself start doing it until the day I installed the app Clear on my iPhone. It was love at first tap, touch and experience.

The lack of a non-quick start button

Submitted by shmilov on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 08:32

My microwave does not have a normal standard start button and instead the guys came up with an interesting approach. Is this approach is Innovative and Intuitive?

Android design guidelines are finally here

Submitted by shmilov on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 12:20

It is well known that one of the main issues with the Android platform today, is the inconsistent user interface among the Market apps and the lack of standard guidelines. Luckily Matias Duarte, the Director of Android operating system User Experience at Google, announced at CES 2012, the Android Design, a website for learning how to design exceptional Android apps.

Make your posts look beautiful in RSS

Submitted by shmilov on Sun, 12/04/2011 - 19:45

Have you ever checked how your posts look via RSS readers? I think you should. Whether RSS will die, stay around, or keep evolving and increase in its importance, remains to be seen, but you should still make the effort to make your feeds look great. There isn’t too much work to put in and the ROI will be high.

Much more is happening in the mobile world

Submitted by shmilov on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 01:06

At the beginning, smartphones were designed to be devices that will help us save time, be more efficient, improve our availability and better manage our workload. Is it possible that because of these shiny, cool phones, we have much less time nowadays?! It feels like much more is happening in my life these days, but I have much less “life” happening in my life.