Recently launched Zuckerbid.com is the first legit marketplace for buying and selling Facebook-app-ownership. While FB-apps have been aquired on grey markets / ebay before, Zuckerbid offers a specialized service, comparable to what Apptopia is offering for iOS apps. Facebook Terms-of-Service will make or break such a platform, especially regarding aquired user-data, so I asked Founder Josh Sturgeon how Zuckerbid complies with the platform policies. He pointed out:
“You will not sell any data. If you are acquired by or merge with a third party, you can continue to use user data within your application, but you cannot transfer data outside your application.”
So basically, Facebook doesn’t want anyone to sell data to a list broker. But if you are “acquired”, it is completely legitimate to accessthe user data as long as that use is consistent with platform policies.
Sounds good enough to try it out! You can buy our app Friendcup here
Be-At.tv is easily the best music-service I’ve seen in a while. Live-recorded electronic music from clubs all over the world including the biggest names in dance music, innovative UI & design, Facebook Open Graph-support etc. – plus its free.
“The Japanese word shokunin is defined by both Japanese and Japanese-English dictionaries as ‘craftsman’ or ‘artisan,’ but such a literal description does not fully express the deeper meaning. The Japanese apprentice is taught that shokunin means not only having technical skills, but also implies an attitude and social consciousness. … The shokunin has a social obligation to work his/her best for the general welfare of the people. This obligation is both spiritual and material, in that no matter what it is, the shokunin’s responsibility is to fulfill the requirement.” – Tasio Odate
Watched “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” – great documentary on craftsmanship & perfection. Jiro Ono, 85 years old & considered the worlds best sushi master, operates his 3-michelin-star, 10-seat restaurant in the basement of a Tokyo-office-building. Inspiring.
switching to Google Nexus One was easy, once I discovered SqueezeCommander to remote-control my SqueezeBox. For EUR 3,- it does everything iPeng does on the iPhone, including support for SqueezeBox apps & multi-player & -server-support. searching large libraries of music seems faster than on the iPhone. but the best thing: it can download single tracks or whole albums from the SqueezeServer to your phones’ SD-card – in your face, iTunes!
Chrome Buzz – browser extension f. Chrome, basically just shows your feed, nothing more
Buzzer – shares a webpage through Google Reader on your Buzz-account
Share-Bookmarklet – does the same as above, but through a bookmarklet which works on all browsers. in both cases you have to add your Google Reader as a connected site in Buzz
while you’re waiting for Facebook to release their HipHop for PHP over on github, you might wanna watch this video having engineer Haiping Zhao giving a detailled introduction about the way HipHop transforms PHP-code into C++.
as an avid Squeezebox-user, I’ve no idea how I could have missed this gem for so long: iPeng lets you use our iPhone to control your Squeezbox (or boxes, if you’ve several spread across the house). hands down the best way to browse a large local music-library or subscription-services napster & rhapsody [which of course both are not available in austria ]. the app goes for EUR 8,-, compared to the EUR >1.000,- you’ld spend for a Sonos that’s a boon
had some fun toying with Google Goggles this morning. Goggles uses your phone’s camera to do image-based search for products, landmarks, media, shops etc. the results I was getting for products & books are pretty accurate. most impressive: I snapped the artwork (no text, title at all) of a german, medical text-book – first result was the correct link to Amazon. looking forward to test this outdoors, where Goggles is also using GPS & compass to refine results.
ps: if you can’t find Googles in the AndroidMarketplace, make sure you’re running Android 1.6 Donat or higher! if you’re stuck with an G1 like me, you might want to take the chance and root your phone and upgrade to CyanogenMod…
Sony has a fun little Facebook-app that lets you post auto-tuned audio-status-updates to your wall …the best thing to happen since the T-Pain iPhone app.
after spending the better part of last weekend using the Huawei RBM2 from Red Bull Mobile (unboxing-pictures here) I won’t deprive you of my thoughts on the device. the RBM2 basically offers everything you’ld expect from an Android-phone nowadays, given that the platform is out now for more than a year. in other words: the RBM2 is a rock-solid phone lacking any exceptional highs or lows. overall I’ld compare it to the HTC Magic, which has a similar form factor, similar hardware & similar featureset. while the RBM2 seems to be snappier & more responsive compared to the HTC Dream aka G1 (which I’ve been using thoroughly), it is still using the same CPU (Qualcomm MSM7200A at 528MHz) – any increased resposiveness might be due to Android 1.5 and less app-clutter.
the RBM2′s touch-display does the usual half-VGA (320x480px) and is in one league with the iPhone in terms of size, crispness & brightness. other features include a 3.2megapixel camera with LED-flash, integrated GPS, wifi-, bluetooth- & UMTS/HDSPA-connectivity.
if you’re in the market for a Red Bull Mobile contract, the RBM2 is a no-brainer – it’s the only smartphone in RBM’s portfolio of handsets, and a worthy choice if only for the Android operating system.
the RBM2′s touch-display does the usual half-VGA (320x480px) and is in one league with the iPhone in terms of size, crispness & brightness. other features include a 3.2megapixel camera with LED-flash, integrated GPS, wifi-, bluetooth- & UMTS/HDSPA-connectivity.
if you’re in the market for a Red Bull Mobile contract, the RBM2 is a no-brainer – it’s the only smartphone in RBM’s handset-portfolio, and a worthy choice if only for the Android operating system. with a two-year contract (EUR 29,-/month – 2.000min. voice & 2GB data), the RBM2 comes for free.
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