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iPhone OS upgrades: for a few dollars less

Ben Green — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:26:41 +0000

We still see a significant difference between iPhone and iPod touch users upgrades, which isn’t surprising given the $5 upgrade requirement for the iPod touch. 91% of iPhone requests are 3.0 or 3.1, compared to only 35% of iPod touch requests

via AdMob Metrics blog.

Reach: animated short from Luke Randall

Ben Green — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:58:48 +0000

via Crikey

Obsessionism plays databall

Ben Green — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:39:51 +0000

Obsessionism has three categories:

NBA
Statistics
Personal Obsessions

And it comes out like this:

The above is from NBA Team Heat Maps [Current Obsessions]

I set out with these questions in mind and developed a graph to see if I could find something. Each graph shows who was coaching the team that year, who were the top offensive players on the team, and by how many possessions each team won or lost over a 5 year period.

Is it going to rain?

Ben Green — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:01:24 +0000

http://goingtorain.com/

3 Australia To Launch Facebook Phone next week

Ben Green — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:33:08 +0000

From the Washington Post:

The ultimate goal for these cheaper 3G smartphones is to drive more consumers to use mobile data, or a INQ Mobile CEO Frank Meehan told Unstrung, “You need to drive data usage higher right across all the handset segments. You want the majority of customers, not the top-end of the community that rules strategy at the moment.”

Three already try to drive more data usage through promotion of Facebook Mobile on their website.

INQ’s client-based Facebook app will always be on in the background, which means owners of the phone will get instant notice when friends update their profile, or as Meehan says, Facebook becomes like SMS.

This is what it looks like (nice wallpaper, dudes):

MTV. Back in My Life.

Ben Green — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:49:04 +0000

Talk Talk |MTV Music

Firefox Mobile

Ben Green — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:29:46 +0000

ReadWriteWeb have some screenshots of Firefox on windows mobile.

Tom Waits is quotable

Ben Green — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:18:27 +0000

You know, she’s a heavy equipment operator you know, she’s like a private eye and you know, she’s also like a hummingbird you know, her wings beat 800 times a second, you know and she can fly backwards. So you know, it works, you know.

Talking about collaborating with wife Kathleen Brennan.

Chrome’s itsy bitsy spiders

Ben Green — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:10:39 +0000

ReadWriteWeb says:

An interesting theory we heard recently is that Google will use Chrome to index the password protected Web – a.k.a. the ‘dark web’.

Most web apps are password-protected and so there’s no way for a normal search engine to index the data – even data that’s generalized and doesn’t identify individual users. But with a full-fledged browser to complement its search engine, Google now theoretically has the means to index this previously inaccessible data.

Interesting that Flock browser already does this, and saves the data to an offline cache on the local machine, presumably to support all the social integration / aggregation features they’ve got going on.

I guess that Flock keep a little data for themselves too, and that is the reason for the FAQ question: How do I disable collection of anonymous usage metrics?

BigPond’s first tweets not music to all ears

Ben Green — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:21:25 +0000

After becoming the first Australian telco to launch a customer service site last Thursday, Telstra has come under fire from countless bloggers who have dismissed its attempts to engage customers and create a community of technical support as a blatant marketing ploy.

Bigpond bitten by blogosphere

You just can’t please some people.