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Re: Does the Pebble Cause a Ripple In Apple’s Waters?

Rog — Wed, 02 May 2012 01:11:05 -0000

Here's another theory: VCs do not have perfect sight and are now kicking themselves after seeing the success on kickstarter

Re: 12 Deadly Grammatical Errors Startups Must Avoid

Rog — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:40:46 -0000

When you are making youre judgements, how do tell if its written bye a native English speaker? If their is no way to tell, you're rules need to apply to everyone. If not, stop whining and accept bad spelling from everyone.

At the end of the day, copyrighters are easy to come bye so anyeone should have a well spelt web sight.

Re: How Many Words Make a String? - Digital Magpie

Rog — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:32:40 -0000

It would be nice to know how they compare for normalised input and how the two more correct approaches compare for real world input.

On the code front, I guess (without knowing anything about the class) that NSLinguisticTagger is going to handle more edge cases than the regexp. I would also expect it to be more i18n aware.

Re: Flook wants to organize the world’s location information. Sound familiar?

Rog — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:50:40 -0000

...absolutely, not something we're religiously opposed to just not got round to yet :-)

Re: Flook wants to organize the world’s location information. Sound familiar?

Rog — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:56:38 -0000

Martin, thanks for the thoughtful post. flook does already include support for making cards from Twitter postings and flickr cards drawn from the flickr interesting stream. You might not have seen them when you ran flook this morning because we have turned them off! Flickr interesting simply wasn't that interesting at the end of the day and real people in the real world weren't that interested in Tweets near them.

Re: Vodafone spurns UK’s Rummble for FourSquare

Rog — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:47:09 -0000

Mike, we'd love to be able to push flook cards to the phone asynchronously but there are (sadly) technical reasons why we can't do this - on iPhone anyway.

If you'd like to contact us, I'd be really interested to hear more on why you feel foursquare is more intuitive off the bat that flook is. We are keen on making sure our user experience is as slick as possible.

Re: Is GPS enabled Social Check in Getting Boring?

Rog — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:48:45 -0000

Glenn, You seem to be catching the upswell of a geo-zeitgeist here. Of course, I agree with you. We think that there is plenty of room for many different location based services and there will be several 'winners'. Checkin is either a game or a feature. Yelp have added the feature, myTown are leading the way in the gaming side of things.

Flook was designed to be a much deeper app and a channel for content much wider than our own UGC. Although UGC is vital to us (and currently core to flook) we don't see it as the only relevant content for flook. The term 'Location Browser' isn't just marketing. We're adding new content sources right now (e.g Ghost signs http://bit.ly/50Lzby) coupons and offers could easily be another content source in flook.

Cheers
rog

P.S. We do give you that London Bridge history (http://bit.ly/av9KQF).

Re: Flook Adds Elegance To The iPhone App Location Game

Rog — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:45:24 -0000

Tim, Thanks very much for this thoughtful article. It's really pleasing to see someone get flook so well and articulate the features of the product we've designed so well :-) You're right about developments - we're putting the finishing touches to (another) minor revision now and have a larger release starting development immediately.

Your readers might like to know we have a competition running to win a MacBook Air during January - still a few days left... http://flook.it/comp

Cheers
rog

Re: GISUser.com - 2009 The Year of Social Location - 10 Geo Social Location-Aware Apps Making Waves

Rog — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:13:11 -0000

Glen,

Thanks for including us in this great list. One minor correction, the flook homepage is at http://flook.it flook.com is owned by the folk band who share our name. For the impatient, the AppStore download is at itms://itunes.apple.com/us/...

Re: 'Teenage Heroes' Panel Interview [Re-posted]

Rog — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:57:33 -0000

Whilst we wait, here is an (iPhone) capture of the flook pitch to the mobile heroes. Disclaimer - it's me pitching.
http://flookblog.wordpress....

Re: You’ve been kicked in the nuts: signing up in iPhone apps | Broadersheet iPhone Edition

Rog — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:41:05 -0000

Couldn't agree more. flook does exactly the same. The iPhone is a security token so we use it. We only ask people to sign up if they need to change their generated name or link a phone and web account.

Re: Ravensburger Lowers Ban Hammer On Apple For Trademark Infringement – Developers Beware!

Rog — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:00:20 -0000

Surely there is significant prior art here. They may own a trademark for the word memory applied to a card game but this is an old old game:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: Mobile Application Development Guidelines | LiMo Foundation

Rog — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:22:41 -0000

There's a misunderstanding here between bandwidth and data caps. A phone is still bandwidth constrained despite "all you can eat" tariffs it just doesn't have any caps on total data transmissions. Even on a 3G phone, bandwidth frequently drop back to GPRS or even zero. Good mobile apps handle network outages more gracefully and more frequently than their desktop cousins. Mobile networks still have very poor latency too.

I'm not sure I buy your claim that cloud computing is more power efficient than local processing either. Although the modem generally runs an ARM core that is a generation behind an application processor and at a lower clock speed, neither of these are the biggest battery hog on a phone. Even the smallest network request will switch on the modem transmit amplifiers which can still consume up to a watt for HSDPA. Both solutions use the screen (and hence backlight) - the other big power hog. A cloud computing solution has less direct control (or even awareness) of these two power sinks.

The only place where cloud computing does win in power term is that it can't access any the 3D hardware - but then this is easy to avoid in client side processing too.