Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

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Last week, I had an argument with a friend about HP’s decision to drop out of the hardware market and their attempts to shift warehouses full of unwanted HP Touchpad stock at the firesale price of £89 (or $99 in the US). I put forward the notion that, with the Touchpad launching with such tepid [...]

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I’ll keep this one nice and short. In summary, I was chatting with a friend the other day and we were discussing something she’s working on and the feedback she’d received from a recent panel review of her idea. The upsum was, make sure you’re concentrating on the right people when you’re putting your idea [...]

Gamification in Action

Posted: 19th May 2011 by boboshady in Development, Digital Commentary, Professional
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I blogged recently about gamification and game theory (actually on my employer’s blog, repeated here). I thought I’d quickly follow that up now with some examples of where this sort of thing is already happening, just so you’re clearer on both the obvious and less obvious instances of such things. Firstly, let’s look at one [...]

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Something I see a lot when reading through client briefs and tender documents in general is a list of Key Performance Indicators – essentially a list of what the client will use to measure the success of their new website. When I don’t see them listed, I ask for them as they’re vital in being [...]

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Gamification, and to a lesser extent Game Theory, are terms you’re going to be hearing a lot of over the next six months or so. They are going to be used in the context of digital marketing strategies, and will probably be poorly explained to you. But what actually are they, and should you really [...]

Erm….what? Realtime Cubic Content Relevance is something I came up with whilst holidaying on my own in Melbourne in 2009. I did a lot of walking and thus a lot of thinking. I also scored some mammoth blisters, but that’s besides the point. Realtime Cubic Content Relevance (RCCR) explores the concept of removing the traditional [...]

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I love geo – I think it’s my love of data usage that draws me to concepts that rely on analysis to work. I’ve been working with geo-marketing on and off for a decade across many concepts – my first real foray being an ultimately canned project to do location-based competition marketing via mobile phone [...]

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This is a post I’ve had in draft for a while. Before that, it was an article I was writing that had been in draft for a while. Basically, I’ve been putting off getting around to this for about 12 months now, and that simply won’t do. I ask you, dear reader, to assume the [...]

Developing Mobile Apps for Efficiency

Posted: 26th March 2011 by boboshady in Development, Mongolian Rally
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I’ve been looking at various ideas for mobile app development for a couple of years now – pretty much since I got an iPhone, in fact. thing is, I’ve never really settled on something that really floats my boat, or brings any value. It’s not really ever been about creating something that would make a [...]

Writing webapps for mobile

Posted: 23rd March 2011 by boboshady in Apple, Development, Professional
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I’ve been playing around with some webapp frameworks for the past couple of days, mainly with iOS in mind but with a nod to other mobile and more traditional platforms. The main two I’ve played with are iScroll and JQTouch. Initially, I preferred iScroll – it allowed access to the swipe action on iOS devices if [...]