http://www.alicepretchet.com Mobile web developement ideas Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:31:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I hardly ever get a chance to catch up with Slate, but I was on some website that had a one liner about patterns in architecture, and I have always been a big fan of patterns and architecture, so I clicked over and found an article talking about e of ... http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2009/slate-features-one-of-my-favorite-authors-books/ Read a very interesting article today at the gaurdian, I had no idea that facebook now has more than 350 million users. I was also quite surprised to read the information about about profits (or lack thereof) with facebook and twitter. It seems that very few people click banner ads, ... http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2009/facebook-now-has-350m-users-and-theres-no-point-in-advertising/ Well I have been thinking about moving, but the economy and everything has been so shaky, its a nerve racking experience to think about moving only to end up in a place that has worse job opportunities. If I can keep the cost of living down and make sure that ... http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2009/forbes-lists-best-bang-for-your-dollar-cities/ Was reading off a blog that America is launching a National alert text messaging system that alerts people in a certain areas or the entire country of severe weather, terrorists attacks or other major emergencies. And although I think this is a great step in the right direction, it does ... http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2008/americas-national-text-alert-system/ I am wondering how they got myspace on board with this, it's certainly a step in the right direction for me and many others to be able to more easily connect to the myspace silo. It's a great idea, but it's not free. A desktop widget and a cell phone ... http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2008/wuawee-connecting-mobile-phones-with-social-networks/ There have been a few reports in the news talking about nokia quietly opening n-gage for game downloads on the nokia smart phones, but I still have not gotten my invite for the nokia ovi service. Perhaps they are testing things with the ngage to see how that goes, but ... http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2008/nokia-opens-ngage-whats-up-with-ovi/ Could exclusive games on mobile networks influence a persons decision to buy a contract? I think this question is being answered now and the results are something I am looking forward to seeing in the coming quarters of profits and new customers for various mobile networks. Of course content will ... http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2008/exclusive-games-on-mobile-networks/ I have been tinkering around with my blog for the last couple of hours doing a pre-update check to ensure my Wordpress blog will be ready for a update when the new 2.5 is released sometime this week. I am hoping for a smooth transition from my old ... http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2008/started-my-pre-update/ This may be the best firefox plugin ever. Zotero lets you save web  pages, or portions of pages and organizes them in a folder tree. You can put pages or notes into several categories, add notes to piecs of web info and more! This great plugin even auto detects information ... http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2008/zotero-save-and-organize-pages-and-notes-from-the-web-quickly/ I had known for some time that ip addresses were one way for people to find out who you are, online. I knew that each computer had to access the internet through a gateway that has it's own ip address, what I hadn't known years ago, is that there are ... http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2008/ip-addresses-yours-theirs-locations/