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“My God, it’s full of stars!” – The Phenomena of WordPress

By | April 22, 2011 | Shape of Intent, Visible Future

“My God, its full of stars!” muttered Dr. David Bowman as he steered his vehicular pod into the monolith of Stanley Kubrick’s classic film, “2001: A Space Odyssey.” He found his assumption’s of a flat, solid object to be incorrect as he plunged into a bottomless well of potential. Last Saturday, I was not off […]

Camera+ Dodges and Ducks but Apple Rejects

By | August 21, 2010 | Mobile Nature, Shape of Intent

After initial rejection by the app approval process of the Apple App Store, TapTapTap managed to get Camera+ approved. Two months later and a reported $500,000 in their pockets, the app is yanked from the App Store for violation of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement section 3.3.7. TapTapTap has been a successful iPhone app […]

Quiet Release of SkypeKit SDK, New Ideas at Skype?

By | July 30, 2010 | Shape of Intent

After languishing under the marginal management of Meg Whitman at eBay, Skype has been returned to the original founders and they seem to have some fresh ideas about what to do with the technology. With barely a whisper Skype released SkypeKit SDK in June. Their hope will be that 3rd party hardware developers will license […]

Managing iPhone Apps Just Got Easier…

By | September 10, 2009 | Mobile Nature, Shape of Intent

There is a new update for iTunes, version 9, and for the iPhone iOS, version 3.1. There are a myriad of changes to how iTunes works with the iPhone and  iTouch, many are fine tunings and some are conceptually substantial. The iTunes store has a very new look, it is now much brighter and all items […]