Gorm’s blog

Facebook has made a new design, and as a amateur Facebook app developer I have notices that it has an impact of number of new users of my app. The number of new users have steadily increased since I made my app, but since the new facebook design was made mandatory for all users the adoption of the app has tanked. This is probaply because a person app’s is more of a privat part of you profile, it is no longer a part of you main profile page.Any body else have thougts on this isue?

But even just a single post a day is hard work… The More You Post, The Higher You Rank

“The G1’s debut is important because it will get moreprogrammers into the Android game, developing applications and creatingimprovements to the platform. I never thought the first handset wouldbe much, because it will take at least a year to get out the bugs, soupit up, and present a shiny impressive second-gen handset that deservespraise.”The question is this witch model is best – the Apple development model, with some control, or the open source model, with no control? I would think there is room for both models, but what kind of differences are we going … Continue Reading

clipped from psychcentral.com
“We found that people who are narcissistic use Facebook in a self-promoting way that can be identified by others,” said lead author Laura Buffardi, of the … Continue Reading

The first Android-powered phone, announced today by T-Mobile, comes ‘with Google’. The following Google applications are preloaded on the device: Search, Maps, Gmail with Contacts, Calendar, Google Talk, and YouTube. It is looking good, can’t wait to try it. clipped from googlemobile.blogspot.com

BusinessWeek evaluates brand value on the basis of how much it is likely to earn for the company in the future. It would mean that a company that has a monopoly has a good brand (microsoft), or that a company that is simply good at making money (general electric) has a good brand. There is something a miss here, how can MacDonald, Nike come below HSBC (yes that right – who is HSBC?)Anyhow the list is worth a look http://www.interbrand.com/best_global_brands.aspx?langid=1000 … Continue Reading

The new economy, and the new philanthropy… clipped from news.cnet.com

Instead of just giving a man a fish, or even teaching him to fish, a social entrepreneur would invest in his fishing net business.

“What Google and other organizations have begun to do is to redefine what constitutes philanthropy,” said Susan Raymond, senior managing director for research and chief analyst at OnPhilanthropy, … Continue Reading

Adobe’s new searchable SWF library should make things better for flash with regards to SEO. But researh by J. Nielsen shows that when looking at Search Engine Result Pages are going truly going for the top placement51% click on nr. 1 position in the SERP. 16% click on nr. 2 position in the SERP.6% click on nr. 3 position in the SERP.So any tiny little detail that can make your site up to the number one placement can be of great importance. The fact that swf files have become visible to Google, is … Continue Reading

Well no comment is really necessary he says it all clipped from uk.youtube.comBill Gates said Microsoft Vista Sucks??

I just read this remark about the Microsoft design philosophy, and I think it is the foundation of 99.9% of all of MS’s problems. They make features without thinking about user needs. I think the problem here is that Bill Gates is a programmer, and that has formed MS software into this feature hell. They make release Word 1001 with features X, Y, Z etc. , but the users need featues A and B that solves their actual needs.Like how the f… do I shut off those f….. security warnings…. Continue Reading