naelshawwa | 14 years ago | on: TwitterTwitterChickenDinner.com
A Saturday night project to learn node.js. TwitterTwitterChickenDinner.com picks your Twitter contest winners randomly and most importantly with one click.
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naelshawwa | 15 years ago | on: Don't tell me your tv supports Twitter (part 2)
Thanks for the comment. I'm just saying that its not just about accessing Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, NetFlix etc. Those are just marketing tactics that remind me of telecom tactics back in the early days of the iPhone. Clearly the iPhone/Android has shown that its all about the apps, not the phone. I think that "war" will start to move on to TVs where someone like GoogleTV and maybe AppleTV (at some point) will have apps for your TV, while others like Samsung will boast about Twitter, Facebook, and NetFlix.
I'd put my money on the guys behind your own personalized apps for your tv.
naelshawwa | 15 years ago | on: Sony beat the Apple TV without Google TV
yeah the app store wasn't, and I don't know how successful the iPhone would have been if it weren't but it would have still been revolutionary though.
>>That it takes developers to build these things is obvious, >>just as obvious as it takes engineers to build cars. But >>it's not engineers engineers engineers. Lol. Okay thats not a fair analogy. You build a parking garage, and you'll scream for "cars, cars, cars, cars". You build an airport and you'll scream for "planes, planes, planes, planes". Now when you build a platform like the app store, or the android market place, you'll scream for...
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naelshawwa | 15 years ago | on: Sony beat the Apple TV without Google TV
I didn't see that in the specs. But anyway adding a hard drive to it won't be that expensive for a later gen.
naelshawwa | 15 years ago | on: Sony beat the Apple TV without Google TV
Right now it doesn't, but first gen iphone didn't have an app store either. Maybe the apps can be streamed from the iPad or iPhone? who knows how they're planning it, but one thing for sure you'll be able to see apps on your TV. Regardless of how they do it, I just think it won't be about the bells and whistles TV manufacturers can bundle in their TV in a few years.
naelshawwa | 15 years ago | on: Sony beat the Apple TV without Google TV
These are my thoughts on this topic:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1660396
naelshawwa | 15 years ago | on: Sony beat the Apple TV without Google TV
The iPhone worked because of the app store, not because of the touch screen or the phone, or any "consumer friendliness" The app store worked because of the thousands of developers that built apps for the iphone. That is what I'm saying. Don't take "developers" to mean just "coder". I look at it as anybody who is actually involved in building the application, ex. designer, tester, coder, etc. etc.
Look around you, Facebook, iPad, iPhone, Twitter, Google Maps, etc. etc. all these are platforms, and they're successful because people found use cases that the original designers haven't thought of. The ecosystem surrounding these platforms is built by developers, developers, developers.
naelshawwa | 15 years ago | on: Sony beat the Apple TV without Google TV
the market is already there, every iPad, iPhone, and iTouch owner will get one. God its cheaper than an iPod nano.
naelshawwa | 15 years ago | on: Sony beat the Apple TV without Google TV
I think that is coming. It doesn't make sense if the AppleTV isn't an iOS device nor if it can't get apps from the app store. You know, it'll be a Jobs moment next year when he says "oh btw, app store for ATV is now available. I don't think they missed any trick, they're playing it by the book with any new device, first version doesn't do everything you hope for, but just enough to get you to buy.
Ex. iPad, no camera? really? next generation for sure then!
naelshawwa | 15 years ago | on: Sony beat the Apple TV without Google TV
you're missing the point I think, and so did the Author of this post. Its not about the bells and whistles, or features that came built in. Its about the apps that YOU may want to install on it, and not what the manufacturer gets to say you'll get. Who cares if the Sony Bravia has Netflix, YouTube, Pandora and even Hulu bundled in if the Apple TV or Google TV will allow you to install the apps you want. Just like what happened with phones in the past couple of years, its no longer about features, its about how many developers you can bring to your platform to build all the creative applications. If Balmer got one thing right, it would have been this: Developers, Developers, Developers.
naelshawwa | 15 years ago | on: Why use closures in JavaScript
great post. It was more of examples of how to use closures in JS rather than the pros/cons of it.
naelshawwa | 15 years ago | on: How many cats you'd have if you had 1 female and left it with males for 5 years
neat experiment! lol
naelshawwa | 15 years ago | on: TED talks for IT pros
Thanks. These look great, I just came across the first one before.
naelshawwa | 15 years ago | on: Recursive search in Google Maps
yeah, I bloggged about it last year, but thought of sharing on this community since I only joined recently. Even last year it seemed like it existed for a while. Did you find other interesting use cases of exploring their location data? I'd like to see some way of doing some sort of location analytics based on all the places they already have on there.
naelshawwa | 15 years ago | on: Flash on Android is shockingly bad
Not shocked : )
naelshawwa | 15 years ago | on: Does anyone else have gmail auto-playing a hidden movie when they log in?
I haven't seen it yet...interesting.
naelshawwa | 15 years ago | on: Dojo how to: publish / subscribe
Exactly. This style suits the UI very well because of te nature of it. At the end, the UI responds to events whether they are user driven or system driven ex. Notifications. One of my favorites is the ability for the UI to degrade gracefully even if a component has been removed because nothing calls it directly, just publishes to it.
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