Jon On Tech

In which I reveal the two most important questions one should ask when selecting a CMS.

Here at Kaldor Towers, we’ve been spending a lot of time comparing the performance of the browsers on various phones and tablets. Here is a video of a CSS3 animation powered Spiderman intro running on lots of devices at the same time.

A year ago I had a dream that I was having an intimate chat with Steve Jobs about newspaper and magazine applications. “All the news apps currently out there “, he said after a thoughtful pause, “are shit. Why on earth should I have to wait tens of seconds, or even minutes, after I start the app before I can see the first page of my publication?”

I want to write a poetry book, and I want y’all to write it for me. It’s going to be a poetry book documenting epic tech fails in 2011. So we’ve got lots of material from the last few days, and quite a bit more from the year. More than happy to have multiple poems per incident.

In order to understand the social media douchebaggery that happens on our interwebs, you need to hold your nose and dive in some times. I try most things, but get bored of them pretty quickly. So I figured I had to try Empire Avenue (EAv), the stock trading game in which the stocks are people, and the bigger the douchebag the higher the value. Fortunately you don’t need to piss off (invite) your friends to get started.

In a fit of madness, I tried to draw a summary of everything Google is involved in, and all of their main competitors. Utter madness I tell you.

Poor RIM took a beating this evening after announcing their quarterly financials. It all seems rather up and down. Probably more down. Here is my summary of their 2011 so far.

With the New York Times paywall coming up, I thought I’d dump some more paywall thoughts. Are secure paywalls even a good idea?

My blog hasn’t had enough attention recently. You see, I was involved in some top secret shiftyness and I signed a lot of pieces of paper which meant I couldn’t really talk about a lot of interesting things. But I’m free from that now.

So The Daily is live. Just finished watching the launch announcement and was impressed. The app is really feature rich. It can live update during the day, has 360 degree video, live audio articles, a large sports score database, games and good social integration. And it even has the weather!