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Over the holidays I decided to pause the Shrtnws experiment. It’s been great fun and the response has been positive, but the next step is too big at the moment. For those of you who’ve missed it, Shrtnws sent interesting and breaking news in short form, with a link for additional reading and/or source, through Twitter, Facebook, App.net and Tumblr. Additional plans, such as a daily (and later weekly wrap-up) newsletter were on the plate, and technically ready to launch, but I decided not to.
På senaste (sista?) 24 Hour Business Camp byggde jag och mina kollegor på Odd Alice nyhetstjänsten Shrtnws. Under dryga månaden publicerade vi korta nyheter i flera olika kanaler, med betalande sponsorer. Dessvärre blev det inte mer än så den gången, av flera skäl, och tjänsten lades på is.
Tills i dag, för Shrtnws är tillbaka i ny form, snabbare och mer lätthanterlig. Jag skriver mer ingående om bakgrunden på TDH.me för den som är intresserad.
Precis som förra gången handlar det om korta snabba nyheter, ofta med tillhörande länk för mer läsning. Kvar är även möjligheten att läsa nyheterna var du vill, nästan i alla fall. I dag finns Shrtnws på Twitter, App.net, Facebook samt Tumblr. Framöver blir det fler platser, samt en fullskalig sajt förstås.
Shrtnws was a small project that I built along with my Odd Alice friends at an event called 24 Hour Business Camp. It was great fun to build, and the end result was pretty cool. Basically, it was short news delivered to you through the site, or on Twitter and/or Facebook. There were several (five or six) topics that you could follow, and you got the very most important news in each of these.
We ran Shrtnws for a month or so, with paying sponsors I might add, but then decided to call it quits. There just wasn’t time enough, and due to changes with APIs, along with a publishing method that took a little bit too much tinkering when you were mobile, we shelved the project.
I was never comfortable with dropping the project, but reality is what it is. Much like I had to shelve the Appricorn project due to the ongoing changes within the App Store, we had to do the same with Shrtnws at the time. (more…)
Apple is rumored to have placed an order for a whopping 10 million iPad Mini units. This long time rumored 7″ sibling to the successful iPad is said to be announced at an event in October, and hit stores in November. 10 million units are to get Apple through the fourth quarter, and is twice the amount of Kindle Fire HD’s ordered by Amazon, all according to the Wall Street Journal.
The patent war with Google-Motorola, among others, have made Apple invest more in its patent portfolio than in R&D. Read the The New York Times feature iEconomy for an interesting insight in how a modern day successful technology has to keep up with the patent system.
Lugna gatan? Nej, inte direkt – det är fullt upp på Odd Alice, och på diverse projekt. Lite lagom introverta snabba länkar och notiser den här gången, men ändå:
24HBC är slut och allt gick bra. Shrtnws är lanserad, men missa för all del inte resten av projekten som föddes under de 24 timmarna.
På grund av återbud finns det en chans att vara med på 24 Hour Business Camp, men var snabb. Och ja, jag är där, tillsammans med Jesper och Malin, och bygger dumheter.