The Apple Core (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Apple has revoked Podcaster developer Alex Sokirynsky’s ability to issue ad hoc licenses for his killer iPhone app. Niall Kennedy claims over 1,300 people received provisioned licenses before Apple clipped his wings. That amounts to about $13,000 in revenue if each person donated the requested $10. Two weeks ago Podcaster was denied access to the App [...]
Memex 1.1 (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Very informative account by Niall Kennedy, who was there at the launch.
Simon Willison's Weblog (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
The story behind Google Chrome . Superbly researched by Niall Kennedy—a detailed overview of the staff and acquisitions that went in to Google Chrome.
fullasagoog (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
We just talked about codecs, and in particular the world of Ogg. Mozilla came out supporting the format, and saying that we should see it in Firefox 3.1. Niall Kennedy then reminded me of a post, way back in time, by David Singer of Apple discussing the research that Apple did into Ogg: Preamble The HTML5 specification contains [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
We just talked about codecs, and in particular the world of Ogg. Mozilla came out supporting the format, and saying that we should see it in Firefox 3.1. Niall Kennedy then reminded me of a post, way back in time, by David Singer of Apple discussing the research that Apple did into Ogg: Preamble The HTML5 specification contains [...]
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
Twitter’s Biz Stone is trumpeting the fact that Twitter had news of a Southern California earthquake first, and from all reports stayed up as people hit Twitter with the news. That makes Twitter’s constant failures to keep the service up all ok. Original image credit: Niall Kennedy. story: Twitter as a news-wire.
Niall Kennedy (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
I am hosting a my third annual Widget Summit conference November 3rd and 4th at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco.
Simon Willison's Weblog (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Ordnance Survey OpenSpace Demo ( via ). Niall Kennedy threw a demo up on his site—the map seems to load a lot faster than Google Maps and the level of detail once you zoom down to street level is really impressive.
SEOCentro - SEO News (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
Last week at the Web 2.0 Expo I decided to walk the exhibition floor. Niall Kennedy and I checked out the inflatable Google booth, we gave feedback to the WordPress folks, and we came to rest in the Yahoo booth, where it was nice to see Jeremy Zawodny and catch up a little bit. After a few minutes of talking, I noticed the O'Reilly booth just a few yards away. I'm a sucker for O'Reilly books, so I...
Web 2.0 Expo Blog (Free subscription) | 20/04/2008
Are you interested in getting an in-depth look at emerging technologies and the fundamentals that make the Web tick? On Tuesday, Niall Kennedy of Hat Trick Media takes a dive deep into the building blocks of Web 2.0 and more...
Niall Kennedy (Free subscription) | 15/04/2008
Over the past few weeks new conversations have emerged regarding how conferences must change to better suit their audience. As a conference producer, conference speaker, and attendee I have many opinions on running a great show but today's post will focus on speakers. In this post I will share three speaking tips that keep coming up in my conversations with other speakers in the industry.
James Fee GIS Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Niall Kennedy has written an excellent overview of Google App Engine from aimed at developers. Well worth the read.
Simon Willison's Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Google App Engine for developers . Best in-depth coverage so far, from Niall Kennedy. I didn’t know that Guido had worked on the Django compatibility layer.
Self Made Minds (Free subscription) | 22/02/2008
A new addition to BlogRush (the headline sharing widget) is Traffic Jam, a supposedly easy way to see what is happening in the blogosphere. Niall Kennedy has come up with a very cool script that you can use to display Social Bookmarking buttons only to your readers that have visited those sites by looking at the [...]
zidouta.com (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Niall Kennedy, Sniff browser history for improved user experience: “I have been the browser history of my website visitors for the past few months to gracefully enhance adding my Atom feed to their favorite feed reader. Easily recognized branding such as “Add to My Yahoo” has yielded much higher conversion rates than a simple Atom link [...]
