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UI Concept: Using Android’s Soft Keys for Screen Pinning

I have written before on how Android could be using their software navigation buttons more appropriately. Seeing how Android 5.0 and 5.1 handle screen pinning seems another one of those situations...

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A better SXSW scheduling experience

I am currently at SXSW, my forth trip to the event. As conferences go, I find SXSW pretty enjoyable and always come back with a couple of new ideas that I can play with. However, as much as I like the...

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Technically Philly on Open Source in Comcast

Jon Moore and I were interviewed recently by Technically Philly on running open source projects in Comcast. The post came out today. Its always exciting to see your name in print…or the digital...

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Notes from the 2015 Quantified Self Conference

The 2015 QS conference was at Herbst Pavillion / Cowell Theater right on Pier 2 in San Francisco. If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. – Peter Drucker A few years ago I was introduced to a...

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Google Maps Timelines and my 2007 maps hack

I just saw a blog post from Google announcing the timelines feature in the new Maps app for Android. The feature extends the previously available (though often hard to find) location history view with...

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The best standard is a killer application

Courtesy: XKCD.com I was reading a post recently by a friend, Mark, about the challenges of getting Wifi Direct working with multiple Android devices. As with most Android development, you are...

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Getting around TestFlight’s “Duplicate iTunes Account” Error for Internal Betas

One of the iOS prototypes I had been working on recently reached a point where I was ready to run a small internal test with it. Looking around for tools to manage the process, most people I talked to...

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Rethinking Sign-In in the mobile first world

I have never been a fan of OAuth for signing in. Sure, it was better than sites asking for third party username and passwords, but It solved the problems for web-apps just around the time mobile was...

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Could Messaging interfaces be the next evolution in App UIs

Facebook launched M last week which lets you complete a variety of tasks, from finding information to making reservations, by messaging the assistant over Facebook Messenger. As Facebook’s David Marcus...

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Presentation: Introduction to React Native for Android

Last week I gave a quick presentation at Android Alliance Philly on React Native, Facebook’s new framework that lets you develop native mobile apps using JavaScript and JSX, a layout language modeled...

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Presentation: Lessons learned from 5 years at labs

I gave a quick 10 minute talk recently about some lessons I have learned after working in a “labs” group for close to 5 years. The deck is embedded below:

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Digital Personas

  Definition on Merriam Webster I have been thinking quite a bit about the way we interact with technology lately. While underlying technologies get more capabile everyday, the way we interact still...

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2015 Retrospective

2015 was a eventful year on a lot of fronts. Parts of it were great, and other parts not so much, but one thing it definitely wasn’t was boring. Tech: iOS with Swift was definitely the technology I...

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2015 in review

WordPress.com prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 35,000 times in 2015. If it were...

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Some observations on Mobile Behavior in India

I was in New Delhi, India for the last couple of weeks visiting family. The trip has also been an interesting experience looking at how people use mobile phones here. Here are some observations....

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Reading up on Robotics

I have been reading a lot of interesting things on robotics and AI lately. Boston Dynamics’ new Atlas 2 Robots video is fascinating to watch. While the capabilities of the robot to balance itself and...

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The Physical Web Cometh

At last week’s AndroidPhilly event, I was surprised to find a lock screen notification for a “Physical Web Page” on my phone Tapping on that notification linked to an explanation page of the Physical...

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2015 blog report

WordPress.com prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 35,000 times in 2015. If it were...

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DiggGraphr referenced in technical paper on news services using big data...

Quite a few years back, I got really interested in Treemaps. The whole project had started as an academic discussion between a friend and I on how hard a treemap would be to build (they seemed to be a...

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Bringing Cable TV to VR (Slides)

  Yesterday Jack Zankowski (who leads the next gen UX at Comcast) and I gave a talk on the design and engineering challenges in building VR experiences for TV content at the WICT Tech It Out event at...

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