Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
While a bundle of start-ups and incubators are ‘on crunch‘ to finish the betas of their replacements for Google Reader, there’s probably one bit of software that could do the job even better than Google Reader. GCHQ and NSA must have some really good RSS plug-ins for reading websites. If we’re going to ignore the implications of the data trawling, could we at least benefit from the code that our taxes paid for?
Let’s just say that it wasn’t pretty, and it shows why the female reporters in the gaming world, unfortunately, need a really thick skin
Stef Lewandowski: There are certain days in a life that, on looking back, turn out to have been major turning-points. Where up until that day, things are a certain way, and then from that point on, everything is completely different. I had one of those days, and it lead me to make a decision, and to follow a simple rule from then onwards – to create something every day.
BBC Weather app released, and all I can see is that there is no iPad version, and the smaller mobile OSs (Windows Phone an Blackberry notably) are missing. Low hanging fruit reached for the devs, now how about you use the licence fee to reach the stretch goals?
Unfortunately (a) digital is starting from a much smaller base, so in raw terms it’s still tens of millions behind print; and (b) it’s for the Daily Mail website. Still, lets take it as a positive sign for newspapers in general. Just looking at advertising, DMGT said that digital advertising growth across DMG Media now exceeds print advertising decline: “This is a significant inflection point for the business”, the company said.
The reason we did our preview launch in August was simply to getsomething out the door. As soon as we picked the date and a minimal feature set, we got rid of loads of other features we were playing with (some of which we’ll bring back, some of which we won’t). We also identified and built a bunch of infrastructure we’d need to host real users. And we got more done in less time than I’d ever seen any team do. It was magical and fun. Before we had the date, frankly, we were drifting. More real world advice on Ev’s
