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Androidland →
In Melbourne, Australia.
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Interesting article on Pinterest's viral growth →
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Hey Jordan, thanks for reaching out. Some quick thoughts for you: Replacing Toolbar with Dashboard  I’ve always liked the dashboard approach. Visually it’s awesome and it works well for apps like Venmo. The argument against it is discoverability / burial of features. If you spend most time on Schedule, you may forget about Places or Social. I suppose it’s why Twitter went back...
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“I told him in my day when I worked on the largest takeover in the history of...”
– Anon Banker
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Debugging Android
I’ll be presenting at the Android Australia User Group meetup tomorrow night. Here’s the source code for the dummy project we’ll be looking at.
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I was asked recently what my goals are. They include (among other things) to work in the Global-Mobile-Consumer space; consumer applications used by millions of people from their mobile phone. I want to be part of a team that’s responsible for creating a great mobile user experience. So, I’m really pleased to be working with foursquare this summer. Even managed to get nick at...
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Android Australia Pro-Am written up by APC... →
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C.R.A.P Design Principles →
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Nick Burton interviewed by ZDNet about Android in... →
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I’m evaluating Foursquare for Android as part of a subject on Usability Engineering. We first need to identify the goals of the company which include, presumably, to: facilitate location-based information sharing build a community; and guide interaction between users and brands A genuine service, a critical mass, and a monetisation mechanism. 
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Foursquare Stats Widget (Update)
One of the great things about open source projects is that people are willing to help out when they see you’ve been making an effort. Logan took the initiative to work on the integration with the main application, so the Foursquare Stats Widget should be on the Market soon!
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Source Code →
The source code for Foursquare Stats is available here.
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Technical Bits
Screen Sizes for Foursquare Stats Widget There’s a layer of complexity in supporting multiple screen resolutions when using pre-scaled Drawable resources. It gets even harder when you consider both Portrait and Landscape since the pixel density swaps around.  I created 3 widgets, each with background a resource: tiny small medium (Jeff Sharkey my inspiration for the naming...
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Random #OldSpice Link →
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