Google are aware of the issue, but with no support for the App; will they really fix it?!

Too bad – otherwise I’m loving my Sprint iPhone 4S; and it activated in about 3 seconds, cough AT&T!

Camera’s great though…

Follow the steps over at: http://mashable.com/2011/09/22/how-to-facebook-timeline/

Thanks Scott.

Fellow Meetuppers,

 

I don’t write to our whole community often, but this week is

special because it’s the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and many

people don’t know that Meetup is a 9/11 baby.

 

Let me tell you the Meetup story. I was living a couple miles

from the Twin Towers, and I was the kind of person who thought

local community doesn’t matter much if we’ve got the internet

and tv. The only time I thought about my neighbors was when I

hoped they wouldn’t bother me.

 

When the towers fell, I found myself talking to more neighbors

in the days after 9/11 than ever before. People said hello to

neighbors (next-door and across the city) who they’d normally

ignore. People were looking after each other, helping each

other, and meeting up with each other. You know, being

neighborly.

 

A lot of people were thinking that maybe 9/11 could bring

people together in a lasting way. So the idea for Meetup was

born: Could we use the internet to get off the internet — and

grow local communities?

 

We didn’t know if it would work. Most people thought it was a

crazy idea — especially because terrorism is designed to make

people distrust one another.

 

A small team came together, and we launched Meetup 9 months

after 9/11.

 

Today, almost 10 years and 10 million Meetuppers later, it’s

working. Every day, thousands of Meetups happen. Moms Meetups,

Small Business Meetups, Fitness Meetups… a wild variety of

100,000 Meetup Groups with not much in common — except one

thing.

 

Every Meetup starts with people simply saying hello to

neighbors. And what often happens next is still amazing to me.

They grow businesses and bands together, they teach and

motivate each other, they babysit each other’s kids and find

other ways to work together. They have fun and find solace

together. They make friends and form powerful community. It’s

powerful stuff.

 

It’s a wonderful revolution in local community, and it’s thanks

to everyone who shows up.

 

Meetups aren’t about 9/11, but they may not be happening if it

weren’t for 9/11.

 

9/11 didn’t make us too scared to go outside or talk to

strangers. 9/11 didn’t rip us apart. No, we’re building new

community together!!!!

 

The towers fell, but we rise up. And we’re just getting started

with these Meetups.

 

Scott Heiferman (on behalf of 80 people at Meetup HQ)

Co-Founder & CEO, Meetup

New York City

September 2011

Fix soon Skype…?

It’s not too difficult, but has been made even easier by some clever person creating a Photoshop template which will export all the correct image sizes!! Guide to Create Facebook Images

Have fun.

To download it, uninstall the Facebook App and redownload from the AppStore, whatever it says, it will download the new version.

Here is the first.

So you copied keynote then?

Congrats.

So, while I use Spotify a lot, up until last week I still had purchase any music I wanted to travel with me on my iPhone. Enter Spot – the iPhone Spotify Client.

Spot is a Jailbroken-only iPhone application available through Cydia from the modmyi repo. It allows you to access Spotify music on-the-go on the iPhone and iPod touch and it actually works pretty well; providing you have a spotify premium account.

Once you’ve installed Spot and fire it up you’ll see the login screen:

Spotify Login Screen

Spot lacks the preset playlists and recommendations of it’s big brother and presents it’s primary method of finding music as a search bar. This works pretty effectively, results are ordered by relevance as in Spotify.

Spotify Search Screen

Spot - Lady Gaga

Drilling down, you get Album Art previews and can go down through Albums, Singles and Songs. Having selected a song you get a Now Playing Panel somewhat reminiscent of the iPod interface.

Spotify Now Playing

It begins to play almost immediately on Wifi, 3G is usable but will pause and buffer occasionally. Edge is a no-go. Switching tracks is smooth and overall, the experience is usable. Tracks stop playing when you close the application with no apparent built-in background playing support (although I’m sure backgrounder could be used).

It works, it’s usable and it’s an answer to the prayers of many. However there are some quite serious points that need to be addressed moving forward.

• The UI waits for data-downloading. Clicking on an Artist will cause the UI to become unresponsive until the necessary data is downloaded and the next screen can be rendered. An approach of switching to the new view and dynamically populating it while showing a loading spinner would be a lot more pleasant, and save time and data; ordered by relevance, one of the first hits will likely be the one you want so you can click it before the others are loaded. This makes it very slow to use on 3G and Edge and jerky on Wifi.
• The client seems to be unaware of regional restrictions; playing a track that is unavailable in your region causes the appliaction to buffer the track perpetually. This is not a huge issue as you can press the next button, but is annoying if you’re playing a list of tracks etc..
• The UI is (technically) awful. It actually looks okay in most cases, but it’s consistency and ease of access to many features is poor. Also, once you browse away from the search you began a playlist from, accessing the ‘Now Playing’ screen becomes (from what I can tell) impossible which seems odd!
• The Playlist feature doesn’t work. I have a bunch of spotify playlists on my account, none of them show up.

For a 1.0 product, it works acceptably and adds a great feature to the iPhone and Spotify – it made me buy a Spotify premium account! There are a lot of issues, but seeing as it’s the only option, they’re not show-stoppers but if the developer sits around too long a more polished alternative is bound to appear!

Better still; the source code is open at http://github.com/nevyn/spot/tree/master for anybody to browse so I’m hoping to see all of the above improve rapidly!!

Great Job Joachim – you’ve made a lot of people very happy.

Chris

Spot – Available on Cydia through modmyi repo (apt.modmyi.com)

“If you lose or misplace the phone, you can login to MobileMe on any browser and it will show you where the phone is”

MEANS….

“We have a backdoor allowing remote invokation and transmission of the GPS co-ordinates of your iPhone. Sleep well”

Lets hope MS follows suit on 7.