3 things twitter *needs* in it’s web interface –
Secondary markets for private companies. SecondMarket.com is the first to go beyond Accredited Investors – service available to all sellers
Sony’s answer to my – so far unique – Facebook app
Manhattan Auction – does this actually help shift equity?
Nice rebuttal of Google Analytics criticism
Backing up my post on Wednesday
Stocks dived from their recent range at the top of this week, largely for reasons unknown.
While the usual sources of financial infotainment were puzzled at the pullback – citing an absence of negative macroeconomic news – this is in fact a telegraphed “the rally has run out of steam” message. Trader sentiment changes as a function of time, and it is this inability to read the same data consistently that has the greatest impact on market direction beneath the long-term trend. So people have had enough of drinking the government-led recovery Koolaid for now.
What we then look to are combat indicators giving us signs of whether indeed everyone sees this and are still prepared to presevere with a contrarian rally – “climbing the wall of worry”. In such an event watch for a sharp drop as sellers get out quick followed by an equally sharp rebuttal as traders look to get in on the next leg of the rally.
The 2nd scenario is that this is indeed the end of the current rally, whether it then plays out to be a bear market one or the first phase of a recovery would remain to be seen.
So keep an eye on this throughout the week, my thinking at the moment is we’re seeing the beginnings of a summer pull back based on low volume and lack of strong recovery numbers.
Just finished release 1 of a nice and simple Facebook app that allows you to show off your Playstation Portable ID to your network. It shows among other things your last played online game and your trophy list including a breakdown across platinum, gold, silver & bronze.
Here is mine as an example
This gucci Portable ID that displays trophy count is only available from Playstation’s EU community site and so this is why Gamer Tag instructs the user to register there. The process is quite labourious but to help there is a great step-by-step guide at iTrophies.
As my first Facebook app I was surprised at the incomplete nature of documentation available, especially on the official dev site itself. Although concepts became less hazy by the time I fleshed out the full application life cycle it took a while for the building blocks to fall into place. The multi-dimensional nature of developing for the Facebook platform – i.e. working across 3 domains each with their own specific script or markup language – made for a trial and error development experience.
There are a lot of different paths into a facebook app and thus the challenge comes in creating a bullet-proof application that will withstand the many methods users will find to get to my little app. Storyboarding the various steps in signing up users helps immensely and can be safely broking down into a number of discrete steps.
This is definitely something that merits further discussion so look out for a tutorial somewhere in the not-too-distant future.
You can try it out for yourself here.
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