Hi! I'm Andy. I do stuff on the web, co-organize the Toronto WordPress Group, and work on a big gaming site called GTANet. This blog is my home on the web, where I'm sharing ideas, links, and other neat things. More info here!
May 10, 2012 - Rafe Needleman makes a great point about the new Facebook App Center. I firmly believe that standards-friendly HTML5 is where things are going, and I hope that the Facebook App Center will help push us in that direction. So what can Facebook actually sell to users on the site? Non-platform-specific apps, or HTML5 apps. Facebook [...]
May 8, 2012 - George Orwell’s 1984 painted a dystopian view of our society. Big Brother was watching and tracking our every move. Instead of becoming Winston Smith, each and every one of us has become our own, Big Brother. We track our own every move. We post tweets on Twitter, we check-in on Foursquare, we publish pictures of [...]
April 30, 2012 - A List Apart: Articles: Tinker, Tailor, Content Strategist Upholding the content vision through an entire project is no easy task, and sometimes it means having to compromise. But we must aim to optimize each one of those elements—business goals, editorial mission, user expectations, design vision, the content production process, and technological capabilities—by having them work [...]
April 27, 2012 - Automattic founder & WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg says he’s interested in serving the middle market of WordPress-powered sites, but he wants to stay away from the hosting side of the business.
April 23, 2012 - Woo! It’s been a while since I last made a blog post. Here’s an update on what’s going on in my world.
March 29, 2012 - Metro – ‘Smart’ idea brings together students and all their gadgets Peel Region’s 140,000 public school students are being encouraged to bring their smartphones, iPads, tablets and laptop computers to class in what the board calls its “21st century” learning plan.
March 28, 2012 - Google Account Activity is a personal analytics tool for your Google life | The Verge What’s your Google life look like? How many emails do you send / receive throughout the week? What’s the busiest day? Who do you contact the most? From where are you (or rather, from where is your account) signing on, [...]
March 27, 2012 - Smoke and mirrors: taking the Windows Phone challenge | The Verge In some ways, Microsoft’s challenge is like a carnival attraction, complete with an outlandish prize, a smooth operator, and a game that (only in hindsight) is deviously unfair. Watching Kyle’s hands move, like any good carny, I couldn’t help but grin at the speed [...]
March 27, 2012 - Sony reorganizes into ‘One Sony’, prioritizes digital imaging, gaming, and mobile | The Verge Sony is unveiling a new business structure today, dubbed “One Sony,” which it hopes will speed up and streamline its decision making process. Under the new plan, the separate professional and consumer product and service groups will disappear, which is probably [...]
March 15, 2012 - “The reactions featured in this video report on the screening are a far cry from the outburst of support that pummeled through Western nations. One local Ugandan featured in the video, an LRA survivor who only had one arm due to the other being blown off in a land mine, seemed pained at some of Invisible Children’s campaign strategies.” – Mashable
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