User First Web

• Mac Daddy World » Blog Archive » The Curious Case of Missing Yen
  “There is a 20% withholding tax in Japan until the Japanese tax authorities have accepted your tax exemption forms. This can take 90 days or longer. … They were required at the contract setup time in iTunes Connect. If you haven’t completed these and sent them in, you must or you should not have been paid."
  (tags: iphone appstore taxes mobile)

• New CSS Sticky Footer - 2009
  Putting a footer at the bottom of the page no matter the length of the content.
  (tags: css design tips footer)

• MobHappy » Blog Archive » Didn’t See This Coming: Mobile Phones Are Hard To Use
  the survey found 85% of users reporting they were frustrated by the difficulty of getting a new phone up and working.
  (tags: mobile usability)
• iPhone Icon Style .psd Kit « Keep The Web Weird - Interface Musings from Buck Wilson
  iphone icon photoshop template
  (tags: iphone icons mobile design photoshop templates)
• 320480 ~ ThreeTwentyFourEighty
  iPhone Photoshop templates
  (tags: iphone photoshop templates psd mobile)

Since we started Cloud Four, I’ve had a lot of trouble trying to figure out what posts make the most sense here versus our company blog.

Recently, my co-founders have asked me to bring more of my mobile posts to Cloud Four’s blog, and I’ve started doing so.

For example, there are new posts about how the iPhone App Store flies in the face of the preceding technology trends and the iPhone App Store gold rush.

So if you haven’t done so already, please check out the Cloud Four blog and subscribe via RSS or email.

I’m still going to blog here, but the focus will be a bit more technical. The high-level mobile analysis posts will likely be posted at Cloud Four.

And I welcome any feedback you may have on how to distinguish between a personal blog and a company blog.

I wrote previously about the an Android application that had been rejected from the Android Market for inexplicable reasons. The Android Market responded to the developer to tell him that:

Your app was suspended because it seems to be a demo of what one can do with a blog. You may re-upload your app to the “Demo” section of the market as opposed to the “Reference” section.

This is good news. It is unfortunate that the first message stated that the application had been rejected because it didn’t conform to the Android Market policies instead of the real reason for the rejection notice. However, it is nice to have it straightened out and to know that Google appears to be honoring its commitment to an open market.

I wrote recently about the new AdMob service that can tie advertising to iPhone App Store downloads. I was curious whether this feature was limited to ads in applications only or would apply to ads viewed in Mobile Safari.

AdMob clarified this via email recently saying, “as our iPhone app download tracking relies on unique user information, it only functions for ads shown within applications.”

• textually.org: AppTheatre gives users video previews of iPhone apps and games
  App Theater rounds up on it's website, video previews of iPhone apps from the games category.
  (tags: iphone appstore goldrush research mobile)
• Bolt Browser Review | Wap Review
  Extensive review of the new bolt mobile browser
  (tags: mobile browser bolt mobileweb)
• Bolt Browser
  New mobile browser from Bitstream
  (tags: mobile mobileweb browser)
• BBC NEWS | Technology | New phone features 'baffle users'
  The survey found 85% of users reporting they were frustrated by the difficulty of getting a new phone up and working.
  (tags: mobile userexperience ux usability statistics research)

• YouTube - Tennessee House Democrats elect Kent Williams to be Speaker
  News report of the craziness at the Tennessee House
  (tags: politics funny)
• Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » More GOP Fail
  The Republicans—who had just finally won control of the State House for the first time in 40+ years – were suppose to elect their Speaker of the House today. And failed! Rep. Williams had had enough of bullies and blowhards destroying the Republican Party from within. And the Democrats knew it. So the Democrats approached Rep. Williams about being the new House Speaker. Rep. Williams said, “yes,” and history was made.
  (tags: politics funny)

• Boston.com - Ideas - Globe
  How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio
  (tags: hacks games illusion science)

• More Evidence That The iPod Touch Is The Surprise Hit Of The Season - BusinessWeek
  There’s been buzz for the past few weeks of a major increase in the popularity of the iPod Touch. In early December, it popped up as a top seller on Amazon. And many developers I’ve spoken with in recent days say they saw a huge rise in downloads starting on Christmas day, from what they believe are new iPod touch owners.
  (tags: ipodtouch iphone mobile)