Friday, July 29, 2016

Malicious android apps

With the money/profits involved with Android you'd think that Google should be throwing resources at this problem.....

-  http://www.securityweek.com/android-app-stole-user-photos-over-year

Don't get me wrong, Apples walled garden approach is "wrong" in so many other ways but you'd think some kind of "verified by google" blue tick or similar with a fee make sense.

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Saturday, July 9, 2016

Facebook bots from a desktop?

Anyone know why you cant “invoke” facebook bots from a desktop browser?


Its weird after reading this article http://brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/digital/yahoo-unveils-four-bots-for-facebook-messenger/53126105  i fired up my desktop browser (on left) but you cant initiate a chat with the @YahooWeather at all….fire up mobile messenger app….yep works straight away.

Any thoughts? has anyone built a POC to see whats involved? What sort of takeup are you seeing?

Are users coming back?

Can you generate enough website traffic to justify the costs/effort involved?

Friday, July 8, 2016

Pokemon Go


Pokémon Go Is Already Taking Over People’s Lives And It’s Very, Very Scary
“Instead of taking my lunch break I just walked around catching Pokémon for 30 minutes.”- https://www.buzzfeed.com/bradesposito/pokemon-go-app


seems to be working btw - https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4rszbc/the_lure_was_supposed_to_bring_more_pokemon/


I've often wondered why we dont see more games like Mogi Mogi developed over the years - http://blog.collins.net.pr/2006/07/do-you-mogi-mogi.html  

I know about Ingress but you just think with mobile apps this would be a natural format.

Will be interesting to see if this is a category breakout.