LostFocus

A weblog by Dominik Schwind

I have nothing to say, really.

Fuck off.

Dear Motorola: Fuck you.

What the fuck, Motorola? First that completely useless and idiotic stuff with the bootloader that only takes signed ROMs and now maybe no Froyo?

Seriously, I do like my Milestone. The hardware is very very nice. The keyboard is great and I can type surprisingly fast on it. I like Android. You had a sure winner here and you were that close to turning me into a fanboy.

And then you came with this stupid, pointless, daft and above all depressingly corporate decision to lock down your hardware and not even provide updates. I know for sure that this will be my first and last phone from Motorola – while the product is great, the company policies around it are just abysmal.

Fast and Free Facebook Mobile Access with 0.facebook.com

Fast and Free Facebook Mobile Access with 0.facebook.com

This is incredibly clever. An optimized and free mobile experience with quite a bunch of mobile operators worldwide.

Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley Talks Revenue, API, Brands, and “Beyond the Badge”

Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley Talks Revenue, API, Brands, and “Beyond the Badge”

"annoying Foursquare superusers present their phones to a baffled local merchant showing them that they are the 'mayor.' If this happens enough times, the business wants to get involved with Foursquare."

Performance, Smoking and the Nexus One

These are my links for January 6th through January 8th:

  • Website Performance: What To Know and What You Can Do – Smashing Magazine – Website performance is a hugely important topic, so much so that the big companies of the Web are obsessed with it. For the Googles, Yahoos, Amazons and eBays, slow websites mean fewer users and less happy users and thus lost revenue and reputation.
  • Felicia Day » Blog Archive » Disappointment – [..] the fact that they were interested in doing a piece about Twitter and New Media gave me hope that a magazine firmly in the “establishment” was interested in exploring the subject in a new light. And then during breakfast I saw some weird Twitter comments go by…and then I read the article…and oh, gosh. Really?!
    I can’t tell you how many hours I had to resist rage Tweeting about this subject. The use of inane Twitter lingo like “Twilebrity”, “Tweeple” and “Twitformation Superhighway” (Oh God please stop) just signaled that the writer obviously wasn’t well-researched about the service, or the internet in general, really.
  • Learning to Smoke – It's not permitted. It pisses people off. It makes you puke. It confuses you, and it brings clarity. It makes you an outcast, and it helps you meet wonderful strangers. Lessons from a man who did the unthinkable.
  • How to say stupid things about social media – Criticising social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook is as pointless as knocking people who discuss the weather
  • A Few Thoughts on the Nexus One – O’Reilly Radar – There will be many posts focusing on the look, feel, and features of the Nexus One, so I'm going to focus on what Android's latest incarnation says about the competitive landscape – what I've elsewhere called the war for the web.

Bookmarks for September 14th through September 15th

These are my links for September 14th through September 15th:

Bookmarks for July 7th through July 11th

These are my links for July 7th through July 11th:

  • How to Debug PHP Using Firefox with FirePHP
  • GeoMe : Explore, Share, Connect. Mobile Social Network.
  • Social Media Icons — Paul Robert Lloyd
  • Flexibits | Cameras – Looks useful.
  • Startseite – Porkcamp @ mixxt – Porkcamp wird eine Veranstaltung Ende Januar 2010 in Hamburg sein, bei der über ein Wochenende hinweg ein Schwein geschlachtet und verarbeitet wird. Wir werden uns am Freitag abend treffen, etwas trinken und uns kennenlernen. Am Samstag morgen werden wir ein möglichst gut aufgezogenes Schwein von 200 Kilogramm mithilfe eines Metzgers schlachten und zerlegen, alle anderen Schritte des Wochenendes ergeben sich daraus: Wir werden wursten und braten, Metzgerfrühstücke zu uns nehmen und zu unseligen Zeiten unfiltriertes Landbier trinken. Wir werden uns über Tierhaltung unterhalten, über alte Rezepte und neue Ideen. Und wir werden das ganze Schwein von Kopf bis Fuss verarbeiten und essen. Es wird das allerbeste Wochenende aller Zeiten.

Bookmarks for May 14th through May 22nd

These are my links for May 14th through May 22nd:

Bookmarks for April 24th through April 30th

These are my links for April 24th through April 30th:

Bookmarks for April 6th through April 16th

These are my links for April 6th through April 16th:

Mobile Internet Mapping, leaders and science fiction.

These are my links for February 26th through February 28th: