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An American Kindle Fire in London

I brought a Kindle Fire back to the UK, mainly because I wanted a cheap and small tablet, and preferably Android rather than iPad. I wasn’t sure what would and wouldn’t work back in London but since most of what … Continue reading

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Horse Riding in Jordan

I’ve wanted to go to Petra ever since discovering that the temple in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was a real place. I also like to ride a horse (or at least to attempt to), and preferably somewhere fun … Continue reading

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A board game club in London

I’ve been going to the board game club London On Board for a few months now and, thinking we needed a bit of a web presence (since there’s almost zero search engine visibility) I put together a one-page website. The … Continue reading

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Edinburgh Festival 2010

I’m just come back from a weekend at the Edinburgh Festival. As I remembered it from the last time, the town gets filled with leafleters and human statues. Standing in the street and advertising “free comedy in half hour” is … Continue reading

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Indie Game Developers and the Facebook of Doom

Slides from my presentation at the London Facebook Developer Garage last night: Indie Game Developers and the Facebook of Doomhttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=futureindiegamedevelopers-100225032338-phpapp01&stripped_title=indie-game-developers-and-the-facebook-of-doom View more presentations from Karl Bunyan.

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The game-ification of everything

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fbExchange.Net – a new site for Facebook development answers

With Daniel Schaffer (author of the .Net Facebook API Client) I’ve put together a Stack Overflow-type website for Facebook developer help called fbExchange.Net. It’s intended to build as a knowledge base and to be focussed more on tech than the … Continue reading

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The Acropolis, Athens

Better late than never (perhaps), these are the last of the photos from my trip to Athens late in 2008. Facebook has been starving the blog of updates for a long time and I’ve all but lost the capability to … Continue reading

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Six Degrees: come in, your time is up

From Facebook today: We’re writing to inform you of a Facebook Platform policy violation within your application, Six Degrees. Our terms and policies are in place to ensure that Facebook Platform serves users well, allows applications to thrive, and provides … Continue reading

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Facebook Taking Signups for Developers Interested in Testing its Credit Payment System

Facebook are accepting “expressions of interest” from developers for the beta test of their payments platform. I wrote a bit more about it on Inside Facebook: Facebook Taking Signups for Developers Interested in Testing its Credit Payment System.

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