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ajhaion UpFor: built by Twitter employees to "change the way you hang out with friends"

"We’ll email you at apps+.....@proxymail.facebook.com when we’re ready to launch on your device" is what you see after FBconnect and chose your mobile device

ajhaion Show HN: My 1-week project, OpenCombinator.com

For the design part, go through this ( http://paulstamatiou.com/startup-web-design-ux-crash-course ) post by Paul if you haven't already. That really is a crash course in design and should help you get started.

ajhaion Tell HN: HN Meetup in Zurich, Switzerland on the 12th of May

http://www.meetup.com/

This should help you organize the meetup.

ajhaion Inside Google's Secretive Data Centers

This video shows only the methods Google has in place to protect the data from physical intrusion which I assume is pretty much done by every other company that hosts huge user data.

ajhaion The Dangers of Relying on Facebook

I'm working on a side project which needs to access a large sample of images to do some magic with the provided target image. Since Facebook has a good store of images, I'd chosen to use Facebook login (and to access user photos and profile pictures of his friends).

With the increasing reports of Facebook horror stories, I'm redoing the backend to be generic so that I could easily integrate a new login system (twitter or my own) if something goes wrong.

As per my project requirements, Facebook is the best option. So, the only care I'm taking to avoid get flagged by Facebook spam detection algos is to ask for as less permissions as possible from the user and avoid posting on walls without user confirmation.

ajhaion (Android) Developer Income Report #9

Thanks dpcan for taking a look at my apps and giving feedback. I agree with all your points and must confess that I took lightly the user experience part of the apps. Yes, it's about improving.

ajhaion (Android) Developer Income Report #9

Inspired by these reports, I started learning android this January and successfully released two apps (Picpuzz and SmartCat), both small puzzle games. While I totally enjoyed working with android SDK and coding these apps, they failed to attract the users . Here is a quick list of reasons why I think my two apps failed (in the context of games)

- There are not many levels in the game

- Hard to finish the puzzle / user gets bored before finishing the puzzle

- UI is not great. You'll need a decent UI when developing games

- No regular updates. Important way to increase downloads is to push regular updates. With an update, app appears in the "Just in" section of the android market and gains visibility

And not to mention with such less downloads, the ad revenue is pretty bad ($1.52 so far). Even though the total number of impressions that are being served on both the apps together is between 1k-2k per day, there are only 1-3 clicks per week. My best guess is that this has something to do with the way I place ads in my apps. Almost all the free apps (games) that I'd seen till date place ads over the game distracting users. I hate that. So, during game play, I'm diving the screen into two parts, one that displays the game and other displays ad impressions. This won't draw the attention of players and I think is the main reason for the low CTR

ajhaion Low voltage brain stimulation can double mental performance

Transcranial direct current stimulation - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct_current_sti...

ajhaion Opera launches Opera Mail web app

While their email service looks simple yet polished, their success will depend on how well they fight spam and the features that they offer (priority inbox etc)

ajhaion Fighting to Shut Out the Real India

> Not surprisingly, a recent law that forces private schools to reserve 25 percent of the seats for financially disadvantaged children has become controversial

http://righttoeducation.in/media/no-objection-25-quota-say-p...

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Browser/OS breakdown doesn't show IE! A good thing for the web developers ;)

ajhaion Ask HN: Anyone interested in meeting other HNers?

Just a thought, why not just use http://www.meetup.com/ ?

ajhaion Testosterone, Node.js Synchronous testing for virile http servers

I'm just curious about the special character appearing in the title

ajhaion Show HN: Profile Collage for Facebook

I made a similar facebook app a couple of days back (http://apps.facebook.com/collage-frnds/). It creates a collage of your profile picture using your friends profile pictures. It failed to catch attention as the app itself is very slow since it is hosted on a shared server.