My daily readings 09/22/2012

• iOS6 breaks long polling | Hacker News

• 5 Reasons Your Community Isn’t Growing | dangerouslyawesome: alex hillman

  tags: community

  • People told you “That’s a great idea!” over and over, but those same people are nowhere to be found nowadays.

      

    You’re exhausted from organizing and running events to drum up interest, and you’re running out of precious time and money to keep things moving.

  • You wake up refreshed, ready for a day where the only thing unpredictable is what exciting thing is going to happen next.

      

    Does this sound more like the dream community you had in mind?

      

    This is my day, every day. You can live it too.

• Exploring Local » Blog Archive » Google Maps announces a 400 year advantage over Apple Maps

  tags: map

  • In my June blog on Apple and Mapping , I postulated that the company would find building a high quality mapping application very difficult to accomplish. Among the points I made were these:

     

    • However, it is not (mapping) San Francisco that will give Apple heartburn. Providing quality map coverage over the rest of the world is another matter completely.

     

    • Currently Apple lacks the resources to provide the majority of geospatial and POI data required for its application.

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