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Comment on Obama iPhone Application by Obama for iPhone: Portland plays a huge role in mobile app development : Oregon Startup Blog

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:56:05 +0000

[...] Grigsby says on the Cloud Four blog: Leaving politics aside for the moment, it’s a pretty impressive display of what is possible [...]

Comment on BlackBerry Browser Bug by Lynn Demarest

Lynn Demarest — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:47:02 +0000

Also have discovered that TEXTAREA will not wrap text correctly if the ROWS parameter is 4 or greater.

There is NOTHING on the web about this bug, but thanks to this post you made I figured it out.

Thanks BlackBerry!

Comment on Cloud Four Designs Mobile Wall Street Journal by Six Portland-area mobile app developers and consultants to watch » Silicon Florist

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:49:29 +0000

[...] work on the Obama for iPhone app and equally impressive (paid) work on the interface design for the Mobile Wall Street Journal app. “But what’s remarkable about Cloud Four is not our individual talents, as extensive as [...]

Comment on Obama iPhone Application by Obama for iPhone: Portland plays a huge role in mobile app development » Silicon Florist

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:10:50 +0000

[...] Grigsby says on the Cloud Four blog: Leaving politics aside for the moment, it’s a pretty impressive display of what is possible [...]

Comment on Cloud Four Designs Mobile Wall Street Journal by Jmartens

Jmartens — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:15:00 +0000

The mobile interface is great, but I uninstalled the App after only about 6 hours on my Blackberry. Kept freezing up on me, took forever to download stories, had a tough time trying to reconfigure the tabs I wanted to display (couldn’t load the screen that is used to make those adjustments).

So I gave up. Too bad, I would have used it a lot. But I don’t have the paitence to deal with it when there are thousands of other ways for me to get the news on my BB.

Comment on Cloud Four Designs Mobile Wall Street Journal by Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 21 » Silicon Florist

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for August 21 » Silicon Florist — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:58:04 +0000

[...] Cloud Four Designs Mobile Wall Street Journal : Cloud Four Via the Cloud Four blog “We’re pleased to announce the Mobile Wall Street Journal launched today. This application was developed by FreeRange Communications and the user interface was designed by Cloud Four.” [...]

Comment on Mobile Browser Concurrency Test by Mario Zorz

Mario Zorz — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:18:52 +0000

Hi Jason,

I wonder what results are you expecting from the actual majority of handsets. As you must already know, most mobile traffic happens to be handled by the wap gateway in the operator. So basically what you see on your servers (where your test pages are hosted) is the behavior that the wap gateway has about fetching URLs in a page, not the actual phone’s. Let’s assume a phone normal browser does open several concurrent connections, all of them will hit the wap gateway, who will consider doing whatever is best for handling overall traffic - not just this specific phone’s requests. So the point is, the actual phone’s bejavior is obscured by the existence of a wap gateway in the middle. Felt the need to clarify this, wap gateway and proxies to a minor extent is IMHO a major short-comming for this kind of tests. It will only work with smartphones and networks that allow phones to reach the internet directly, rather than actually normal networks (every operator has a wap gateway and most traffic is handled by such network element).
Please kindly reply, I’m intrigued. marionetazorz at yahoo dot com.

Comment on Make Your Blog Faster & Help Save the Environment by MarcusT

MarcusT — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:33:04 +0000

Please give some context to the statement “5,000 kilowatt-hours per year or approximately 500-1000 pounds of CO2 emissions.” - is this the saving per visitor to Wikipedia over the course of the year, and if so is the saving at the client side or server side? Or is it the cumulative saving at the Wikipedia servers over the course of a year across all visitors?

Comment on Make Your Blog Faster & Help Save the Environment by Christophe Strobbe

Christophe Strobbe — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:43:13 +0000

The optimization of Wikipedia reminds me of “Blackle - Energy Saving Search” (www.blackle.com), a white-on-black version of Google. Blackle’s About page states:
‘Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. “Image displayed is primarily a function of the user’s color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen.” Roberson et al, 2002

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed (ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-google-would-save-3000-megawatts.html) the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine.’

Comment on Speaking at Velocity Conference by Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 23 » Silicon Florist

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 23 » Silicon Florist — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:00:13 +0000

[...] Speaking at Velocity Conference : Cloud Four Jason Grigsby writes “I’m speaking today at the Velocity Conference in San Francisco. Back in 2003 when John and I spent weeks working on performance, we never thought performance would reach the point where a whole conference would be focused on it. It’s an amazing thing.” [...]