Apsmart

Apsmart acquired by Thomson Reuters

schlemmsy — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:43:06 +0100

Today, I am thrilled to announce that Apsmart has been acquired by Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals.

Thomson Reuters is intensely focused on serving the needs of professional customers in the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets. And as mobile becomes increasingly important to how professionals work and consume information, we’re uniquely positioned to help deliver Thomson Reuters expert-enriched content, news and solutions through the interfaces customers want on the mobile devices they use.

We’re very excited about the opportunity to apply our diverse mix of skills to the large Thomson Reuters customer base and look forward to help drive the strategy and creation of significant new experiences in mobile across the organisation.

A heartfelt thank you to our customers, board members, advisors and incredible employees across the years for helping us build such value in the business.

Sincerely,

Rahul

Founder & CEO Apsmart Ltd ‘09 to ‘12

Multilanguage support when dealing with String comparisons

dcosta72 — Fri, 04 May 2012 16:03:00 +0100

We’ve just come across something quite unexpected.

Unless the language support is specifically set to Turkish, the Turkish character ‘ı’ displays a non-obvious behaviour in computing. It’s capitalisation is rendered as ‘I’, which happens to be the same than the capitalisation for the Latin ‘i’ character when the language is set to a Latin alphabet variation. If the language is set to Turkish, the capitalisation if the Latin character ‘i’ is ‘İ’, which doesn’t exist in the Latin character set… as opposed to ‘I’.

This obscure behaviour has an interesting consequence when dealing with string comparisons. For example, comparing ‘Yarın’ and ‘Yarin’ in lower case, will yell different results… but if we compare upper(‘Yarın’) with upper(‘Yarin’), they will be interpreted as the same string if the underlying language is NOT set to Turkish…

There… something to think during the bank holiday.

And if more info is needed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I#In_computing

It’s all about babies now. And jamon!

dcosta72 — Fri, 04 May 2012 11:07:24 +0100

It’s all about babies now. And jamon!

And on the same subject… This is how an AWS disruption...

dcosta72 — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:17:57 +0000

And on the same subject… This is how an AWS disruption looks like.

Geeky time (2) Some snapshots of other cool representations....

dcosta72 — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:00:00 +0000

Geeky time (2)

Some snapshots of other cool representations. Again, the video can be found at http://vimeo.com/38433762

David’s Geeky Time:Prototype for using Google Motion...

dcosta72 — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:26:52 +0000

David’s Geeky Time:
Prototype for using Google Motion Charts to monitor the behaviour of a number of data sourcing/processing nodes and their traffic, and how certain data sources get automatically stopped/reconnected based on certain logic rules.

Crisps covered in milk or white chocolate. Tastes like...

schlemmsy — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:35:00 +0000

Crisps covered in milk or white chocolate. Tastes like innovation. High-five!

(We had a chat about high-fives yesterday. Some felt that if offered, you were under an obligation to reciprocate. You couldn’t ‘leave someone hanging’. Oh please. There is always an inherent risk in any socio-physical interaction and if you’re going to try a recent import to the ‘language’ you’ve got to expect that sometimes it won’t work out.)

The appside in association with UKTI and the ICT Knowledge...

schlemmsy — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:04:14 +0000

The appside in association with UKTI and the ICT Knowledge Transfer Network have published as list of the 50 most innovative British apps.

We’ve been involved in 3 - Shazam Player, Fanatix and our own MPme - and we reckon that’s not bad going. Smiley face.

Here’s the report.

Deepak, Steve and Marco diligently working away in our new...

bryantomie — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:45:11 +0000

Deepak, Steve and Marco diligently working away in our new office earlier today. So much more space!

Yo Dawg! I’ve heard you like Apsmart and I’ve heard...

kdombrovsky — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:44:00 +0000

Yo Dawg! I’ve heard you like Apsmart and I’ve heard you like sauna. So we’ve put Apsmart in your sauna hat!

Happy Birthday Yaroslav!

Too much cake for one day in the Apsmart office. Can’t...

bryantomie — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:09:31 +0000

Too much cake for one day in the Apsmart office. Can’t wait to finish everything tomorrow!

Day in the life of...

bottomofthebarrel — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:32:52 +0000

People often ask about a typical day at the farm. As illustration, here is an unedited internal Apsmartie email thread.

10:42, Rahul: http://goo.gl/JE4qr

10:51, Daniel: Lunch anyone?

11:11, Randal: Salt beef is unfortunately in my beef-bad-list, together with kidney and some exotic parts of the cow/bull. It was quite popular near Chancery Lane, tried once but thought the taste was a bit meh..

11:12, Rahul: You need to try it twice just to be sure. Good salt beef is - well good.

11:59, Daniel: Agreed. And you have a beef-bad-list?

12:04, Randal: You sound surprised? Someone with a large volume of beef experience and exposure needs to be able to exclude items from his beef playlist. It is all about user experience.

12:09, Daniel: I was under the impression that this person was a ‘real’ fan. For example, ‘real’ fans of David Bowie find equal pleasure in Space Oddity and The Laughing Gnome.

12:11, Randal: There is a subtle but important difference between fans and connoisseurs. I like to think I am in the latter category.

12:12, Daniel: Nice.

Shazam Player on USA Today! 3.5/4 Click here to see the article.

bryantomie — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:58:05 +0000

Shazam Player on USA Today! 3.5/4 Click here to see the article.

MPme, Curated Radio for iPad, Wins Midem Award

bryantomie — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:33:25 +0000

echonest:

Have you checked out how many radio options are on the internet these days? Not only can you get seemingly every single AM/FM station, but countless online stations can to fill your days with the sweet sound of programmed music.

People love online radio because it’s curated. Someone, something, or a combination of the two chooses the songs so that busy listeners don’t need to fret every few minutes about what to listen to next, and can go about their days in peace. However, finding the best stations for you has been practically impossible until now. What are you supposed to do, listen to each one and then decide?

A new, free iPad app called MPme does that work for you by curating radio itself. You might call it “curated curation,” or maybe “meta-curation.”

Using The Echo Nest’s technology, MPme listens to and analyzes thousands of online radio stations, then matches you to the best ones based on the music in your own personal collection — and, if you want, the Likes of your Facebook friends. Of course, you can share what you’re hearing on Facebook or Twitter, as well as buying favorite tracks from iTunes. But mainly, you can listen to the stations MPme knows you will like the most based on your music you already have.

This is powerful stuff — so much so that MPme took home top honors at the Midem music conference in Cannes, France last week in the “Music Discovery, Recommendation, & Curation” category.

Congratulations to MPme’s developer, Apsmart. We’re excited to power this award-winning iPad app.

(Check out more apps powered by The Echo Nest.)

Shazam Player was named as one of Gizmodo’s Best iPhone...

schlemmsy — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:20:00 +0000

Shazam Player was named as one of Gizmodo’s Best iPhone Apps for January.

We’re very excited to announce that MPme has won the Music...

bryantomie — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:42:59 +0000

We’re very excited to announce that MPme has won the Music Discovery, Recommendation & Creation competition at Midem! Here is a look at Rahul’s winning pitch (Skip to 1:37:15). If you haven’t already, make sure to download MPme for your iPad now!

Apsmart at work

dcosta72 — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:53:00 +0000

Apsmart at work

We have been extremely happy working with Shazam to build the...

bryantomie — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:53:00 +0000

We have been extremely happy working with Shazam to build the new Shazam Player! Recently it has been featured on the Today Show…

Pleasing map thingy… it changes every few seconds. Quite...

bryantomie — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:26:53 +0000

Pleasing map thingy… it changes every few seconds. Quite interesting.

We’re excited to announce that MPme has been selected to...

bryantomie — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:17:35 +0000

We’re excited to announce that MPme has been selected to present at midem on 28-31 of January 2012. For more information about midem click here.