Today, for about half an hour in the afternoon, pretty much every app that you might try on your iPhone would likely have crashed upon opening it. It's probably...
One of my favorite aspects of the infrastructure of the web is that the way we refer to web browsers in a technical context: User Agents. Divorced from its...
Lots of nice writing out there that either replies to or references some recent posts here. Highlights: Dictatorship Versus Democracy in app store politics at...
Apple took the not-very-surprising step of announcing an App Store for Mac OS X, an idea I was ruminating about earlier today in looking at all the app stores...
Some great responses to, and extensions of, the things I’ve been writing about lately In response to Forking Is A Feature , Rafe Colburn offers up The cultural...
While Linus Torvalds is best known as the creator of Linux, it’s one of his more geeky creations, and the social implications of its design, that may well end...
Today is Ada Lovelace Day , a wonderful idea that was started to help us celebrate our heroes in technology and science, and to identify female role models. I’m...
I love the Internet. I love lots of things that are on the Internet. I have less love for things that want to undermine the Internet. Tim O’Reilly, The War for...
I try to keep my social network as open as possible. Here’s the thing — I’m not talking about web applications that mimic real-world behaviors. I mean the real...
Formidable geeks Aaron Swartz and Brewster Kahle have led a team of nerds to create Open Library , which purports to be the start of a library of every book in...
Pidgin , formerly GAIM, is the best instant messaging client available; It works with all common IM networks, supports extensions and customizations through...
A couple Clay Shirky links for you today, one of which I just linked to, one of which I should have linked to last week, and all worth reading. In Defense of...