CES & MacWorld
I think I’ll write some more about how I feel about Apple lately tonight if I can find some time, but as I watch the newsfeeds all come in from CES, I can’t help but feel like it’s sort of irrelevant....
View Articlelife without IM
huh. i’ve accidentally been forgetting to turn on my IM client (adium) for the past few days, and have noticed that my productivity has been a lot higher (if not quite as social). i think i’m going to...
View Articleum…
…no offense — the iphone is really cool & all, but i was sort of hoping for some stuff to buy today from MacWorld. don’t they make software? where’s ilife? where’s iwork? leopard? weird to have no...
View ArticleFrances Allen Wins Turing Award
This is an important event – first time a woman has won the Turing Award, the ACM’s award for achievement in computer science. The award has been given since 1966, and many women have contributed in...
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dual booting into Vista experiences
i may have mentioned this before, but i’m going to try pretty hard to start booting into Vista from time to time. i’d like to understand what it feels like to use Vista, and i want to keep in touch...
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Letter Perfect, by David Sacks
I’ve had this book around for 2 or 3 years — I kept reading a chapter or two, then putting it down. I finally got through it the past few weeks — it’s an interesting book. It’s all about our alphabet,...
View Articlemicrosoft & silverlight
I’ve been thinking for a while about Silverlight, the new tools+browser plugin+platform stuff from Microsoft. it’s very clearly designed to attack Adobe Flash as the rich media platform on the web (and...
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Letter Perfect, by David Sacks
I’ve had this book around for 2 or 3 years — I kept reading a chapter or two, then putting it down. I finally got through it the past few weeks — it’s an interesting book. It’s all about our alphabet,...
View Article3 random, unrelated things
3 random thoughts for the morning: 1) i’ve been cool towards getting a first generation iPhone, not wanting my pants to catch on fire. that’s not fair, of course, as not every Rev A piece of Apple...
View Articlewelcome to the web, NYT
about time for the new york times to open up. welcome to the web. now i can go back to reading some of the stuff i cared about before this dumb times select experiment.
View Articlei love wikipedia
I needed to look up something about EU membership today, and went to the Wikipedia artile on it. — and I’m reminded yet again what a wondrous thing it is. I could spend hours looking at pages like this...
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firedrop! zaplet!
In a weird blast-from-the-past moment, TechCrunch reported yesterday that hot mail startup Xobni has licensed the IP from Zaplet (nee Firedrop, and most recently bought by MetricStream), a company we...
View ArticleCongrats to Chandler Team
A belated congratulations to the team behind Chandler, for getting to 1.0! It’s been a long, windy road to get to this milestone, and I’m really happy for Katie, Sheila, Mimi, and the whole team for...
View ArticleiPhone & Android
I’ve had a Nexus One for a couple of weeks now, and think that with Android 2.1, it’s a good advance. Right at the moment, I’m having issues with the battery — can’t hold a charge for more than about 5...
View ArticleDesign like you’re right…
It’s impossible not to think a lot about data these days. We’re generating it all the time, constantly. On our phones, on our televisions, on our laptops, in public spaces. And increasingly the best...
View ArticleGoogle & Motorola
Very very interesting news about Google buying Motorola Mobility this morning. It’s got so many implications it’s tough to take in all at once, so wanted to capture a few thoughts quickly. First thing...
View ArticleMike Shaver: Thanks!
Mike Shaver has done as much as anyone on the planet over the last ten years to make and keep the Web open, free, and awesome. That’s no joke, not a typo, not an exaggeration. The guy has done a lot,...
View ArticleWhat’s bothering me about the SOPA “discussion”
There are 3 things that have really been bothering me about how the SOPA/PIPA discussion has been going so far. it’s not a discussion at all — it’s people calling each other names. it’s highly likely...
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