O’Reilly Radar – The end of social
Taking this a couple of steps further, the article points out that, to many people, Facebook’s “frictionless” sharing doesn’t enhance sharing; it makes sharing meaningless. Let’s go back to music: It...
View ArticleMike’s Lookout – SPDY of the Future Might Blow Your Mind Today
Despite its coolness, there is an aspect of SPDY that doesn’t get much press yet (because nobody is doing it). Kudos for Amazon’s Kindle Fire for inspiring me to write about it. I spent a fair amount...
View ArticleO’Reilly Radar – The President’s challenge
All I can think is: we gave you the Internet. We gave you the Web. We gave you MP3 and MP4. We gave you e-commerce, micropayments, PayPal, Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, the iPad, the iPhone, the laptop, 3G,...
View ArticleElectronic Frontier Foundation – The Internet at its Best
Today, we watch in awe as the Internet rallies to fight dangerous blacklist legislation, the PROTECT-IP Act in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House. The originality, creativity, and...
View ArticleTED.com – Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)
What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto — a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than...
View Articleinessential.com – Fantastical and language detection
I like this. The best Mac developers have been famous for taking the extra steps. Most people won’t need this — but those who do it will delight.via inessential.com – Fantastical and language...
View ArticleBackups, Automated and Off Site
One of the biggest issues in running a server1 is making sure if everything disappears you can be up and running as quickly as possible. So how do I do it?Simple answer is I use a cron job that runs...
View ArticleArsTechnica – High Orbits and Slowlorises: understanding the Anonymous attack...
Most members of Anonymous would prefer to stay, well, anonymous. But as the group has engaged in increasingly high-profile attacks on government and corporate websites, doing so effectively and staying...
View ArticleMailinator™ Blog – How Mailinator compresses email by 90%
Given the title of this article, the first thing that should pop into your mind is probably — “well, use a compression algorithm — right?”.Right! Well, yes, well, not exactly. Read on.via Mailinator™...
View ArticleThe Word of Notch – On Patents
But there is no way in hell you can convince me that it’s beneficial for society to not share ideas. Ideas are free. They improve on old things, make them better, and this results in all of society...
View ArticleLinode Manager Two-Step Authentication
We’re pleased to announce two-step verification as an optional extra layer of protection for your Linode account. Once enabled, logging in will require a six-digit security token in addition to your...
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Google’s Buildings Hackable
We reported this issue to the Google Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP). After much heckling from my former colleagues at Google, they quickly pulled this system offline. We also applaud Google for...
View ArticleVermont Sues Patent Troll Over Small Business Shakedowns
Well, this is good news. The state of Vermont has decided to join private companies like Twitter in taking the fight to patent trolls — shell companies that don’t do anything except use old patents to...
View ArticleOracle Switches Berkeley DB License
Oracle is entirely within its rights to change the license without warning; the company owns the full copyright to the code. But many will view the change as a hostile act intended to force them into a...
View ArticleWikipedia:Terminal Event Management Policy
The Terminal Event Management Policy (TEMP) is an official policy of Wikipedia. The policy details the procedures to be followed to safeguard the content of the encyclopedia in the event of a...
View ArticleDatastore API
These days, your app needs to store and sync more than just files. With the Datastore API, structured data like contacts, to-do items, and game state can be synced effortlessly. Datastores work across...
View ArticleThe Web’s longest nightmare ends: Eolas patents are dead on appeal
The inventor of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, had never testified in court before last year. In February 2012, he left Cambridge to fly down to Tyler, an east Texas city of about 100,000, to testify at a...
View ArticleThe (i)Message we crave
How strange is Apple’s iMessage? The strangest. With each release I anticipate UX improvements, but they never come. Presently, in iMessage, you can register some email addresses with some devices....
View ArticleApp Updates for iOS 7
Like many of my fellow developers, I am in the middle of an update of an app for iOS 7. As you’d expect, it’s a lot more work than previous versions of iOS. But results are stunning: both David Lanham...
View ArticleTalks I’ve Given In The Past Few Months
Since moving to Las Vegas, I’ve joined the PHP Users Group. Overall it’s been a great experience meeting people in the community and hearing about more PHP stuff. Since I’ve been there I’ve given a few...
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