The official Hardy Heron release has been out for a few days and I’m finally getting around to upping my systems. But sitting here meditating to the install status bar has got me thinking…
I have quite a few laptops I maintain, and every time I do a fresh Ubuntu install on one of them — […]
Slashdot has a piece up on an open source business model that uses the patent system against itself (similar to how Stallman used copyright against itself with the GPL). I’ve batted ideas like this around in the past, but in my head at least, it always breaks down right at the patent troll level: I […]
So the latest Ubuntu release, Hardy Heron, is rapidly approaching. I dropped the beta on my laptop a few days back, and Holy Shit am I loving life. I’ll be completely whiping my Gutsy partition as soon as I get the chance!
I’m reading a lot of chatter about people being none too pleased that Hardy’s […]
Yet another reason to make the switch to Ubuntu now…
The application, filed in 2006, describes a multi-faceted, robust ad-delivering system that lives on a “user computer, whether it’s part of the OS, an application or integrated within applications.”
“Applications, tools, or utilities may use an application program interface to report context data tags such as key […]
Dare Obasanjo has a great post up about Amazon’s web platform offerings — S3, an online storage and hosting service, and EC2, a pretty fascinating virtualization platform, or as they describe it:
…a true virtual computing environment, allowing you to use web service interfaces to requisition machines for use, load them with your custom application environment, […]
I was doing a little reading up on microformats when I found my way to the future service Resolio (or is it Resiolio as in the page title of this sample resume? There’s something magical about funprofessional young startups). It’s refreshing to see another great microformats implementation materializing while the semantic web is still nowhere […]
Interesting take from Hugh Macleod of gapingvoid…
As we move from proprietary to open worlds, we are seeing another transition. The customer is becoming the partner. And not a day too soon.
He’s got a tough road ahead of him, and good luck to him. Let’s hope this kind of fresh perspective can rub off on his […]
…with WordPress!
It’s only been a day, give or take, but I think it’s the real deal. Granted, I’ve had a tendency in the past to fall too fast for my CMS choices only to be heartbroken by their deficiencies later…
But this time, I think it’s for real <3
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I’d like to know why the Vox Question of the Day isn’t ever “what do you hate about Vox?”
Dave Winer had a pretty interesting idea:
Start with a two-person video crew, like Andrew and Joanne, in New York, and every Tuesday, rain or shine, go to Times Square and interview 20 or 30 people, asking a […]
I was just putting the final touches on what, in my own mind at least, was a pretty well thought out argument against this myth of “information overload” and why I’m about fed up hearing about how hard it is to find quality information online when I was bitten by the irony bug. Here I […]
A good friend of mine is about to get his hands on a new laptop. He’s an interesting case — late twenties and zero computer experience. He’s an intelligent guy, more than capable with his hands, a quick learner. As a tradesman, he never bothered with college so he never really needed a computer for […]
I was reading an old blog entry by Paul Stamatiou earlier about The Web App Revolution, and it definitely got me thinking. I keep hearing people make these proclamations about how certain desktop apps are just aren’t suitable to be web apps, how they’re just ‘too much’ for a browser to handle. I’ve always had […]
So I’ve been looking for a nice, easy solution to the photo storage/sharing problem people like my mother face. Over a year ago when I started evaluating this stuff, the best I could really come up with was the open source PHP script MG2. It’s a really beautiful piece of software, requires no db or […]
It’s not that I don’t understand the point of social sites, I’ve just always perceived the social aspects of web2.0 as a means to whatever ends a given web app is trying to accomplish. That, and I’ve yet to find a featureful one done in a tasteful manner. I’d read about Vox in a TechCrunch […]