Six Revisions : Web Development and Design
There are plenty of open source applications that can help you tremendously as a web designer. In this article, you’ll find 30 exceptionally handy open source applications for web designers. (Read More)
Phones Review
This is for all our T-Mobile G1 readers; I’d like your opinions on the T-Mobile G1 handset and the Google Android operating system.Are you happy with the G1 handset; is Android all its cracked up to be in your opinion? Does the G1 and Android like up to expectations or has it let you down in some way?We’ve seen all the hype (Read More)
: I love this phone. I was already a big google consumer pre-buying this phone so it was very easy purchase to make. The browser is so fast, touch screen works great and there are so many apps out there to try. It is so nice not to have to sync the phone to your computer - you can add contacts on the fly either from your phone or your computer. The only thing that I wish is that it had better battery life but as long as I remember to keep it plugged in when I am not using it I am typically okay.
I was/am rather more of of an Apple user of many years - got the Mac, got the nanopod... But I've been a T-mobile customer for a long time too.
Never used an iphone to speak of but it looks like I never will now. This is a very cool phone. Not convinced I'll use the Google cloud to store sensitive stuff but I'm all iGoogled up and lovin it. Open source too.
And I just LOVE the *snap* as the cover flicks over. :p
Heard rumours of better batteries shipping already. Do hope so cos that's a pain.
Robert Scoble - FriendFeed
For the past month or so I’ve had an idea percolating just beyond my grasp. I would occasionally get glimpses of what it was or what it wasn’t but never enough that I could get it down on paper – per se. I talked about the idea with Alexander van Elsas on Skype a week or so ago but as great as the conversation was it didn’ (Read More)
Mindful of the debates about socialmedian 'stealing' content :p I'll make some brief comments in this forum then a more considered posting on your blog.
There seems to be a theme of enfranchisement in the air, particularly apt given the appalling errors of judgment we're witnessing in the economies of the developed world.
In the 80s Vernor Vinge began a minor furor by introducing the concept of the 'technological singularity'. It returns as an interesting question now. The point is that we rush towards a singularity. Like a black hole, it sucks us in at an unprecedented rate, ignoring existing laws or understanding.
The 'ancients' had another word for it. They called it the 'Quickening'. A time when change accelerates at such a rate as to be almost completely unpredictable.
I agree completely with your post. Apart from the opinion that it won't happen in our lifetimes. There are forces that would stop it. But as we've seen in recent months, they are not the forces they (or, perhaps we) think they are. They are losing their grip in more ways than one. And then who is the authority?
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
There was an interesting discussion on socialmedian today regarding the daily "deadpool" and "layoff tracker" updates on sites like TechCrunch.It's sensationalist journalism. It's done just for ratings. It's counter productive. It's hyperbolic. And it's time for it to go. There's no need for it and no place for it.All (Read More)
: MORE FROM THE POST: This writer/startup CEO also wonders outloud if the new media websites/blogs (the TechCrunch's, ValleyWag's, etc.) of the world will be as transparent when they themselves go sideways, screw up, or god-forbid have to layoff some employees. They too are still figuring out their business models. And that's ok.
I'd prefer we just change the tone entirely and focus on substance vs. getting ratings out necessary layoffs. In fact, I'd much rather read a thoughtful post by one of the editors of the new media websites/blogs on why they think tech startups should or should not tighten the belt right now. Lead that debate vs. encouraging the pile on. There are going to be A LOT of layoffs in the months ahead in startup land. We're just getting started on this. Let's get ahead of it and plan for resources for the laid-off. Take a leadership position in interviewing and highlighting companies who are hiring. Be part of the solution.
: @michaelfidler It’s a dog eat dog world sometimes and it’s even more transparent online. I believe if you give somebody enough rope, eventually they will use it.
: I think this echos what happens quite often in our culture--we build em up to tear them down. The failure of a company is like anything else, there are valuable lessons to be learned, but those lessons are extracted by a careful and measured postmortem--not via sensationalism and attention grabbing headlines on some blog.
BBC
If you've got any bandwidth limit on your internet use, you may have bust through it this week, especially if you have a teenage son. Why? Well it could be the cost of war - or rather World of Warcraft.I've been keeping a close eye on my bandwidth use at home because I keep breaking through my 25gb per month limit. When I s (Read More)
Semantic Web Company
Ontologies and Ontological management have become more popular as enterprise architecture has gained ground among organizations. As tool support has become more available and the concepts of semantics and ontologies are being understood, there are more players that have come to the table with contributions. The AKSW group r (Read More)
Submitted by Aurobinda:
In an aggressive bid to deliver the rich graphic Web experience available on desktop computers to mobile handsets, San Jose softwaremaker Adobe Systems Inc. is partnering with the five biggest cell phone manufacturers to smooth the way to deploy its Flash technology.
Adobe's plan, called the Open Screen Project, will remov (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
For the past few years everyone in publishing has been talking about the changing economics of publishing/news reporting as the world moves from old media to new media. The new theory for original content news has been: Forget about the printing press. Forget about physical product (e.g. newspapers) Forget about th (Read More)
All Facebook
Yesterday there was a lot of discussion surrounding the CPMs that Facebook application developers are receiving via various ad networks. While I am working on my own project to more accurately monitor run rates on Facebook ad networks, for now, the sample provided by Justin Smith is sufficient enough to come to the followi (Read More)
: Yeah great... Read Facebook begins to feel like one of those porn sites that grab-your-browser and fool-you-into-clicking-the-button that looks-like-the-release-button but really just spawns-another-browser-window with the advertiser's landing page in.
As an end-user, do I want that? I think not.
Let's read the writing on the wall. How many Facebooker's are starting anti-application groups in there?
Ads in apps certainly has a lot of mileage but there's also a distinct danger of killing the golden goose.