Month: September 2010

  • Twitter turns a corner

    Dave Winer has weighed in on Twitter’s revamped site announcement, in which it announced 16 media partners whose content would be displayed within the Twitter interface when linked to: For the first few years of Twitter encouraged guys like me to write little hack jobs to make it do things they didn’t have time to […]

  • Two presentations on the web, mobile and the digital divide

    Power couple Bryan and Stephanie Rieger – who also happen to be two of the nicest people you could hope to talk to – have released a couple of presentations on how the web has changed. They are excellent, should be considered required reading in my opinion, and together suggest a sort of manifesto for […]

  • From iPhone to Android: hilarious addendum

    I thought this was worth its own post; you can read about my overall Android experiences over here. Today, my HTC Desire told me it was out of storage space. That’s funny, I thought. I installed a 16Gb SD card. That was plenty of space on my iPhone, and I’ve had my Desire for less […]

  • From iPhone to Android: three weeks in

    Cupertino on my mind I’ve never been an Apple fanboy. As I was growing up, surrounded by computers, I distrusted the Mac Classics I encountered at my first job and occasionally at my friends’ houses. There was something closed about them, as if they were designed by vanguard software designers: people who thought they knew […]