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Why Don Norman is right about Google. And it’s no big deal

September 6, 2011

In Don Norman’s talk at dConstruct, he said something that I’ve been saying for a long time: “They have lots of people, lots of servers, they have Android, they have Google Docs, they just bought Motorola. Most people would say ‘we’re the users, and the product is advertising’,” he said. “But in fact the advertisers are [...]

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What’s wrong with RSS readers?

September 5, 2011

Dave Winer should know: If you miss five days of reading the news because you were on vacation (good for you!) the newspaper you read the first day back isn’t five times as thick as the normal day’s paper. And it doesn’t have your name on the cover saying “Joe you haven’t read 1,942,279 articles [...]

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On anonymity

August 5, 2011

The launch of Google+ has started a huge debate over the role of anonymity on the Internet. But what I see again and again in the debate about this is two massive straw men: “Anonymity is essential so that the marginalised/endangered can speak” “Real names are essential to stop bad behaviour” Neither of these are, [...]

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Is $40m a fair price for Tweetdeck?

May 25, 2011

Alan Patrick thinks not: Is it a fair price – no, of course not, its a Bubblenomics business case. In any “normal” economy, paying $40m for a zero-revenue feature that uses your own platform to organise what are essentially SMS’s with pictures into columns, is completely daft. You can build that for a few hundred [...]

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Byword updated with Markdown support

May 23, 2011

Now this is really rather fine. Byword, which is my weapon of choice when it comes to writing pretty much everything, has been updated with support for Markdown syntax. If Markdown doesn’t mean anything to you, then don’t worry about it to much1. If, on the other hand, you want it, you’ll probably want Byword [...]

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Technovia on Facebook

May 16, 2011

If I’ve set this up right, you should now be able to find Technovia on Facebook. Yeah, I know the logo’s rubbish, but I haven’t had time to do a new one yet. Come along, Like it, and all that fashionable social media stuff.

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Why Google is being disingenuous over H.264 and WebM

May 4, 2011

Jonathan Ballerano: “Another interesting twist is that Google fired the first shot a month before the patent call, bydropping support for H.264 from its web browser, Chrome.  Google did this in the name of openness and performance, but it is disingenuous on both counts (not to mention that these were reasons for adding H.264 in [...]

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iPhone isn’t the only thing sending your location to Apple. Your Mac does it too

April 21, 2011

There’s been something of a storm over the “discovery” that your iPhone contains a database file which includes details of where you’ve carried your phone, and that this information is sent back to Apple (with your consent, although as often happens you probably didn’t read the license you gave to Apple, did you?) But your [...]

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The iPad’s lack of a file system

April 10, 2011

Don Reisinger on why the tablet won’t replace the laptop: “The operating systems lack worthwhile file systems, a more robust interface and all the other things that people will find in the operating systems running on notebooks.” I’m not sure what Don means by “a more robust interface”, but I think he’s wrong about the [...]

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links for 2010-12-16

December 16, 2010

Why they want your email address… (tags: spamming trolling griefing email) £100bn hole in local government pensions (tags: economics pensions politics) I am grateful to my hon. Friend the…: 22 Jun 1964: House of Commons debates (TheyWorkForYou.com) Work is not the chief end of man. Human beings are made and are entitled to enjoy a [...]

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