In January of 1998, Netscape — in a last-ditch effort to retaliate against Microsoft's domination of the browser market with its Internet Explorer browser — took to the strategy of open sourcing the source code for their flagship product, Netscape Navigator. And so the Mozilla Project was born, which has since brought the world the Firefox web browser, and the Thunderbird email client (as well a handful of other things).
Category: General Thoughts
Sometimes events arrive with a timing that is both serendipitous and uncanny. Only days after my last post, wherein I state a case for the growing importance of referencing the datasets and algorithms used in the distillation of research conclusions, comes a story about leaked correspondence records (email messages) amongst climate researchers working in affiliation with the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, or CRU.
These days, anyone organizing competent promotional efforts (events, organizations, themselves, etc) invests various degrees of their attentions to online efforts. One reason for this is economics: efforts to "spread the word" online has the potential to reach more people at the expense of fewer resources and, therefore, less money.
I recently discovered a handy little Facebook feature which allows you to tag friends (and Pages) in wall posts. It lets your audience know exactly who you're shouting out (or talking smack) to. So I threw together a quick video introduction to how to use it.
Ballmer's at it again, idly laughing off Google's Chrome OS ... last thing he laughed off so boisterously was the iPhone, which he claimed had "no chance.
Gruber, writing about what he calls the Apple Way (emphasis added):
Comedian Louis C. K.'s piss-take at human behavior when our expectations are not met.
Thankfully, the Pre has been received with some great reviews, and it's truly something that its team can be proud of. But now that the mysterious device is becoming available to the masses, the nitpicking will begin (which is actually a great thing, incidentally).
In thinking about Google Wave since last week's announcement—and thinking through its extendable document model (particularly its Gadgets API)—I began to realize that it reminded me of something I'd seen before; something from the past.
So after a false start a couple of nights ago, I'm finally getting to watching the 1987 Schwarzenegger classic, The Running Man, which I believe it fair to describe as a movie that foretold modern culture's infatuation with so-called "Reality TV". For those unfamiliar with it, the movie is basically Survivor meets ancient Roman gladiatorial event.
The Iranian government has blocked access to Facebook. This in the run up to its June 12 presidential elections.
I broke down and hacked my MIE. But just a teeny bit, though: I simply installed the Flock browser and added it to the application launcher.
I recently bought my very first non-Apple computer. It's a netbook — the HP Mini 1120 NR. It comes in two flavors: Windows XP and Linux.
Jason Kincaid writes about the insights of Google CEO Eric Schmidt:
The recent media coverage about Palm having a lower-tier WebOS phone in the works — which I've already labled as madness, if true — has gotten me thinking about an old showmanship concept, called the art of the Reveal (or, more simply, the Reveal). It's a technique exploited by writers, directors, comedians, strippers, politicians, and carnies; anyone in the business of organizing a show.
Google recently posted about its new support for recognizing canonical URLs for page content.
In a Palm press release dated 8 January 2009, the company's president and CEO, Ed Colligan, said: