Thursday was a happy day for me. I was quite proud to learn yesterday that NYC has finally publicly demonstrated some evidence of tangible commitment to participating in the "open government" movement.
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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.
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch published a post Friday, titled The Truth: What’s Really Going On With Apple, Google, AT&T And The FCC. It is—in my opinion—a fairly insightful piece, particularly regarding his analysis of Apple's seemingly misleading wording behind their reasons for "not approving" the Google Voice app for inclusion in the App Store.
Take this sucker with huge grains of salt.
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent proposal to adopt so-called e-textbooks for his state's public school system has triggered a flurry of press coverage, as well as new products like the Kindle DX and CourseSmart's iPhone app in the market.
We're half way through 2009\. All the major browser vendors are shipping products with really great rendering engines now. Usage of the much-maligned Internet Explorer 6 has plummeted to the 15% neighborhood (stats vary, but they all show < 20%).
I've just invested several hours trying to get my system to use the Pear libraries from MacPorts rather than the Pear libraries I had installed years ago using the command line installer, as described here. This is largely because I'm happy to let the MacPorts package manager take care of upgrading my software, and making sure all inter-dependencies are looked after.
Unix. It's astonishingly flexible. This is, at different times, either wonderful or maddening.
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):