I’ve talked about App.net before, but it wasn’t possible to sign up until recently. But now that I have I’ve discovered that it’s the Twitter I wish still existed; I’m a convert. No advertisements disguised as “promoted tweets”, just posts … Read More
If you’ve ever seen a cop show on TV you’ve probably seen examples of software that can magically take a photo of someone and search image databases to find all about them. Unfortunately, it doesn’t necessarily work that way in … Read More
What happened to Japan's electronic giants? Well, for one thing they couldn’t take advantage of the software revolution that replaced hardware in many devices. The profit margins with software-powered products are far greater and at the same time allows for … Read More
If you’re like pretty much everyone else, you do a lot of searching on the Internet. And like pretty much everyone else, you use Google to do it. Or maybe you’ve switched to Bing, Microsoft’s attempt to break Google’s de … Read More
Google may not be “evil” but it sure can be an asshole. [Update] There’s also a good list of alternatives from Gizmag here. I’ve been using Feedly, a magazine-like reader that uses Reader as a backend, for a while and … Read More
37Signals, the maker of Basecamp and other web-based collaboration tools, doesn’t hire programmers based on puzzles, API quizzes, math riddles, or other parlor tricks. The only reliable gauge I’ve found for future programmer success is looking at real code they’ve … Read More
While it’s been pretty clear that Google has pretty much abandoned its Google Reader RSS aggregator service, at least they’ve kept it running, that is, until now. Lots of users are reporting problems with it, although it’s not completely down … Read More
When a disaster occurs, Twitter is often the first to break the news. But at the same time, it’s often the source of plenty of untruths that often propagate faster then the real news and resist efforts to debunk them. … Read More
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