Friday, October 5, 2012
HP CEO Meg Whitman calls it like it is: badMeg Whitman, as quoted by Sean Gallagher at Ars Technica: We aren’t as effective internally as we should be because of poor systems. We are not as competitive as we need to be in how we go to market because of our IT systems. We haven’t been using a …Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Talk by Steven Jobs - IDCA 1983This Steve Jobs talk from 1983 (I was less than a month old…) is a series of astoundingly accurate predictions about the future of computing. The audio was sourced from a cassette tape, cleaned up a bit, and posted to Soundcloud by Marcel Brown. Read his post about it …Monday, October 1, 2012
The Honest Design AgeAllan Grinshtein of LayerVault, design software, designed for designers: It would be crazy to call these designers lazy — there’s an awesome amount of work and detailed involved in recreating beautiful “rich corinthian leather.” Still, it is laziness to not continue to refine. …Saturday, September 29, 2012
Apple Is Heavily Promoting Alternative Map Apps In The App StoreRelatedThursday, September 27, 2012
Kindle Library Bulk DeleteI want to thank Mr. Nathaniel Robertson for pointing people in need of cleaning up their Kindle archive to this bookmarklet that allows you to bulk-delete entire pages of Kindle Library content. Many thanks to the person behind Japanese blog Net Buffalo for solving this …Thursday, September 27, 2012
The Problem With Early ReviewsJohn Biggs, writing at TechCrunch: In the end, the real reviews are the ones that percolate up out of the forums and blogosphere. That’s absolutely true in my experience. Reviews by 20-/30-/40-somethings blogging from their basement or posting on their favorite forum …Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Google Now Lets You Download All Your YouTube Videos In One ArchiveWhether you like them or not, Google still leads the way on data portability.Wednesday, September 26, 2012
USPTO Third Party Prior Art Submissions System - Now Live!This looks, on its face, like a good thing. I wonder (sincerely, not sarcastically) how patent attorneys feel about it.Tuesday, September 25, 2012
I wanted to post something brief to let you know I made a few small but (I think) useful additions to this site. First, I’ve added a button to the bottom of all posts letting Twitter users reply or ask questions directly from the post. Thanks to the purveyor of kaos.am for unknowingly alerting me to …Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Amazon heads off app fragmentation on Kindle Fire, AndroidKevin C. Tofel, writing at GigaOM: This could mean vastly better tablet apps for the higher resolution Kindle Fires similar to the improved iPad apps that iOS developers made instead of scaled-up iPhone software. I think he’s right: …Monday, September 24, 2012
MySpace renovationsDear MySpace: I am happy to see you lean away from Facebook and toward the new Digg and Rdio, with a clean design that prizes whitespace as much as content. Give me something functional and pretty, without the spammy taste of Facebook or the learning curve of Google+. Do this for …Saturday, September 22, 2012
What’s The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own PsychologyAndreesen Horowitz co-founder and career CEO/investor Ben Horowitz offers some great advice in this 2011 post at his personal blog. The best part about it is that, while it’s aimed at aspiring CEOs and entrepreneurs, it really applies …Saturday, September 22, 2012
Planet of the TweetsTwitter’s extensive research identified four ways news outlets can better engage their audiences. Funny how all four look like things Twitter’s early and most “engaged” users have been doing since the service’s inception. The same users Twitter is frequently screwing with …Saturday, September 22, 2012
Gamers confront copyright lawProfessor Greg Lastowka of Rutgers-Camden Law School, in a press release earlier this week about his current research: User-generated content can make a game very valuable, but developers have a legal obligation to look out for copyright infringement. I’m interested to …Friday, September 21, 2012
Welcome to VentureBeat’s reporting-driven FridayGood on ‘em for trying this out.Friday, September 21, 2012
I used Yahoo Pipes to make a feed that unites all posts by Temple profs writing at their various law blogs. The feed still needs some work, specifically to ensure that the author name, and preferably the name of the blog at which they’re writing, is published in every entry. But overall I’m very …Friday, September 21, 2012
Justice Ginsburg SmileJustice Ginsburg isn’t allowed to say whether or not she would find equal protection arguments against the “Defense of Marriage” Act1 persuasive. But she’s allowed to smile. I, on the other hand, am allowed to tell you that DOMA is reprehensible and shameful, and every …Friday, September 21, 2012
The new quote approval policy at The New York Times, as quoted by Times opinion writer Margaret Sullivan: So starting now, we want to draw a clear line on this. Citing Times policy, reporters should say no if a source demands, as a condition of an interview, that quotes be submitted afterward to …Friday, September 21, 2012
Longread: Cameron Todd Willingham, Texas, and the death penaltyI usually like to include a quote from the longreads I share, but this story cannot be reduced to a single blockquote. Whether you support or oppose the death penalty, you should read this 2009 article by David Grann at The New Yorker. …Friday, September 21, 2012
Verizon Galaxy Nexus gets Jelly Bean……finally.Thursday, September 20, 2012
IFTTT CEO Linden Tibbets, in an email to users today: [ … ] on September 27th we will be removing all Twitter Triggers, disabling your ability to push tweets to places like email, Evernote and Facebook. All Personal and Shared Recipes using a Twitter Trigger will also be removed. IFTTT is …Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Twitter continues to value advertiser utility above user experienceRomain Dillet at TechCrunch explains it like this: Now when you land on a company profile page, you will see a big brand name with a small @username below, a gigantic header photo, a small logo next to every tweet, photos of new …Wednesday, September 19, 2012
David Hoffman on quotation approvalTwo days ago, I mentioned a piece by David Carr on quotation approval. This morning, I found that Professor David Hoffman, whose corporate law class I took at Temple Law, had posted his own thoughts at Concurring Opinions. Specifically, this part stuck out to me: …Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Virgin Mobile USA’s inadequate response to a good-faith vulnerability disclosureDeveloper Kevin Burke describes in damning detail how easy it is to brute force Virgin Mobile USA account PINs, as well as the company’s incompetent and opaque handling of the situation.Tuesday, September 18, 2012
The New Feedly MobileAnti-disclosure: This post raves about the new Feedly. They didn’t pay me, I don’t know them, and all I get out of writing the below is the satisfaction of pointing fellow Android users to one of the best-designed apps in the Play Store. I love both Pulse and Flipboard and I …Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Mitigating My MitigatingThis post by Michael Schechter at his site A Better Mess hit home for me because I recently migrated this site permanently to Tumblr from a self-hosted Wordpress installation as part of a larger effort to consolidate the things I do in life and on the web. I’m also looking …Monday, September 17, 2012
David Carr on quotation approval Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth. News junkies probably know this already, but it’s worth letting the Times's David Carr remind us that …Saturday, September 15, 2012
Mat Honan, writing at Wired’s Gadget Lab blog: It is an amazing triumph of technology that gets better and better, year after year, and yet somehow is every bit as exciting as a 25 mph drive through a sensible neighborhood at a reasonable time of day. I am still waiting for Verizon to push Jelly …Friday, September 14, 2012
Twitter forced to turn over protester’s deleted tweetsMike Isaac, writing at All Things D: In the end, the New York DA and the judge used a legal maneuver to put pressure on Twitter, threatening to hold the company in contempt of court and levy steep fines if it didn’t hand over the data. …Thursday, September 13, 2012
Hamish McKenzie, writing at PandoDaily : With two product launches in a row that show Apple is merely keeping pace with innovation rather than leading it, the world’s most valuable company will start to seem mortal. I disagree. For the record, I’m usually on board with Mr. McKenzie’s analyses, and …