In case you've been living under the proverbial rock, LinkedIn finally made good on their IPO promise, and essentially shattered expectations of how the stock should perform. This is good news, right? I mean, Linked In is a pretty decent company (I have an account on there), and this could …
read moreOpen Metalcast podcasting live tonight
Tonight I'll be presenting how I put together an audio podcast (Open Metalcast) at the Michigan UNIX Users group (http://web.archive.org/web/http://mug.org). Barring any technical SNAFU, I'll put together the entire episode, save for uploading, in front of a live audience. No pressure. :) I'll also …
read moreThe Internet is not an airport
I'm going to stretch a few travel analogies in this article, so for those of you who can't stand to see analogies stretched to their near-breaking point, you might want to skip this article. :)
Having recently reacquainted myself with the culture of airports, I feel there are some parallels between …
read moreMicrosoft Licensing on Windows Phone 7: A Pragmatic Perspective
Microsoft recently released their Windows Phone 7 and XBox App store licenses (seems all of the cool kids are getting into this app store model these days). Normally that wouldn't even register a blip on my radar, save for the veritable Internet shit-storm that followed when folks like Jan Wildeboer …
read moreThe Diaspora that wasn't, and the way into the walled gardens.
About a year ago, I deleted my Facebook account. This was just after Facebook introduced the "like" button on other sites. It didn't take me long to figure out that what Facebook was doing was moving from beyond their little walled garden, and instead were moving into tracking my movements …
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