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Ah, yes.  Open Source.  The Utopia of the software world.  The land in which all software is free, and all bugs are patched quickly.
At least that’s what it used to mean.  Or at least what it still means to some people some of the time.
For better or worse, the term Open Source has changed drastically […]

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I am now recovering from one of the more lengthy and painful periods of being more or less unemployed, and am currently working for a great team at a great startup working on great technologies.
Phew.  It was a close one.
However, before I ended up at my current place of employment, I had the opportunity to […]

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Last night a tweet came through my twitterstream that grabbed my attention.It was sent by Ted Rheingold, the founder of dogster:
“Why doesn’t Apple’s MobileMe have social features?  Apple gets A LOT right, but it’s as if they want to skip the social revolution“
This is definitely a thought-provoking question, and one you could easily imagine coming […]

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Twitter is this like, thing!  That people are using on the internet, and it’s like, totally cool!  Buzz is that twitter is the next big thing, so I totally got an account like, last month.  And I am so glad I did, because in a year or so, when everyone else is first hearing about […]

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I don’t know when it happened, since I hadn’t checked in for almost a year, but McSweeneys’ Internet Tendency finally added RSS feeds for new posts.
It’s great, and a good percentage of what scrolls past me in Snackr is now McSweeney’s-derived.
This is a really great (albeit strangely late) step for McSweeney’s, but their reluctance to […]

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You’re not going to find any news breaking on this blog as the keynote unfolds and everybody goes crazy, but what I will say, quickly, as we all sit and wait for the speech is this:
Apple has built a stronger brand than has ever been created before.
Think about it.  We all know what’s going to […]

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Edit 6/4/08 - Jay from the Switchabit team has again proven to be very helpful and the problems seem at this point to be very creepy indeed, but not Switchabit related.  If Jay’s diagnosis (involving multiple IPs from my router) is correct, then their help has amounted to far more than content distribution hiccups.  Still […]

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There’s even MOAR talk today about leaving  Twitter for other services.
The point that you hear so often is that people don’t leave Twitter because of the community, rather than staying for its tool set.
So of course, people suggest a move to Pownce or Friendfeed (or Jaiku if they need a nice three-item list).
But the surprise […]

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Mark Evans caused a stir today and got a whole lot of links.
Good for him.
But he’s not going to overtake the top dogs.
Why?
Because the big dogs have jumped in and have already, six hours later, grabbed all the eyeballs in the debate.
Nobody cares about what B and C-listers have to say during weekday bitchmeme attempts.  […]

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This is a debate that will reverberate ad nauseum on the internet until, of course, something is done about it.
A majority of internet users believe that the services and software they use on the internet should be entirely free of charge. We know this, but what we also know is that this argument […]

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