October 29, 2007
Duncan Riley is copping some criticism on Techcrunch over his opinion that OS X Leopard’s widgets are newsworthy enough to report on.
I think it’s an interesting feature of Leopard, but not really significant to the widget sector (is it a sector yet? covered by TC.
Unlike most other widget platforms, OS X’s widgets are hidden in a Widget app that you need to open first, reducing the...
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Choice is more often a feeling than an action
October 29, 2007
Duncan Riley is copping some criticism on Techcrunch over his opinion that OS X Leopard’s widgets are newsworthy enough to report on.
I think it’s an interesting feature of Leopard, but not really significant to the widget sector (is it a sector yet? covered by TC.
Unlike most other widget platforms, OS X’s widgets are hidden in a Widget app that you need to open first, reducing the...
read more
Choice is more often a feeling than an action
May 30, 2007
Only in the US is there a geek market large enough to have even the faintest
hope of making a profit out of serving people 3-D photo maps, though I remain sceptical that Google can ever make this pay. Not that “make it pay” is a common goal for most Google development teams.
In my testing, I found that flying around the streets of San Francisco was a little bit nausea-inducing much of the...
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New Google Maps feature: massive privacy invasion
May 30, 2007
Only in the US is there a geek market large enough to have even the faintesthope of making a profit out of serving people 3-D photo maps, though I remain sceptical that Google can ever make this pay. Not that “make it pay” is a common goal for most Google development teams.
In my testing, I found that flying around the streets of San Francisco was a little bit nausea-inducing much of the time;...
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New Google Maps feature: massive privacy invasion
May 23, 2007
I was invited to present some findings to the management team of a business this morning, and gave the group one memorable story to take away.
A process they’d been pinning the business on since 2002 had grown so weedy with neglect that it now takes 47 steps to complete. But wait…
In the course of those steps there are four points at which, if you skip a step or make a mistake, your work is...
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How to be simple, and why
May 23, 2007
I was invited to present some findings to the management team of a business this morning, and gave the group one memorable story to take away.
A process they’d been pinning the business on since 2002 had grown so weedy with neglect that it now takes 47 steps to complete. But wait…
In the course of those steps there are four points at which, if you skip a step or make a mistake, your work is...
read more
How to be simple, and why
May 4, 2007
My favouritest online music service, the ad-free, great-taste-in-grown-up-music, eclectic, Mac-compatible and beautifully-interfaced Pandora, has been forced to block international users because of dumb-ass US music industry licensing constraints.
I was using Pandora this morning, and then this afternoon, it was turned off. At least I was there for the end. And it could be worse; I could have also...
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Nooo! Pandora closes to international users
May 4, 2007
My favouritest online music service, the ad-free, great-taste-in-grown-up-music, eclectic, Mac-compatible and beautifully-interfaced Pandora, has been forced to block international users because of dumb-ass US music industry licensing constraints.
I was using Pandora this morning, and then this afternoon, it was turned off. At least I was there for the end. And it could be worse; I could have also...
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Nooo! Pandora closes to international users
May 3, 2007
Digg’s Kevin Rose decides: together, we fall!
Digg has reversed an earlier decision and will now allow users to post codes used for cracking the HD DVD copy protection. The decision almost guarantees legal action from the copyright holders that could bankrupt the business, which is by far the most dynamic and popular news and culture reference for the Web 2.0 generation.
In a digg (post) from Digg...
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Digg says, "bury me with my users"
May 2, 2007
Digg’s Kevin Rose decides: together, we fall!
Digg has reversed an earlier decision and will now allow users to post codes used for cracking the HD DVD copy protection. The decision almost guarantees legal action from the copyright holders that could bankrupt the business, which is by far the most dynamic and popular news and culture reference for the Web 2.0 generation.
In a digg (post) from Digg...
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Digg says, "bury me with my users"
