Is Fred Wilson arguing for “Content Neutrality”?
Fred Wilson, whom I admire, comments on a recent dust-up where a content provider blocked their programming from customers of a specific ISP...
Market share for the taking, or, outrunning the bear
Much of the commentary I’ve seen for today’s announcement of Windows Phone 7 revolves around whether Microsoft can catch up with Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android...
Avoiding “magic strings” in jQuery, C# and ASP.net MVC
The longer I program, the less tolerance I have for “magic strings”. You might be familiar with them — they are strings that have programmatic meaning but are trapped between quotes in another language...
Alikewise learnings #1: DIY PR
Thought I would write a few posts to reflect on what I’ve learned with my startup, Alikewise, day jobs, and NYC...
Sherman’s law of prior knowledge, or, predicting the past
“When a disaster happens, large or small, there is a 100% chance that a headline will be written claiming ignored warnings...
The busiest people at Apple right now…
…are the ones planning the hardware recall. The second busiest are the ones figuring out how to coat the antenna with an electrical insulator that doesn’t hurt the aesthetics...
When “infographics” jump the shark
Mashable offers an “infographic” describing Google’s history in social networking. And it’s pretty and all well and good, except that the graphic adds no information...
HTTPS is the least of your problems
It’s cool that the EFF is offering a Firefox extension to use SSL where it’s available...
Stacking up
I am happy to announce that I’ve taken a job over at Stack Overflow...
Beware the truth-tellers
I find it is so funny and ironic when a person has to tell you they are telling the truth before they tell you the true thing that is truthful...