The Zeitgeist

Life’s weird,  it puts you in odd, uncomfortable situations and occasionally out of the chaos potentially wonderful opportunities materialize when you least expect them.  For example:
This week I am winding down a consulting gig that got cut short by the client’s management who decided 2 weeks ago to cut the budget on the project I [...]

Tags: Angel Funding, anticipation, Apple, Business, consulting, crossroads, iFund, ipad, iPhone, iPhoneOS, jobs, Life, opportunity, Startups, unexpected, VC, Venture Capital

Golly, CEO’s say the darndest things!  Qwest CEO Ed Mueller‎ is quoted as responding to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s call for upgrading the US broradband infrastructure to 100Mbits to the home in the next decade saying: “100 meg is just a dream, we couldn’t afford it.”  He went on to add ”First, we don’t think the customer [...]

Tags: 100mbit, bandwidth, Ed Meuller, future, Google, Internet, qwest, telecom Act

Iiiinteresting. Twitter seems to, despite previous assurances from co-founder Biz Stone that it wouldn’t, be going after app developers using “Tweet” as part of their app names.
Now, if Twitter actually had a trademark on the term “tweet” it would be one thing, but to be sending takedown notices for something you don’t own [...]

Tags: dmca, lawyers, Patents, penalty, trademarks, twitter, USPTO

I’ve been thinking more over night about the whole Google Buzz fiasco, and the more I think about it, the more horrified I am.
What Google’s done in not thinking through the implications of the auto-follow defaults for Buzz will not be known for some time – but exposing everyone’s social network in this [...]

Tags: buzz, data, data mining, Google, intelligence, Privacy, Social Networking, surveillance

So, Google is going after Twitter and Facebook it seems with Buzz.   Buzz could be an interesting platform, but here are 4 key reasons why it’s probably not going to take off just yet:

Google doesn’t get user experience.
People are already invested in Twitter and Facebook
APIs Matter
Poorly Thought Out Defaults

Quantitative vs. Qualitative
Google is a data driven [...]

Tags: api, buzz, client, FaceBook, Google, Privacy, safety, Security, sns, Social Networks, twitter

Maybe Phil Gramm, the ex-senator and formerly John McCain’s tone-deaf economic advisor was on to something after all.
We’re now firmly in a “recession” which is a term that in reality describes a fear condition that causes people to not spend, companies to fire employees and whole economies to tank.
The only way out of [...]

I just found Xlye Scope from CulturedCode. Xyle Scope is to web page, layout and CSS what Instruments is to XCode. Wow.
I’ve been using CSSEdit for a long time and its been really useful. It lets you look at a web page, and turn on an “X-Ray” mode which [...]

Gustavo Duarte, a programmer and blogger in Colorado wrote a very provocative article recently entitled Language Dabbling Considered Harmful where he reasons on why working, professional programmers should, more or less, stick to the languages where they have been successful and not try to get involved with new languages that come around:

Learning new programming languages [...]

Tags: computer science, languages, Programming

After several “developer previews” Apple finally releases Java 1.6 yesterday.
It’s only for 64bit Intel machines machines which is kind of a bummer for PPC folks. I hope they decide to remedy that soon.
It can be found on Apple’s Software Download pages.

I just installed 10.5.2, before I started the installation, I had 12GB of memory, now I have 8GB:

My 2GB DIMMs have become 1GB DIMMs (the things listed at 2GB are Apple memory).
Oh, Noes!! DON’T WANT.
Apple — please fix!