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Kirrily Robert: “Standing Out in the Crowd”
I was happy to see Kirrily Robert’s “Standing Out in the Crowd” OSCON keynote (slides) make the rounds after she published a lengthy transcript of her talk on her blog. Given that diversity in...
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After a minor dust up over my post on Adobe’s Open Source Media Framework, a few responses helped clarify my angst and also provided a constructive approach to evaluating “openness”. Specifically, Dion...
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David Recordon joins Facebook
Cats outta the bag now (thanks to @joshelman), but my collaborator and friend David Recordon has left Six Apart (for the second time — after leaving VeriSign almost exactly two years ago) and has...
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Joe Hewitt on the App Store
Echoing some of my own sentiments about the App Store compared to the web as distribution channels, Joe Hewitt — developer of Firebug (Firefox before that), the Facebook iPhone app and countless...
View ArticleLosing my religion
Last January, writing on the problem of open source design, I said: I’ve probably said it before, and will say it again, and I’m also sure that I’m not the first, or the last to make this point, but I...
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A conversation with Ville Vesterinen about standards and the open social web
I sat down for a conversation with Ville Vesterinen (@vesterinen) — co-founder and editor of the ArcticStartup blog — last week while he was visiting from Helsinki. Following up on the post that Jyri...
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Open source design and the OpenOfficeMouse
I admit that my initial reaction to the OpenOfficeMouse (to the right in the above graphic) wasn’t … positive. After all, I’ve been acclimating to my new Apple MagicMouse (seen on the left above) for...
View ArticleDesigning for the gut
This post has been translated to Belorussian by Patricia Clausnitzer. I want you to watch this video from a recent Sarah Palin rally (hat tip: Marshall Kirkpatrick). It gives us “who” I’m talking...
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Google Buzz and the fabric of the social web
When I joined the company a month ago, I was baited with the promise that Google was ready to get serious about the social web. Yesterday’s launch of Google Buzz and the fledgling Google Buzz API is...
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What I like about Facebook’s “openness”
Let’s get something straight: in my last post, I didn’t say that Facebook was evil. Careful readers would understand that I said that funneling all user authentication (and thus the storage of all...
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