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Apple’s iPhone App Store allows third-parties to release software for the iPhone (built with an API provided by Apple) to all iPhone users. They can charge what they want for the app, and delivery and payment is managed beautifully within the iPhone interface through your iTunes account.
The true genius behind the system though, is that […]

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I use Microsoft products everyday at work. We’re a .NET/MSSQL shop exclusively, so this is what I have to work with. It’s not a bad system. The Visual Studio IDE is a great programming environment - at the feature level. SQL Management Studio is a great product as well - also, at the feature level.
I’ll […]

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What’s the deal with the excitement?
Ok, maybe that’s not what I mean. I understand the excitement from the Macophiles. It’s what they do. I used to be one. Well, an aspiring one. All I could afford was a used iBook off ebay, but that’s neither here nor there. I own an iPod, two actually, they’re […]

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The infamous Jason Calacanis (of Mahalo, Netscape.com, Weblogs, Inc.) commented on my previous Mahalo post. I feel slightly important now.
My Response:
Mahalo is just looking to fill the top 10,000 search terms or whatever. Obviously this will give them exposure within the most profitable areas, as Jason said, but, there are two issues I have with […]

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Mahalo is a human powered search engine. Yea, I said that right, and it’s probably not what you think. What comes to my mind when I hear ‘human powered search engine’ is Google’s server room with a few thousand high school cross-country stars wailing away on human-size hamster wheels. Because that sounds reasonable.
Nope, instead there […]

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The web is abash with theories about Microsoft and their hungry lawyers. It’s always fun to speculate and muse but, whether I imagined the article I mentioned or not (I’m pretty sure I didn’t), Microsoft is not going to sue anyone over open source patent infringements.
Why not?
Well, it’s simply bad business. Everybody knows that Microsoft […]

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Read this blog post on Jonathan Schwartz’s blog (CEO Sun Microsystems). It’s semi-interesting. I guess Sun is trying to take advantage of the situation by wearing a halo next to everyone’s favorite devil. As I recall, I saw an article yesterday outlining some comments Mr. Ballmer made, the gist of which is that MS will […]

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I try to keep political rants off of here for the most part. I’m not really sure that I’m saying anything new or exciting, but sometimes it really gets to me. After that little outburst, I thought we needed something positive, and this is definitely a good sign of things to come (edit: link is […]

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Over at Deep Jive Interests Tony asks why the Firefox people haven’t addressed the issue of memory hogging yet. I’ve been wondering this myself. There have been a number of optimization articles written to cut back on the problem, which really just proves that it exists. Tony also proposes that there’s an opportunity there for […]

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For those of your that use GMail religiously like myself, I’d like to point you to this Firefox extension. It’s released by the people at LifeHacker. It’s essentially a compilation of a number of different Firefox extensions for GMail. There’s a ton of awesome options, and I’m loving it. It doesn’t even require Greasemonkey if […]

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