Today, for about half an hour in the afternoon, pretty much every app that you might try on your iPhone would likely have crashed upon opening it. It's probabl...

One of my favorite aspects of the infrastructure of the web is that the way we refer to web browsers in a technical context: User Agents. Divorced from its gee...

Lots of nice writing out there that either replies to or references some recent posts here. Highlights: Dictatorship Versus Democracy in app store politi...

Apple took the not-very-surprising step of announcing an App Store for Mac OS X, an idea I was ruminating about earlier today in looking at all the app store...

Some great responses to, and extensions of, the things I’ve been writing about lately In response to Forking Is A Feature , Rafe Colburn offers up The cu...

While Linus Torvalds is best known as the creator of Linux, it’s one of his more geeky creations, and the social implications of its design, that may well end...

Today is Ada Lovelace Day , a wonderful idea that was started to help us celebrate our heroes in technology and science, and to identify female role models. I...

I love the Internet. I love lots of things that are on the Internet. I have less love for things that want to undermine the Internet. Tim O’Reilly, The War...

I try to keep my social network as open as possible. Here’s the thing — I’m not talking about web applications that mimic real-world behaviors. I mean the rea...

Formidable geeks Aaron Swartz and Brewster Kahle have led a team of nerds to create Open Library , which purports to be the start of a library of every book i...

Pidgin , formerly GAIM, is the best instant messaging client available; It works with all common IM networks, supports extensions and customizations through p...

A couple Clay Shirky links for you today, one of which I just linked to, one of which I should have linked to last week, and all worth reading. In D...

… let’s hear more about me! I had the chance a few weeks ago to do be interviewed by Leah Peterson . It was a nice chance to talk about some things that I don...

Baseline magazine (which has been one of my favorites almost since its first issue) has a brief piece on companies that are forming software co-ops to help r...

One of the more interesting Windows applications to pop up in the past few months is Real Alternative, which you can check out at this rather disorganized pag...

While hanging out last night, as I am wont to do, With several ex-members of the Deja crew, I pulled Lane over and gave him the scoop On how I would...

So InfoWorld’s resident Jesus freak and one-trick open source pony Nick Petreley is leaving . I don’t have anything against the guy, indeed he’s been very cor...

The download software that came with my digital camera (an old Olympus 340R) is so miserable that I went looking for replacements. I found PhotoPC , which is...

This commentary on OS X and Darwin isn’t really notable except for this one excerpt: The usual suspects on various weblogs would rather idolize OS X and...

Did everyone remember to go get their OneName ? It’s a similar idea to Microsoft’s Passport , but it’s based on an open, XML content description format. You...

I’m half-asleep, so forgive me if this is incoherent, but the way to find out if people prefer open source software or free (as in beer) software, is to co...

Now that we’ve all decided (or had decided for us) that our websites will either be Yahoo portals or Amazon tab-tops, can we develop and debug a set of SSI, CG...