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Aug
31
links for 2008-08-31
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why regulations and excessive interference from governments backfires in the long run
Aug
30
links for 2008-08-30
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customers talk to the company, not the (ineffective) other way round…
Aug
30
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there is some truth in that but I'd disagree that all FOSS people who cry EVIL when marketing or business is mentioned are ignorant of either. Some of them speak from experience and knowledge of both…
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not sure what to make of this…
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interesting
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consolidation can happen on the side of the user who chooses what suits him best. otherwise, it is reducing diversity and therefore innovation. reinventing a wheel might make it a better wheel in a different way and that's not to be sniffed at, especially as it's powered by geek dedication
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i guess
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rather interesting.
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the people who did icanhascheeseburger.com
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this is a clear case of the demand side supplying itself. but the supply side is getting nasty. Will VRM cause similar reactions? Most likely.
Aug
29
Signing up with OpenID
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Now and then I give OpenID a go but I do find it cumbersome to say the least. In an experimentation fit I used it to sign in to Plaxo, and every time I log in, it’s a several step process. So much for saving the user time and effort.
MindMeister mindmapping software has an OpenID option for signing in. I thought - ooh, it would be convenient to just put in my OpenID and not worry about yet another username/password etc. Perhaps there is something to this. I even remembered my OpenID URL…
But no luck this time, this is what I got.
Additional Information: Because your OpenID provider didn’t send all the information we need in order to create your account please fill out the fields to the left.
Arrgh! Why put an OpenID sign-in option on a page, if the website doesn’t actually accept it?! The point of OpenID should be not only about the convenience of signing-in process but also about my ability to decide what information is provided throughout. FAIL.
cross-posted from VRM Hub.
Aug
25
links for 2008-08-25
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become implementor of innovation? I mostly agree about not relying on 'consumers' for innovation but therein lies the fallacy. we are not consumers only and innovation is often user-driven. A particular kind of user, which is what business fails to understand.
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couldn't agree more
Aug
25
VRM Hub meeting in August
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This month’s VRM Hub meeting will be on 28th Thursday, 6-9pm, in Chelsea. Sign up here.
Aug
25
Waffle bike or the reason #984,239 why I love the internet
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Waffle Bike is a fully weaponized waffle making device complete with call to prayer public address system:
Aug
24
links for 2008-08-23
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brilliant!
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the idea is fine, just let me apply the functionality to my own stuff, not somebody else doing it to me and my data.
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absolutely! "The real choice is liberty versus control. Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy."
Aug
17
links for 2008-08-17
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glad to see this
Aug
16
links for 2008-08-16
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this is annoying. marketing is NOT what attracts people to Apple! Linux doesn't need more of it, it needs better design and easier use. Sexy design comes from being able to do intuitively and without clutter. marketing has nothing to do with it.
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wrong, marketing doesn't make people use things. usability and usefulness does. open source stuff may be useful and better but not very usable, yet, to non-techies.
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always puzzles me why the 'cloud' means some BigCo providing storage… surely, the internet is the nodes and that is each and every one of us. Soon we'll have web servers in our pockets, so why not look that way rather than to the tech behemoths. go figure
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T-Mobile to launch open development platform to challenge iPhone | Negative Approach - CNET News.comlet's see how fast they can catch up and keep up with Apple. seems good news…
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this is bad, potential dealbreaker for me.. hopefully, no mobile operator is doing this in the UK.
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if I were to get iPhone, I'd need something like NetShare app to be able to use it as modem with my laptop. typical that a mobile network operator is trying to limit such use.
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another bug in iPhone
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deja vu all over again, this time instead of the government, it's a clueless enterprise.
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excellent point. one of the reasons most successful web apps are learnt by playing…
Aug
16
Quote to remember
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Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning and the creation of new works. Instead, its principal functions now are to preserve existing failed business models, to suppress new business models and technologies, and to obtain, if possible, enormous windfall profits from activity that not only causes no harm, but which is beneficial to copyright owners. Like Humpty Dumpty, the copyright law we used to know can never be put back together again.
- William Patry, Google’s senior copyright counsel in End of the Blog
Aug
15
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