UPDATE: Gizmo users may be interested in Zfone, an encryption plugin for VoIP calls developed by security expert Phil Zimmerman. I’ve been a Skype user for about a year now, in part to save money on my mobile phone bill. Rather than pay more money for a plan with more minutes, I turned to Skype [...]
[7 Sep 2007]
Yahoo allows outsiders to innovate on Yahoo e-mail Officials of the world’s largest Internet media company said on Friday it planned to give away the underlying code to Yahoo Mail, one of the crown jewels of its business, in a bid to encourage software developers to build new applications based on e-mail. Via LifeHacker. Wanted: [...]
[2 Oct 2006]
Updated with fresh links (on top): Buzzwords say all the wrong things Who can be an enemy combatant? phpBB is Dead, Long Live FUDForum (or at least SMF) my (open) data Open Data: Small Pieces Loosely Joined Mobile web shake-up gets started TindelMichi Show at Soda Salon II September 29, 2006 @ 6:30 p.m. Ormewood [...]
[26 Sep 2006]
Javascript Boot Camp Tutorial Groovy bits from Amy Hoy’s talk at OSCON 2006. [Via Spun] .NET developers make more money No mention of Java web developers. And even less mention of a methodology, so take it for what it’s worth. UPDATE: The author says: I began searching job sites for currently available jobs within the [...]
[6 Aug 2006]
Links for your learning pleasure. Will update as the day progresses. Deconstructing the Mobile Web “The mobile Web is largely overplayed hype — the clumsy extrapolation of the behavior and use of a basic set of interfaces from one environment to another incompatible one.” The Next Tech Battle: Internet Searches on Cellphones Google, Yahoo! and [...]
[8 May 2006]
Wireless Carriers Set Strict Decency Standards for Content Verizon, for example, bans profanity, excessive skin-showing, and derogatory references to Verizon itself. If you have trouble reaching the article via the link above, try searching with Google News. Save the Internet Alternet.org gives a helpful overview of the “net neutrality” debate. Information about why net neutrality [...]
[28 Apr 2006]
Session focused heavily on mobile communications and blogs/vlogs/podcasts, although Mitch Spolan of Yahoo! talked a bit about avatar and widget marketing/advertising (no doubt because of Yahoo‘s product offerings). Central themes: Don’t be afraid let the community play with your brand. Can lead to greater interest in your brand, and a deeper relationship with your business. [...]
[27 Apr 2006]
NOTE: This is *NOT* a word-for-word transcript. These are my raw notes with some questions I had mixed in. Cameron Moll Dave Shea Kelly Goto Brian Fling Dave: Consider the business case: Who will access your content via mobile? How will they use you content via mobile? (i.e. using Google for searching information without having [...]
[13 Mar 2006]