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Amazon and Lala: What could have been
It’s now been about 6 weeks since Apple bought Lala and I’ve spent some time reflecting on the acquisition. When I first heard the news, it sounded like a good fit. After-all, Lala is essentially a web-based version iTunes and … Continue reading
On: Programmable Twitter Clients
Loic Lemuer (CEO of Seesmic) recently announced at Microsoft’s Developer Conference that he’ll be releasing a new version of Seesmic that supports plugins. This is huge for developers, as well as users. Up until now the Twitter developer ecosystem has … Continue reading
Google’s Vision of the Web in 2015
Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb had an interesting post today recapping an interview with Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt at last week’s Gartner Symposium. In a short, 6 minute segment out of the full 45 minute interview (video below), Schmidt hinted at … Continue reading
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Daily Tip: Chrome for OSX
If you can’t wait to get your hands on Chrome for OSX, go download a Chromium nightly build, unzip, and copy to your Applications folder. At first glance, it doesn’t appear much different from Safari, which isn’t too surprising since … Continue reading
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Upcoming events for Kansas City developers/designers
I’m involved with organizing two upcoming events in the Kansas City area for web developer/designers. PreDevCamp – Kansas City This is an event we just announced today that will be a “bootcamp” for developing on Palm’s new Mojo SDK platform, … Continue reading
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Tagged Palm Pre, PreDevCamp, StartupWeekend
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Tweenky, Zendcon, vacations, CCCKC, DotNext, etc…
Blogging is something that comes in waves for me, and once I get out of the habit, it is tough to get back into it. I enjoy it, but sometimes there’s just so much going on that it completely escapes … Continue reading
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Tagged ccckc, dotnext, Javascript, openweb podcast, tweenky, zendcon
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Reddit fighting with its developers
Day #1 of Reddit going open source, and they are already fighting with their developers. C’mon guys, you clearly don’t understand what is being requested, so ask for clarification instead of being so stubborn. We understand you are busy getting … Continue reading
Sprint & Clearwire merge, the future of wireless broadband is set
Sorry for the Sprint emphasis early on, they are a local company that is always a center of attention around here. Sprint, as a brand, is pretty much dead. I can’t believe how badly Gary Forsee crippled that company. They … Continue reading
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Sprint dumping Nextel?
Link to article on The Wall Street Journal: Sprint Mulls Separating Nextel Unit Considering how many customers they’ve lost due to outages since the merger, it’s clear that move was the worst idea in Sprint’s history. So, their stock is … Continue reading
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My Mahalo Moment
So I had my ‘Mahalo moment’ yesterday, but, is it what Jason & Mahalo expect? For those looking for a good place to get an idea of what Mahalo is good at, here are some pages to get you started … Continue reading