Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Web, open source on Jun 3rd, 2008
Firefox has been my browser of choice since at least 1.5 (2004?) and it’s provided consistency across the various OS’s I’ve used during that time - Ubuntu, Windows 95, Mac OS/x and Fedora.
There are a number of reports that Firefox is seriously eating into Microsoft’s dominant market share - start here.
Mozilla are planning a big […]
As I’ve said before - I find blogging hard to sustain - it takes some real time investment to do well. Twitter on the other hand - provides the same cathartic release with little of the overhead.
But Twitter is *really struggling* these days - it was never great (in terms of availability) but lately it’s […]
Posted in Web on May 20th, 2008
For a short time today Twitter (the popular social, techno, micro-blogging web site, thingy) was actually working; I even managed to exchange a few Tweets. Which reminds me - how are Twitter going to actually, you know, make money. I’m not suggesting that making money is all there is to life but they have server […]
Posted in Web on Apr 23rd, 2008
Ray Ozzie gets the Web. Which is a start - now he just needs to overcome the huge burden of Microsoft’s revenue base. That’s going to be the hard bit.
It’ll be interesting to see how far Microsoft go to adopt standards and interoperability and open source - these were fundamental in the rapid growth and […]
A couple of related articles hit my (nicely organized) feed reader this morning. First, Tim Bray paints a bleak picture of Google’s Developer Platform - some concerns I shared earlier. Meanwhile CogHead are in the news with their Open Definition model - an attempt to build an open and collaborative environment for CogHead customers. Interesting […]
Yesterday Google announced Google App Engine - essentially a competitor to AWS (Amazon Web Services) providing storage, execution and secure, reliable “web I/O”. Right now - you have to write your apps. in Python;but they also provide Django (web app framework for Python) - which is pretty neat from the little I’ve seen of it. […]
Posted in Web on Apr 5th, 2008
One thing that’s been nagging me for a while is the chronically disorganized state of my feeds. I promised myself I’d spend some time rationalizing them before I start my new job. So this morning I did just that while watching Jack at soccer. I’ve been playing with several feed readers over the years (Thunderbird, […]