Improved iChat on its way
Aug 4, 2009 4:59 PMAmong many, here's one of the lower-in-the-list upgrades in OS X Snow Leopard that I will be enjoying if everyone upgrades.... More reliable, higher-resolution iChat. Having a video chat using iChat is more reliable and more accessible than ever in Snow Leopard. It includes technology to address many common router incompatibilities that can... more
Flickr photos can't be "Public Domain"
Jul 27, 2009 11:41 AMCreative Commons licenses have become popular in the past few years and are included in Flickr as an option for your own photos. What you may have not noticed that you cannot actually specify that your photos be totally free and thus part of the "public domain". This is the way a government may want to release information for completely free... more
Tonight Show Twitter Tracker
Jun 19, 2009 12:38 PMHilarious!
Facebook address book import privacy issue
Jun 12, 2009 11:19 AMI came across this blog entry and was quite surprised by it:http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-06-12-n15.html "It seems that even if you choose to skip the contacts you have imported [using the webmail or contact list import tool], Facebook will still store your relationship with those contacts. Not only will it continue to include them in your... more
Bill Moyers Journal (PBS) interviews Bill Black about financial crisis
Apr 15, 2009 3:21 PMThe financial industry brought the economy to its knees, but how did they get away with it? With the nation wondering how to hold the bankers accountable, Bill Moyers sits down with Bill Black, the former senior regulator who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. Black offers his analysis of what went wrong and his... more
Twitter on Scala (the programming language)
Apr 2, 2009 9:37 AMBy mid-2008, one of these Ruby message queues completely crashed and developers needed two and a half hours to shove the dropped Tweets back through the system. When your game is micro-blogging, that's a lifetime. Then, in his spare time, one developer ported the code to Scala. According to Payne, the Scala queue could process the same ... more
500M Downloads if iPhone Apps Since July
Mar 11, 2009 6:58 AM"The last official figure from Apple, provided in mid-January, called for 500 million downloads and 15,000 applications. Since then, 12,000 more programs have been added in only 48 days -- an average of 250 new arrivals daily. At this rate, App Store should sport an astounding 50,000 applications before the next-generation iPhone is unveiled... more
Mindblowing numbers from Obama's inauguration
Feb 3, 2009 8:15 AMFacebook and CNN have released numbers for their live streaming partnership today, which allowed Facebook users to provide live commentary on the CNN feed. The stats released, as of noon ET: There were 200,000+ status updates through the Facebook integration on CNN.com at that time, 3,000 people commented on the Facebook CNN feed per minute ... more