Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I’ve been giving some thought as to designing mobile and Facebook applications.  It should be plainly clear that mobile is the next great frontier. In reviewing what is popular in the Facebook space, and in particular w...

The news broke yesterday about some pretty offensive changes to the Facebook TOS (Terms of Service). This is the paragraph that lead to the uproar, most notably covered by the Consumerist: You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license...

There’s a quote from an unattributed USAF Major at Ben Tre (detailed in personal detail here) describing the logic of destroying an entire village while attempting to rout a deeply embedded Vietcong: “[It] became necessary to destroy the town to save it[.]“ I don’t disagree w...

There are way too many Facebook Apps that suck up too much of your time and deliver too little value.  I find it hard to believe that what passes for ‘innovation’ is little more than atyliatic improvements to native Facebook features, rehashed quizes, inline blogs, fan pages, and gi...

From the NYTimes: A new digital plague has hit the Internet, infecting millions of personal and business computers in what seems to be the first step of a multistage attack. The world’s leading computer security experts do not yet know who programmed the infection, or what the next stage will ...

Twenty-five years, huh?   This naturally scared the crap out of me, and helped form my current political opinions. I gotta think my parents wouldn’t have let me watch it - being a GIJoe war nerd I probably snuck and watched it through the mirror from the top of the steps. I know this - after...

The internets (or at least somethingawful and Wired) tell me that some iPhone users of the app ( PhotoswapiTunes store link) are clearly letting their freak-flag-fly, while others just share pictures of their day.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that.  Interesting what people will shar...

Uh-oh.  Looks like McCain may have some trouble with the ladies.  Seems his “trollop and cunt� (that would be a great name for a British pub, dontcha think?) remarks about his sugar-momma wife in response to her comment about his thinning hair have started to enter mainstream consciousness.  ...

Uh-oh.  Looks like McCain may have some trouble with the ladies.  Seems his “trollop and cunt” (that would be a great name for a British pub, dontcha think?) remarks about his sugar-momma wife in response to her comment about his thinning hair have started to enter mainstream conscious...

I could say it simply: the Web lets us do lots of stuff for ourselves. Want me to unpack that a bit? The Web lets us: Start businesses Cultivate customers and relationships Figure out our finances Bill people who owe us loot Manage projects Collaborate easily Find employees or partners Tell people a...