Archive for September, 2008
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Ah, TechCrunch. Is there anything you can do? Don Reisinger gets it completely wrong in his posting:
Cisco announced today that it has acquired Jabber, an open-source IM and presence protocol used by Google Talk and Gizmo, for an undisclosed sum.
This is so flawed as to be laughable, and very well sums up the quality ...
Posted in Business, XMPP |
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
Some selections from the 2008 Rankings: Google at #10, BMW at #13, Cisco at #17, and Apple at #24.
Posted in Apple, Business, Design, Google, Technology |
Friday, September 19th, 2008
Ben Schumacher said it best:
Argh mateys, Jabber has been boarded by Cisco: http://tinyurl.com/4juk53
Posted in Business, XMPP |
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Pentagram is offering up their 2009 Typographic Calendar. It's like those swimsuit calendars, except with fonts instead of improbably-tanned women.
Harry Pearce on his choice for the month of March, Enigma:
“I have only used Enigma once and at a very small size. I tend to be very faithful to a relatively ...
Posted in Design |
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Perhaps it's all the time he's been spending with Tycho, but Kurtz's blog posts are getting better. If this well of quality overflows into PvP, win.
Posted in Web |
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
A new episode of LoDo Conversations is available for you to mock and criticize.
Posted in Podcasts |
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Brian Crecente tackles The Force Unleashed:
What makes The Force Unleashed such a pleasant surprise to play isn't really the gameplay, but how it taps into the wealth of existing Star Wars lore and history. There is, in the game, a level that has you playing through the Death Star. The gameplay ...
Posted in Star Wars |
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Rob Griffiths at Macworld takes a closer look at the latest update to Leopard.
Posted in Apple |
Monday, September 15th, 2008
Penny Arcade sums up the new Microsoft ads.
Posted in Business, Web |
Sunday, September 14th, 2008
Nullriver reports that NetShare has been banned from the App Store. Hopefully they go the Podcaster route and use ad-hoc distribution to sell to interested users. Meanwhile, Apple is validating all of the paranoia surrounding the closed distribution model, alienating users and developers in the process.
Posted in Apple |
Saturday, September 13th, 2008
St. Peter on Sarah Palin:
Yet I think she may be something more important, and more American, than a libertarian: an individual. Not some plastic cookie-cutter politician who exists only to curry favor and buy votes, but a real person who thinks and acts for herself.
Her individualism is outweighed by what ...
Posted in Politics |
Friday, September 12th, 2008
AppleInsider has a bunch of notes about this morning's iPhone OS release.
Posted in Apple |
Friday, September 12th, 2008
Another offering in the field of multi-protocol IM clients for the iPhone: Callwave's WebMessenger. This one skews slightly corporate, with support for AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Skype, Google Talk, Jabber, and Reuters networks. That all sounds great, but there's good reason for the app's current 1.5-star rating.
WebMessenger requires an account with Callwave ...
Posted in XMPP |
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Dr. John Gruber reports on the health of Steve Jobs.
Posted in Apple |
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Brennon Slattery at PC World has put together a list of features he wishes Apple would have announced yesterday.
1. Wireless iPods that sync directly to iTunes
I want to be able to leave my iPod nano in my car and have it sync wirelessly from the garage. The only reason it ...
Posted in Apple |