All posts by Jeff Reifman

Jeff is a technology consultant based in the Pacific Northwest.

Simple Email Groups at EasyList.io

If you’re looking for a simple way to create email groups or private email lists, try my EasyList.io service. It’s currently in beta testing. It’s a simpler alternative to Google Groups. You can create a list in seconds. It’s designed...

/ October 27, 2013

Apple’s Turned the PC Market on its Head

The iPad’s devastation of PC market share (“Tablets To Grow 53.4% This Year, Says Gartner, As The Traditional PC declines 11.2%“) combined with Apple’s free release of Mavericks OS X struck me at how much the company’s flipped the dynamics of...

/ October 24, 2013

Impassioned BBC Interview on Society with Russell Brand

Please watch the Russell Brand interview on the BBC about culture and politics. via Gawker: “I don’t get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people,” Russell responded. “I look elsewhere for alternatives...

/ October 24, 2013

Experimenting with Patreon for Crowdfunding

Patreon is a new crowd funding site which I learned about from Jack Conte’s wonderful XOXO talk (below). Conte was an overnight YouTube sensation searching for a way to earn a living from delighting hundreds of thousands of followers. Patreon...

/ October 23, 2013

Ten Ways to Make NSA Spying Popular with Americans

With a more entrepreneurial focus, the NSA could easily counteract the current unpopularity of its surveillance programs and eliminate concerns over the cost of its multi-billion dollar programs. Here are ten services the NSA could offer to make its spying...

/ October 20, 2013

Marco Arment’s Dev Talk at XoXo Fest

As a frequent indy software developer (Geogram, Filtered, EasyList, et al.) I greatly enjoyed Marco Ament’s talk at Xoxo and wish him the best with his upcoming podcast app, Overcast.fm:

/ October 19, 2013

FastMail Says It’s Free of NSA Surveillance

FastMail steps up with more explicit statement about its customer privacy: Robert Norris, Fastmail technical lead, said: “Australia does not have any equivalent to the US National Security Letter, so we cannot be forced to do something without being allowed...

/ October 10, 2013