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...
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...
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...
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...
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:
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...