Technology

Dear all my friendly neighborhood web developers out there.  Please don’t ever ask me for my Google login and password again.  Instead, please implement the Google Contact API.  W

For those of you who read my blog, you know that I hate software patents. My partner, Jason Mendelson, began fighting me on this back in 2000 when we began

I’m supposed to have my new MacBook Air tomorrow.  It’ll be running Vista.  If you care, Ross tells you how to set Vista up on the MacBook Air (and when

I’m an abolitionist.  I believe software patents should be abolished.  I’ve started pounding the drum about this and am delighted to hear as many positive responses to my plea as

Philip Greenspun has an excellent essay up on the web titled Internet Software Patents.  He sets the tone by suggesting that "the natural progression of an industry is innovation, consolidat

Ross loves it.  I saw it yesterday and Vista looks great on it.  I’m getting one.

As I wander around in my own little virtual universe, I lovingly look for all the ways the various content I create gets wired together.  I have a twitter account,

Starbucks announced that today that you can hang out, drink coffee, eat high calorie baked goods, and surf the web for "free" for two hours (assuming you are drinking coffee

I’ve been wandering around telling people that 2008 is the year that all of the consumer Internet innovations we’ve been blessed with exposed to will be finding their way into

I got the following note from a friend at a big software company that was founded in the mid-1990’s. Having worked at the big companies it has always amazed me