A historical collection of our writing.
I have written previously that given the huge scale of the Internet, services that might historically have been considered a feature can now be companies. There is a critical success factor though to achieving Internet scale that I think is being widely ignored: intentionally keeping a service […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Search will always be an important way of finding products when I know what I want. For instance, if I know that I need a manual bilge pump (a recent purchase), I will go to either a search engine or use the search function at an online marine supplies site such as WestMarine or LandfallNavigation […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
This seems to be the week for legal blog posts. After trying a slightly revised version of COICA with new branding (now: PROTECT IP), Senator Leahy has come out with a very sensible piece of legislation, the ECPA Amendments Act of 2011. As the name says, this is is an amendment to the Electronic […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The proposed PROTECT IP act is an improvement on COICA, but still makes the wrong trade-offs between protecting copyright holders and defending the integrity of the Internet.There are several major modifications from the COICA draft. The key ones are first that only the DOJ can initiate procedures […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Shapeways yesterday announced support for yet another awesome material: ceramics. Ceramics is a particularly cool because it it is food safe and thus unlocks the market for 3D printed dishwares. That includes my admittedly fairly lame chop stick holders, which I have immediately re-ordered in […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Google’s announcements of Chromebook and subscription pricing offer a great opportunity to reflect on where we are in the history of computing. It is all too easy to think of this as something radically new, when it is simply the latest entry in a long historical settling down of the locus of […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
