Jul
3rd
Thu
3rd
Dollops of
Mr Messina.
Mr Messina.
Jul
2nd
Wed
2nd
I was once asked what was the best career advice I ever received — and it was to plan for job obsolescence every 18 months, because research showed that people typically master a job in that time period and fall into a routine.
— Charlene Li, Why I’m leaving Forrester
Jun
30th
Mon
30th
Sandbox Suites postcard at Ritual
Jun
28th
Sat
28th
Of the 5,000 discs we gave out, 5.8% were ever used. That may seem a bit low, but it gets quite depressing when converted to an absolute count: 288. Out of 5000 CDs given out, no more than 300 were used - perhaps giving away CDs isn’t the best idea after all.
— Quentin Carnicelli, Announcing LiveDiscKit
Jun
26th
Thu
26th
That said, I don’t believe the initial implementation of MySpace Data Availability will deliver on what those of us pushing to open up the Social Web are hoping for. The restrictions on participating third parties are so severe as to be impractical; specifically, caching of the data is prohibited. Rather than the walled garden castle lowering the drawbridge, this is more like opening the curtains.
What users should demand is convenient, secure, and unrestricted access to their data. That means the ability to have full interoperability between any of the tools and services they use, including operations like import, sync, and delete.
Service operators, if you love your users’ data, set it free. If they love you, they will not leave. Instead, they will appreciate the convenience of interoperability that you are enabling.
— John McCrea, MySpace Shipping “Data Availability” Today
Jun
24th
Tue
24th
In Copenhagen
Jun
23rd
Mon
23rd
Prop
Jun
20th
Fri
20th
Ever tried to write an application that sits on top of a fine mist of questionably accurate factoids spread in varyingly dense clumps across the whole Internet? It’s a pain. The {s,S}emantic Web is a terrible platform for applications. Developers need real APIs.
— Christopher St. John, Tessera at the Semantic Web Austin Launch Party
Jun
18th
Wed
18th
Win an iPhone!