I bet they didn't write a new rendering engine... probably using Webkit or something. So they basically just re-skinned a browser. But still might be useful for some users.
That Slashdot "social" icon of the two hands shaking has gotta go. Maybe it applied to LinkedIn but not Facebook, etc. How about an image of somebody taking a photo of them self.
To most of us this sounds abhorrent but it might be commercially successful anyhow. However, it seems a bit like the Kin... they are betting the phone's entire success on one app (or group of apps) - social. I think Android and iPhone are successful because they are just platforms to run any kind of app... the users decide what they want.
Slashdot Mirror
But they have art-ized it. (I think)
Don't forget Facebook.
I bet they didn't write a new rendering engine... probably using Webkit or something.
So they basically just re-skinned a browser. But still might be useful for some users.
"WINE" should go to the project and "wine" to the beverage.
All computer stuff gets cheaper over time. Bandwidth should too.
Jeeze, give them a break. They are working on the worlds fastest javaScript that you'll be able to download for free!
Everyone has their birthday there.
I guess this the intro page for onesocialweb?
http://onesocialweb.org/
Looks promising.
Well, where is it.
Diaspora: non finished.
Appleseed - no traction.
http://opensource.appleseedproject.org/
Not sexy enough.
What else?
Except this one looks like a junk yard.
How is Jefferson Starship a "starship"?
That Slashdot "social" icon of the two hands shaking has gotta go. Maybe it applied to LinkedIn but not Facebook, etc. How about an image of somebody taking a photo of them self.
is something that publishes add too.
I have a Pavlovian response to the sound of a beer being poured in to a frosty glass.
To most of us this sounds abhorrent but it might be commercially successful anyhow.
However, it seems a bit like the Kin... they are betting the phone's entire success on one app (or group of apps) - social.
I think Android and iPhone are successful because they are just platforms to run any kind of app... the users decide what they want.
Killer... of the user they are monitoring?
So ACLs = security ?
The relative simplicity of chmod means that people actually use it.
Seems pretty obvious... just compile the code with multiple compilers.
Or use interpreted languages.
For some reason I know that Dido was a literary agent in a previous career.
That job with deal with rights issues quite a lot I'd think.
This post is wrong but useful. Since it shows what many "non-techies" (including politicians) think net neutrality is.
He used the open internet and tools to make a walled garden. Not exactly a triumph of openness.
Does it have iTunes ;)
One issue with multiple app stores is... multiple notification of upgrades. I have received this as I have apps of 3 stores on my phone.
I notice you didn't ask what was wrong with Facebook ;)
On Skype...
There's this
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2009/02/24/skype-steals-bandwidth-%E2%80%94-even-when-you-are-not-using-it/
But the main thing I didn't like about either is that they are closed. There are fine open VoIP standards but Skype doesn't use them.
Facebook: yuck
Skype: yuck
Facebook + Skype: yyuucckk