Today, the long-awaited and long-delayed official "Facebook for iPad" application became available in the Apple AppStore. Having been an early iPad user and an avid Facebook user, this is one app I’ve been wanting for a long time. NOTE: I…
Oct 10
Voxeo Customer Summit 2011, "Unlocked and Loaded", Launches Tonight!
Tonight I’ll be thinking of all my friends and former colleagues at Voxeo as they launch the Voxeo Customer Summit 2011 at the JW Marriott Grande Lakes hotel in Orlando. With the great theme of "Unlocked and Loaded", they have…
Oct 10
Humorous Sign Campaign: Don’t Facebook While Walking
Courtesy of a post by Jeff Pulver on Facebook, hopefully while he wasn’t walking, I learned of this "etiquette project" by artist Jay Shells to post various street signs throughout Manhatten with various etiquette messages on them. The one most…
Oct 09
Remember Perl? RWW Highlights the Future of Perl 5
Remember perl? The “scripting language” that was the one of the first that many of us used on UNIX to automate system administration tasks? And then was later used in the 1990s for a ton of web CGI …
Oct 08
Dilbert Nails One Of The Inherent Challenges of Standards
Dilbert nails it… (back in August 2011)
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Oct 07
EU Gives Okay To Microsoft Acquisition of Skype
To I think no one’s real surprise, the European Union today gave the go-ahead to Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype. Given that the US Federal Trade Commission okayed the deal back in June, there should be no further barriers to the…
Oct 07
1997 Video of Steve Jobs: "Focusing is about saying no"
In all the ongoing commemoration of Steve Jobs, a friend posted to Facebook this short video clip of Steve Jobs from the 1997 WWDC event that so perfectly captures his design philosophy … and that "focusing is about saying no":…
Oct 06
The Internet Cries Out Its Collective Wail of Anguish At The Passing Of Steve Jobs
There are no words… although many are being written. On an intellectual level, perhaps, we knew it was coming. When he stepped down as CEO back in August, we knew Steve Jobs was in trouble. No one who is as…
Oct 04
Watching Live Blogs FAIL During Apple’s iOS 5 Event
Today was a fascinating day to watch live-blogging services fail in a rather dramatic way. Engadget… Gizmodo… MacRumors… ArsTechnica… and more… Unless you were under a rock or otherwise hiding offline, you know that today was the big, huge, ginormous…
Oct 04
Avaya Acquires UC Security Firm and SBC Vendor Sipera Systems
Fascinating news today that Avaya has acquired Sipera Systems for an undisclosed sum. We’ve covered Sipera here on this blog any number of times over the past years as they have been one of the few firms very specifically focused on “VoIP security”, or, to be more appropriately buzzword-compliant in 2011, “Unified Communications security.” In […]
