And so begins the next chapter of Skype… first it was a scruffy little startup taking on the telecom world… then it became somewhat bizarrely part of eBay… then it went back to a private company owned primarily by Silver…
Oct 13
R.I.P. Dennis Ritchie, half of the K&R Bible for C Programming
For those of us of a certain age, “The C Programming Language“, written by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, was our “bible” as …
Oct 12
The MomsLikeMe.com Debacle and the Need For the Open Internet And To Control Your Content
A ton of online communities of moms are dying this week. After three years, the "MomsLikeMe.com" websites are shutting down on Friday. From the FAQ: All of the MomsLikeMe sites will permanently shut down on Friday, October 14, 2011. At…
Oct 12
Survey: Only 40% of Canadians Password-Protect Their Cell Phones
Only 40% of Canadian cell phone users password-protect their phones or use other privacy options, a survey by Canada’s privacy commissioner found. The results of the 2000-person survey were released in August and written up in a Globe And Mail…
Oct 11
Facebook’s iPad App Now Available With Gestures, Cool Places Display and More
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…
