Monthly Archives: October 2007

Leaving TechMeme

It may seem obvious to some wiser than me, but every now and then I realize that I need to disrupt my habits, force-inject some new behaviors and shift-reload the inputs into my thinking.
Above you can see what the top left corner of WebKit looks like to me everyday. In a nutshell, it depicts the [...]

In Google-Apple partnership, Jobs gets the Bill Gates he always wanted

Some time ago I read Founders at Work and learned quite a lot about the early days of Apple, as told from Steve Wozniak’s perspective. What was most remarkable was how close Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Wozniak all were to one another, and to the early foundations of the personal computer.
It seems like Jobs [...]

Did the web fail the iPhone?

Ian might be right, but not because of Steve’s announcement today about opening up the iPhone.
Indeed, my reaction so far has been one of quasi-resignation and disappointment.
A voice inside me whimpers, “Don’t give up on the web, Steve! Not yet!”
You have to understand that when I got involved in helping to plan iPhoneDevCamp, we didn’t [...]