I sat down for a conversation with Ville Vesterinen (@vesterinen) — co-founder and editor of the ArcticStartup blog — last week while he was visiting from Helsinki. Following up on the post that Jyri Engeström and I wrote on the web at a new crossroads, we discussed the need for more open standards to create [...]
Last January, writing on the problem of open source design, I said:
I’ve probably said it before, and will say it again, and I’m also sure that I’m not the first, or the last to make this point, but I have yet to see an example of an open source design process that has worked.
Indeed, I’d [...]
Echoing some of my own sentiments about the App Store compared to the web as distribution channels, Joe Hewitt — developer of Firebug (Firefox before that), the Facebook iPhone app and countless developer essentials — writes:
I’d like to add my voice to the stream of complaints about the iPhone App Store, but before I say [...]