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 [...]
Cats outta the bag now (thanks to @joshelman), but my collaborator and friend David Recordon has left Six Apart (for the second time — after leaving VeriSign almost exactly two years ago) and has joined Facebook. Facebook is on a tear lately, hiring a number of smart, energetic and most of all — hungry — [...]
After a minor dust up over my post on Adobe’s Open Source Media Framework, a few responses helped clarify my angst and also provided a constructive approach to evaluating “openness”. Specifically, Dion Almaer’s point system seems useful: 0 points: Say you are open 10 points: Choose an OSI license 20 points: Define the governance of [...]