Making Desktop Webapps in Lion
“By the sainted mustache of Charles Foster Kane! Is it ever hot out there! I should write an app that keeps my city's Current Weather data from Weather Underground within easy view at all times!” —...
The cost of patent trolls
I love This American Life's investigation into patent troll Nathan Myhrvold and his company Intellectual Ventures. You should go read — or listen to — the whole thing, but in a nutshell, they explore...
NoSQL is What?
I found myself reading NoSQL is a Premature Optimization a few minutes ago and threw up in my mouth a little. That article is so far off base that I'm not even sure where to start, so I guess I'll go...
The Web's Stealth Presidential Race
Big names have quietly launched an Internet presidential race that will offer the winner a real election ballot spot in all 50 states. Will this be 2012's spoiler? — Imagine what our election syste...
Africa's mobile economic revolution
Half of Africa's one billion population has a mobile phone - and not just for talking. The power of telephony is forging a new enterprise culture, from banking to agriculture to healthcare — Earlie...
Facebook Moves Into Its New Campus [Photos]
Click to view slideshow. — Just like it told us it would back in February, Facebook has started to move its first group of employees into Building 10 of its new Menlo Park campus in the old Sun Buil...
The Winklevosses Vs. Silicon Valley
The Winklevoss twins had their original case against Facebook dismissed yesterday, causing tech media to write another slew of “The Winklevosses' Case Against Facebook Is Over But Wait Actually It Isn...
WSJ, Kobo falling in line in Apple's App Store, Google Books is out
The WSJ is reporting that Apple is laying down the law on apps that try to link externally to other payment systems in the App Store. The WSJ's own app and Kobo, another eBookseller were both forced ...
Podcasts: Who still listens to them?
Since becoming a buzzword more than five years ago, the term “podcasting” has largely disappeared from view as attention has increasingly turned to social media. So why has such a popular technology ...
DOJ takes swipe at EFF over encryption passphrases
The U.S. Department of Justice took a thinly veiled swipe at an online civil liberties group that's arguing a Colorado woman can't be forced to decrypt her laptop for police inspection. — In a legal...