Month: October 2011
NYTimes.com – Bank of America Explains Web Site Problems
Bank of America, we weren’t hacked instead we are just incompetent.
Apple – Remembering Steve Jobs
An amazing person who built some amazing companies.
Eric’s Archived Thoughts – Searching For Mark Pilgrim
It would be quite depressing not to have those resources available, Dive Into HTML5 was "the" online resource for HTML5.
Ars Technica – iPhone 4s out October 14, beefier specs, same body
Nice bump to an awesome phone.
Ars Technica – Report: iTunes beta suggests app rentals may be in iOS’s future
A rental system would be nice, I hate buying apps that I try out and then get rid of.
FeeFighters – FeeFighters Loses BBB Accreditation Over Investigative Blog Post
I’ve always felt the Better Business Bureau was a little scammy, nice to know they can’t take criticism as well.
NYTimes.com – Corporations Getting New Tools for Calculating Emissions
I would be skeptical of any tool able to reasonably estimate this in a meaningful way, just too many differences across the whole ecosystem of every product from the original ore being mined to manufacturing to shipping to use by the end user.
Macworld – The App Culture
This was the largest fear with Lion, and Apple has yet to respond in a way that alleviates people’s fears for such apps that need a higher level of access that it appears that Apple will allow.
NYTimes.com – Deal Sites Have Fading Allure for Merchants
Oh yeah, right now is starting to look like a bad deal.
Ars Technica – Verizon sues to halt FCC’s net neutrality rules
How about the uncertainty for businesses to know if next month they’ll have to pay fees to not have their sites arbitrarily slowed down?