Category: Economics

CrunchGear – Record Industry: Limewire Could Owe $75 Trillion – Judge: “Absurd”
The judge has exactly the right idea, absurd indeed.
March 24, 2011
Lendle – Amazon revokes Lendle’s API access Update
Let’s hear it, good job Amazon on getting in touch with Lendle and coming to a reasonable solution.
March 22, 2011
PHP Fog Blog – How We Got Owned by a Few Teenagers (and Why It Will Never Happen Again)
Incredible detail into what happened and thoroughly explained how it will never happen again and how they are much more secure moving forward.
March 22, 2011
PLATO History – Yet another PLATO innovation ignored, this time patented by Google
Even Google submits stupid and ridiculous patents, for stuff already “invented”.
March 22, 2011
Twitter – Lendle – Amazon has revoked Lendle’s API access
It’s downright awful, Lendle was a great site where you could lend your Kindle books with people you wouldn’t even know.
March 21, 2011
Bloomberg – Apple Sues Amazon.com, Seeks Order to Stop Use of ‘App Store’ Trademark
Ughh when does it ever end.
March 21, 2011
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report – You are all in publishing!
Working on the web, means you are in publishing.
March 20, 2011
NYTimes.com – Whatever Nuclear Power’s Threat, No Easy Alternatives
Not typically known but true, especially when taking into account the pollutants that coal plants emit.
March 20, 2011
The Next Web – Twitter explains why developers shouldn’t build new clients
So basically Twitter is going to push hard into developing/perfecting official Twitter clients, so everyone else we’re coming after your business model, switch, differentiate or be dead in the water.
March 13, 2011
Contrast – Designing your sign up page
The initial sign-up page is the hardest for me to judge in terms of effectiveness.
March 13, 2011