Category: Technology
Throwing Fire – LastPass Disclosure Shows Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Even the technology journalism sites can’t get things right on occasion.
carpeaqua – We’ll Fix Our Platform In Post
It’s one thing to come out with a product half finished, it’s another to come out and say you’ll finish the product and never do.
Marco.org – The iOS weather-app market
But some software the level of customization that each user wants makes it really undesirable to enter that market.
Twilio Engineering Blog – Why Twilio Wasn’t Affected by Today’s AWS Issue
Twilio on how to build a service that was able to deal with Amazon’s downtime.
O’Reilly Broadcast – The AWS Outage: The Cloud’s Shining Moment
The article even goes through the process of what it would take to permit you to have stayed up through Amazon’s recent downtime.
BBC News – Jihadists use mobiles as propaganda tools
What a stupid article, if it was the 1980’s we would all be as isolated as if it was the 1980’s.
Groklaw – The Google Microsoft Fight About FISMA Certification
This is a fun story.
CNET News – Democratic senator wants Internet sales taxes
When this goes through (though possibly not this year) some business is going to make a mint providing a back-end service to know how much taxes need to be applied towards a purchase. Amazon/PayPal/Google Checkout should start building that now, if they haven’t already.
NYTimes.com – Amazon to Sell Cheaper Kindle Supported by Ads
Uggh, really Amazon, not only is advertising not really your thing but only 25 dollars off.
Design Shack – UI Design: Should We Really Be Afraid of the Uncanny Valley?
Good points, a little bit of realism isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but just don’t take it too far.