Category: Technology
Huffington Post – U.S. House Ignores Internet Reality, Again
If it wasn’t so frustrating you have to almost admire Republicans ability to ignore their own experts or examples when legislating.
Facebook Engineering Blog – Building Efficient Data Centers with the Open Compute Project
The point is to demonstrate Facebook is working at a high scale much like Google and they aren’t opening up anything that actually makes them their real money.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Fully-qualified Nonsense in the SSL Observatory
What stupidity.
ericbieller.com – What makes iOS user experience so much better than Android?
In a nutshell these were more or less my main issues with the experience of using an Android phone.
NYTimes.com – Pandora Discloses a Privacy-Related U.S. Inquiry on Apps
Wonder when we’ll start hearing something what this investigation into mobile advertising and I presume privacy is trying to discover.
Call Me Fishmeal. – Success, and Farming vs. Mining
Really good read.
Mozilla Add-ons Blog – Improving Add-on Performance
Nice, that’s a great thing for users, start publishing information regarding the performance of add-ons and start trying to convince programmers to be more intelligent in building add-ons.
TorrentFreak – Why Is It Rocket Science That Laws Should Apply Online Too?
Why indeed?
Nieman Journalism Lab – Baseless speculation! Frank Rich and the price of paywalls for writers
Good point to recognize this difference, but the point must still be made that both need to be paid, and half to find a system that enables writers and publishers to make money off the content.