Category: Big Picture
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Indie Industries?
It’s “writing hour” before the Homebrew Website Club aka Indie Web Camp Light at Mozilla in San Francisco. I’ve been wondering a lot about “Indie” stuff lately. Obviously, there’s my Indie Box Project, and Indie Web Camp, but also Indie Phone and others. “Indie” seems to be everywhere all of a sudden. Has the time…
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A coffee-maker that refuses the “wrong” coffee?
Dan Gillmor writes about a Keurig coffee machine from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters that will simply not brew competitors’ coffee. Sorry, say what? The mind boggles. What’s next? Ford cars refusing to run on gas that isn’t Exxon? Microwaves refusing the heat up home-cooked food? Sidewalks refusing to let people jog on them who don’t…
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On Mozilla’s Persona Post-Mortem
There’s a great summary on the Mozilla wiki about what did and didn’t work about Persona, Mozilla’s attempt at a new identity protocol for the web. (Given the existence of that page, I’m not sure the project continues to be actively pursued? Techcrunch reports that Persona is dead.) Having been in the middle of the…
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Facebook: With 100% of potential customers, is total user sell-out next?
From Facebook’s most recent earnings statement: Monthly active users (MAUs) were 1.23 billion as of December 31, 2013, an increase of 16% year over year. There are only 7.1 billion people on the planet. Some are babies, some are in jail, some illiterate, and some are Amish, and the like. Facebook’s customer reach is close to…
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Argh, which website accounts do I have?
A few years ago my problem was how to manage the passwords of 200+ on-line accounts. It’s gotten worse. Now I don’t remember what on-line accounts I have! Just now Paypal indicated to me that I apparently used to have a Paypal account with a certain e-mail address (that I’ve used for 10+ years). I…