I’ve been playing around with Adobe Flex for a few days. Heard about them open sourcing the Flex SDK later this year. Didn’t think much of it, since it was already free. Then I read this from Dana. Maybe Dana has been wearing OSS goggles for a few too many days, but come on.
If you take a second and think about what Adobe wants to do in the market, this move has NOTHING to do with desperation. It has EVERYTHING to do with aspiration. Adobe wants everyone building browser-based rich internet (more…)
Canadian psychotherapist Andrew Feldmar had an unpleasant experience when he tried to cross the border into the U.S. last summer.
During a random check Mr. Feldmar ’s name was googled by a guard and returned results of a 2001 academic paper that had admissions of LSD use nearly 40 years ago. Because of this he was denied entry into the U.S.
Mr. Feldmar told the Globe and Mail this about the incident at the border. "Over 30 years ago, I did some acid. So what? I just couldn’t believe they would not l (more…)
Not long after the news spread that StumbleUpon was to be acquired by eBay, Google announced what many considered to be a direct competitor to StumbleUpon. Today I learned once again that this is far from the truth.
Before we were going to report on the new Google offering, Matt and myself were debating the merits of Google’s implementation of their web-discovery tool was and really doubted the usefulness of basing the results on web history.
The problem is that many people don’t use Google t (more…)
