The iPhone app bottleneck
The Silicon Alley insider is reporting that would-be iPhone application developers — at least those who aren’t well connected — can be waiting up to six months to be accepted into the Apple iPhone...
View ArticleFacebook hires a diplomat for its platform
Techcrunch is reporting that Facebook has poached Elliot Schrage from Google as its new VP of Communications and Public Policy, and that one of Elliot’s jobs will be to manage the Facebook development...
View ArticleDo they long for the days of Windows?
Macworld is reporting that some iPhone application developers are having a difficult time adjusting to having to distribute their software only through Apple. They’re apparently too afraid to go on...
View ArticleThe appliancization of the PC
One of the more contestable claims of the FOI book is that tethered information appliances like the iPhone, that either block outside apps or subject them to much more gatekeeping by the platform...
View ArticleTenenbaum Trial and Future of the Internet
By Yvette Wohn Joel Tenenbaum was one of thousands, perhaps millions of teenagers. When he was 17, he allegedly downloaded seven songs from the Internet using a peer-to-peer file sharing program called...
View ArticleKindle 2.0
Amazon has just introduced its second-generation Kindle book substitute. As a reader, I’m intrigued — I can download a bunch of books and apparently use it for days without a charge. Looking at the...
View ArticleDo we need a new Internet?
John Markoff’s article in the NYT about Internet vulnerabilities and projects like Stanford’s Clean Slate has been getting a lot of attention, including a thoughtful response from David Isenberg....
View ArticleFacebook’s privacy storm
Some thoughts on the Facebook terms of service privacy storm: Facebook and other social networks have an especially tricky time in this zone, since so much user data is relational. You upload a photo...
View ArticleWhy the PC matters
One less examined piece of what’s going on in Iran this week goes beyond the use of Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms — beyond what people can do with a basic browser. And that’s the role of the...
View ArticleFOI Topics and Links of the Week
As Phones Do More, They Become Targets of Hacking. The NY Times observes that as computing — and especially commerce — moves onto mobile devices, security threats are growing. “It feels a lot like it...
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