When Twitter announced a few months ago something along the lines of “hey, I know that almost all innovation for new features for Twitter’s user experience have come from third party developers, and we wouldn’t even have our own native Twitter clients if it weren’t for an acquisition of third party clients, but now that…

What I imagine networking to be: “Oh, hey, Arun, this is Michael, from GreenGerms.  How’s it going? I remember last week when we were chatting at the Python meetup about how you were trying to figure out how best to get the schmeggle out of video files that get uploaded to the web.  I met…

Ashton Kuther’s little pissing match with Village Voice really sparked last night. It all started with Village Voice’s cover story which one would expect to be a five-page exposé on Kutcher being flat out wrong and getting oodles of facts flat out wrong.  Basically, they managed to make a five-page story about the fact that…

Hulu’s a tough sell because right now it’s owned by the networks who wield the most control of all over the content that is on Hulu, and even with that seeming power and flexibility they can’t manage to make meaningful deals to get a wide array of content available on Hulu without a huge number…

Back in ’09 I made a Facebook note with a list of things I’d like to get done before I die. Let’s see how I’m doing so far: Things I want to do before I die August 5, 2009 at 11:34 pm Learn to play the piano. -not yet Live in a foreign country for…

I subscribe to The Daily WTF, which is a blog in which programmers come together to share funny/awful experiences with coding related things they’ve encountered. Some of the time it’s talking about hellish job experiences in which management had a really authoritarian attitude mixed with zero technical knowledge, and often times it’s a programmer who…

This will be the first year in awhile that I didn’t get the opportunity to go to a Pride festival due to circumstances beyond my control. Every year, though, Pride celebrations seem to spark a discussion (more from within the gay community than outside of it) of whether having these celebrations is good for our…

Being the hopeless romantic I am, I wrote about one of the bigger loves of my life on Valentine’s day, expecting iOS 5 to be announced in March in a manner consistent with the previous iOSes.  Alas, Apple had far too many things on their plate (like another iPad and such) to introduce iOS 5…

When AT&T and T-Mobile announced their plans for AT&T to buy the beleaguered American wireless wing of Deutsche Telekom, the only cheers I heard were from the two companies themselves. I imagine the AT&T execs were all sitting around the conference room high fiving each other upon realizing that buying your competitors is much simpler…

DISCLAIMER: this is a customer service rant. I usually get annoyed at reading other people’s because I didn’t go through the stresses that they went through, so I thought I owed you, the reader, this warning up front. The reality of tech today is that hardware is failure prone. If your brand loyalty is dependent…