December 28, 2007

  • In her view

    Nice to see this interview with Lisa Gates, one of our good friends back in Santa Barbara. Continue reading

  • A fist for Palm

    Tristan Louis is done with Palm. While his tale of tech support woe (ask for support, fail to get it, vow not to continue supporting the company), it does contain an interesting veer from the typical to the surreal: a tech support supervisor who claimed to be the company CEO. The basic problem, as often… Continue reading

  • The Twitter pulse of the Living Web

    This story by Dennis Howlett, on how Twitter spread and processed news of the Bhutto assasination, casts light on the continuing birth of The Live Web. We also saw it a couple months back with coverage of the California fires near San Diego. And it’s still early. It’s important to remember that. Everything on the… Continue reading

  • Toward more and better ways to relate

    Here’s a Techcrunch story on a patent application by Tony Fadell, Senior Vice President of Apple’s iPod division. Under “Summary of the Invention”, it begins,   A processing system is described that includes a wireless communication interface that wirelessly communicates with one or more wireless client devices in the vicinity of an establishment. The wireless… Continue reading