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“My God, it’s full of stars!” – The Phenomena of WordPress

By | April 22, 2011 | Shape of Intent, Visible Future

“My God, its full of stars!” muttered Dr. David Bowman as he steered his vehicular pod into the monolith of Stanley Kubrick’s classic film, “2001: A Space Odyssey.” He found his assumption’s of a flat, solid object to be incorrect as he plunged into a bottomless well of potential. Last Saturday, I was not off […]

Foreign Domains, Sure.ly You Jest

By | October 6, 2010 | Cultural Interface

What does Violet Blue, a self proclaimed Open Source Sex expert and an authoritarian Islamic government, such as Libya, have in common? Well, just about nothing, unless you want your domain name to include the suffix ly, all the rage in name branding domains these days. Here also lies all the makings for a considerable conflict […]

H.264 Opens Up a Free & Clear Video Codec Landscape

By | August 26, 2010 | Machine Logic

Another salvo was fired in the battle for the future of Internet video today. MPEG LA is making permanent, thats forever, the royalty free use of their license portfolio for AVC/H.264 for free Internet video applications. The moratorium for payment was to be reconsidered in 2014 and recently extended to 2015 but as they say […]

Skype App Update 2.1.1 for iPhone

By | August 21, 2010 | Mobile Nature

If you missed the update of iPhone iOS to version 4 and its highly anticipated ability to multitask then you also missed the sometime downside of this ability, rapid battery consumption. With the new iOS 4 and their updated app I could continue a call or text chat and jump to another app without dropping the […]

Camera+ Dodges and Ducks but Apple Rejects

By | August 21, 2010 | Mobile Nature, Shape of Intent

After initial rejection by the app approval process of the Apple App Store, TapTapTap managed to get Camera+ approved. Two months later and a reported $500,000 in their pockets, the app is yanked from the App Store for violation of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement section 3.3.7. TapTapTap has been a successful iPhone app […]

Google-Verizon CoOpoly Galvanize Net Neutrality

By | August 19, 2010 | Raw Economics

If the intention of the Google-Verizon CoOpoly proposal was to provide a compromising way forward on Internet broadband policy, they may have gotten more than they bargained for as the Net Neutrality forces achieve a laser like focus. and turn their bright focus upon them. Verizon is no stranger to controversy, it strides confident across […]

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