July 2009
11 posts
Gmail Kisses “On Behalf Of” Goodbye, Enables... →
Anyone who has ever tried to use Gmail as a central hub for their Email has likely fallen prey to one of the service’s annoying flaws: there was no way to use another site’s outgoing SMTP servers…
The Problem with the Battle for Identity
Every once in a while, the battle for online identity takes center stage in the blogosphere. The debate pits the champions of identity like @chrismessina and @marshallk against companies like Google, Facebook, and MySpace, positioned as evil corporations bent on locking user identity into their services in the name of profit. I certainly don’t disagree with the identity champions, and could...
@anildash and "The Pushbutton Web"
If you haven’t yet, take some time to read through Anil Dash’s great summary of what he calls “The Pushbutton Web”. While Twitter’s founders would like to see the service “fade into the background” it’s important to remember that when that happens, Twitter would have what one might arguably call a monopoly. The user suffers when one particular...
blog.jakerlevine.com
If you’re one of the 10 people who follow blog.jakerlevine.com via RSS please make sure to update your RSS reader to http://blog.jakerlevine.com/rss. There shouldn’t be any further changes to this setup. Now just have to recover my Google juice.
Why Is Google Latitude A Web App And Not A Native... →
We briefly pointed this out in our longer post on Google Latitude launching on the iPhone, but it’s worth pointing this out separately. In its post today, Google made an unusual admission…
The Anatomy Of The Twitter Attack →
Shared by Jake Levine:
Worth reading if for no other reason than to reinforce the importance of strong passwords. To those that haven’t yet, I recommend getting a copy of 1Password.
Dealhunters: Buy Your Laptops in August, September... →
DealNews took a relatively standard laptop—Vista-equipped, 15.4-inch, Core 2 Duo, at least 2GB of memory—and graphed the average price over the last year. The findings confirm what we already…
Own your namespace: Send Your Name to Mars →
via jstn
newspeedwayboogie:
Glen Hansard and Marketa...