two scoops

Apr 29

“All of this led to the revelation that we’ve begun a new age of “communal computing.” The desktop revolution centered around empowering individuals: this new revolution will extend that empowerment to groups of people.”

Communal computing

—on the iPad opening up computing for shared simultaneous interactive experiences

Apr 5

List of DRM-free publishers : Threepress Consulting blog

Good to know!

Mar 22

*snort*

(via dataviz)

Mar 21

The Brads – a comic about web design » The Brads – Why DRM Doesn’t Work

Mar 19

No Other Distribution Authorized Under this Agreement

rentzsch:

Apple’s iPhone Developer Program License Agreement:

7.3 No Other Distribution Authorized Under this Agreement
Except for the distribution of freely available Licensed Applications and the distribution of Applications for use on Registered Devices as set forth in Sections 7.1 and 7.2 above, no other distribution of programs or applications developed using the Apple Software is authorized or permitted hereunder. In the absence of a separate agreement with Apple, You agree not to distribute Your Application to third parties via other distribution methods or to enable or permit others to do so.

Diabolical.

Apple’s developer tools license mandates use of their distribution channel.

Because, you know, Cydia is such a threat to Apple’s business model.

Imagine if gcc’s license required your resulting executables run solely on Linux.

Imagine if Google required hosting your web apps on solely App Engine if you used Closure.

I hope section 7.3 comes back to bite Apple during their Department of Justice investigation.

Poison.

Mar 8

dpstyles:

mattlehrer:

Stop What You Are Doing & Install This Plug-In: Rapportive:

Cambridge UK startup Rapportive has released a Firefox and Chrome extension that will replace the ads in your Gmail with photos, biographic data and social media links, including a live display of recent Tweets, for whoever you’re corresponding with by email. It’s fantastic and takes about 2 minutes to set up.

SOLD. This this is pretty badass. Download here. (takes 10 seconds)

Feb 23

via i.imgur.com

Feb 19

“We are about to change that past, radically. And the premise for that change is an accidental feature of the architecture of copyright law: that it regulates copies. In the physical world, this architecture means that the law regulates a small set of the possible uses of a copyrighted work. In the digital world, this architecture means that the law regulates everything. For every single use of creative work in digital space makes a copy. Thus—the lawyer insists—every single use must in some sense be licensed. Even the scanning of a book for the purpose of generating an index—the action at the core of the Google book case—triggers the law of copyright, because that scanning, again, produces a copy.” For The Love Of Culture | The New Republic

Feb 10

Using Tweetie/Twitterific (via the twitter api) as an interface for tumblr. Nice!

Feb 5

Muffle teh silly a bit

stevenf:

shutup.css is a custom user stylesheet you can install in your web browser which will automatically hide the comments section of many popular web sites. My gift of a quieter, saner web to you.