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A piece from AppleInsider about Apple's strategy with the iPhone and the developer community ... and how it puts a break on change. Sometimes the idea that things might get out of control can be frightening :-)

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Is it only money that changes policy? (See highlighted text) Couldn't there be policy that is driven by vision. I always thought that vision also had its place at Apple.
post by almacme on 2008-08-28
It is intriguing how the step taken with the iPhone and the AppStore has revealed some shortcomings in Apples way of handling the world. For example, the desire to keep control over what happens on onew of the platforms and the increasing difficulties this creates when numbers go up exponentially. Or there is the way they communicate when something goes wrong. It is possible that their hitherto strategy is no longer approrpaite as their products mainstream...
post by almacme on 2008-08-28

With money rolling into the iPhone App Store at a million dollar per day pace, Apple is unlikely to feel any pressure to change its NDA policy in the short term.
Apple is working to avoid the committee-designed compromises and politically splintered engineering that often occurs in decentralized open source projects
By keeping the iPhone's details under NDA, it can retroactively seek patent protection for ideas that it discovers are more novel that originally thought.
We know Apple’s been building up a patent strategy around multi-touch; maybe their lawyers believe there are patentable inventions described in the iPhone SDK and they are telling Apple to keep everything under NDA until they know provisional patents can be filed within a reasonable amount of time

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PICNIC conference programme

A conference with a somewhat different angle on change and society and technology... (Thanks to Bert for the link)

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There are several subjects I'd like to see dealt with in such a context:
- the relationship between institutions (seen as structures that organsie society that are both a help and a hinderance) and the individual (as a source of creation and particularity).
- the shortcomings of current democratic processes (with the delegation of responsibility to the elected few) to handle the complexity of the modern world
- the lack of 'places' for constructive transgression in our society (where it is possible to say that the king is naked without getting your head cut off).
post by almacme on 2008-08-28

explore how the web is changing our world, creating a culture in which more people than ever can participate, share and collaborate, ideas and information.
We have access to clouds of data, coming from machines, sensors, networks. But how much more do we know? How can we make information intuitively meaningful?
New interactions develop into new design practices; new processes induce new forms of creativity. How can creators involve the people they want to create for in their work?
The contexts in which designers, brands, companies, and individuals operate have been changing radically in recent years. We need to find new ways of innovating and perhaps even redefining what we mean by design.

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Google offers Gears for Safari beta

If you use Safari and want to risk the Beta of Gears, hre's how to get hold of it

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.Net guru calls iPhone 'most powerful mobile platform ever'

A very interesting take on the iPhone phenomenon from 9 to 5 Mac and the need for a community of developers....

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Internet Society Publications - ISOC Monthly Newsletter

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Design for Emotion and Flow

About the design of web sites ... (link thanks to Javed)

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ERC advanced grant recipeints announced

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Most iPhone Apps Are Failing To Leverage The Network Effect

A brief analysis of how apps could (bot don't) leverage networking to gain competitive advantage....

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more fromwww.techcrunch.com

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Pew Internet: Search Engine Use

"The percentage of internet users who use search engines on a typical day has been steadily rising from about one-third of all users in 2002, to a new high of just under one-half (49%). With this increase, the number of those using a search engine on a typical day is pulling ever closer to the 60% of internet users who use email."

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Microsoft sees end of Windows era

Microsoft trying to understand where to go with their core business.

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Foxconn Building 800,000 iPhones A Week

Increased rate of production of iPhone3G

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee addresses WWW2008 in Beijing

An extensive aricle by Paul Miller about Tim Berners Lee's address to the WWW2008 conference in Beijing. (Info thanks to Javed)

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US slips down development index

News from the BBC about the decline of the US seen in development terms.

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ICANN | Biggest Expansion in gTLDs Approved for Implementation

Chaos say some ... freedom of speach and action say others... Has anybody thought of what this means to the individual perception of the virtual space?

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Study reveals shocking truth: Most Facebook apps are silly, pointless | The Social - CNET News.com

Maybe facebook needs a good clean out.
What this article doesn't say is the extent to which these "pointless" applications are actually used.

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BibTeX

The word ,,BibTeX'' stands for a tool and a file format which are used to describe and process lists of references, mostly in conjunction with LaTeX documents.

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Alan McCluskey's Bookmarks

IBM Announces Sweeping Initiative to Address Major Shift in The Flow of World's Data

Google amends Chrome license agreement after objections

Google Chrome Announcement

Arctic ice 'is at tipping point'

Developers question why Apple keeps its iPhone 2.0 SDK under NDA

PICNIC conference programme

Google offers Gears for Safari beta

.Net guru calls iPhone 'most powerful mobile platform ever'

Internet Society Publications - ISOC Monthly Newsletter

Design for Emotion and Flow

ERC advanced grant recipeints announced

Most iPhone Apps Are Failing To Leverage The Network Effect

Pew Internet: Search Engine Use

Microsoft sees end of Windows era

Foxconn Building 800,000 iPhones A Week

Sir Tim Berners-Lee addresses WWW2008 in Beijing

US slips down development index

ICANN | Biggest Expansion in gTLDs Approved for Implementation

Study reveals shocking truth: Most Facebook apps are silly, pointless | The Social - CNET News.com

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