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Championing open & secure info management - by Scott Mace, Open Standards Advocate
I was on this week's Cranky Geeks show, and host/longtime colleague John C. Dvorak introduced me as the guy who coined the term "chiclet keyboard." I smiled but I was thinking, "Oh yeah?" And after some digging around, I have...
The true state of open source / open standards, 2010: open source "champion" Matt Asay apparently still uses Microsoft Office, not OpenOffice; open standards champ Tim Berners-Lee won't open MS Office files. (Disclosure: I use both MS Office and OpenOffice,...
A commenter to this New York Times blog post states that "Google sucks out every byte of call, contact, text, location data without your consent" but that hasn't been my experience. Google asks for your consent, and then (usually) sucks...
Better read those social network terms of service carefully. Open-Xchange lets people share their contact lists with the world -- but what if your contacts don't want that information shared outside of the social network where you connected? I smell...
1. There's a critical mass of cool new apps that can't be ignored for sheer productivity. 2. I would stick with open standards if phones based on them offered all these cool new apps, but they don't. 3. People who...
Link rot used to be associated with Web 1.0 and the dot com bubble. But as I resume daily blogging based on the research I conducted from 2002-2008 for a book project I abandoned, it's clear that the blogosphere has...
Those questions so many Web sites ask us to answer -- the ones that let us recover a lost password -- can be a joke. Especially if the person answering them is a public figure. In recent years, at River's...
This September 9 story hasn't been fully explored by the press, and with the collapse of Lehman Brothers yesterday, is now in danger of being forgotten. But in the midst of rocky financial times, to have your institution relying on...
Cliff Schmidt is leading an effort by Literacy Bridge to build a very inexpensive MP3 player for the developing world. I spoke with him for my latest Opening Move podcast.
Maybe Matt Asay makes more of Google's evil intent than he ought to, but for now it'll keep me on Firefox.
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