Monthly Archives: May 2008

21 May

Why isn’t there an open source Twitter?

I am not a twitter user, as my stimulation / activity ratio is already waaay too high the way things stand, but I sure do get a lot of secondhand twitter smoke. Just wading through techmeme and techcrunch to find stories not about twitter being down is getting tiresome…
So why hasn’t someone developed [...]

14 May

Modeling the natural world

I came across an interesting article about Yahoo researcher Duncan Watts and his empirical findings on how trends spread through a modern, networked society.  The article tended to pit Duncan against Malcolm Gladwell, author of the Tipping Point, as well as other leading marketers.  In essence Duncan debunks the theory that influential members of our [...]

01 May

Calling Air + Flex developers

I have embarked (last week actually) on a pet project of mine and decided on using Adobe’s new AIR platform, with Flex as the coding environment.  I am total newbie at most web programming (at PhatNoise and Harman everything I did was embedded C or Lua), but I really quite like Flex as a framework [...]