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Dan Lyons, writing in Newsweek, doesn’t think the introduction of the iPhone on Verizon will stop Android’s momentum: Apple's phone would have snuffed out the Android a year ago, but now Google’s device has become an unstoppable juggernaut. […] “Android is a global phenomenon,” [Fred Wilson]
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If you’re going to do something, do it well I’ve been thinking a lot lately about open source business models. The project I’m most often associated with, Elgg, developed a business some two years after the project itself was founded. Now that I’m considering a new
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I wrote a piece for 24 Ways To Start, the entrepreneur’s advent calendar: The web isn’t just a platform; nor is it a market. It’s a movement. Think of the success stories of the past five years: Twitter, Facebook, Google, GroupOn. Twitter and Facebook changed the way
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He's dead, Dave. Everybody's dead. Everybody is dead, Dave. It’s the end of the road: Delicious, one of the darlings of the “Web 2.0” movement, is being shelved. The social bookmarking site was famous for its simple interface, which introduced tags and cloud services
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Every morning it goes like this (in this order): 1. Turn on computer. 2. Launch XAMPP; start Apache and MySQL processes. 3. Launch Eclipse. 4. Launch the Chrome offline web apps for Remember the Milk and Gmail. 5. Launch Skype. 6. Open a Chrome tab and launch the Tweetdeck Chrome
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Following my less-than-stellar reviews of my Android-based HTC Desire, I thought it was only right to follow up. This weekend, O2 finally sent an over-the-air update, which brought me in line with the rest of the Android world – and what a difference it made. In short: Android 2.2 rocks.
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Hannah, my sister, set up shop on Bandcamp this afternoon in order to sell her album, Pre-Apocalyptic Love Song. I set up hannahwerdmuller.com for her and put together a simple header graphic based on something she drew a while ago – and in the process, totally fell in love with
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I was invited to attend Launch48 Edinburgh as both a speaker and a mentor, and can’t imagine a more inspiring way to spend a weekend. My talk – on creating a startup from scratch with no budget and a two-person team, and the lessons I’ve taken away from that
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Power couple Bryan and Stephanie Rieger – who also happen to be two of the nicest people you could hope to talk to – have released a couple of presentations on how the web has changed. They are excellent, should be considered required reading in my opinion, and together suggest a sort
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I thought this was worth its own post; you can read about my overall Android experiences over here. Today, my HTC Desire told me it was out of storage space. That’s funny, I thought. I installed a 16Gb SD card. That was plenty of space on my iPhone, and
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Cupertino on my mind I’ve never been an Apple fanboy. As I was growing up, surrounded by computers, I distrusted the Mac Classics I encountered at my first job and occasionally at my friends’ houses. There was something closed about them, as if they were designed by vanguard software
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On Wednesday, the Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab announced that I’m their inaugural Geek in Residence: This is an exciting and experimental new role in which Ben will work with and across the festival set to spot and develop project opportunities and bring his expertise and experience to explore what