During my FOSDEM talk, I spoke about how your phone company, hardware and operating system control what apps you have access to. Some phones bring internet access to those with no access but without the choice and freedom we expect on the web. For example, in Zambia people are getting free internet from Facebook but […]
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I had breakfast with Cate Huston and I told her that I was working on a blog post called “Should you build an app or a website?†She opined that perhaps mobile apps, both native and web, are better because they have constraints. When you have a small screen, you have to have a good UI. You
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So now that I work at Mozilla, I figured it was time to develop a “web app” just to make sure I understood it all. And since my team is working on educational resources for web developers, I wanted to see what it was like to learn how to use some of them using resources
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LinkedIn Maps takes your LinkedIn contacts and groups them. The result is not only interesting but rather pretty. You can mouse over the different nodes, see who they are and who else is connected to them. After a few nodes I was able to see patterns in all my groups but one … The group
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I found the coolest tool, Universal Subtitles. With Universal Subtitles you can easily transcribe a talk, add subtitles or captions or translate any video on the web. I’ve been trying to transcribe my Would you do it again for free? talk forever and I always give up – I can’t type fast enough to keep
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The GNOME Foundation is hosting free web services. As you probably already know, the GNOME Foundation is hosting Tomboy Online which is in an invite only alpha right now. We also have a public instance of a Gobby server running, so you can edit documents real time with others by pointing Gobby at gobby.gnome.org! When we
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I am organizing the Web Services: How can open source software compete? lightening talks at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference. If you are working on a free web service, or if you’ve given some thought to what it would take to have free web services, please come share your work! Free as in freedom and
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Chris Brogan lost all access to his Google accounts today. He can’t check his email, his calendar or even use his Android phone. We need to learn how to evaluate free products. When we pay for something, we tend to read the terms and conditions, make sure there’s support, compare it to other alternatives, etc.
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When it comes to web applications, I think free and open source software fans are settling for “free” instead of looking for the freedom they would get from open source. Here are some free applications that I wish had open source software equivalents. I am not unhappy with these applications. I just wish I had
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