Chris Boyd
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I’ve worked on software of all shapes and sizes. One of the world’s largest open source projects. Small, back-office projects that never saw the light of day. All points in between. There really has never been a dull moment, because I love challenges, and as a developer I’m always faced with challenges new and old every day.
Yesterday I gave my small contribution to the SOPA STRIKE movement by blacking out my site using a design I created to reflect the eventual outcome of SOPA. It was a notice from the FTC that the site had been disabled for violations of the SOPA Act, and suggested that if the user desired more information they could file a Freedom of Information Act request, BY MAIL ONLY, at a snail mail address.
AllThingsD reports that Facebook is indeed working on a phone after all. It is codenamed Buffy, and is still 18 months from delivery. Which begs the question: Why? I’m of the belief that in 5-10 years, we’re all going to be laughing about the fact that we used to sit down at our computers, open up a browser, and type in URLs or click bookmarks to go to websites.
The Pew Research Center’s Journalism.org released an interesting survey today that centers around news consumption on tablet devices. Amongst the numerous findings, they report that 11% of US adults now own a tablet-based device. That’s pretty impressive for a device that didn’t even exist 2 years ago.
I first became an Apple fanboy at the age of 12 when I saw a Nirvana b-sides album in a promotional photo for a Macintosh in the Apple catalog. Microsoft wasn’t cool enough to know about good music, and had never done anything like that at the time. From that moment on I was a huge fan of this computer company that was also hip, understood youth, and seemed to be so much further ahead of everyone else in the nerdy realm of personal computing.
First of all, I just wanted to say I get it. I really do. iTunes, Hulu, Amazon Instant Video, HBO Go, just to name a few. Things are changing, DVDs are going the way of the CD. Physical media, in all forms, is dying. You don’t purchase media anymore, you consume it immediately. The purchase is now an afterthought.
TechCrunch reports today that Google, no doubt trying to hasten their entry into the social realm while building Google+, offered to purchase Color for $200 mil. They said no.
