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.
Every couple of years in a developer’s life, we’re faced with the notion that we might need to change our workflows up a bit. Your favorite IDE gets a redesign, some new awesome tool comes out and even though you don’t really have any more room for awesome tools you keep hearing about it, etc. Such was the case for me with three things: Github, Jenkins, and TestFlight.
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.
I have to admit, I’ve been beating pretty heavily on the Google is Becoming Irrelevant drum for the past couple of years. Whenever I have discussions on this with friends, my stance generally centers around the idea that people aren’t searching for things anymore, they are cherry picking content sources that they trust will deliver relevant information into their social media feeds. Instead of searching for something relevant, something relevant comes to you. Enter Google+.
As an avid Blip.fm user that posts at least one song per day, I was excited to hear about the Facebook/Spotify partnership. Not only does this mean we’ll finally be getting Spotify in the US but it means that perhaps music will finally be integrated into Facebook as a feature much like it was with MySpace when it was relevant.
