Here’s a quote from the San Jose Mercury News that speaks for itself:
…in a recent article that he wrote for the Economist magazine, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt predicted that open Web-based standards would “sweep aside the proprietary protocols promoted by individual companies striving for technical monopoly” in 2007.
“The past few years have taught us [...]

The 5 shows in NYC for the Arcade Fire sold out in 5 minutes. That’s old news. The new story is that the tickets are non-transferable (the staff is checking IDs and credit cards at the door). Without transferable tickets, the market dynamics have become interesting.
Typically scalpers exchange tickets for [...]

The NYTimes wrote about Gmail and Yahoo Mail being pulled into the office environment from the bottom up by employees (often against employers wishes). Where have we seen this before? How about IM, Linux, Blogs.
It’s no surprise that yet another powerful consumer-oriented technology is entering corporate America from the bottom-up. [...]

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is considering plans to make their green wind-up laptops available to the public with a simple philanthropic twist: buy 2 laptops and get 1. It’s the opposite of buy 1 get 1 free incentives, in this case, you buy 2 and give one to someone on the bottom of [...]

I attended the NY Tech Meetup on Jan 9th. Some highlights:
ChangingThePresent.org
This is a non-profit that aggregates other non-profits for the purpose of gifting donations to causes in the name of others. It’s one of the stronger non-profit web services I have seen in that they have built a number of features to encourage [...]

Update: Bummer!
Original Post:
I saw the iPhone and all I could say was “humina humina!”
Since it’s running OSX, can it run arbitrary 3rd party code like macs running OSX? If it’s an open system, then that’s really exciting. I hope we see APIs in the coming weeks.
However, I bet that programming special code for [...]

The Arcade Fire is playing 5 shows from Feb 13th through 17th at Judson Memorial Church in New York.
Tickets went onsale today at 9am. Fred told me about the ticket sale at 9:02am. I was on tickets.com (the exclusive vendor of tickets for all 5 shows) by 9:04am, but I was [...]

Are people using microformats?
I don’t mean “implementing.” Yahoo’s support for microformat implementation has been widely known for a while. However, I don’t consider an implementation to be “usage.”
Usage is people taking pages that contain microformats and doing something with them: importing hCards to their contacts software, pulling an hCalendar event [...]

Google released a new myware feature today to Google Reader: it’s statistics that analyze your reading pattern over time. You can see which blogs you are paying the most attention to and on which days, weeks, and months you are reading more than others. It’s a great feature and there’s plenty of converage [...]