February 2008
7 posts
Facebook's popularity fades; LinkedIn's long term... →
I’m really shocked at how many people in the last year have told me they think Facebook is going to be the new way people interact with the web. This is patently absurd. You can’t be the social network for everyone. Otherwise you’re not really a social network; you’re just a walled garden like AOL. And like all walled gardens, people will eventually leave you for open...
Daring Fireball: The Appeal of the MacBook Air →
I finally upgraded Jenna’s aging 12” PowerBook or a MacBook Air over Valentines Day. I’ve been using it for the last day or two though while I set everything up. So far, it’s pure joy. The concerns people have about this machine being too slow are overblown. And the lighter weight, beautiful screen, and perfect keyboard more than make up for whatever sacrifices you might...
Merb 0.9.0 is out (kinda) →
Super hot faster-than-Rails replacement is in beta. Yep. BTW, I’m doing some work with this framework now to make it event driven. Hello non-blocking web apps.
Our friends at Uloop →
Microsoft Bids for Yahoo! →
Like no one else has heard about this. This mostly helps Google more than anyone else. You can pretty much bet that MS will take whatever good things Yahoo! was doing and ruin it with their poor management. It also means that Gmail is officially going to become the #2 option for hosted webmail. Right now Gmail lags Yahoo mail and Hotmail by a substantial margin. How do you avoid MS when...