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FOI Topics and Links of the Week

February 16th, 2010  |  by Elisabeth Oppenheimer  |  published in censorship, iphone, Web 2.0 platforms  |  Comments Off on FOI Topics and Links of the Week

AppMakr Transforms App Store Landscape, Enables Anyone To Make Their Own iPhone App. Gagan Biyani raves about AppMakr, a product that allows anyone to make a simple RSS-based iPhone app for $199. The company will even submit the app to the App Store. (So, for instance, Biyani put together an app that aggregates all of […]

FOI Topics and Links of the Week

January 27th, 2010  |  by Elisabeth Oppenheimer  |  published in censorship, Future of the Internet, Generativity, iphone, kindle, ubicomp  |  3 Comments

The Extraordinaries Haiti Earthquake Support Center. A followup post on the Extraordinaries’ efforts to use ubiquitous human computing to help find missing people after the Haiti earthquake — a positive vision inspired by JZ’s nightmare scenario of crowdsourced secret police work. Did they succeed? “Yes and no”—but, as they detail, there’s obvious potential for future […]

FOI Topics and Links of the Week

December 30th, 2009  |  by Elisabeth Oppenheimer  |  published in Android, cybersecurity, Future of the Internet, iphone, ubicomp  |  1 Comment

Flurry: App Store Sees Record Breaking Christmas. Great article collecting sales and market share numbers for the App Store and Android Market. Quick summary: App Store grew 51% (!) from November to December, Android Market 22%; App Store has 13x as many downloads as Android Market (apparently not everyone is as concerned about openness as […]

Citizens of Farmville, petition your (real) representatives!

December 28th, 2009  |  by Elisabeth Oppenheimer  |  published in iphone, ubicomp  |  10 Comments

Our worries about ubiquitous human computing*—summarized in this earlier post—fall into two broad categories. First, there are potential bad effects on the workers, since traditional labor-law protections may not apply in cyberspace. Second, there are potential bad effects on the world. One example that JZ has given in talks is that lobbyists could pay workers […]

FOI Topics and Links of the Week

December 23rd, 2009  |  by Elisabeth Oppenheimer  |  published in Android, Book, cybersecurity, Future of the Internet, iphone  |  2 Comments

As Phones Do More, They Become Targets of Hacking. The NY Times observes that as computing — and especially commerce — moves onto mobile devices, security threats are growing. “It feels a lot like it did in 1999 in desktop security … People are using the mobile Web and downloading applications more than ever before, […]

FOI Topics and Links of the Week

December 10th, 2009  |  by Elisabeth Oppenheimer  |  published in Android, cloud, Future of the Internet, iphone  |  Comments Off on FOI Topics and Links of the Week

Apple’s Game-Changer, Downloading Now. Long NY Times article on Apple’s App Store and how it’s changed the model of what a smartphone should be. The good parts of the article: interesting data (100K apps for the iPhone, 14K for Android, 500 (!) for PalmOS; $1B a year in iPhone app sales), some valuable musings on […]

FOI Topics and Links of the Week

November 30th, 2009  |  by Elisabeth Oppenheimer  |  published in Android, cloud, Future of the Internet, iphone  |  1 Comment

Here’s a roundup of some interesting stories published recently on generativity, tethered devices, and as always, the iPhone. Generative Irrelevancy. Tim Sturgill considers Google’s video touting Chrome OS. He worries that it may be the “final nail…in the generative coffin,” but he also sees the virtue of moving beyond traditional OSes. See also JZ’s take […]

Not quite time to quit your day job

November 10th, 2009  |  by Elisabeth Oppenheimer  |  published in iphone  |  1 Comment

Newsweek recently carried a story noting that the App Store isn’t the fount of instant riches that Apple, and occasionally the media, sometimes suggest. The story follows some developers who created very popular applications, but found themselves just barely profitable, or sometimes losing money. It’s a good read, and has some particularly interesting stats: —Per […]

Maybe Steve Jobs had a point?

November 9th, 2009  |  by Elisabeth Oppenheimer  |  published in iphone  |  3 Comments

This blog and JZ’s book have both taken issue with Steve Jobs’ introduction to the iPhone: We define everything that is on the phone. You don’t want your phone to be like a PC. The last thing you want is to have loaded three apps on your phone and then you go to make a […]

Google, Apple, AT&T, FCC, cont’d

October 2nd, 2009  |  by Elisabeth Oppenheimer  |  published in Future of the Internet, iphone  |  5 Comments

A little behind the times, but here’s the update on the Google Voice story. Apple and Google both responded to the FCC’s letter; Apple’s reply is here and Google’s is here. So what did we learn? On the upside, we learned a lot about the approval processes for both the iPhone and Android phones; more […]

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About 4 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@restoreorderusa @AlecMacGillis I mean, points 2 and 3 don’t even make any sense! How would anyone know if a cited article has been read, and by whom? Did they survey readers and ask them? And does it add up that 50% of all articles (whether cited or not) aren’t read, while *80%* of cited articles aren’t read? pic.twitter.com/876e4vfdJ0

About 2 weeks ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@restoreorderusa @AlecMacGillis I guess it’s fitting that the eye-opening statistics here are sourced to a news article that in turn cites to a non-peer-reviewed op-ed that in turn cites to … nothing, with no methodology for how these numbers are arrived at. Truly no real basis (so far) to believe them.

About 2 weeks ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@byrdinator @MattGlassman312 Fascinating. Would these amendments be entertained before or after any conferencing with the Senate to reconcile differences? If after, there’s danger of infinite amendment loops. If not, won’t the few members in conference get the last word before a final up-or-down vote?

About 3 weeks ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@bendreyfuss It does happen every so often. This incident was so brazen that Congress later reversed the provision. The staffer who quietly put the amendment in is now the CEO of the RIAA. salon.com/2000/08/28/wor… pic.twitter.com/mAW3InOECq

Last month from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone



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