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April 19, 2014

Today’s tabs

Market intelligence that flows both ways. It’s about the real Internet of Things. Not the Compuserve+Prodigy+AOL variety in development today. Unless we build on open source and standards, the IoT won’t be near as big as Business Insider says it will be. What I’ll be doing this coming Wednesday. Marketing in the age of VRM… Continue reading

Links

“New York Times”, Bitcoin, CompuServe, Darren Herman, google, Heartbleed, Mozilla, Unix

January 30, 2011

Learnings from the Browser Wars

The question on Quora goes, What lessons can be learned from the first browser war between Microsoft and Netscape? I covered that war when it broke out, more than fifteen years ago. No magazine was interested in my writing then. Blogging was several years off in the future. All we had were websites, and that… Continue reading

Business, history, Ideas, Journalism, Past, problems, Quote, Technology

“Dave Winer”, browser war, DaveNet, microsoft, Mozilla, Netscape, Userland, war

September 12, 2009

Security vs. Utility

Starting a few upgrades back, Firefox started showing this… … when you clicked on that little icon at the left end of the location bar. (What’s the name for that?) Now, with version 3.5.3 (and perhaps earlier versions — the last one I used before this was 3.0.9), it still shows that same pop-down thing,… Continue reading

problems, Technology

chrome, Firefox, Firefox 3.5.3, icon, icons, location bar, Mozilla, security, tool bar