keeping simple

Author: yodaiken

  • who should control the internets

    Op-ed in the NYTimes from Damian Kulash Jr. of Ok-Go We can’t allow a system of gatekeepers to get built into the network. The Internet shouldn’t be harnessed for the profit of a few, rather than the good of the many; value should come from the quality of information, not the control of access to…

  • end to end design versus BOM design

    Grossly simplifying, some products are Bill of Materials (BOM) products and some are Designed products. BOM products come to market via a process of generating a parts list and then integrating. In place of designers, BOM products have buyers and integrators. In place of innovation, BOM products have standards. The standards are preferably “industry standards”…

  • we uh, threw those disk drives away, your honor.

    “When workstations are at the end of their lifecycle and retired … the hard drives are generally sent offsite to another government entity for physical destruction,” the White House said in a sworn declaration filed with U.S. Magistrate Judge John Facciola. from the AP.

  • South by Southwest and Apple versus Dell

    An old friend in the music business was visiting and we wandered around Austin’s gigantic South by Southwest music and film extravaganza and, of course, I was struck by the effects of Apple’s brilliant product design and marketing. IPods and MacBooks were everywhere and iPhones were rivaling Blackberries. Downstairs at the convention center, Dell had…

  • Sorcerers apprentice at ATT: Security and privacy and reliability collide again

    AT&T considers reading all the packets that cross its lines. Quite an interesting proposal. Tim Wu’s take The prospect of AT&T, already accused of spying on our telephone calls, now scanning every e-mail and download for outlawed content is way too totalitarian for my tastes. But the bizarre twist is that the proposal is such…

  • Yale Patt on Abstraction

    Abstraction’s a good thing? Abstraction is a good thing if you don’t care about the performance of the underlying entities. You know, so many schools teach freshmen programming in Java. So what’s a data structure? Who cares? My hero is Donald Knuth, who teaches data structures showing how data is stored in memory. Knuth says…

  • The smart phone patent

    Coming to Marshall Texas. 33 defendents, 128 claims .

  • Google’s engineering culture

    Article in the New Yorker on Google contains a fascinating description of a product design meeting: Page and Brin had wanted an upgrade of an existing product, and they were unhappy with what they were hearing from the engineers. At first, they were stonily silent, slid down in their chairs, and occasionally leaned over to…

  • Boeing’s clever idea

    (Update – great link in John Regehr’s comment) Apparently, passenger, admin, and air control computers are all connected. Here’s a reassuring comment (emphasis added) Boeing spokeswoman Lori Gunter said the wording of the FAA document is misleading, and that the plane’s networks don’t completely connect. The FAA is concerned. The proposed architecture of the 787…

  • The forefront of Internet 2.0+ and stuff

    Welcome to the world’s most dynamic eBusiness marketing, design and consulting agency. We provide distinct clients with groundbreaking business strategies and cutting-edge designs to aggressively and creatively compete in a changing economy. From the stunning website of Huhcorp. The sister site is even better. Does your PHP network have double back-end XHTML redundancy? Is your…