Another online service shutting it doors. Apparently, it is also refusing to be archived!
Seems like there should be interesting applications well beyond just finding lost pets. Too bad this is a for-profit service.
Pike Place motivation philosphy
"Earlier, I start a G+ discussion about Google and their "War on RSS", and spoke a bit about which organizations "out there" have a commitment to the Open Web and to Open Standards. In that brief and hastily written post, I came up with only four organizations (not "companies" mind you, but organizations in general) which seem committed to protecting access to technology in an open manner, and which could be said to promote something like the hacker ethic. The four I came up with initially were: 1. Mozilla 2. Free Software Foundation 3. Electronic Frontier Foundation 4. Red Hat"
More on Jeri Ellsworth pointing out limits in the Valve structure.
Complicated argument by Eben Moglen on the GPL, competition law, and MySQL.
How it is possible that GooglePlus does not offer RSS feeds. Why isn't this is the bigger story?
I think that writing about a companies internally strategy is pretty risky but the idea that Google is putting its own interest over its users is an interesting idea that meshes pretty well with the whole antifeatures cocept that I've been throwing around.
I'm fascinated by for-profits turning into non-profits and vice versa.
Fairway's online shopping can't come too soon.
Word. I knew how to get around the NYT paywall and happily bought a subscription. As the author suggests, I like being treated as an adult.
