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Mark Fiore can win a Pulitzer Prize for political cartoons, but he can’t get his iPhone app into the App Store because it “ridicules public figures.” Fiore’s award brought new attention to Apple’s rejection. The press has covered the… More

This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend and speak at SXSW’s Interactive Festival for the first time. After hearing about SXSW for some many years, it was interesting to see what the conference was all about. I’m not… More

One of the recurring subjects of conversation at SXSW was the many competing location services. Attendees were using Foursquare and Gowalla extensively during the conference to help find their friends. I decided to give them a try during the conference. More

When we’re not working on mobile projects, there’s a good chance we’re working with a standards setting organization or an association on their public web presence. More often than not, we’re building that site using Drupal. We believe Drupal… More

First & 20 is web site about iPhone applications describes itself as a “collection of Home screens of some of the best and brightest developers, designers and tech writers.” The name comes from the fact that… More

Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker gave a fantastic presentation at Web 2.0 Summit that I’ve been meaning to post here for a few weeks. The presentation is rich with information and the slides are dense. On slide 29, Meeker starts… More

When you retweet something, do you expect someone else to be able to delete it? Previously, if you retweeted something, your retweet was your own. Only you had the ability to delete it. But with Twitter’s new retweet feature,… More

When Twitter announced their new retweet feature, I read Twitter founder Ev William’s reasons for the design of the new feature with interest. I understood his points. I didn’t agree with the solution, but was comforted by his closing… More

Friday is the day to release news you want people to forget. No surprise then that Friday was when Google released the unredacted version of its letter to the FCC about Apple’s rejection of the Google Voice application. More

Last month I had a unique opportunity to attend Foo Camp at the O’Reilly campus in Sebastopol, CA. This weekend’s WordCamp Portland reminded me that I had yet to write about my Foo Camp experience. Foo Camp is… More