Philosophy, Page 6

Developing on the mobile (or pan-device) web is hard. Maybe too hard. Yeah, kind of too hard sometimes. My days are spent chasing down the vital new frameworks (maybe not so vital, really, in retrospect),…

Good news today that Apple CEO Tim Cook has acknowledged the problems with the iOS 6 Maps application. Now everyone is anxiously waiting on Google to release a new native version of Google Maps…

This past weekend, Jason and I were fortunate enough to participate in the second installment of "Mobilewood", a retreat-like gathering of hardcore mobile web nerds on Cape Cod. Last fall, we gathered in rural…

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.

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…

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…

Last week I wrote about Apple’s policy of censoring political speech and why this was more important than Google Voice. Today, we find out that Apple has rejected a Health Care Reform…

Despite the fact that we've worked together for years, the first thing we did when starting Cloud Four was to make sure that we shared the same values and beliefs. Here are some of our beliefs.

I knew comment spam on blogs was a problem, but I didn’t know quite how much of one until I happened across Akismet’s Zeitgeist page recently. Akismet is a comment spam protection service that…