Pixels are ruining my life
It’s been a strange few years for the pixel, that unit we love to hate and generally blithely use anyway. First, there is the weird brain-bending device pixel versus CSS pixel math we’re all trying…
Philosophy, Page 6
Apple’s Policy on Satire: 16 Apps Rejected for “Ridiculing Public Figures”
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.
You Received a Hookup Badge: Why I Deleted My Foursquare Account
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…
Who Owns Your Retweet?
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…
Apple Rejects Health Care Reform App for being “Politically Charged”
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…
What We Believe
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.
Akismet Numbers Paint Picture of Comment Spam
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…