Kevin_Marks

This is pretty much exactly what OAuth does - enables the user to authorize a web service to access another one on their behalf, with per-app, per-user constraints.

Thanks. I have got better at titles over the last 10 years, true. Now I'd call it something like 'Turing: the movie you'll never see'

The use as a menu button dates back at least to the Sidekick II: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SidekickII.jpg (though that has one long and 2 short lines).

What the author misses is that with colour LCD displays you can do sub-pixel anti-aliasing with the 3 RGB sub-pixels, if you start from a vector, which is why HTML type looks better than Photoshop rendered type.

I contacted the curator at the Lincoln Museum by email. His response:

This is entirely a hoax. Clever, too. We have an official stastement to that effect due within the hour. -James

James M. Cornelius, Ph.D. Curator, Lincoln Collection Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum 112 N. Sixth St. Springfield, IL 62701-1310 217.785.7954 http://www.alplm.org

I contacted the curator at the Lincoln Museum by email. His reponse:

This is entirely a hoax. Clever, too. We have an official stastement to that effect due within the hour. -James

James M. Cornelius, Ph.D. Curator, Lincoln Collection Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum 112 N. Sixth St. Springfield, IL 62701-1310 217.785.7954 http://www.alplm.org

The orignal seems to be down now. Note that there are many ways to name the bits you parse a URL into: http://tantek.com/2011/238/b1/many-ways-slice-url-name-piece...

New app "Nerds Around Me" lets you stalk via Google+ checkins

Relying on RSS feeds is tricky, as many of them are partial extracts, summaries, or just plain wrong (eg archival standalone pages linking to the current front page, stale feeds, links to now-defunct feed services).

If you want to help people writing these things, using hAtom in your HTML is a really good idea.

http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom

According to MG Siegler, Chrome is in the bizdev-required proprietary 'with Google' part of Android, not the Open Source part. http://parislemon.com/post/17215781807/chrome-for-android-th... That means we're stuck with legacy browsers in existing Androids and in the non-Google-blessed world (Amazon Fire and the billion Chinese phones and tablets).

the old social search that actually crawled the web used the information from the Social Graph API - see what it has for you here:

http://www.google.com/s2/search/social

Looks like this is Google betting purely on an owned graph via Google+

Chris Dodd's sanctimonious bluster translated back into English: http://j.mp/MPAAbluster

Is Kragen making an elaborate joke about duck typing here?

Penguins don’t implement the “fly” method that can be found in birds. And you don’t go around causing things to fly without knowing what kind of bird they are. (Ducks themselves decide when they want to fly, and they certainly seem to know they’re ducks and not vultures.)

Fair point; I think a lot of the US carrier customisations have been detrimental. What I was getting at in the original post was that we're going to see a lot of things running Android that we didn't expect, and that aren't on Google's roadmap. Avoiding the BizDev tax by replacing some of the Google proprietary apps will come too. For all I know, this is already going on in Asia.

If you want an HTML equivalent for RSS, there's hAtom: http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom

Being able to swap out the phone dialer with a SIP client means my Droid can make and receive calls when I'm on Wifi in Europe, where it's CDMA network doesn't exist.

Alex's fears remind me of 'real programmers' reactiosn to the Web when it came out. The iPad is the Web made physical.

http://epeus.blogspot.com/2010/01/ipad-is-web-made-physical....

The first iPod had the wheel, but it physically rotated. It did have the piezo clicker too though.