Walled Gardens and Open Source

Monday, November 10th, 2008

I posted the other day about how universal wishlists are one of the ways the walls of traditional marketing are coming down. In a broader sense, this trend is going on all over the place: the walls of the walled gardens are coming down as big companies realize that customers don’t like to be corralled. [...]

Rockbox Rocks

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Over the weekend I installed Rockbox on my iPod, and let me just say that I love my iPod again.
I love that I can rate podcasts. I love that I can delete a song right from my iPod. I love that I can play Ogg Vorbis files. I love that I can make dynamic playlists [...]

SSS is Apple’s Featured Download

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

Jake Spurlock IMed me pointing out that the Mac version of the Software for Starving Students CD is listed as Apple’s featured download for Mac OS X. This is great exposure for the project. Good work team. :)