2013-02 | I Am Bismark

Goats!

2013/02/26

welcome Adam and Amy Jo to app.net!

2013/02/26

The weak link in this piece http://www.marco.org/2013/02/25/adn-freemium is the “I should build a social app on Facebook or Twitter” part. Both of those are on a trajectory of making that less and less possible—that’s the whole problem ADN wants to address

– Neven Mrgn

2013/02/26

swords : plough shares :: guns : space ships

2013/02/23

One takeaway from the two part This American Life: gun control really is just a bandaid. It won’t change the reality of inner city warzones.

2013/02/23

Buena Vista Park. beautiful day, beautiful date.

2013/02/23

Frog’s Theme.

2013/02/21

Nevertheless, I think Alpha has not shown itself to be a killer app for ADN. I hope we will see one soon.

2013/02/20

This takes the value away from having a monopoly on people’s personal data (see Facebook) and instead forces apps to compete on quality features. Ex: there could be N interoperable Instagram-like utilities that interface with compatible identity lockers.

2013/02/20

By identity locker I mean a service (could be self hosted, could be a pay service, etc) which is the canonical store of your online identity. Applications are then built as utilities on top of that identity once you give them access.

2013/02/20

Lots of discussion about ADN’s viability both online and offline, which is healthy. I see ADN as a new evolutionary step in portable online identity lockers, a market that I hope will take hold.

2013/02/20

For example, I like browsing with my keyboard using a plugin like Vimium. But then these “browser apps” capture my keyboard and break my shortcuts. Having a separate application container for running Javascript apps would be much nicer I think.

2013/02/18

So when did we all decide “browser” just means a sandboxed application container that runs code cached from a remote source? I really wonder if jamming the two together is really the best solution…

2013/02/18