July 14th, 2008 | by zittrain | published in Book, Future of the Internet, Generativity | 2 Comments
Techcrunch is reporting that Facebook has poached Elliot Schrage from Google as its new VP of Communications and Public Policy, and that one of Elliot’s jobs will be to manage the Facebook development platform, where outsiders can write code to run on Facebook — from the bitten-by-a-vampire app to Scrabulous. Techcrunch speculates that this reflects […]
July 11th, 2008 | by bballou | published in Future of the Internet | 2 Comments
The new iPhone was released today at AT&T and Apple stores around the country. For people who missed the phone the first time around, or who didn’t want to pay $599 and a two-year contract, or who just really want a GPS system, this may be important. But for developers, the new iPhone won’t change […]
July 11th, 2008 | by bballou | published in Future of the Internet | 1 Comment
Tom Standage of the Sunday Times makes an interesting point in his review of The Future of the Internet: “Zittrain insists that generativity at the code level is the most important kind, but it is not clear that this is really under threat. In the early days of home-computing, most enthusiasts learnt the essentials of […]
June 29th, 2008 | by zittrain | published in Book, Future of the Internet, Generativity | 2 Comments
The Silicon Alley insider is reporting that would-be iPhone application developers — at least those who aren’t well connected — can be waiting up to six months to be accepted into the Apple iPhone developers’ program.
June 17th, 2008 | by zittrain | published in Book, Future of the Internet | 12 Comments
Thanks to everyone who tuned in to the June 17 ’08 Colbert Report, including those who switched away from the last quarter of the Celtics championship. Here’s a direct link to the video. Is it geo restricting, i.e. are there some who can’t view it because of location? If so we can look for an […]
