Interesting stuff over Xmas
Back this morning after a break in Croatia and Prague. While I deliberately left my computer at home, my information addiction was strong enough to have me peeking regularly at my phone.
The best post I read was Everything is a Service, on the shift to a service oriented economy. I also enjoyed this clearly written reminder on the different ways to go viral.
Cory Doctorow’s keynote on The Coming War on General Computation, in tandem with the whole SOPA drama, seems to have re-energised the fight for freedom on the Internet. I don’t know about you but I did enjoy witnessing GoDaddy’s karmic reward for the appalling UX they’ve inflicted on us for all these years.
Now we’re officially in the year of the Dropbox clone, Insync landed with Google Docs integration. Gitdocs kicked off the open source alternative beauty parade. Sit back and enjoy.
Other open source projects I liked the look of were TouchDB and this Node.js JavaScript sandbox. Schedulables seemed like a good idea and Quicksand looked like a company worth keeping an eye on.
Beyond that I mainly got myself irrevocably confused by reading The Time-traveller’s Guide to Medieval England whilst exploring Prague with a Lonely Planet guide. Czech culture and that of fourteenth century England will now, for me, be forever hazily intertwined.
