Techrudite

So there’s been a lot of talk since yesterday about Facebook’s plans to consolidate everyone’s social graph, create one big feed of life, and essentially take over the internet in the process. I think Facebook is continuing to roll out some fascinating technology, but I’m not so sure that one social network will ever rule [...]

Gmail has added OAuth support, which is a good thing. But will it enable a new breed of third party apps?

For all the talk of innovation in government IT, with the current procurement processes, innovation is actually not the rational choice for government agencies.

An idea for the government to direct funds to innovate in IT and at the same time invest in a hedge against big failures in IT programs including new Gov2.0 and Open Government initiatives.

Basic Auth vulnerability is very common in mobile applications, not just Foursquare.

Microsoft’s implementation of the browser “Choice Screen” in Windows is as much about imprecise requirements as bad code.

The Department of Defense has published a ground-breaking new directive on social media that I hope to see have a real impact government wide. A lot of focus has been on the fact that soldiers, sailors, and Marines can now finally have access to their friends and family online, which I imagine will be a [...]

Some recent AdMob activity has shown that Android users are predominantly men. This has of course started a whole lot of interesting conversation about the intelligence of Android users vs. iPhone users and men vs. women (“woman are better with math which is why they use iPhone where the most apps are!”).
But when you look [...]

A colleague recently asked me if we should plan to build a WebOS version of our new application, which we’re currently building for iPhone and Android. My answer, sadly, is no. I say sadly, because I own a Palm Pre and I was even part of the early access developer program. I remember being incredibly excited [...]