All Aboard The Logic Express!

I’ve mainly avoided looking into SOPA because I’m lazy and find politics to be more frustration than they’re worth. However, according to TechDirt, any dot-com or dot-org address is exempt from SOPA, meaning ThePirateBay.org, which is the biggest target the law is supposed to be going after, wouldn’t be effected. Oh, and RapidShare.com and MegaUpload.com wouldn’t either.

Maybe the legislators working on this bill should torrent a copy of Hooked On Phonics so they can actually read the damn thing they’re trying to pass?

Source: techmeme.com

Platforms versus Services

Hunter Walk:

The platforms we think about today (e.g. Twitter, FB, Android/iOS) all started out as services which attracted end user interest.

You can talk about websites calling themselves platforms prematurely, that’s fine. However, operating systems are “platforms” almost by definition - Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Blackberry OS are all platforms on which devices are created, not “services”. The platform will die if there is no user interest (everyone wave to Blackberry!), but it is a platform none the less.

Personally, if I want to talk about a “platform” versus a “service”, I would have to make a clear distinction:

  • A platform is the ecosystem that fuels services that exist beyond the need to sustain the platform.
  • A service requires a platform to run.

You can build an application for Facebook, iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, Windows, OS X, or Linux. You can’t build an application for Twitter that do much more than push updates to the server, so that’s a service. Tumblr is a service. WordPress is both. 

It doesn’t make one more important than the other - in the end, it’s really just a useless distinction that more people shouldn’t give a damn about. Or, “Just another day on the internet.”

Source: techmeme.com

Research in Motion Directors Pressed to Exert Control Over Blackberry Maker

My favorite fact from this article: Tim Hortons, the famous Canadian doughnut shop, is worth more than Research In Motion. Really makes me wish the WSJ went with “Blueberry Muffins Beating Blackberry Phones” as the title, though.

Can you tell I’m really loving the schadenfreude here? ‘Cause I am.

Someone Bring Me Some Monster Screen Clean, Would'ja?

Do I really care about Android versus iOS anymore? Nope. Do I like @parislemon and @joshuatopolsky? Yep. Did I just shoot juice out of my nose reading this:

In other words, the iPhone 4S is super-duper swell and the Galaxy Nexus is golly gee fantastic. Head-to-head, they’d probably hug each other to death while smiling the whole time. Free rainbow ice cream cones for everyone! Ain’t life grand?

Sure did. If you’ll excuse me, I have to clean my laptop now.