Seeing Forests

I’ve been reading The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It’s a slightly maniacal take about thinking correctly in a seemingly well-ordered but in reality utterly chaotic existence. At some level it’s about applying the scientific method to living. It’s well worth reading. At any rate, there’s a book he talks [...]

Apple just announced right on their home page the availability of the iPhone SDK.  Unfortunately, the site is swamped it seems.  Talk about changing Local, though.  Think of all those recession-proof iPhone users out there trying to find nearby pizzas…

Yahoo’s FireEagle (what’s up with these names?), as Greg put it in FireEagle Success Depends on Scale, is like an OpenID for Location.  I like that turn of phrase and think it’s in the right ballpark.  Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web in Location Aware: Smart Rollout for Yahoo! Fire Eagle talks to this point as he credits Yahoo with using open [...]