I get so annoyed when the only insight a tech reporter can write about in a product category is market share. Who the hell cares? Of course, lots of people do. But they’re misguided. I believe that market share is just not very relevant to anything these days in most product categories. Tech, being a [...]
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May 21, 2007
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Death of the Desktop: The Movie
By Craig Fitzpatrick in TechnologyI just watched a very eye-opening video from the makers of Enso. Aza is giving a talk to the folks at Google. One of the knee-jerk reactions with the rise in popularity of AJAX was to run around trying to make all Web 2.0 apps look and behave like desktop apps. While some of this [...]
February 28, 2007
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Caution: Feature Matrix Ahead
By Craig Fitzpatrick in TechnologyI recently had an email conversation with someone who asked me if I had a feature matrix for Devshop versus the competition. After I thought to myself, “What competition?!” my very next thought was a moment of silent panic. Crap! Where’s our feature matrix?! Did anyone do a feature matrix?! Then, as I often do [...]
July 4, 2006
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The Geek Manifesto
By Craig Fitzpatrick in TechnologyI just saw this video about BarCamp San Francisco on Tara’s blog. I was one of the 4 organizers of BarCamp Ottawa this spring, and it was nice to see that this BarCamp in San Fran wasn’t unlike the Ottawa one. I even learned a couple things from this video: The first BarCamp was only [...]
May 29, 2006
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The Apple of My Eye
By Craig Fitzpatrick in TechnologyGotta love Apple. Do I mean the new PowerBooks? Or the iPods? Or the Mac Mini’s w/Front Row to run your TV? Nope. Although they are all fantastic products. I mean Apple the company. The Intel Announcement A few months ago I watched Jobs’ keynote announcing that Apple would be running on Intel chips. It [...]
