RasterWeb!Wow! Dave really did it… Frontier 10.0a1 has been released under the GNU General Public License.
Yes, I said the GPL. Woo!
That makes Frontier “free” software, and not “free” like Dave made it 10 years ago, but totally free, within the limits of the GPL of course…
This should be interesting…
(Excuse me while I dig through my backups from the late 1990’s for all my UserTalk code!)
After I kicked drew into doing the audio thing, he kicked me back into proper distribution, or at least some attempt at making things clearer. So here’s RasterWeb! Audio in 3 easy steps…
Gosh, look at that: Looksmart Acquires Furl.net (See Also: Why del.icio.us is neat, and Bootstrapping out into open space.)
[Sometimes I hate being a smart hacker type with no business sense…]
One thing I found interesting in the article is this bit:
“Every person who furls a page is casting a vote for it,” said Krim. “We’ll be taking the masses’ votes instead of just the webmasters’ votes.”
They even mention Google’s PageRank, which is interesting, because I see it having one of the same problems, context. Is someone ‘furling’ a URL a vote for… how authoritative the page is? Maybe. I mean, I stick plenty of things into del.icio.us just because I want to read it later. It might be a link to something that totally sucks and is wrong in every way, but I won’t know that until later, when I read it. Just like Google’s PageRank, which is a measure of popularity, not quality.
Hmmm, perhaps we need to solve that problem!
Oh, and as for the whole ‘masses’ versus the ‘webmasters’ – well, I guess us weblog types are ‘webmasters’ eh? Shouldn’t all the masses become webmasters eventually?
Ok, back to testing…
Following up on Browser Zeitgeist, we present Browser Zeitgeist in SVG!
(Yes, you’ll need a browser/plugin capable of displaying SVG files… Shouldn’t this be built into browsers by now?)
Ben Goodger had the following to say:
Netscape had it by being first.
Microsoft has it by being everywhere.
Firefox will have it by being best.We’re coming.
But I think he left out the bit about Netscape blowing it by getting all uppity.
Remember when Han Solo said Great kid, don’t get cocky!
? Well, small victories are great, but they are not equivalent to crushing the Empire.
While Firefox may be great, or even the best, I am continually saddened by the fact that many people/companies/organizations do not want the best, they just want the “good enough” – Really? Sure…
Ask yourself this? Is Windows better than Mac OS X? Is a BMW better than a Dodge? Don’t underestimate the power of “being everywhere” cuz while the dark side is not stronger…. ok, I give up on the Star Wars analogies, you get my meaning…
As an aside, I’ve had Firefox version 1.0 Preview Release quit on me a number of times. I can usually tell when it will happen because there is crazy disk activity beforehand. That’s ok, I blame the plugin authors, why? It makes me feel better…