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    Would you pay for Facebook?

    December 15th, 2011

    or: "Why I won't work for a social network."

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    Tagged: essays

    The Future of Desktops and Design of the Workstation OS

    August 24th, 2011

    I've talked about the tablet takeover several times before on this blog. I still firmly believe my previous statement:

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    Tagged: essays userinterface

    Why 2014 Won't Be Like 1984

    February 22nd, 2011

    I've heard a lot of noise recently about these new fangled smartphones and tablets not replacing 'real computers', especially since the announcement of many new tablet products, including the HP TouchPad. That they are just expensive FaceBook machines. I've also heard people say that there's no room in the market for more devices: iOS and Android will take up the market and leave nothing for anyone else. It'll be just like the PC wars again!

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    Tagged: essays rant

    Did Open Sourcing Mozilla Matter?

    November 9th, 2010

    I finally watched Code Rush this weekend, a documentary about open sourcing mozilla and the sale of Netscape to AOL in the late 90s. There is no doubt that Netscape created the web as we know it. The web changed everything. But I wonder about Mozilla itself. Did open sourcing Mozilla really make a difference to it's success?

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    Tagged: essays

    Marketing Your Open Source Project on a Shoestring Budget

    August 5th, 2010

    Over the years I've worked on a lot of open source projects. I've also worked on quite a few commercial projects. What a lot of them have in common is the need to market themselves to developers, but without any marketing budget. When I worked on JFXStudio my budget was 20$ a month from my own pocket.

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    Tagged: best essays

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