“ We chose the term “market” rather than “store” because we feel that developers should have an open and unobstructed environment to make their content available.
Android Developers Blog: Android Market: a user-driven content distribution system
Effluxion
by Jon Crosby
“ By creating games and other programs for the iPhone, software developers hoped to find millions of new customers. But they didn’t expect to feel muzzled.
IPhone software developers stifled under Apple’s gag order - Los Angeles Times
“ I suspect that, in time, MobileMe will go the same way as the Newton
MildMannered Industries » Blog Archive » MobileMe
http://liftweb.net/index.php/HowTo_do_Web_Services
Steve Jenson’s tutorial on building web services with Lift.
“ With experiments on PlanetLab, a local cluster, and live downloads, we show that a proportional-share unchoker yields faster downloads against BitTorrent and BitTyrant clients, and that underreporting pieces yields prolonged neighbor interest.
BitTorrent is an Auction: Analyzing and Improving BitTorrent’s Incentives
“Nagra SNST, a miniature reel-to-reel audio recorder optimized for surveillance applications, circa 1975.”
via Matt Blaze
