The Tinkerer

Marshall Smith is a relatively unknown tinkerer. Living a quiet life, he rarely stepped out of his small, some may say tiny social circle. On most days Marshall is at work in his…

Women in tech: Will the hackers please take charge?

Women should have better representation in technology, no doubt. But the conversation has gone all wrong.

The .Net Foundation: Too little, too late

Or why Microsoft’s recent Open Source announcements are likely to have very limited impact

The unlawful imprisonment of my mind

Or how patents changed the way I look at capitalism today

I have always supported Capitalism. Just like most other people…

The Facebook experiment has failed. Let’s go back.

I am signed into Facebook right now. At a quick glance, the entire list of posts on the first screen are irrelevant to me. If I…

Yahoo doesn’t grok design

I am excited about the changes Marissa Mayer is making at Yahoo. The company is back in the news, there is excitement in the air, stock prices have soared. But from what we have seen in the past week, I can’t help think that Yahoo doesn’t really get design.

Flickr announced a major update today, and it is getting a lot of good press for it. Users…