December 2008
5 posts
“In software development, a software project’s bus factor is an irreverent...”
– Bus factor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ambient News Brings RSS to You, No Subscription... →
Ambient News, brings RSS feeds into your browser without requiring you to click on a single subscription link or visit a special website. You don’t even have to know or care what RSS is for it to be useful.
Ambient News, which is written by Mozilla developer Atul Varma and currently available as an alpha release, tracks your browsing habits and learns which sites you visit most...
Downloading your games? Get ready for extra fees →
I saw something extra sitting in my shopping cart: the “extended download service,” which cost an extra $6.99, had automatically been added to my cart.
Digital River only lets a customer re-download purchased software for a certain amount of time before it’s gone. Exactly how long time frame is seems to vary, but the longest free period appears to be six months. If we want...
iFart App Makes a Killing on Christmas →
The developer reveals that on Christmas eve sales jumped to 19,520 units and on Christmas day sales shot up to 38,927. After Apple’s cut, that represents $27,249 in net revenue for Christmas day alone.
Goodbye Pownce, Hello Six Apart →
We will be closing the service and Mike and I, along with the Pownce technology, have joined Six Apart, the company behind such great blogging software as Movable Type, TypePad and Vox. We’re bittersweet about shutting down the service but we believe we’ll come back with something much better in 2009. We love the Pownce community and we will miss you all.
We’ll be closing down the main...