UPDATE: While I personally think that Apple has fast become the embodiment of closed. I respect CEOs who take risks. Plenty of CEOs (in fact all the ones I know) would never even think of insulting a past present or future vendor partner. For each CEO I Respect I can think of a moment that they were dead wrong.

Bill Gates said Linux would never be secure because people working for free in their spare time don't do good work. Then came the age where the would could not operate without the security that Linux provides.

The #ARSpringOpen

On April 24th and 25th ARDevMob will hold an augmented hackathon event
at The PariSoma Innovation Loft in San Francisco California.
Developers will form teams and compete to create the best Mobile and

It was suggested that I use Google Wave for a recent project. It had been six months since the GTUG Campout at Google's Campus where I participated in a 3 day hackathon event focused on Wave. I figured it was worth another look.

Joshua Topolsky saved Engadget years ago, I love his writing and his
penetrating focus on detail. Sometimes he's stuck in "the box" though
and his article on Palm advises them to "go faster" doing more of the
same. While he is right that the ads suck I don't remember him being
at all the developer events I've covered. He didn't see the look in

For our readers that study Game Theory the title of this post is all that has to be said. Speaking only from this discipline, Apple has already lost in any theater of war it opens in the service of maintaining an iPhone-only world. While it is not impossible to arrive at a future without Android, it is more possible to arrive at a future with market equilibrium. This is both true and paradoxical.

Augmented Reality "AR" for short is infiltrating every medium we use
to communicate. It uses sophisticated display techniques involving
cellphone cameras or webcams. If a device has a camera and a
processor, then it's AR capable. In the war for consumer attention, AR
is the new weapon of choice, and its making a lot of nose. For
Splendora's Style and Culture Radar I've picked 5 things that stand
out from the crowd of today's Augmented Reality hype machine. Not
simply newsworthy but beautiful and useful as well, here are 5

As some of you know, I have been actively organizing community groups
around software and hardware development. There have been some growing
pains as the groups want to scale faster than I can support. I
received an email from PariSoma earlier this week responding to the
call for spaces on the ARDevMob meetup group. I came out to the space
to take a look today.

I'm really pleased with what I found. The space is beautiful and
completely in line with the vision I have for community research and

I'm planning a G1 night for my Android Group. Many people who bought
the first Android Phone had to deal with a lot of frustration. Mostly
because they didn't work. They were slow, they didn't have all the
menu items you needed, and in a few iterations there were 6 different
volume sliders.

The two year contracts were like a kind of torture, to have to carry a
bricky phone around that never really just worked. I have some friends
who just went with the marketing. Some of us chose it out of a belief

Chrome  OS netbooks are not really big news. Google released a list of Chrome OS partners back in July of 09.

I spent SuperBowl Weekend working on a little project called
PadGadget. It's a website that uses your web cam to turn any
smartphone into an iPad.

Check it out at http://ardevmob.com/AR/PadGadget/