January 23, 2012

SOPA

Filed under: accessibility,communication,google,internet,social media — Trudy @ 4:29 pm

SOPA / PIPA and us …

We love the Internet, it continues to grow and weave itself ever deeper into our everyday lives — and we like it, we like what it brings to our lives, it gives us power to say anything we want and share anything we wish. So now we are hearing that SOPA and PIPA are swirling about and wow could have a real negative impact on OUR Internet.

So what is SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) – (YouTubes most watched and liked video says ….)

Yes, piracy is bad but is SOPA/PIPA the answer and if so what will this mean to the core principles of the Internet and openness, what will be the aftermath??

So last Wednesday we saw some real online activism protesting these bills and it was coming from the big internet players like: Craiglist, Google, Mozilla, user-submitted news site Reddit, the blog Boing Boing, Wikipedia and more – The New York Times call this the “Political coming of age for the tech industry”.

AND

In the wake of these online protects on January 18, 2012, as of last Friday (January 20, 2012) the vote on PIPA and SOPA has been postponed —

Time will tell ..

Gee I hope it was ok to post this YouTube video … and link to Michael Foley’s blog

May 21, 2010

Google opens app store, Dave is excited

Filed under: dave loves,google — Justin @ 4:05 pm

Lately Justin and Owen have taken most of the interesting development work away from me (which is why you’ll often get me on the phone if you call us). So I’m especially excited by Google’s new application store, since it’s a great place to put a couple of ideas that we’ve had to shelve because we weren’t sure how to monetize them.

The bulk of our work will still be bringing content and databases to the web, and details like accessibility — in fact there’s the alarming possibility that I’ll be speaking at The Aiming for Accessibility Conference in June.