Assorted tech fails related to Copy.com

Lots of fail to go around today. A. just tried to share some photos with her mother via Copy.com (disclosure: this is a referral…

What should an email client cost?

(Clearing out the backlog of old drafts...) This was pretty spot-on . $15 for a really well-written piece of complex client soft…

On the nature of software ownership, yet again

Being a Google employee, I shouldn't comment on the specific case , but I do think this is an opportune time to repeat that b…

The (logarithmic) calendar I want

I was looking at my Google Calendar tonight and I realized that this software was encouraging a way of thinking about time which …

Two steps to freeing yourself from operating system zealotry

First, repeat the following mantra to yourself until you really, really believe it: Other people's needs, habits, and experie…

Personal digital curation: a software category that does not exist, but ought to

If you're a typical computer user today, you have lots of data that you've created or participated in creating. The data…

On the changing nature of software ownership; with a digression on horniness and the troubling interdependence of human beings

Sometime in the late 1990's, I realized that "ownership" of software had become meaningless. Well, OK, I didn't…

Software patents have tangible costs for innovation, and for you

I have a friend who's been working extremely hard on a small software startup for the past few years. He and his partner dev…