indeed. even trying to upgrade on at&t's site is broken.

Facebook's OAuth flow has the same issue re verifying that its an actual Facebook login. I think browser chrome would go a ways to help me feel its a legit login.

> help me feel its a legit login

Inside a native app, that's all it would be. A feel good, since I could create the browsery chrome to look however I wanted (e.g. a URL bar that shows twitter.com when the page is mycredsharvest.com).

Or for that matter, display the actual twitter.com page and keylog the credentials. It's a native app, after all.

In theory, Apple could develop some unique chrome for this and then reject any app from the app store that fakes it. That is probably the only way to do this securely with good UX in a mobile app. It's not clear that Apple wants to take on that role though.

It shouldn't.

The browser chrome is just a handful of native controls the developer could drop into his own views in less than an hour.

I had a similar issue with a bug in Jungledisk 6 months ago. Jungledisk would download folders with UTF8 characters in the path repeatedly.

Does this mean my donation to his 'defense fund' was actually paid to Sony as part of the settlement?

That assumes he paid Sony something, which isn't necessarily true. Given the way things were going, I personally feel that the impetus to settle came from Sony's side, knowing they had a weak case.

It's too bad we don't know all the terms.

I felt if they had made it an optional item in the settings they would have avoided the backlash, and they would still be generating money off of it. The fact it was not optional, then they announced limited API access for developers whipped everyone into a frenzy.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels this way about their documentation. I don't make Facebook apps all the time. I've made a couple. Each time a client has me make one I have to spend hours trying to gather info about whether a requirement is possible because the docs suck.

I find Calacanis a bit annoying, but I think he's mostly right. Contrary to what Calacanis thinks, adding new features that let you compete with other apps isn't wrong. Its part of business. If they want to muddy the purpose of their product by adding 101 bells and widgets to compete with everyone under the sun, they sure can do it.

I do agree with Jason that Zuckerberg seems to have a questionable history of integrity...based on rumor. And I certainly agree that Facebook seems hell-bent on harvesting the souls of their users. The latter is far more troubling that any competitive feature additions.

Calacanis should hang out with Mark Cuban. They're both getting less relevant.

github (you can pay for a private account), unfuddle, I'm sure I'm missing at least another major one.

assembla is the other bigger one. Very slick too

A guy I know used to work at Inetz. Here's a small chat exerpt from a few minutes ago... Confirmation that the guy that worked at Inetz is _why. Perhaps take it with a grain of salt.

emullet you worked at Inetz right?

friend 4:20 yeah

emullet 4:20 You work with a guy named Jonathan Gillette ?

friend 4:21 not allowed to answer that

emullet 4:21 lol why do you say that?

friend 4:21 but I've heard that a lot of his stuff "disappeared" today

emullet 4:21 ya you know whats up?

friend 4:21 nope

emullet 4:21 its very odd kinda cool he worked with you

I mostly agree with the article. On the other hand, adding more features isn't necessarily a bad thing in the case of the netbook as long as price and size/weight are still minimized or maintained.