http://www.phil-butler.com Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:44:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The big challenge for developers and marketers utilizing Facebook and other similar platforms is turning an idea into an application that transcends the digital world into the physical one. This hurdle leaves us with apps ranging from the intricate and refined, to the down right goofy or even scary. Last ... http://www.phil-butler.com/2008/12/03/facebookcold-killer/ It is about time for a rant over Firefox's latest upgrade. After using FF 2 for some time, and growing to depend on it as many do, the latest version leaves alot to be desired in my view. 100 crashes and untold reboots later, finally I am about ready to ... http://www.phil-butler.com/2008/11/30/firefox-3/ Like most other traditional business, the music industry is engaging customers via the Internet. Music, like all the other commodities, is also stumbling to a degree in its approaches to people in presentation, methodology, monetization and the use of technologies too. From iTunes to LastFm, people on the web are ... http://www.phil-butler.com/2008/11/14/online-music/ Of all the things we are drawn to on the Web, none is more important nor down-right cute than the stuff kids love. The Internet was and is the most revolutionary education and communication tool ever devised, but somehow the very people who should be engaged most - are often ... http://www.phil-butler.com/2008/10/25/leapfrog/ I swore I would not write another post about the Presidential campaign after my last foray with the incredibly obtuse and "inspired" constituency of Obama over "Is this the best we have to offer?" Well, being a Web dweller to a large degree, not noticing something about Obama and having ... http://www.phil-butler.com/2008/09/08/gray-truths/