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Release your applications inner API. Please.

I have recently been involved in talking to a local chicago entity about their unofficial API. It has been fun and deserves a blog entry of its own. However, this is not that blog entry – this blog entry is about mashups and the not so public APIs they often create.
In the past couple years [...]

The Mosso Cloud: Requests are not a good metric

UPDATE: Not a moment after i posted this – i got a mosso mailing that explained an upgrade in the plan. I will leave the original number in because i still think my point is valid and because that is what new Mosso customers will be getting. Their update is just a quick fix to [...]

It all started today when DIGG censored a news story. A story about the AACS controversy. AACS issued some cease and desists to various organizations (I think including DIGG) who talked about cracking the AACS encryption on HDDVD and Blu-Ray DVDs.
So anyway – DIGG being a community based news site, the users rebelled and basically [...]

The Venice Project is a P2P social television project by the guys who made Skype. They are really into disruptive technologies and I am excited to be a part of the beta. You can get more information at the Venice Project wikipedia page.
I am pretty excited to see how it goes. I played with it [...]

So i think it is awesome that seth godin was able to “convince” google to give joel on software a google search appliance. That is amazing. I mean – Joel probably needed a better search engine, but what makes me mad is this:
Wikipedia needs a better search engine more than joel on software needs a [...]

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As you probably noticed, i was at work late last night. As usual, My coworker andrew was also here. Often when it is just the two of us – we theorize and talk about everything that is going on like two old stoners in a VW van. Its nuts. We cover everything from office politics [...]

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Hi. My name is Harper. I am an engineer excited about real time, social software and the open source software movement. I am currently spending some time building interesting things and hacking for rackspace. In a previous life, I was the CTO of the awesome Threadless. This is obviously my blog. I write about everything from being a professional yoyoer to hacking the newest Internet appliance. Be sure and check out my homepage at harperreed.org. If you are so interested, my resume is located here. I love getting emails and what not so feel free to contact me through here.

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