The Chumby One is a cheaper Chumby that does more. I even prefer the design of it to the original. One “hacker” feature is that it can act as a 3G-to-WiFi router, your own personal widgetised MiFi gadget. For $99.

Interesting Daring Fireball post on the “OS opportunity” and how a return to a multitude of OSs is not the interoperability and compatibility nightmare that it was in the old days before DOS. Mainly due to the Internet and the web. Build a web browser for your own OS and you go a long way to supporting many “apps” and formats. A web browser gives a new OS email, word processing, spreadsheets, image editing, photo sharing, video and audio editing, accounting, instant messaging, group collaboration and on and on. Not natively but Google Chrome may just show us how little we need native apps. I’ve been a little bit worried that app phones are dividing the market for users and developers with their different OSs but having recently swapped from an iPhone to Palm Pre I haven’t been significantly impacted on what I can do with my app phone. The browser on the Palm Pre works much the same as the browser on the iPhone and I have access to all my important files and functions. App phone OSs can be scaled up to larger devices, as we are seeing with Android. Interesting times.

Outlook Social Connector seems a decent implementation of a socially augmented email system. LinkedIn supported first but anyone can build a connector and augment their Outlook email experience.

Useful updates to the WordPress P2 theme. A couple more features and we will have an open, standards based Twitter competitor.

Scroll Clock.

Newspaper circulation since 1990.

Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser dot com.

The obvious problems are happening for Android developers as it gets more popular. Different devices with different hardware, screen sizes, firmware etc. I’m disappointed Android had no revolutionary ideas for device-independent development.

“Unfriend” is Dictionary.com’s word of the year. Brilliant. All that social networking hype and the best word to come out of it is Unfriend.

Kurt Vonnegut writes to his family after surviving the Dresden bombing, his experience of which led to Slaughterhouse Five.