These apps often ask you once, and then broadcast your location multiple times a day. I’m looking at you Facebook, Twitter, GroupMe, Voxer and Foursquare. I doubt anyone, including this young person, would ever guess that this little voice chat program would give up his address. If adults don’t noticed this stuff, how is a teenager (or younger) supposed to?

The issue of Location Services and kids is an important one, but it’s just as important to keep this in mind for yourself.

My favorite bit from the Q&A via Mac Rumors:

Q: 4G and larger screens are growing in the market. Has popularity of larger screens on Android phones changed or impacted your view? And 4G, obviously some phones have battery life issues, but what do you think?

A: We just sold 37 million iPhones and could have sold more with the supply. There are a lot of people out there who like what we’re doing.

Ryan Paul reports on Ars Technica:

Some filesharing sites are reigning in their services in the aftermath of the recent high-profile shutdown of Megaupload. FileSonic has disabled all file sharing functionality on its website, restricting access so that users may only download their own files.

How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work by Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher:

“The entire supply chain is in China now,” said another former high-ranking Apple executive. “You need a thousand rubber gaskets? That’s the factory next door. You need a million screws? That factory is a block away. You need that screw made a little bit different? It will take three hours.”

CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, HTML5 pushState, Mustache, HAProxy, Redis, MongoDB…

Brett does a great job of showing how to build a modern webapp with bleeding edge development tools as well as provides some thoughts as to why it might be a good idea to put development effort behind these relatively new tools.

I think there is a bit of a misconception, in general, to those who are opposed to these terms. Essentially, what Apple has provided is a tool for authors to take their works and make them available to iBooks. The tool is free and easy to use. Apple isn’t claiming exclusive rights to anything except the actual iBook formatted ‘book’ that gets generated with their free tool.

Here’s some various takes on the fallout.

Daniel Steinberg at Dim Sum Thinking:

The folks complaining are looking at Author as standalone software. It’s not.

John Gruber On the Proprietary Nature of the iBooks Author File Format:

Apple’s concern is not what’s best for the publishing industry, and it certainly isn’t about what’s best for the makers of (and users of) rival e-book reading devices.

David Smith – Truly Unprecedented in iBooks 2:

The real story here today shouldn’t be that Apple has ‘audaciously’ claimed ownership of the books make with iBooks Author but that they have created an avenue for non-commercial distribution that would exclude them entirely. That is actually unprecedented.

Ed Bott at ZDNet:

Over the years, I have read hundreds of license agreements, looking for little gotchas and clear descriptions of rights. But I have never, ever seen a legal document like the one Apple has attached to its new iBooks Author program.

Dan Wineman on The Unprecedented Audacity of the iBooks Author EULA:

In other words: Apple is trying to establish a rule that whatever I create with this application, if I sell it, I have to give them a cut. And iBooks Author is free, so this arrangement sounds pretty reasonable.

Here’s the problem: I didn’t agree to it. Apple wants me to believe I did, of course, just by using the software:

More will be forthcoming soon, as I get into writing regular posts, linking to some of the projects I’m currently involved in and generally spruce the place up.