I am glad to see that there are better and better articles appearing on wikipedia - especially this description of nominative use - the defense against trademark infringement. This is extremely relevant in a world where companies trademark their product names then tell the world you can’t use that name in statements of compatibility. If there’s simply no other way to express compatibility then according to nominative use, you can use it i… Continue

Runtime Revolution Live 2008 wrapped up earlier this week in Las Vegas, where developers that use Runtime Revolution cross platform development environment gathered. You can get a short recap of the events on my blog for Revolution Live 2008 Day 1 and Revolution Live 2008 Day 2. Sadly… Continue

An interesting northwest start up called Toonlet makes a fun set of online tools to rapidly create web comics. It gives you a lot of templates to start with, so that you can create mostly human (and alien) characters for your comics, add moods and the like. These types of characters aren't the Batman/Superman type - more along the lines of what you see in the newspaper. You can also auto-generate character and then customize them.

The interface for building… Continue