Feed adjustment

I’ve gone ahead and cleaned up and added a few new feeds to T Incorporated. There are now feeds for just about everything, and well, everything that happens on T Incorporated. You can subscribe just to the main blog posts as before, but I’ve also added a links and blog posts combined feed. I’ve also gone through and updated the older feeds for blog posts, links, photos, favorite photos as well as the stream, or everything, feed. I know it can be a bit of a wait between postings but I usually post 3-5 links each day along with commentary if you’re wanting a bit more T Incorporated in your life. You can also comment on my all of my links as well.

There may be a few hiccups, but I think everything is all fixed at this point. I had to change the URLs so if you’re already a subscriber, my apologies, but please do me a favor and unsubscribe and re-subscribe. And if you haven’t subscribed already, what are you waiting for?

Ties that bind

Antitrust laws exist mainly to “prohibit agreements or practices that restrict free trade and competition between business entities.”

So, among other things, they protect you from Company X trying to force you to buy a second product after you’ve already bought a first one. This is the main crux of what got Microsoft in trouble with Internet Explorer.

These laws, specifically the Sherman Act, are likely what’s keeping you and me from having to buy our milk from Standard Oil, which is great, but with software it can be tricky. Microsoft stepped over the line a bit for sure, but it’s not always so blatant. What constitutes a “product”? Where does one piece of software end and the other begin? What should be part of the operating system and what shouldn’t? For the most part I think software companies are doing it right. Applications are focused around particular tasks: listening to music, getting your email, browsing the web, editing photos, etc., and the operating system or “the web” is there to facilitate that. It’s the links that make these individual applications really shine and that’s where this gets sticky.