I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.
The blog here at dsandler.org is mostly historical; you can find more recent posts on Google+.
Mac users: I’ve compiled a version of uControl which allows it to operate (with scroll wheel support) under 10.3.8. Get it here: ucontrol_fix_10.3.8.zip. The bug (and the fix) are described here. Update: The official uControl version 1.4.6 now includes this patch (and requires OS X 10.3.8).
O’Reilly Network: Stewart Butterfield on Flickr.
So, partly for those reasons and partly because using the social network you can give people permission to add metadata to your photos, 71 percent of the photos have some kind of human-added metadata that was added in Flickr. That’s extremely high, even compared to software like Adobe Photoshop Album, which is designed from the bottom up to facilitate the adding of metadata. When you’re doing it for yourself, it’s like a chore, its drudgery. When you’re doing it as part of a community, in a collaborative way, it can still be a little bit of work, but the payoff is so much larger.