Charles Hudson’s Weblog

I’ve been thinking a lot about this whole idea of “Pay With Facebook” and the ability for people to eventually use their Facebook credentials to pay for things on and off Facebook. When I was at Google, I worked on Google Checkout for a year and have also been spending a lot of time studying [...]

Thanks to all of you who have recommended speakers and topics for the first ever Freemium Summit. The event is shaping up nicely – we have some fantastic speakers lined up and some really meaty topics to discuss. We already have confirmed speakers from Dropbox, Pandora, YouSendIt, Box.net, Mailchimp, Xobni, Evernote, and Automattic (WordPress). I’m [...]

I have had my Google Nexus One for about a day. And I’m getting ready to box it up and send it back to them. It’s not because I don’t like the device – it’s kind of wonky in terms of UI, especially if you’re an iPhone user, but it’s still a very good device [...]