Links for Friday March 25^th, 2011

• A case of never letting the source spoil a good story: Great stuff on how the mainstream media can get the story wrong, and hasn't caught on to the fact that they can easily link to the source material, which can help not only with comprehension, but also in catching errors. (via Daring Fireball)

• MySpace’s death spiral: insiders say it’s due to bets on Los Angeles and Microsoft: MySpace failed because they tried to be a media-driven company, when they should have been an engineering-driven company. It's that simple. More on High Scalabilty.

• Android openness withering as Google withholds Honeycomb code: Ryan Paul, on Android:

  "After scrutinizing the nature of Google's interaction with the open source software community on matters relating to Android over the past few years, the fact that they are declining to release source code now doesn't seem like a change in direction. It's the natural evolution of a culture where openness is a marketing gimmick and not a core principle."

  I wouldn't be quite so harsh. In my view, Google wanted openness to be an ideal, but as they put Android out into the real world, they have found their ideal very difficult to realize.