Linked List: July 5, 2006

Wednesday, 5 July 2006

Apple Abandons Plans for New Store in Portland, Oregon ★: After getting yanked around by the Portland Historic Landmarks Commission, Apple pulled out of the deal.
Amanda Congdon Leaves Rocketboom ★: Dave Winer on the breakup of Rocketboom. Amanda Congdon is moving to L.A., but the show couldn’t afford to move with her, and Andrew Baron owns 51 percent of the show. Baron’s announcement on the front page of Rocketboom.com says they’re looking for a replacement. (Winer has a screenshot of the announcement, which seems the closest one can get to a permalink for it.) Update: Congdon shoots back. It’s getting ugly.
VoodooPad 3.0 ★: Tons of new features to Flying Meat Software’s wiki-ish notebook application, including what looks to be a very rich plug-in and scripting interface. Very interesting that it uses the relatively obscure Lua as the scripting language, as opposed to AppleScript or a Unix-y language like Perl, Python, Ruby; Lua is the scripting language Adobe is using to write a significant chunk of Lightroom (which fact VoodooPad author Gus Mueller took note of back in January). Update: VoodooPad does support AppleScript, too, but that’s apart from the new Lua-based plug-in interface.
2005-2006 MDJ Power 25 ★: Here’s how I cast my ballot back in December, when the voting took place: (1) Steve Jobs; (2) Tim Cook; (3) Jeffrey Robbin; (4) Tony Fadell; (5) Dave Hyatt. All but Hyatt wound up making the list (I think the reason Hyatt has dropped of the list is that he doesn’t blog about Safari that much any more). If I were to cast my vote today, the only change I’d make would be to vote for Scott Forstall instead of Hyatt, but I’m not sure if I’d replace Fadell or Hyatt to make room for him. Forstall is Apple’s vice president of platform experience, and is enormously influential with regard to all aspects of the Macintosh user interface and experience.