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Linked List: October 18, 2008

Saturday, 18 October 2008

My thanks to FlipBook for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. FlipBook is a very cool animation app — yes, that’s right, animation — for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Draw with your finger, then use onion skinning and layers to create new frames. Very ambitious concept for the iPhone, and developer Josh Anon has devised some very clever UI ideas to make it work. My favorite is a single-finger tap-and-hold gesture that brings up a five item contextual toolbar.

You can share your animations on the FlipBook.tv web site, and you can browse the flipbooks created by others. Here’s my favorite. The full version of FlipBook costs $10, but FlipBook Lite is free, to let you get a feel for it before buying the full version.

Regarding the Twitter CEO Shake-Up ★

I’m not sure what the deal is with Ev Williams taking over as CEO from Jack Dorsey, but I get the feeling it’s not at all a sign of trouble for Twitter. Twitter’s doing better now, both in terms of popularity and in terms of uptime, than it ever has — I think they’ve actually licked their scaling troubles. My slightly-informed hunch is that Ev Williams wants to be CEO and that’s that, and tough shit for Jack Dorsey.

As for Twitter’s financial prospects, I concur with Henry Blodget:

Why is Twitter different than the 9,000 other Web 2.0 companies that are intending to figure out a revenue model eventually? Because people are obsessed with it.

DisplayPort: What You Need to Know ★

Peter Cohen on why DisplayPort is better than DVI.

External USB SATA Drive Dock ★

As an alternative to the Newer drive adapter, a bunch of DF readers suggest docks such as this one on sale at ThinkGeek. It’s a bit less hacky, but it only works with SATA drives.