By John Gruber
Mux — Video for developers
Linked List: December 4, 2008
Thursday, 4 December 2008
- Google Apps Now Get ‘Labs’ Features ★
-
Dan Benjamin reports that Google Labs features are now appearing in most Google Apps accounts.
- Google Reader Redesign ★
-
I don’t use Google Reader, but I know from my server logs that a slew of you do.
- ‘The Incredible Convenience of Mathematica Image Processing’ ★
-
Mind-bending programmatic image manipulation. Just drag images directly into the source code to use them as input.
- Reader Reaction to Pogue’s BlackBerry Storm Review ★
-
Speaking of the BlackBerry Storm, David Pogue offers a glimpse at some of the feedback he got regarding his scathing review.
- From Apple to RIM, With Love ★
-
Jeff Ventura on the BlackBerry Storm:
The BlackBerry Storm, in my opinion, is a wonderful illustration of how Apple’s innovation and market appeal can force a smart company like RIM to invest millions of dollars in a product that’s way outside its core competency. You don’t see Apple trying to create a full-on enterprise/e-mail device, do you?
- Python 3.0 ★
-
Major new version of the Python programming language. Here’s what’s new. Not sure why I ever wrote this, frankly.
- Workaround for a Ducking iPhone Annoyance ★
-
Works like a fucking charm. Great tip.
- Flickr Videos Now Play on iPhones and iPods ★
-
Fantastic news from Flickr:
First, the sexy part — you can now view Flickr videos on your mobile phone! Videos uploaded by members will be immediately viewable through our mobile site, thanks to our friends in the Yahoo! Video Platform group. As of today this particular feature is available to iPhone and iPod Touch users only, but we expect to rapidly expand the number of devices that we support.
Right now it only works for clips that were uploaded today, but eventually they should catch up with all the video that’s been uploaded to Flickr. Here’s an example I uploaded earlier today (and the non-mobile Flickr page for the same clip).
- Nokia’s ‘Ovi’ Service ★
-
The Economist on Nokia’s drive to become a major service provider for maps and email.
- Adobe Laying Off 600 Employees ★
-
Brandon Bailey, reporting for The San Jose Mercury News:
On the heels of other tech company layoffs, Adobe Systems said Wednesday that it will cut 600 jobs — or about 8 percent of its workforce — because of the global economic downturn and slow demand for one of its flagship software products.
- Gartner: iPhone OS Moves Past Windows Mobile in Worldwide Market Share ★
-
MacDailyNews has numbers from a Gartner report on worldwide smart phone market share. The OS numbers are interesting: Symbian at 50%, RIM at 16%, iPhone OS at 13%, and Windows Mobile at 11%. But it’s the year-over-year growth where you can see who has actual momentum: Symbian is down 12% and Windows Mobile is down 3%; RIM is up 82% and iPhone OS is up a staggering 328%.
Now seems a good time to recall Steve Ballmer’s prediction regarding the iPhone’s prospects back in April 2007.
- Macworld’s 24th Annual Editors’ Choice Awards, a.k.a. The Eddys ★
-
A worthy list of winners, including Hulu, the Kodak Zi6 pocket camcorder, VMware Fusion 2.0, Rogue Amoeba’s Airfoil 3.1, BusySync 2.1, CSSEdit 2.6, Lightroom 2, and more. (But Flock? That’s a head-scratcher.)
- Real Advice Hurts ★
-
Merlin Mann:
We can’t get good at something solely by reading about it.
- Fray Issue 2 ★
-
This issue’s theme: “Geek — True Stories of People Taking Things Too Seriously”. Free online, but even better in print.
- How Helvetica Took Over the NYC Subway ★
-
Jennifer 8. Lee takes a typographic tour of the New York subway system with Paul Shaw, author of the encyclopedic “The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway” for AIGA last month.
(As a publishing nerd “future of the newspaper industry” side note, it’s worth noting that Lee’s piece runs about 1500 words but I think it’s online-only, appearing only in the Times’s City Room weblog and not in print. The prose is also hyperlink-heavy — much context would be lost if it ran in print without the links.)