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Linked List: December 9, 2008

Tuesday, 9 December 2008

Google Book Search Now Includes Magazines 

Great idea, but the magazines should have done this themselves years ago, no?

Ring Tone Apps 

Craig Hockenberry on the economic dilemma facing large-scale iPhone apps: set the price high enough and your app won’t make the best-seller list, and if you don’t make the best-seller list too few people will see the app.

What Apple could do is weight the best-seller list by revenue rather than unit sales. That way a $10 app with 1,000 sales could get ahead of a $1 app that sells 5,000.

MacFUSE 2.0 

Lots new in Google’s open source userspace file system framework.

Sony Laying Off 16,000 Employees 

8,000 full-time, 8,000 part-time. Jiminy.

Twitter Etiquette 

Margaret Mason:

Everyone agrees that members of the other group are total jackasses who don’t know how to use Twitter.

Keyboard Maestro 3.5 

Remote control your Mac from your iPhone using Keyboard Maestro’s new iPhone companion program. I’ve been beta testing it — works like a charm.