Linked List: February 1, 2009

Sunday, 1 February 2009

It’s a Challenge, All Right 

So Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said this to Bloomberg in an interview, regarding Adobe’s efforts to get Flash on the iPhone:

“It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating,” Narayen said today in a Bloomberg Television interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver.”

One way to read this is that he’s spilled the beans and Adobe and Apple are actively working together to make this happen. That’s how AppleInsider and TUAW read it, for example.

Another way to read it is that “collaborating”, without any details of what that collaboration entails, is just an empty word that could mean anything.

The Technical Story of Muxtape 

Luke Crawford:

The thing that’s so wonderful about using beautiful, appropriate tools is that they become an extension of you, your body, you fingertips, and your mind. They get out of the way and let you directly interact with the problem you are solving. Everyone’s tried to remove a screw without a screwdriver; a task quickly becomes impossible that otherwise would be trivial.

Who Is on Twitter? 

Sasha Frere-Jones:

  • people who are just back from a really awesome run
  • people who are involved with “computers”
  • DJs
  • DJs at the airport
  • DJs who are drunk
  • people who don’t seem to have anyone else’s email address
  • people who have forgotten how to use email
  • people who have forgotten how to text