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Linked List: March 30, 2009

What’s a Few Orders of Magnitude Between Friends? 

John August:

I’d argue that “square miles” and “square kilometers” really have no place in popular journalism, because we have little connection to what they mean.

Twitter: ‘Replies Are Now Mentions’ 

Twitter now identifies your @username anywhere in a tweet, not just at the beginning.

Macworld Expo Moving to February in 2010 

New dates: Tuesday–Saturday, February 9–13. The conference portion is moving to Moscone West.

MLB.com At Bat for iPhone 

The 2009 edition of MLB.com At Bat is out for the iPhone, and it looks great. $10 for the season, and it now includes live audio broadcasts for every game, with your choice of the home or away announcers. There’s a free version too, sans audio.

Ego 1.1 

New release of Garrett Murray’s web stat tracking iPhone app, now with support for Google Analytics.

Jason Santa Maria on Layer Tennis 

His cheat sheet is pretty good.

Josh Marshall on the Kindle and the Future of Books 

Josh Marshall:

But in our living room we have two big inset shelves where I keep all the books I feel like I need or want ready at hand. And last night, sitting in front of them, I had this dark epiphany. How much longer are these things going to be around? Not my books, though maybe them too. But just books. Physical, paper books. The few hundred or so I was looking at suddenly seemed like they were taking up an awful lot of space, like the whole business could be dealt with a lot more cleanly and efficiently, if at some moral loss.

iPhone Skype Client Coming This Week  

Wi-Fi only, of course.