Linked List: November 5, 2009

Thursday, 5 November 2009

Droid, Android 2.0, and Multi-Touch ★

Picsay, an Android photo viewing application, offers pinch-to-zoom multi-touch on the U.S. Droid. (Looks pretty smooth in the demo video, too.) But this shouldn’t be confusing or surprising. As I wrote a few days ago, the Android 2.0 OS offers multi-touch APIs, so third-party developers can do things like this. What is missing are multi-touch gestures in any of the standard built-in apps or reusable controls.

Closure Tools ★

Open source JavaScript compiler, debugger, library, and templating system from Google.

Fortune Interviews Eight Business Stars About Steve Jobs ★

Fortune: “Eight people who rarely speak publicly about Jobs explain what makes him one of the best business minds of our time.” Love this bit from Larry Ellison:

I remember when Steve was my neighbor in Woodside, Calif., and he had no furniture. It struck me that there wasn’t furniture good enough for Steve in the world. He’d rather have nothing if he couldn’t have perfection.

And I jokingly said, “The difference between me and Steve is that I’m willing to live with the best the world can provide. With Steve that’s not always good enough.”

Part of Fortune’s package naming Jobs “CEO of the Decade”.

‘Unstoppable Matsui Goes Wild on the Field’ ★

Hiroko Tabuchi, reporting from Tokyo:

For this baseball-loving nation, Matsui’s performance at the World Series on Wednesday — hitting a home run, tying a World Series record with six runs batted in and being named the most valuable player — sent a clear message. It put a Japanese player and the Japanese game on the American baseball map more firmly than any compatriot’s performance did.

Sure hope the Yanks re-sign him for next season’s repeat.

Viewfinder 1.0 ★

New Mac OS X Flickr search client by Fraser Speirs, with some clever Keynote integration. There’s nothing you can do with Viewfinder that you couldn’t do without it, but it’s about reducing friction. £15 for a limited time, £19 thereafter (roughly $25/32 in USD).

Yankees Beat Phillies to Win 27th Title ★

What a game, what a team.