Linked List: March 4, 2010

Thursday, 4 March 2010

Why Larry Ellison Hates ‘Cloud Computing’ 

Funny.

All Six HTML WG Working Drafts Have Been Published 

HTML5 moves ever forward.

Books in the Age of the iPad 

Thoughtful, beautifully illustrated essay by Craig Mod on the future of books. I think he’s got it exactly right. (And I agree with him that iBooks’s “paper page turning” metaphor is the wrong one for long form iPad reading and design.)

Berkshire Hathaway’s 2009 Annual Report (PDF) 

Cogent, as always.

‘Made, Is Making, or Will Make?’ 

David Barnard on the difficulties of projecting long-term revenue from volatile short-term fluctuations in sales from the App Store and Android Market.

Apple Tops Fortune’s 2010 List of World’s Most Admired Companies 

Fortune:

As BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer puts it, “The whole world held its breath before the iPad was announced. That’s brand management at its very best.”

Google, Berkshire Hathaway, Johnson & Johnson, and Amazon round out the top five.

CSS Border Radius 

Clever little web tool by Jacob Bijani for generating cross-browser border radius CSS code. (Via Beautiful Pixels.)

‘An Explosion of Mobile Patent Lawsuits’ 

Interesting graphic from Nick Bilton of The New York Times, suggesting that Apple’s patent suit against HTC is but one more skirmish in an industry-wide patent war.