Linked List: October 29, 2010

Friday, 29 October 2010

VaultPress 

My thanks to Automattic for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote VaultPress, their new backup service for WordPress sites. Here’s how they describe it:

VaultPress provides realtime, continuous backup and synchro­nization of every single WordPress post, com­ment, media file, revision, plugin, theme, and dashboard setting. Your site is backed up across two separate cloud services, as well as the Automattic grid.

In short, VaultPress was designed with ease of use and reliability in mind. Sign up for the beta now, and sleep better tonight.

Microsoft Changes Strategy With Silverlight 

Mary Jo Foley:

But when it comes to touting Silverlight as Microsoft’s vehicle for delivering a cross-platform runtime, “our strategy has shifted,” Muglia told me.

Silverlight will continue to be a cross-platform solution, working on a variety of operating system/browser platforms, going forward, he said. “But HTML is the only true cross platform solution for everything, including (Apple’s) iOS platform,” Muglia said.

It’s over.

Edwin Watkeys on Adobe 

Edwin Watkeys:

I want to say that Adobe doesn’t really care about you, dear Photoshop or Illustrator or InDesign user, but that’s not really true. They do care about you. But I think they see meeting your needs as instrumental to doing what they really want to do, which is wedge themselves into every nook and cranny of a large organization. You’re their beachhead. You’re their entrée into the enterprise.

Marco Arment: ‘The Mac App Store Isn’t for Today’s Mac Developers’ 

If you only read one thing today, make it this. So good. I’m glad I didn’t start coagulating my Mac App Store notes into an essay, because it would’ve turned out pretty much exactly like this.

iPhone Share of All Phones Sold Is Now Above 4% and Continuing to Rise 

Horace Dediu cooks up some claim chowder for Tomi Ahonen, who back in April wrote:

I know now that the numbers are clearly stacking up so, that the annual sales level of iPhone units, will result in a decline in iPhone annual market share in 2010.

Fortune Profile of Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg 

Includes some scuttlebutt regarding Apple’s years-ago decision to launch the iPhone on AT&T instead of Verizon, and additional confirmation that the iPhone is coming to Verizon “in early 2011”. This stuck out:

McAdam points out that Verizon already carries a data hog of a phone, the Motorola Droid (which runs on Google’s Android operating system), and that the average Droid user consumes more data than the average iPhone user.

But there are vastly fewer Droids on the Verizon network (the company won’t say how many) than iPhones on AT&T.

Why not say how many Droids have been sold?

PayPal Site Outage 

One of those sites that makes me feel unsettled when it goes down.

Faruk Ateş on the Allure of Instagram 

Nice example photos, too.

The Talk Show, Episode 14 

This week’s episode of The Talk Show is pretty much all about the upcoming Mac App Store — what we know (which is very little), and what we don’t. Joining me and Dan Benjamin are two special guests: Marco Arment and Craig Hockenberry.

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