Linked List: February 16, 2011

Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Pennant 1.0 

“Every team. Every game. Every play. 1951 to 2010.” Splendid new $4.99 iPad app for baseball fans. (Via Chitwood & Hobbs.)

Pixelfari 

A “pixely, 8-bitty version” of Safari, from Neven Mrgan. Like Andy Baio says, it’s like surfing the web on an Apple II.

Nevermind 

Nilay Patel, on yesterday’s “Nokia Plan B” shareholder revolt:

There’s just one problem, though: the “nine young investors” don’t really exist — according to the last tweet on the @NokiaPlanB Twitter account, it was all a hoax perpetuated by “one very bored engineer who really likes his iPhone.” Ouch.

RIM Needs to Shut Up and Ship 

Jim Dalrymple on RIM’s latest PlayBook product announcement:

That’s three generations of PlayBook tablets announced in five months and we still haven’t seen a single product make it to market. The media seems enamored with the PlayBook and don’t ask the obvious question — where are the products?

An Interview With the Daring Fireball 

Mark Webster, interviewing yours truly for The New Zealand Herald:

For someone who owns and runs one of the most perceptively critical blogs in the IT sphere, John Gruber is mild-mannered and affable in person.

I’m nice men.

Motorola’s Xoom Tablet Priced at $799 

Reuters:

Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc’s Xoom tablet will sell for an unsubsidized $799 at Verizon Wireless, with a Wi-Fi-only version priced at around $600 price, chief executive Sanjay Jha said on Wednesday.

When’s that “around $600” version shipping?

“Competing with Apple you have to deliver premium products,” Jha said, adding Xoom software was also upgradable.

But you don’t need to compete on price? Will the software upgrades be as frequent as those for Motorola’s Android phones?

Jha also said the company was looking at possibly having its own application store.

There’s an idea.