Linked List: April 30, 2012

Monday, 30 April 2012

Microsoft Partners With Barnes and Noble on E-Books ★

Carl Franzen, reporting for TPM:

Looks like Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have been doing some reading of ancient proverbs, perhaps specifically: “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” […]

Announced Monday, the new partnership is called “Newco,” for the time being (Barnes & Noble says they haven’t settled on the name). It sees Microsoft investing $300 million for a 17.6 percent equity stake. The remaining 82.4 percent will be owned by Barnes & Noble, and the company itself will be worth $1.7 billion in total.

Screenshot Journal ★

New $1.99 app for iOS UI designers from my friend Bryan Bell. Great idea.

Roger Ebert: The Greatest Films of All Time ★

A surprise (but worthy) choice at the end.

Stop the Presses ★

Joy of Tech details a New York Times story meeting.

A Definitive History of Android Version Adoption ★

Android Police:

That’s right, it’s not your imagination, Ice Cream Sandwich adoption is going very, very slowly. You’ll notice update percentage gets progressively slower with each new version, but keep in mind the Android ecosystem is also getting progressively larger. Ice Cream Sandwich has to deal with many, many more models than Éclair did.

The shame of it is that Ice Cream Sandwich is so much nicer than previous versions of Android.