Linked List: May 30, 2012

Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Five Things About Television ★

I like the way Alex Micek is thinking here.

Horace Dediu on the Apple TV Business Model ★

Still small potatoes for Apple overall, but they seem determined.

Tim Cook at the D Conference: Between the Lines ★

Smart analysis by Dan Frommer.

Fantastical 1.3 ★

New in version 1.3: support for reminders. One year later, Fantastical is still my primary Mac calendaring app.

‘Sweep the Sleaze’ ★

Oliver Reichenstein, on those insipid per-post social media buttons:

The previous wave of buttons for Delicious and Digg and Co. vanished, Facebook and Twitter and G+ might vanish or they might survive, but the buttons will vanish for sure. Or do you seriously think that in ten years we will still have those buttons on every page? No, right? Why, because you already know as a user that they’re not that great. So why not get rid of them now? Because “they’re not doing any harm”? Are you sure?

Update: I don’t think “sleazy” is the right adjective for these buttons. I’d just say they’re distracting, which to me is problem enough.