Linked List: March 21, 2014

Friday, 21 March 2014

Field Notes Brand 

It’s my pleasure to thank Field Notes Brand for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Their new seasonal release for spring is the Shelterwood Edition. We all know that paper is made from wood; these memo books are made of wood. They feature covers made from American Cherry and no two are the same. They’ve made a gorgeous short film showing how they’re made — every step of the way from uncut logs to finished notebooks.

The Shelterwood Edition is available right now in 3-Packs and as part of a year-long subscription. Sign up for a subscription today and get the Shelterwood Edition right now and the next 3 seasonal editions as they’re released. Use the coupon code “FIREBALL” and the Field Notes crew will jam-pack your first shipment with extra stuff. Lots of extra stuff.

Quite simply, Field Notes are the best notebooks in the world. I never leave the house without one in my pocket.

On Rotation 

John August, on adding landscape support to his iPhone app Weekend Read:

Ultimately, every choice comes with a cost. Adding landscape to the iPhone isn’t impossible, but it means not doing something else, and right now the many “something elses” are worth a lot more.

For a lot of apps, adding landscape support almost doubles the design work. (But I realize many people type better in landscape; it’s on our radar for Vesper, at least for editing.)

‘Apple After Jobs: Pretty Much the Same as Ever’ 

Farhad Manjoo nails Haunted Empire.

Scoble Is Concerned About Google Glass 

Robert Scoble:

Larry Page is on stage at TED right now. I’m at home watching.

He is not wearing Google Glass.

Scoble, Scoble, Scoble. Glass is so 2012. It’s all about Android Wear watches in 2014.

Google’s Dominance of the Mobile Ad Market Is Slipping 

WSJ Digits (curiously un-bylined):

The global market for mobile ad dollars more than doubled in 2013 to $17.96 billion and it is on pace to hit $31.45 billion in 2014, according to data from eMarketer that was compiled by Statista.

Google’s share fell below 50% in 2013 and is projected to slip further, the data show. Facebook, on the other hand, ramped up quickly last year and its share is expected to top 20% in 2014.

It’s not just that Google’s share keeps falling — it’s that the overall mobile advertising marketing is growing so fast. Financially, Google is still geared for a world where the majority of online use is on PCs.