News Reaction

WWDC for developers?

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:19:21 +0100

Apple installing WWDC banners? My money is on APIs to allow much greater access to IOS and the default apps.

About time too

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/06/04/apple-installing-wwdc-banners-where-a-whole-new-world-is-developing

workdrugs:

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:02:22 +0000

workdrugs:

andrew-woj: I’ve watched this about a thousand...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:43:25 +0000

andrew-woj:

I’ve watched this about a thousand times.

Beautiful

nevver: — George Lois Yes.

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:27:13 +0000

nevver:

— George Lois

Yes.

thisistheverge: Long-lost film by ‘Star Wars’ art director...

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:21:55 +0000

thisistheverge:

Long-lost film by ‘Star Wars’ art director could be offered for download

A long-lost film directed by Roger Christian, who served as art director for the first Star Wars movie, could soon be made available as a download, according to a comment given to Wired. Titled Black Angel, the 25-minute film tells the story of a medieval knight returning from the Crusades — it was originally shown before screenings of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back in Europe and Australia, but the negative was lost at some point following this 1980 debut. An archivist at Universal Studios rediscovered the film last year and informed Christian, who has been debating how to re-release it ever since.

I remember this!

Juxtaposition

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:26:31 +0000

Juxtaposition

"As soon as Facebook stopped hyper-promoting frictionless sharing in news feeds, usage plummeted. In..."

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:20:28 +0000

“As soon as Facebook stopped hyper-promoting frictionless sharing in news feeds, usage plummeted. In April, The Washington Post’s Social Reader had 12 million monthly active users. Now, it has about 600,000 according to AppData, a decline of 95 percent. The Guardian had nearly 6 million monthly active users of its Facebook app in April. Now it has about 2.5 million, a decline of about 75 percent.

Most Facebook users didn’t want this, for all the reasons we’ve discussed before — thoughtless sharing means little to your friends, can lead to faulty assumptions about why you read something and have a chilling effect on what you choose to read.

Frictionless sharing was an idea we tried. It failed.”

- ‘Frictionless sharing’ is an instructive failure of 2012 (via courtenaybird)

Instructive is generous.
(via journo-geekery)
“Is” is a bit too present tense

Apple iWatch Rumors Surface Again

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:18:43 +0000

Apple iWatch Rumors Surface Again:

parislemon:

I continue to have this suspicion that the most interesting Apple-related news in 2013 won’t involve a television, but a wearable computing device. It’s starting to make too much sense. And they know that. And have known that.

Agree. The time is right this year.

It could well include ‘remote’ functionality for controlling said TV and any other iDevices too I’d guess - it would save looking for the existing Apple TV down the back if the sofa *again*..,

Beautiful London at Christmas

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 21:23:57 +0000

Superb time lapse video of the great Capital’s decorations.

Proud to live here!

http://vimeo.com/m/56089786

Best of both worlds

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:28:52 +0000

http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3417565&olo=rss

Nice review of Apple vs Google maps. It’s great to have the backup of a good search system, but Siri integration and simplicity is putting Apple Maps at the forefront for me.

A professional response from Instagram

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:31:48 +0000

Fire, extinguished.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/dec/18/instagram-issues-statement-terms-of-service

RIP Dave Brubeck

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:14:21 +0000

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-73579309/

“For as long as I’ve been playing jazz, people have been trying to pigeonhole me,” he once told the Tribune.

“Frankly, labels bore me.”

parislemon: Why Magazine Apps Suck Basically what I tried to...

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:18:42 +0000

parislemon:

Why Magazine Apps Suck

Basically what I tried to say in my last few posts (and much more)…. Just said much better. Sigh…

Random London Fact of the Day Courtesy of...

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 07:56:28 +0000

Random London Fact of the Day

Courtesy of Londonist

http://londonist.com/2012/12/things-to-do-in-london-today-4-december-2012.php

BBC Television Centre in White City was designed in the late 1950s by Graham Dawbarn. The story goes that, while playing with ideas to fill the triangular plot, he inked in a giant question mark. The typographic doodle turned out to be a fitting design solution, and the studios were built to that shape. When the newsroom was added in the 1990s, it was specifically built into a drum shape to form the dot at the bottom of the question mark.

thisistheverge: First iPad-only newspaper ‘The Daily’ shutting...

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:20:42 +0000

thisistheverge:

First iPad-only newspaper ‘The Daily’ shutting down on December 15th

A great sense of inevitability about this….

Strong Opinions @marksbirch: The Question of Scale

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:15:39 +0000

Strong Opinions @marksbirch: The Question of Scale:

marksbirch:

The team is awesome and the product is great, we are just not sure it can scale.

I often hear some version of this quote from conversations with investors. Just the other day in fact this line came up almost verbatim with a VC partner. Generally I ignore it as some trite brush off of a startup…

Smart analysis. Worth reading.

Does the publishing industry ever go online and read?

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:41:32 +0000

There’s so many great ideas out there on how to save the industry and so many wise words on what will happen if they don’t change things around - case in point here

http://gigaom.com/2012/11/30/sub-compact-media-rethinking-the-way-we-publish-online/

I just think that if they took a look around the world of online news and comment they’d find no shortage of ways forward. Maybe they need an “Idiots Guide”…?

Is smartphone journalism the way forward?

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:50:12 +0000

“What we see with Hipstamatic and Instagram are images that are obviously filtered, but in the history of photography there has never been such a thing as a pure image”

“Should we at the Guardian reconsider the kind of photography we use?”

I love that my news’paper’ questions itself like this.

nevver: The Art of Google Doodles!

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:06:40 +0000

nevver:

The Art of Google

Doodles!

Windows 8 - Square pegs in square holes please....

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:19:31 +0000

Microsoft - spent many years trying to put a desktop OS on a mobile. Now they’re trying to put a tablet OS on the desktop. Go figure…

Ps. Round pegs go in round holes too.