Friday Links XXXXVII

25 January 2008

The iPhone’s long-missing two-pane email client
I’d totally forgotten about this – it looks lovely.

EA pushes ad-backed video games
I think advertising-funded games make a lot of sense; much more so then for music.

OpenID heading mainstream? Daily Telegraph to be an OpenID provider
How odd, considering the Telegraph has a fairly uninspiring website.

Five whys
A good read from Joel (as always).

Evolution of a Header
Nice work.

Mucking Up the Fireworks
I live in Photoshop, but the idea of a purpose-built web design app sounds very appealing.

Django People
I love the map strip on individual profile pages.

BBC Three – Rebranded
I don’t see why they felt the need to rebrand BBC 3 in the first place, let alone with something so inferior.

Apple First Quarter 2008 Results
I find it amazing that Apple are already shipping more ‘OS X’-based machines (iPhones and iPod Touches) then Macs.

The Betamax Doctrine
I’m not sure if anyone would bother recording streams off Last.fm – they’re bound to be fairly low quality, and P2P is so much easier.

My Top Feature Request for All Feed Readers
I really don’t agree – the whole point off RSS is that it’s focusing purely on the actual information and stripping away the extraneous cruft. That being said, you could probably do some of it already as some feed readers (like Bloglines, for example) support CSS within feed items.

New Bond film title is confirmed
Well that’s just awful. What are they thinking?

Almost Target
An interesting addition to all this version targeting nonsense from earlier in the week.

Living in the Cloud
I transition from a computer at work to a computer at home everyday seamlessly, and they don’t even sync up. I’ve also been living off a 60GB HD in my home machine for a while now without too many ill effects, so this concept really strikes a chord with me.

X-UA-Lemur-Compatible
Nicely done.

Edward Tufte’s iPhone
Couldn’t agree more – Tufte’s barking up the wrong tree on this one.

And finally… I really want someone to make a proper game of this :

From: Articles

25 January 2008