I’m so f*cking tired of looking at splash screens (whether Adobe’s, Microsoft’s, or anybody else’s). A splash screen basically tells me, in very clear-cut terms, that my time is worth nothing whatsoever.
I also hate splash screens, and waiting times, as I normally get thrown between programs a lot. So Kas Thomas excellent point makes me think of this great story.
If there ever was a time to build a Twitter bot with Node.js, this might be it!
Marco Arment writes:
I’d guess that Instagram could have charged a few bucks for their app from the start, made us their customers, budgeted carefully, and avoided VC funding and advertising. But they chose the free-now-ads-later model, and it appears to be working very well.
Ah, the free-now-ads-later model. Also usually known as the starting signal for users finding the next thing that’s “free now”. It will be quite interesting to see if that happens to Instagram, as it has to many others.
And parents today are worried about harmful chemicals in plastic toys…
This is an extra list, in addition to yesterday’s list, regarding the recent changes to Twitter. For the most part, they touch not only the visual changes but also the philosophical shift of Twitter from a service to an environment. I was going to write my own impressions, but this list covers most of my thoughts on the subject.
Also, I’d like to point out that very little has been written about Tweetdeck. Along with the updates, they’ve also changed Tweetdeck into a “native” app (HTML5 in a native shell), ridding themselves of the Adobe Air platform.
Personally, I’ve not used either of the versions a lot, so my opinions shouldn’t matter too much. The desktop version does look a whole lot better than the old version, yet I cannot rid the feeling that it has also been simplified, although I’m not sure where and how much. I’m not seeing the “Twitter Pro” Dan Frommer is talking about right now, and which Twitter mentioned in May that it would be.
Just found this gem from two months ago. With all the social sites auto updating feeds this doesn’t surprise me at all. What makes YouTube the outlier is clearly because it’s centered around the content objects (videos) themselves, and not the users’ updates.
hmason, at the bitly blog, writes:
Many links last a lot less than 2 hours; […] This leads us to believe that the lifespan of your link is connected more to what content it points to than on where you post it: on the social web it’s all about what you share, not where you share it
This is a really good development that replies to Bret Victor’s Pictures under glass concept. It’s still pictures under glass, but it’s a step in the right direction.
This Android app, or perhaps a better name is WordThatMightGetYouSued, logs your taps, locations and even received messages and then reports them back to the company Carrier IQ. There’s a video where the phone has been restored to factory defaults and still displays this behavior.
“We can see that Carrier IQ is querying these strings over my wireless network [with] no 3G connectivity and it is reading HTTPS,” the 25-year-old Eckhart says