Merlin’s and my SXSW session, rendered as a comic in real time by Dave Gray. I love these.
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Archive > March 2009
‘It Sucked and Then I Cried’
Exhibit A in the argument for obsession times voice, for being not a blogger but a fucking writer: Heather Armstrong, author of Dooce.com, and, now, this fine new book.
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OmniPlan
My thanks to the Omni Group for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote OmniPlan, their project management app for Mac OS X. I love the slogan: “OmniPlan helps you manage complex projects without requiring you to learn a complex program.” OmniPlan allows you to plan and monitor everything associated with a large project, [...]
iPhone and iPod touch games dominate IGF Mobile awards
Stuart Dredge (pocketgamer.biz) reports that games for iPhone and iPod touch registered a near clean sweep of the Mobile awards at this year’s Independent Games Festival (IGF) at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) “with six of the seven categories being won by games made for Apple’s platform…at a time when indie developers are buoyant thanks [...]
★ Obsession Times Voice
My friend Merlin Mann and I had a session at SXSW Interactive about two weeks ago. It certainly wasn’t a panel, and it wasn’t really a presentation. It was more like an hour-long duet rant, the main goal of which was to inspire anyone who wants to publish or write on the web to pursue [...]
NewTeeVee Reports BlackBerry May Launch TV Episode Service
Liz Gannes:
By downloading content in the background over Wi-Fi, RIM would avoid clogging 3G networks. Downloaded programs would be ready to play when users want to watch them on the go. […] By contrast, TV.com’s long-form shows iPhone app chops up episodes into clips and strings them together, with different versions of each clip encoded [...]
Another Awkward New Microsoft Ad Campaign
Odd new Microsoft commercial, which purports to show a real person named Lauren trying to find a new 17-inch laptop for under $1000. She goes into “the Mac store” and comes out disappointed, because — and this is true — the only sub-$1000 laptop comes with a 13-inch display. But then she says, “I’m just [...]
JavaScript Performance on iPhone OS 3.0
A few weeks before the iPhone 3G and iPhone OS 2.0 shipped last summer, the WebKit team announced their new hot-rodded JavaScript engine — then called SquirrelFish, now renamed Nitro. WebKit performance was dramatically improved in iPhone OS 2.0, both for HTML rendering and JavaScript execution, but the new SquirrelFish/Nitro JavaScript engine was far too [...]
Leaked Photos of Tesla Model S Sedan
Check out the roof. (Updated link to point to Gizmodo; Flickr took down Kevin Rose’s originals.)
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WWDC 2009: June 8–12
Last year’s sold out, and iPhone mania is far greater now than then, so I wouldn’t wait long to book a ticket.
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