At the National Press Photographers Association annual Best of Photojournalism awards, the entire process of viewing and voting for images happened inside Aperture.
Archive > March 2010
WSJ’s Lame Entry in the iPhone Rumors Game
The Wall Street Journal:
Apple Inc. is developing a new iPhone to debut this summer and also appears to be working on a model for U.S. mobile phone operator Verizon Wireless, say people briefed on the matter.
Keep in mind there’s a big difference between “is” and “appears to be”. And they have no actual details of [...]
Pageview Pumping
MG Siegler:
But what interests me about all this is the underlying war going on between those playing the pageview game, and those that hate the pageview game. To put it another (simplified) way: the war between quality versus quantity.
Siegler comes close to getting it, but falls short. Pageviews, as a metric used for directly billing [...]
‘Another Nail in Apple’s Coffin’
Harry McCracken, looking back at Microsoft Bob, 15 years after its release:
Analyst Charles Finnie of Volpe, Welty & Co. called Microsoft’s product a threat to the very existence of Microsoft’s competitor in Cupertino. “Bob is going to be another nail in Apple’s coffin unless Apple can somehow raise the standard yet again on the ease-of-use [...]
Someone Needs to Take Econ 101
Douglas A. McIntyre says that because iPad demand is higher than expected, Apple may have to cut prices. Uh…
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Not Much of an Argument, Really
Matt Buchanan:
It’s interesting, to say the least, that a device promising to be the best browsing experience — cue Scott Forestall crazy eyes — is in fact reshaping the internet. You could argue it’s for the better, moving sites away from proprietary formats and heavy, resource-sucking designs to more open standards, and more efficient layouts [...]
Cameron Moll on SXSWi 2010
Cameron Moll:
I’ll confess: Every year, I’m one of those guys that gripes about SXSWi being too big, about the content being poor, and about the assumption that this year is finally the peak year and things will die off next year.
Well, this year, I was pleasantly mistaken.
Agreed.
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Brightcove to Add Support for HTML5 Video
Jeff Whatcott, Brightcove:
We have a very strong strategic alliance
with Adobe, and we continue to believe that it is in our interests and
the interests of our customers to be at the forefront of innovation on
around the Flash Platform. Our work with HTML5 is in addition to, not
instead of, [...]
