“I was there because I just wanted to read something. Words. Black text on a white background, more-or-less. And what I saw — at a professional publication, a site with the purpose of giving people something good to read — was just about the farthest thing from readable.”
Reeder for Mac 1.0, an RSS reader which syncs with Google Reader, is now available on the Mac App Store ($9.99). Reeder has excellent gesture/keyboard support, subscription management, and tons of integration with services like Twitter and Instapaper, all in a clean, simple UI. It is now, hands-down, my favorite RSS reader on any Apple device (see their equally amazing iPad and iPhone apps).
As an aside, there’s some fantastic use of 3d CSS transforms/animations and HTML5 pushState on their website.
“The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.”
NYTimes covers Studiomates, which, let’s face it, sounds like an awesome place to work. New New Bauhaus, anyone?
“According to the scientists, the inability to focus helps ensure a richer mixture of thoughts in consciousness. Because these people struggled to filter the world, they ended up letting everything in. They couldn’t help but be open-minded.”
“Dear Mr. Marketer: The Social Web is not your “traffic honey hole.”
“The compulsion to keep up with the stream has become so powerful that we’re gradually abandoning one of the first and most basic rules we all learned as kids. Instead of looking both ways before we cross the street, we look one way; down at our phones.”
The state of the mobile/social universe - a great infographic from Jesse Thomas on the size of the mobile marketplace compared to social network numbers.
Very informative and interesting infographic. (via pinchzoom)
Put simply, business model abstraction is where someone other than the user bears the financial cost of a product or service: ie the product revenue is abstracted from the users of the product.
Layton Duncan with some insight on the inherent flaw in free services like Facebook and Twitter.
