Jeff Lamarche addresses people whining about Tweetie 2 costing $2.99, and absolutely nails it: If the new features aren’t worth $2.99 to you, fine, don’t buy it. There are plenty of other Twitter clients available, several of which are free. So shut your pie hole and
Loren Brichter is releasing Tweetie 2 for iPhone. It’s a big update — more worthy of a “2.0″ label than most applications. I’m most excited for full persistence (the application remembers precisely where you were when you return to it), and threaded conversations. Interestingly, this will not be
The New Yorker’s John Cassidy describes the impetus for bubbles to build in the context of the 2007-08 financial crisis: In a situation like this, what I do affects your welfare; what you do affects mine. The same applies in business. When General Motors cuts its prices or
From Business Week’s article on Apple’s green iniative: Meantime, while both Dell and HP had promised to stop using PVC by the end of 2009, both recently said the goal was impossible because of a lack of commercial substitutes. Yet Apple met its target of 2008 for the
Franciso d’Anconia, from Atlas Shrugged: Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering
Zachary M. Steward described DocumentCloud: Imagine being able to search across the New York Times’ cache of records on Guantánamo Bay detainees, the ACLU’s unrivaled set of documents on detention policy, Jane Mayer’s source material for her coverage of the CIA in The New Yorker, and The Washington
NetNewsWire 3.2 is out of beta. It’s a big release. The big news is, of course, it syncs with Google Reader (Brent removed NewsGator syncing and .Mac/FTP syncing so he can focus on developing useful parts of the application rather than fixing redundant sync paths) and it
Geoff Teehan envisions a new home screen for the iPhone. It’s definitely an improvement over what we have now, but such a data-dense view doesn’t seem ideal. It may create too much mental load — calendar dates, emails, missed calls, and news all on one screen. What I
Tristan Louis wonders whether Apple will do to film what they did to applications: True, the company now offers rentals and sales of video content but what if it could open up a marketplace where every independent content creator could distribute content? What if independent movie-makers or musicians could
I want to find out a little bit more about you. I put together a short survey, with mostly basic questions. But the last few questions are open-ended. I want to hear what you think about how TightWind can improve. It’s also filled with a fun question or
Newspapers, both the medium and the organizations, are sliding toward failure. This is for a number of reasons, but mostly because they are chained to the large staffs, factories, delivery vans and requisite workers that twentieth century economic realities made necessary. The scaling down, if not collapse, of newspaper organizations
Megan McArdle on rationing, or to be more accurate, government planning: Mechanisms to distribute tin without prices have been tried, and found wanting. So have mechanisms to distribute practically every other good you can think of, from housing to hotdogs. Rent control distorts the housing market and discourages landlords from