Grant Robinson’s thoughts and findings on design, games and digitalia
Wow. It’s only available to home delivery subscribers at this stage but there’s some great previews available.
Read here. Well not the end really, but an interesting reminder about why ads don’t work that well for apps, and why the better (albeit harder) route is to connect buyers and sellers directly.
Ballmer flicks Yang the finger by publishing his withdrawal letter to Jerry online. Quite a good read, and there’s humour value too as Rod Drury unearths by paraphrasing the letter. And you’ve got to love this article title from Techcrunch: “Yahoo Needs To Pull An Apple Before It Becomes A Netscape from the can-jerry-yang-channel-his-inner-steve-jobs? dept.”
The concept for PostSecret is that people anonymously send their secrets on a postcard, and they get put up on the blog. New ones every Sunday.
Thanks Jesse for the telling me about it.
I love Flash so am really glad to hear Adobe are opening up the spec so anyone can not only generate files but create players for Flash too. I’m hoping this will be an important step in Flash becoming much more supported on mobile devices (maybe even the iPhone?).