March 2011
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A propos the Twitter "dickbar"
Marco Arment, founder of Instapaper, has an “on the bull’s-eye” post regarding the infamous “Quick Bar” (aka “dickbar”) on Twitter iOS app:
“We don’t know Twitter’s true reason for adding the Quick Bar. Presumably, it’s part of a longer-term strategy. But today, from here, it looks like an extremely poorly thought-out feature, released initially...
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Winter is Coming... countdown
I’m officially on countdown. Game of Thrones, the oh-so-much-anticipated HBO TV Series based on George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels, is debuting in less than 38 days.
For the fans here are some links to follow during the next months (reviews, news, discussion, etc):
HBO official Game of Thrones webpage
Official Twitter profile @GameofThrones
Winter is Coming
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Adam Engst on the Kindle, Apple's iBookstore & DRM
Adam Engst, the Mac pundit founder of TidBits gave a very interesting interview to eReaderJoy blog. In it he shares their experience on publishing the Take Control Ebooks 1 in the Kindle and iBookstore, as well as their reason for not using DRM. The full interview is well worth the read and I leave you some lines from it as an appetizer:
(…) we have several Kindles for testing, and I...
