Flipboard could gently challenge your intellectual comfort zone
By now, you’ve probably heard about the prominent but troubled launch of an iPad app called Flipboard.
Beautifully and simply designed, Flipboard presents the photos, news, blog posts and updates your social media contacts on Twitter and Facebook are s…
Sometimes rejection is good for sensitive types (yes, I’m talking about drawing on the iPad)
I’ve been drawing on the iPad for a while now, creating cartoons, drawing graphic notes and generally having a great time. But you don’t have to draw on it for too long to start cursing the iPad’s limitations, even as you marvel at its abilities. And...Autodesk’s sexist splash screen takes the “pro” out of SketchBook Pro
Pouting pinup models are no way to promote a professional-grade application.
Northern Voice: Chris Messina on the open web – and what threatens to close it up
Chris Messina, Google‘s new open web advocate, just wrapped Northern Voice’s second keynote with a call for the defence of the open web from the gatekeeper mentality. (Which is why I just hit “publish” on my last blog post – it covers some of the same terrain, and I’d like to contribute to that conversation.)
I’m liking this no-PowerPoint thing a lot. Here are my notes from Chris’s speech:
And yes, the iPad I drew this on is one example of that locked-down, gate-keeper, appliance model that Chris dubs “pop computing”. But as he points out, those can be great… provided they’re not your only device.