April 2010
13 posts
Leslie Buck, Designer of Iconic Coffee Cup, Dies... →
It was for decades the most enduring piece of ephemera in New York City and is still among the most recognizable. Trim, blue and white, it fits neatly in the hand, sized so its contents can be downed in a New York minute. It is as vivid an emblem of the city as the Statue of Liberty, beloved of property masters who need to evoke Gotham at a glance in films and on television.
Thoughts on Flash - A Message from Steve Jobs →
Adobe has repeatedly said that Apple mobile devices cannot access “the full web” because 75% of video on the web is in Flash. What they don’t say is that almost all this video is also available in a more modern format, H.264, and viewable on iPhones, iPods and iPads. YouTube, with an estimated 40% of the web’s video, shines in an app bundled on all Apple mobile devices, with the iPad offering...
Announcing The Vimeo Festival and Awards
According to the Vimeo blog and everyone else it’s official:
Yep, we’re doing it, and it’s going to be awesome. The Vimeo Festival and Awards will be a celebration of the best original and creative video that has premiered online. Our goal is to reward the individual creators behind online video and acknowledge the internet as a quality medium of expression and distribution....
Vimean
So get this: I’m the new web designer at Vimeo.
In a strange bit of nostalgia-inducing luck I find my new desk not far from where I sat in the beginning of FiLife back in 2007. Thinking back to my first weeks at FiLife, in New York, in the start-up world, I’m amazed by how much I’ve learned since then. I’m proud of what we built and what we managed to achieve. I’m...
“If you can help us get in touch with Gray Powell, we’d like to fly him to Munich”
– @Lufthansa_USA with accompanying letter.
Now that’s taking advantage of a moment for some great PR. Well done on the Social Media side for Lufthansa.
via @panelfly
Preview: Instapaper on iPad - Instapaper Blog →
This is a really eloquent and well-thought out post regarding the launch of Instapaper on the iPad by Marco Arment. In it he discusses design decisions, challenges he faced, and business reasons surrounding app development.
Overall, a very nice piece about an app I love. It’s nice to know things I use a lot are in the hands of thoughtful, intelligent people. Also glad to hear my pro version...
Chrome Comes Out on Top for HTML5 Test
I used the HTML5 Test today to check out the three major browsers I use: Chrome (day to day browsing), Firefox (development), and Safari (occasional browsing, testing). To my surprise Chrome came out the winner. It didn’t have a perfect score but it was pretty close.
