Entries for Tuesday, March 3, 2009
➠ March 3, 2009
Kindle for iPhone. Well played Amazon
Sharp (and surprising) move by Amazon — you can buy any ebook from the Kindle store, and read it on your iPhone.
I suspect this is a trojan horse move: give users a live demo of how how good the bookstore (with its free samples) is, let them build up a library of purchases in Amazon’s walled garden, then once they realise how crummy (and battery-draining) the iPhone is as a reader, reel them in in for Kindle device sales.
The History of the Panda, New APIs, Explore and You
Flickr now serves up Panda APIs so you can build your own rainbow-vomiting app. (Don’t forget that Flickr feeds also come in LOLCODE flavours)
Best tune found on Spotify so far: http://open.spotify.com/track/6VFjmRXlio2SC641BMOgkv
Posted to Twitter at 3:17 p.m.
This morning, I discovered that if you ignore the alarm on your iPhone for 15 minutes, it stops sounding. Unrelated: Am really late for work
Posted to Twitter at 10:43 a.m.
Playing with Spotify. Amused that once you *cough* get around the geo-restrictions to sign up for an account, you can login hassle-free.
Posted to Twitter at 1:02 a.m.
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