May 2010
7 posts
May 31st
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May 21st
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Cultural Cringe
Clinton Duncan: In Australia, we have this thing called “cultural cringe.” I could go on and on for ages about the origins of this phenomena, but that’s why we have Wikipedia. Simply put, it’s when a society thinks pieces of culture (movies, fashion, ideas, art) are inherently better when produced overseas, and locally grown culture develops an inferiority complex. Other countries have it, but...
May 18th
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45 days later: iPad apps →
Neven Mrgan: Tumblr website - Close to great on the iPad. With a few adjustments, it would replace the official app (which they don’t have an iPad version of). Strangely enough, I felt the same way for the first few weeks. The Dashboard works very well on iPad. I was so impressed with it that I was toying with the idea of no iPad app at all. But then it hit me. In my mind, Tumblr...
May 18th
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The Fallacy of the Chilling Effect →
Zac Bir: So, some people are upset about Apple’s draconian iPhone/iPad development policies. Some people are less upset with Apple than with other developers who aren’t as upset about those policies as they ought to be. Well, the developers who aren’t upset, the ones who are dealing with the reality of the situation, aren’t toadies. They aren’t capitulating. They aren’t abdicating....
May 15th
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May 14th
Tumblr Blackberry App Open Beta!
The Mobelux Blog: Do you: Have a BlackBerry running OS 4.5 or higher? Love Tumblr? Want to help us test something cool? Great! Go here and fill out the form. Once we have enough space monk…er, testers we’ll send out further instructions.
May 3rd
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