Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 11/13/09
Ignoring the terrifying fact that it’s Friday the 13th and my yogurt this morning was clearly expired long before its November 26 sell by date (spooky, no?), the Internet had a pretty good week. And by good week I mean I found lots of things that were interesting to me, and in the name of social capital, trust and altruism, I share them with you. Aren’t you lucky?
- Robert Scoble has an excellent post about how Twitter lists have become his main news source, essentially mitigating RSS and standard info consumption models completely. I find this fascinating personally, because most of the really fresh news I get via Twitter, but I can’t see RSS being marginalized just yet. I’ll need time to play with this, because it’s truly disruptive, as least as far as my workflows are concerned.
- Want an effective ward against the heavy omen of Friday the 13th? Want to also tear up a little, but in a good way? Watch this video of a dog welcoming home a US soldier from Afghanistan.
- Tim Burton animates the MoMA logo. Fantastic.
- Gartner estimates the worldwide smartphone market share. In a nutshell: Apple grew YoY from 13% to 17%; RIM from 16% to 21%. HTC grew from 4.5% to 6.5% and Samsung held on at 3%. Nokia dipped from 42% to 39%. As John Gruber says, now is a great time to recall the words of Steve Ballmer, only two years ago: “There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”
- Slate’s Michael Agger decided to have some fun with Google’s search box, and the results are both awkward and fascinating. As Rafe over at RC3.org says, it’s a search engine confessional of sorts.
- Check out the designy barcodes appearing in Japan.
- How you can avoid an untimely death. I particularly like #2: “Never get on a 4-wheeler ATV, as they have produced more quadriplegics than anything else.” It’s worth reading the whole list. (via kottke)
- Speaking of design, Apple has overtaken Nokia to claim the profit crown in the mobile phone industry. MG Siegler has a great piece about Apple’s pursuit of profit rather than raw market share. You should read it.
- The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert tears SuperFreakonomics authors Stephen Levitt and Stephen Dubner up one side and down the other on the pair’s geoengineering chapter of their latest book. Ouch.
- A man, distracted by a low-flying pelican, drives his $1.6M Bugatti Veyron into a salt marsh. Part of me died reading this. (Thx to Chris for the heads-up)
I think I’ll end it on that. Have a good weekend, everyone.
