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Sorry, were you saying something? (I was busy thinking of my next counter point….)
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Playing with the new all web interface for Apple Music. Pretty impressive. But also impressive, took a while but the HTML and Javascript won out over native apps here. And with a better user experience to boot. beta.music.apple.com
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The ad industry’s controversial alternative to Firefox and Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention (https://9to5mac.com/2019/09/04/apples-intelligent-tracking-prevention/)
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"Upgrade Designing Our Way Out of Non-Places"
During my Sony days, I spent a ton of time in Tokyo working with great designers and digital teams. Many of those lessons still inform may dialy digital design work, and can totally resonate with how Amber Case saw lessons from Japanese designers. medium.com/@caseorga… Continue reading →
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Yeah, I don’t own a stand alone camera. Haven’t for over 9 years and doubt I ever will again. From “On my Om" blog, Om Malik: PhotoRealism
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Launching a New Mastdodon Instance Focused on the OpenWeb
So with a few friends, just launched this new instance: INDIEWEB.SOCIAL is a home for those who build, study, promote - or are just fascinated by - a wide variety of #openweb, #indieweb, #federated and #humanetech practices and technologies. We seek to promote innovation and shared evolution and promotion of such technologies as well as to offer this instance itself as a platform to experiment with integration and early implementations… Continue reading →
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Another step towards phasing out visible “like counts” on social: (https://apple.news/AyEvSrzVhSo-rJx4nShCkQA)
Facebook is thinking about hiding like counts, too - The Verge
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Mozilla CEO Stepping Down
Here is hoping the next Firefox CEO is a good choice. I cannot overstate how important it is that a web browser with 10%-ish marsketshare exists not owned by an Ad company and that cares about user needs and privacy first. And the new CEO will manage them jumping into paid services, a key element to manage supremely carefully. “Firefox may not be as widely used as Chrome, but it still plays an important role in developing the standards that govern the web. Continue reading →
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From the creator of Ruby on Rails, and the CTO of Basecamp. “May RSS rise again. Stronger because we are wiser.” Hope so. #indieweb
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1637 version of "Don't Feed the Trolls"
TL/dr version: “Don’t feed the trolls.” “Tis better to have a dispute with honourable people than to have a victory over dishonourable ones. You cannot treat with the ruined, for they have no hostages for rectitude. With them there is no true friendship, and their agreements are not binding, however stringent they may appear, because they have no feeling of honour. Never have to do with such men, for if honour does not restrain a man, virtue will not, since honour is the throne of rectitude. Continue reading →
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Our Social Media Platforms are Failing Us Globally
“In a recent Global Advisor survey of more than 20,000 people across 28 countries – spending time on social media ranked as the lowest source of happiness from 29 possible categories.” www.ipsos.com/en-ca/kno… Continue reading →
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Good for Apple, they are going full opt in only, for Siri learning, and easy way for users to opt out. Better late than never. : Apple Addresses Siri Privacy Protections
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Agree with every point here, mobile experience focus for #indieweb offerings is deeply needed: v2.jacky.wtf/post/need…
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Apple Card and Privacy, Compared to Other Credit Cards
This feature alone is warming me up to an Apple credit card. Apple, Mozilla and Automatic should focus on being digital privacy first offerings. This is where the Apple Card is different. In the Goldman Sachs privacy statement, its answer to most kinds of sharing is “no.” Goldman still shares information with credit agencies about whether you pay your bills. But it says it doesn’t feed transactions to marketers or a sister company that mines card data. Continue reading →
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“Is an independent web our only hope?” Michael Casey’s answer: www.youtube.com/watch
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Gizmodo on NetNewsWire's Relaunch: "One of the Best RSS Readers Is Back"
Great Gizmodo write up on the relaunch of #NewNewsWire: “Despite what companies like Apple and Facebook claim, you don’t need a giant corporation telling you what news stories you should read every morning. Nearly every website (worth reading) still operates an RSS feed. And now one of the oldest and most robust RSS readers, NetNewsWire, is back from the dead and worth your consideration again.” gizmodo.com/one-of-th… Continue reading →
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So via Daring Fireball, John Gruber: Facebook’s ‘Clear History’ Tool Is, of Course, Bullshit
