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My iPad Magazine Stand by Khoi Vinh

“iPad app version of The New Yorker as a content experience, was an impediment to my normal content consumption habits. I couldn’t email, blog, tweet or quote from the app, to say nothing of linking away to other sources — for magazine apps like these, the world outside is just a rumor to be denied.”

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“My understanding is that a lot of these apps are being actively encouraged and even partially funded by the folks at Adobe.. In my personal opinion, Adobe is doing a tremendous disservice to the publishing industry by encouraging these ineptly literal translations of print publications into iPad apps.”

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“They must translate their print editions into a utilitarian complement to their users’ content consumption habits.”

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“And it’s a no-brainer to me that content consumption is going to be intimately if not inextricably linked with your social graph.”

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Related articles: iPad no more — Experiencing Flipboard

iPad Gripe Session by Khoi Vinh

“After a few months of owing it, I keep finding more and more uses for my iPad, many of them not possible on my Mac or my iPhone, and my affection for it keeps ratcheting up accordingly.

At the same time, there are at least a handful of irritating shortcomings on the platform that I’m impatiently waiting for Apple to address. I know it’s been less than a full year since the iPad debuted, and perhaps there’s a significant upgrade due soon, but for now, I find that using the iPad is more frustrating than it needs to be..”

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Additional reading: iPad no more

The Poolga Shop is officially open. Offering unique handmade iPad and iPhone sleeves. Niiiice!

First experience with Flipboard by Stella Gassaway

Downloaded the Flipboard app for our brandy new iPad and it alone, makes the iPad worthwhile. Both the iPad and Flipboard are pretty sweet. Upon opening the app, initially what you see, are your content zones, each with a category.

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You can add your Twitter and Facebook accounts. Right now control is limited to these two. Taxonomy and your social network(s) drive the content you see, and you’ve never seen an RSS feed look so good.

It’s wicked fast and the origami-style flip behavior, feels perfect.

The magazine is beautiful, inviting, and easy to use.

The interface can be a bit confusing when you step in and out of Flipboard and the web. Most disconcerting — things disappear, well reposition themselves, as the content updates. This is probably the most difficult aspect of fluid magazines.

How do I find that again? Maybe it will be easier when social networks create a level of importance — then conversations begin.

We’ll see.

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About the author: Stella Gassaway [ stellarvisions : communication architects ] instigator : disruptor : thinker : doer : artist works and thinks visually, but self-involved design tinkering bores her.

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MoviePeg: the simple, elegant and portable solution that holds your iPhone and iPad so you don’t have to. Digging these! And really nice website to boot too.

Part of a branding course assignment, Pintzeta, is a jaw-dropping exercise that Moshik Nadav completed. He created a logo, business card, stationary, branding book, website, iPad & iPhone applications and a Special Hebrew Typeface for it. Whew!!!

Check it out! Don’t miss the USB key packaging.

If Apple wants to be a major player it needs to start behaving like one by John Naughton

“This has implications for all of us who follow these things.

The mainstream media, for example, need to discard the rose-tinted spectacles through which they have viewed Apple ever since Steve Jobs returned to the helm in 1997.

Apple is no longer the Lucky Little Company That Could but a looming, secretive, manipulative corporate giant.”

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Apple’s brewing shitstorm by Dave Winer

“I don’t think the problem is with the iPhone 4.

I think what we’re seeing is Apple’s charm wearing off. The Reality Distortion Field bubble is about to burst.

Their run as the Exceptional Company is about to end. And they’re going to be the last ones to figure it out.”

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Before moving on, just one more thing about that press conference by Rex Hammock

“The Friday fiasco displayed also that when the management of “the message” doesn’t go according to the way “they” want it to go, they stop being insanely great and just start being insane.

It’s really hard to blame them. Apple fanboys (and despite my denials, I clearly am one) have done all we can to prevent Apple from developing the skills necessary to respond to the type of skepticism and negativity every other company or cause must face on a daily basis.”

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In the rise of all the tidal media wave, I’ve said and say it again, my fear is that we’re entering the age of Apple vs Whatever Company that opposes them.

We’ve seen what M$ vs Netscape (and all others led to). Just think of IE6, if you are amnesic.

What about the no Flash policy for the Safari browser on Apple mobile devices, which is clearly violating the Postel’s Law (which says you should be liberal in what you accept. Another reason Postel was wise. It helps keep the web from breaking).

The Safari browser working on computers does NOT use the mobile one elective code. So, what gives? It is a deliberate decision. Shame.

Luv my iPhone, hate the iPad current version and market stunt.

Screwing up with the core community is not a very bright strategy. What keeps a company going is not $$$ but developers endorsement.

Apple, walk the talk of your slogan: Think Different.