Links for February 9th, 2010
- Advertising Census during the Super Bowl
- Why Taylor Swift Offends Little Monsters, Feminists, and Weirdos
- Papershow for Mac makes interactive presentations possible
- Music Sales Slowing at Apple iTunes
- Google Gets More Social With Buzz
- The App Store: Quality control without the quality
"If 1% of folks watching #SB44 change mind and mail back #2010Census form, taxpayers save $25 million in follow up costs,"
The Taylor Swift backlash begins (or I was late to the party)
Papershow, a tool for interactive presentations from Canson, will soon be available for the Mac. The kit, which is making its debut at Macworld Expo this week, includes a Bluetooth-equipped pen, a USB key for your computer, and special paper that transmits your handwriting to a screen.
This is surprising? Even someone who didn't go to business school will know this
Feeling overwhelmed by the bevy of social networking services? Google wants to help — by adding one to the list. On Tuesday the company unveiled Google Buzz, another way for people to tell other people what they’re doing, thinking and feeling.
In fact, lots of software has lower quality because of the App Store process. Developers can’t easily get bug fixes out and they certainly don’t release new versions as often as they otherwise would. This harks back to the era where software was really cumbersome to release on CDs, so you did it much less frequently.


