What a week! In the past seven days I've watched the fact that an iOS app was uploading your Address Book tear our industry a new one. Path's "Find your Friends" feature has now ripped apart friendships, driven apart investors and founders and made Robin Wauters leave TechCrunch (okay, just kidding on that one).
- udekaf
Clear, the heavily-anticipated touch-based to-do list app, is launching in the iTunes App Store tonight. And by heavily anticipated, I mean this app was getting tech blog coverage based on demos, previews and teaser videos. Why the big draw for what's typically been a rather ho-hum app category, the lowly to-do list? Clear is pure eye candy, for starters. But it's also representative of a major leap forward in smartphone app design, as it's been built from the ground up for the touch interface. The app is based solely on the use of now-common gestures: swipes, pulls and pinches. There are no buttons with Clear, and yet, it's surprisingly simple to use. In fact, that's the point.
- udekaf
Guess who knows what's best for the future of Facebook? It's certainly not public investors looking to cash in on "social" 8 years after Facebook started. That's why those same investors should actually be happy about a warning from Institutional Shareholder Services noting that Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg will own roughly 57% of the company after the IPO. He's a lot more likely to steer the company to long-term mega-profitability than they are.
- udekaf