My conversation with ex-Facebook CTO and Quora co-founder Adam D’Angelo
Similarly, we will see the focus shift to quality and right information (and not the latest.) And that is why I think sharing of knowledge is going to be a lot more important in the future.
This is probably the best takeaway quote from Om Malik’s interview with Quora’s Adam D’Angelo.
Definitely worth a read.
I Love The Smell Of Sepia Tone In The Morning
In three short weeks it will be 2013. Someone may want to send a fax to Flickr and Twitter to let them know.
Over the past couple of days, both of these services have pulled a move straight out of 2010: they launched new versions of their mobile apps with — get this — filters. Filters!
And
Again, these guys think the Instagram phenomenon can be explained away by filters. Instagram has 8 filters? Fuck it, we’ll do 9! It’s simply not that simple.
Flickr is dead in the water, I don’t know that there’s anything that Yahoo! can do to revive it, Twitter on the other hand has no excuses. I really don’t understand a lot of the business decisions being made their of late.
Meh, I spend more time on Facebook these days…
The Facebook iOS app is horribly slow, but apparently that will change in the not too distant future thanks to a reasonably large rewrite, moving away from being mostly a HTML5 browser to a native Objective-C app.
The New York Times agrees, and they’ve gotten a few Facebook engineers to promise, off the record, that the next version of the app will be better. It’s being rebuilt in native Objective-C (the current app mostly uses HTML5), it’ll be faster, and it’ll actually work the way it’s supposed to work, letting you use Facebook as normal from your iPhone.
This can’t come soon enough in my opinion, it pains me to spend any more than a few seconds in the current Facebook iOS app, more often I opt to use my MacBook Air if I need to do anything more than a simple status update.
(via TUAW)
The Verge has a decent hands-on video with the new Facebook Camera app. It’s quite nice.
Apart from getting an extra hook into their users, the biggest feature at play here seems to be batch uploading.
