∞ Reddit IamA from the Person on a Hijacked Plane
I’m a male, 25 Years old, I was in transit at Addis Adaba for flight ET702.
The plane was hijacked one hour after take-off. This is how it went down.
Must read.
∞ Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling
These rules were originally tweeted by Emma Coats, Pixar’s Story Artist. Number 9 on the list - When you’re stuck, make a list of what wouldn’t happen next – is a great one and can apply to writers in all genres.
Great read even though I’m not a writer.
∞ You Can Get a Kitten at Any Size
A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code. Just put your image size (width & height) after our URL and you’ll get a placeholder.
Example: https://placekitten.com/200/301.
Ira Glass on Creative Work
Ira Glass's great take on creative work, with his amazing voice.
∞ Indie Smash Hit 'Flappy Bird' Racks Up $50K Per Day in Ad Revenue
Flappy bird has reached a state where anything added to the game will ruin it.
AAA companies should really start to learn from indies on game design.
Which Paper?
Update on November 14, 2015: Dropbox also launched Paper.
There’s a simple fix here. We think Facebook can apply the same degree of thought they put into the app into building a brand name of their own. An app about stories shouldn’t start with someone else’s story. Facebook should stop using our brand name.
This Paper of course.
∞ Luca Iaconi-Stewart Built a Boeing 777 Using Paper
Explore Luca Iaconi-Stewart’s photostream on Flickr. This user has 701 photos on Flickr.
Mind blown.
∞ Apple's 2014 Q1 Results
The Company sold 51 million iPhones, an all-time quarterly record, compared to 47.8 million in the year-ago quarter. Apple also sold 26 million iPads during the quarter, also an all-time quarterly record, compared to 22.9 million in the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 4.8 million Macs, compared to 4.1 million in the year-ago quarter.
That is:
- iPhones: 6.7% yoy
- iPads: 13.5% yoy
- Macs: 17.1% yoy
The growth kind of matches my feelings on these three products: the iPhone no longer stands out so much in the market (like, Moto X is a better phone IMO), but the iPad & Mac are still leading in their space.
∞ Mike Elgan on Google+
But for real people globally, Google+ is on fire. I’ve made friends — no, really: real friends — in Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Spain and elsewhere in the US! These are the kinds of people I could never meet on Facebook or Twitter. As someone who lives and breathes Google+ every day, it’s frustrating to see people suffer on other social networks.
Hope there will be more stories like that, it is a great product.
You Can Buy App Ratings & Reviews for $1.55/App.
I received an email from a guy saying I can buy App Ratings & Reviews a week after I released Cube Cube. I just thought it would be interesting to post some prices here.
For a free app:
- 20 iOS reviews with ratings = $59 ($2.95/app)
- 500 iOS reviews with ratings = $500 ($1.55/app)
For a $0.99 app:
- 5 iOS reviews with ratings = $69 ($13.8/app)
- 100 iOS reviews with ratings = $899 ($8.99/app)