∞ 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.
Cube Cube Is on Top 200 Free iPhone Puzzle Games!
Woohoo, Cube Cube is on top 200 free iPhone puzzle games!
∞ 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.
Cube Cube v1.1.1 Released, Active Players Hit Record High!
Cube Cube v1.1.1 is now available and WOW, active players hit record high!
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.