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Oh, That “Pull To Refresh” Thing In iOS? Yeah, Twitter Has A Patent App On That
techcrunch.com
Like that “pull-to-refresh” feature found in many popular iOS apps, including Twitter, Facebook, Tweetbot, Sparrow and others? Been wondering why Apple hasn’t implemented the same thing in its own apps, like Safari or Mail, for example, when such a thing would make for a dramatically improved user experience? As it...
Twitter Kills Off Tweetdeck - R.I.P. Third-Party Clients
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The Twitter client end times are nigh. Well, to be fair, they've been nigh for a while now - so I guess now the end times are here. In a blog post today, Twitter announced that it would formally discontinue support for TweetDeck's trio of non-web apps, TweetDeck for iPhone, Android and...
Sparrow for iPhone is a beautiful, natural mail management experience with one major flaw
thenextweb.com
There are very few things that are more integral to daily life on an iPhone than mail. Everyone uses email. Your mom uses it, your cousins use it, your grandmother probably uses it. Deciding to make a mail app for the iPhone isn’t something that you undertake without some balls....
We shouldn’t let great apps fade away – it’s time for an App Museum
thenextweb.com
Just before I deleted the now-defunct app Oink from my iPhone last night, I took one last look at it. Regardless of whether or not it was destined for success, it was one gorgeous app with a fun user experience too. As I erased it, I realized that it was one...
Tweetbot for Mac: Public Alpha Review
www.macstories.net
Today, Tapbots released the first public alpha of Tweetbot for Mac. This is not a final review of the app: being in the development stage — albeit ready to be tested by the public — Tweetbot for Mac is still lacking several features that will be available in the...
20 Best iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone games this week
www.guardian.co.uk
Carcassonne, Letterpress, He-Man, Ayakashi: Ghost Guild, Arsenal: Fantasy Manager 2013 and moreIt's time for our weekly roundup of new games for smartphones and tablets, this time covering iOS, Android and Windows Phone.The week's pick of new and notable games includes board and letter games, fashion retail, racing, flinging potatoes, managing...
Twitter Reportedly Discontinuing Development of Official Twitter for Mac Client
www.macrumors.com
According to a tweet from the well-connected MG Siegler, Twitter is discontinuing development of Twitter for Mac, though it will still remain available. Word is that Twitter made the call today: Twitter for Mac is done. They won't kill it outright, but no further updates. Goodbye, old friend.The decision is...
Twitterrific 5: Burned to the ground and re-built for Twitter lovers
thenextweb.com
As a global stream of real-time information, Twitter is by its very nature amorphous. It can be a lot of different things to different people, and it’s highly unlikely that any two people use it in exactly the same way. This was especially true in the early days of Twitter,...
This Twitter client is fun, gorgeous, and utterly doomed
venturebeat.com
We’ve been keeping an eye on Twheel, an absolutely stunning Twitter client for iOS. It’s a fun, thumbable carousel that presents tweets in an entirely new and totally gorgeous interface. Too bad it was doomed from the start. You see, although the pretty app is innovative, unique, and beautifully...
The Twitter iOS app shot up from a 2.5 star rating in December to 4.5 in January, but how?
thenextweb.com
If you took a peek-a-leek at the ratings of Twitter’s iOS app this morning, you might have been a bit taken aback. The app’s current version clocks in at a healthy 4.5 stars, a near-perfect rating when you consider that there are over 6,700 entries. But that rating was not...
Tweetie Creator Loren Brichter's Next Act: Atebits 2.0 To "Make Fun And Useful Things" [Like Games]
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Tweetie creator and UX mentor Loren Brichter just announced a new project, Atebits 2.0. Atebits was the name of his previous company that was bought by Twitter in 2010. He announced as well that his first project will be a game. In November 2011, Brichter announced that he would leave...
Sparrow is a Worthy Replacement for the iPhone's Mail App
www.readwriteweb.com
As far as iOS apps go, the native email client for iPhone is pretty bare bones and not especially pretty. It's kind of weird when you think about it. Here's Apple, a company known around the world for the quality of its design and attention to detail, and the app...
Tweetie creator Loren Brichter has a new app called Letterpress. It's a game, and it's fantastic
thenextweb.com
A new game called Letterpress is out on the App Store today. It’s a deceptively simple and visually striking word game from developer Loren Brichter, the creator of the Tweetie Twitter client. I’ve been playing with it for a while and it’s fantastic. Sometimes you create an iconic app. Then...
One More Thing Conference, May 25-26th in Melbourne, Australia -making a living developing software for the iPhone and iPad
9to5mac.com
Wow. Solid lineup of developer/presenters: This year we have an awesome speaker line-up, including cool dudes like Loren Brichter (Tweetie/ex-Twitter), Neven Mrgan (Panic), Karl von Randow (Camera+), Raphael Schaad (Flipboard), Matt Rix (Trainyard), Shaun Inman (Last Rocket) and many more.The full line-up and other details like the date and...
One More Thing Conference, May 25-26th in Melbourne, Australia -making a living developing software for the iPhone and iPad
Boot up: Nexus 7 sales, Eddy Cue profiled, Uber unshrugs and more
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Plus why can't Apple and Google get on?, apps from rail data, Voyager 1 finds the edge of weirdness and moreA quick burst of 11 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamLetterpress: one week later >> atebitsIn less than a week, we've blasted past 15...
Reportedly, Development To Cease For Twitter's Mac Client
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Here’s a piece of Twitter news that would really make me sad. According to former TechCrunch full-time writer guy, MG Siegler, Twitter will cease to support and develop Twitter for Mac. <blockquote class=”twitter-tweet tw-align-center”><p>Word is that Twitter made the call today: Twitter for Mac is done. They won’t kill it...
Letterpress: The First New Product From Tweetie's Loren Brichter Since Departing Twitter
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It was just over a week ago that Tweetie creator and former Twitter employee Loren Brichter unveiled atebits 2.0, the rebirth of his independent software development company, and announced that its first fruit would be a game. Now, that game has arrive, and it’s called Letterpress, and it looks glorious....
Letterpress for iOS adds clever new shareable HTML game replays
thenextweb.com
Letterpress, the great word game from Tweetie creator Loren Brichter, has received a nice update today which adds the ability to share replays of your games on an interactive webpage. The replays are viewable on both computers and mobile devices because they’re displayed using HTML and JavaScript web technologies. The process, which...
RIP Tweetie for Mac, we knew and loved you
thenextweb.com
Sometimes an app becomes more than an app, it becomes a prototype for hundreds of other apps and helps define a service and the way that it is used forever. This kind of thng doesn’t happen very often, but it happened with Tweetie, an app for iPhone and then Mac...
WSJ profiles app developer responsible for inventing/popularizing pull-to-refresh and other GUI innovations
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Last night The Wall Street Journal published a piece profiling influential app developer Loren Brichter of Atebits and Tweetie fame. The 28-year-old is the man behind several apps that were first to implement or help popularize well-known gestures and UI features that have since become design standards for many...
WSJ profiles app developer responsible for inventing/popularizing pull-to-refresh and other GUI innovations
Tweetbot: Probably the last great Twitter client for the Mac
thenextweb.com
Tweetbot for Mac follows in the footsteps of some pretty great Twitter clients for Apple’s desktop computers, including Tweetie and the official client that was based on it. Unfortunately, because of Twitter’s hostile attitude towards independent clients that aren’t its own, it is very likely to be the last really...
Loren Brichter: Designs on the future of iOS apps
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Loren Brichter: Designs on the future of iOS apps: Nice interview of Loren Brichter, the creator of Tweetie and Letterpress, by Erica Ogg of GigaOm. Note the talk of Letterpress being a Trojan Horse of sorts......
Hey Developers! We Want To Know What Inspired You To Make All Those Killer Apps
www.businessinsider.com
Not unlike an artist being influenced by a favorite painter, an app developer had to connect with a piece of software in such a way that he thought he could make his own one day. For example, Simon Flesser of Simogo, the studio responsible for iOS home runs like...
Letterpress
parislemon.com
Letterpress: This is the new iOS game from Tweetie creator Loren Brichter. I've been playing around with it for a few weeks -- not surprisingly, it's really well done....
$19.99 for Tweetbot on OS X? Blame Twitter
arstechnica.com
Aurich Lawson Software development studio Tapbots is no stranger to the iOS ecosystem, with an entire stable of "bots" available on iPhone and iPad to do your bidding. Their headliner app is Tweetbot, a Twitter application with lots of features absent from the official iOS Twitter client. Tweetbot is...
Twitter Still Doesn't Have A Patent On Pull-Down-To-Refresh, But It's About To
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Editor’s note: Leonid (“Lenny”) Kravets is a patent attorney at Panitch, Schwarze, Belisario and Nadel, LLP in Philadelphia, PA. Lenny focuses his practice on patent prosecution and intellectual property transactions in computer-related technology areas. He specializes in developing IP strategy for young technology companies and blogs on this topic at StartupsIP. Follow Lenny...
5 Minutes on The Verge: Loren Brichter
www.theverge.com
Loren Brichter is the man behind Tweetie, arguably the best Twitter app ever built. The app was so good that Twitter bought Brichter's company, Atebits, in April 2010 and turned the app into Twitter for iPhone. In this way, he has directly or indirectly inspired many of our favorite...
API, ShmAPI: App.net Still Has Many Difficulties To Overcome If It Wants To Beat Twitter
techcrunch.com
With Thursday’s Twitter API changes, App.net could not have gotten better news. Suddenly, Dalton Caldwell’s vision of a subscription-based Twitter clone seems quite clever. Yet, when it comes to creating a competitor to such an ubiquitous service, App.net now has to face many challenges. Most of them will be very...
Andreessen Horowitz Hires Twitter's Elizabeth Weil to Focus on Social
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Elizabeth Weil, who leads corporate design and culture at Twitter, is leaving to join venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. She said today she will be the firm’s partner in charge of social, focused on new investments, portfolio companies and partners, working most closely with Mark Cranney. Weil had spent three years...
Changing of the guard: Two high-profile Twitter departures follow up engineer exits
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Two departures from Twitter today continue to exemplify just how much of a changing-of-the-guard is going down at the company. Elizabeth Bailey Weil and Mark McBride are both taking their leave today, just a week or so after the second creator of Twitter’s Bootstrap left the company. Late last week,...
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