Facebook Aims To Shape Mobile-App Platforms

WSJ:

Some app developers and analysts believe Facebook’s underlying motivation is to position itself as an alternative development platform for programmers that now tailor mobile apps specifically for Apple’s iOS operating system or Google Inc.’s Android. Technology blog TechCrunch reported that Facebook is working on a mobile platform dubbed “Project Titan” that was designed to bypass Apple by using the HTML5 technology that works with the iPhone and iPad’s mobile browser, Safari.

Well, they totally fucked up the project name — but at least that was a real Facebook project. “Titan” was the codename for what becomes Messages. “Spartan” is the name they’re looking for here.

Also, I’m still confused by the WSJ’s linking rules. They link to their own stuff, but no one else, even when citing them.

WSJ Airplane iPad Edition

Selling individual digital issues of a daily newspaper seems like it may make sense for plane rides, but little else. 

Of course, that’s the only time I buy newspapers in any format.

courtenaybird: Mad Men: What Don Draper’s Wall Street Journal Hedcut Would Look Like  Cool, even though the dot-ink portraits didn’t appear until 1979.
View Separately

courtenaybird:

Mad Men: What Don Draper’s Wall Street Journal Hedcut Would Look Like 

Cool, even though the dot-ink portraits didn’t appear until 1979.