Google I/O Keynote, wearables, Material Design, and conference admissions policies.

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• Google I/O 2014 – Official page for the Google developer conference.
• 17 Important Things – The Verge’s round-up of the announcements in Google’s keynote.
• Android Wear – Google’s new standard for watches and other wearable computers.
• Material Design – Google’s new visual and UX guidelines.
• Multiplane – Manton’s 2013 comparison of iOS 7 to Disney’s multiplane camera.
• Polymer – Google’s open source web application framework.
• Boston Dynamics – Robotics company whose acquisition by Google probably inspired one protestor during the keynote.
• XOXO 2014 – Portland, OR arts and technology conference.
• Kickstarter Rules – Not a free-for-all, but perhaps less stringent than they used to be.

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Manton and Daniel discuss Amazon’s new Fire phone, the amount of consumer faith we place in Apple and Amazon, and the state of Sandboxing on the Mac after WWDC.

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• Amazon Fire Phone – Amazon’s new phone.
• CDNow – Super early online retailer that started as a Telnet service.
• Fire Phone Developer Portal – Amazon’s online resources for Fire Phone developers.
• Amazon Dynamic Pricing – Article that alludes to customer-specific pricing and quotes Amazon denying they do it.
• Camel Camel Camel – Amazon price-tracking site.
• Amazon for iOS – The iOS version of the app that features nifty real-world product scanning.
• Coda – Panic’s venerable web site editor.
• Clipstart – Manton’s video-management app for Mac.
• FastScripts – Daniel’s script-management and execution utility for Mac.

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Daniel and Manton reflect on the news from WWDC a week later, and weigh the advantages of diving into the wealth of new stuff vs. the pragmatism of sticking to the known to ship meaningful updates sooner.

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• Early Thoughts on WWDC 2014 – Brent Simmons reacts to WWDC and announces his next Mac app will be written in Swift.
• Swift on Stack Overflow – Apple’s relaxed NDA has apparently yielded far more open discussion of “secret” technology.
• Failure is an Option – Highfalutin Domino’s commercial.

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Manton and Daniel react to the WWDC 2014 Keynote.

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• Swift Programming Language – Apple’s documentation for the language slated to become the default for Cocoa development.
• iOS 8 – Apple’s preview page for iOS 8.
• One Continuous Experience – John Gruber’s tweet about Apple vs. Microsoft approach to platform integration.
• OpenDoc – Apple’s ancient, botched attempt to integrate Mac apps with modular, reusable code modules.
• iCloud Drive – New feature from Apple that aims to address the more Dropbox-like general filesystem-based cloud storage.
• File a Bug – Marco Arment’s complaint about Apple’s treatment of bug filers.
• File a Bug – Daniel’s response to Marco’s post, encouraging people to file anyway.
• When You Were Young – The Killers.

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In anticipation of WWDC week, Manton and Daniel discuss predictions for the event, rumors of an Apple home automation bombshell, and their game plan for socializing and learning at AltConf and peripheral events.

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• This is Healthbook – Mark Gurman’s scoop on Apple’s predicted health and fitness tracking software.
• Apple’s Nest – Daniel’s post from earlier this year wishing for touchscreen, smarter Airport Expresses.
• Accidental Tech Podcast – Good podcast from some guys we like.
• Attendee List – Adam Swinden’s effort to catalog the various self-admitting attendees of WWDC or peripheral events.
• WWDC Parties 2014 – GitHub project from Orta Therox dedicated to listing various WWDC-week parties.
• WWDCParties.com – Another resource for folks looking for “something to do” … in case walking around meeting everybody isn’t enough 😉
• AltConf – The preeminent alternative conference to WWDC. Free, and being held across the street.

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Manton and Daniel acknowledge a birthday celebrated by working, discuss the perils of open source dependencies, react to Apple’s new WWDC App, and lament Panic’s Coda sandboxing saga.

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• Mercurial – Daniel’s preferred version control system.
• TinyMCE – Open-source JavaScript-based HTML rich editor.
• Node.js – A popular JavaScript application framework.
• Jake – A make-like build tool for, you guessed it, JavaScript and Node.js.
• ant – Java-based build tool.
• Duncan Davidson – Many-talented engineer and photographer who also significantly developed ant.
• WWDC app – The updated official app from Apple for WWDC 2014.
• Coda 2.5 – Panic’s post about giving up on sandboxing Coda for the time being.
• Sandboxing and Clipstart – Manton’s 2012 post about the decision to pull Clipstart from the Mac App Store.

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Manton and Daniel reflect on the Core Intuition t-shirt results, talk about Sunlit’s new Flickr support, acknowledge the change of strategy at App.net, and discuss the conventional wisdom that all customers deserve to be supported.

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• Core Intution T-Shirts – Our (sadly!) ended T-shirt campaign. We’ll sell other shirts again.
• All Star Sandwich Bar – Daniel’s less-than-stellar sandwich shop review.
• Zendesk – Customer support company that won’t support Manton even though he pays.
• Unconventional Wisdom – David Smith on the importance, or not, of providing customer support.
• FogBugz – In contrast to Zendesk, FogBugz provides full support even to free customers.
• Sunlit 1.2 – Manton’s announcement of Sunlit 1.2 with Flickr support.
• App.net State of the Union – Announcement from Dalton Caldwell about changes at App.net
• It Never Died Because it Never Lived – Accidental Tech Podcast on the App.net changes.
• MLKSHK Shutting Down – Another web service making drastic changes, albeit more terminal.
• Self-Sustenance is Dangerous – Daniel’s App.net post about the value of remaining in business, even if barely.
• Twitter Muting Functionality – New API endpoints in Twitter’s API share the love of new muting feature.

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Manton and Daniel talk about Automattic’s funding surge, getting to the bottom of Manton’s Twitter departure, and Daniel’s somewhat comparable sandwich shop vendetta.

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• New Funding for Automattic – Matt Mullenweg on Automattic’s significant new venture capital investment.
• Jetpack for WordPress – WordPress plugin for self-hosted sites that adds many WordPress.com-like features.
• Would I go back to Twitter? – Manton digs into his reasons for leaving his personal Twitter account.
• Getting Pretty Lonely – Daniel’s 2009 post about WordPress and the GPL.
• A Eulogy for Twitter – The Atlantic’s possibly premature proclamation of doom for Twitter.
• Write locally, mirror globally – Manton’s response to The Atlantic’s piece.

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Manton and Daniel talk about Apple’s recent stock surge and planned split, rumors about a Google-killing Apple search engine, and techniques for tracking user engagement with a product.

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• Dan Counsell – Founder of Realmac Software.
• Future History of Technology – Avram Miller’s piece about Apple’s alleged search engine plans.
• Cringley on Avram Miller – Robert X. Cringley discusses Avram Miller’s allegations.
• Bing – Microsoft’s search engine.
• Duck Duck Go – Another alternative search engine.
• Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas – Paul Graham enumerates a list of valuable challenges for entrepreneurs.
• Tracking User Activity – Marc Palmer on ADN asking Manton about his user-tracking techniques.
• Twitter Ads – Manton describes his rationale for, and initial experience with running ads on Twitter.
• Zendesk – Manton’s customer support solution, incorporating support for monitoring Twitter interactions.
• Tapstream – App install/conversion monitoring service.

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Manton buys a Drobo, Daniel buys a MacBook Pro. They discuss the merit of investing in tools and equipment, Apple’s recent environmental emphases, and Manton’s Sunlit pricing strategy.

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• Good as New – Apple’s refurbished hardware store.
• Dropbox Pricing – The cost of ubiquitous, convenient storage.
• Apple’s Green Dig – Apple’s full-page ad flaunting its environmentally friendly policies.
• Apple Hydroelectic – Apple’s own Prineville, Oregon electric station.
• Release Notes #41 – Charles Perry & Joe Cieplinski interview Manton Reece.
• Sunlit – Manton’s creatively priced iOS photo storytelling app.
• Core Int T-Shirt – Our t-shirt campaign enters its second week.
• Hypercritical – John Siracusa’s blog.
• Accidental Tech Podcast – Featuring John Siracusa, Casey Liss, and Marco Arment.

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