Dave Caolo

Every weekday, I post the best of what I find online for you to read. Here’s today’s installment (previous collections here).

I’ve got just one article for you to read today, but it’s a good one. The New York Times explores “The Afterlife of Stieg Larsson,” the late Swedish author whose posthumously-released Millennium Trilogy has met with tremendous success. The final of the three, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest, will be released in the US this month. I can’t wait to read it.

His life partner, Eva Gabrielsson, says that he planned a series of 10 books, and was part way through the fourth when he died.

The NYT piece is a fascinating look at the life of an author who’ll never realize his success, and makes one wonder what else was in store for Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist.

Every weekday, I post the best of what I find online for you to read. Here’s today’s installment.

Google announces Google TV. At today’s Google I/O event, the company’s Senior Product Manager Rishi Chandra described Google’s plan “to bring the entire Web to the television set…to take the best of what TV offers these days and the best of what the Web offers and combine them.” The goal is to bring search — a feature of the web that Google dominates — to television. Additionally, Google TV’s software is built on Android 2.1, which means Android smartphones can be used as remotes. I’m very interested to see where this goes, though I can’t get the image of WebTV out of my head.

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An epic collection of posts about Twitterrific’s future. The Iconfactory’s Ged Maheux, David Lanham and Craig Hockenberry detail the lessons learned from developing their popular Twitter client, Twitterrific, while offering sneak peaks at its next incarnation. From Ged:

“Somewhere during Twitterrific’s evolution from the desktop to the iPhone, we forgot how to say no. We said yes to too many of the latest features, 3rd party services and user requests. Eventually this “leap before you look” approach increased the complexity of the user interface and made the app’s settings too confusing for even us to figure out. A growing chorus of users told us the app was too hard to understand. We had lost our way.”

It’s an honest exploration that will appeal to business owners, developers, designers and anyone who’s had to learn from experience.

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iPads are outselling Macs in the US. About 200,000 iPads are being sold per day (vs. approximately 110,00 Macs). Just wait until international iPad sales begin on the 28th. Still doubt that these things are going to be huge?

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Apple changes policy, now accepts cash for iPads. I still think it’s strange that they didn’t until now.

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Tweet you and the horse that you rode in on. Perspective:

“The speed record for the nearly two thousand mile Pony Express route was set at seven days, 17 hours with the delivery of Lincoln’s inaugural address. Can you imagine if the recipients of that letter opened the dust-covered envelope to find a message that only included one line: ‘Abraham just checked-in at the U.S. Capitol.’”

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Bart’s wall. Every single line ever written on the Springfield Elementary School blackboard. 288 lines and 7,697 characters.

Previous installments here.

Every weekday, I post the best of what I find online for you to read. Here’s today’s installment.

A shopping list for re-living your childhood. As long as you were a kid in 1950′s Maine.

The 4G iPhone may have an option to be white on the front and back. Is there anything we don’t know about this thing? Talk about killing the magic.

Tweetie 3 for iPhone officially re-released as the official Twitter app for iPhone. A huge coup for Tweetie’s developers and an eagerly anticipated app. One nice feature lets you browse tweets without being logged in. Of course, the “swipe down to refresh” feature is so intuitive it should be implemented in many more apps. Call me juvenile, but I’m kinda bummed that the silly options like the flashlight are gone.

LifeLock CEO Todd Davis’s identity has been stolen 13 times. Remember those ads in which Davis parades his social security number about, boasting that his company, LifeLock, can protect you and him from identity theft? Turns out they’ve got more in common with Old Glory Insurance. LifeLock has recently been penalized $12 million by the feds. This article is a well-written cautionary tale.

War on tap: America’s obsession with bottled water. “Water fountains have become an anachronism, or even a liability, a symbol of the days when homes didn’t have taps and bottled water wasn’t available from every convenience store and corner concession stand. In our health-conscious society, we’re afraid that public fountains, and our tap water in general, are sources of contamination and contagion.” A great exploration from NPR.

Previous installments here.

Every weekday, I post the best of what I find online for you to read. Here’s today’s installment.

The iPad, the Kindle and the future of books. “’Ultimately, Apple is in the device—not the content—business,’ the Apple insider said. ‘Steve Jobs wants to make sure content people are his partner. Steve is in the I win/you win school. Jeff Bezos is in the I win/you lose school.’”

Embed Vimeo videos, play on iPad. A simple script from Squarespace’s Krystyn Heide that lets you embed non-HTML 5 Vimeo videos to play in-line on an iPad. Krystyn notes: “You need Vimeo Plus and mobile embedding optimized in Settings > Embed.”

I love you, Winnie. Stunning. If you don’t cry you don’t have a soul.

Previous installments here.

Every weekday, I post the best of what I find online for you to read. Here’s today’s installment.

3g iPads will be unlocked in Japan. Addressing rumors to the contrary, Apple confirmed today that Japanese customers traveling internationally will be able to use micro SIM cards from foreign carriers, thereby avoiding huge roaming fees. Likewise, visitors to Japan will be able to use their iPads with the country’s Softbank provider.

Analyst: Foxconn will ship 24 million 4G iPhones in 2010. An initial 4.5 million units go out in the first half of the year, probably starting in June, reserving 19.5 million phones for the rest of 2010.

Google: Street View cars collected Wi-Fi data. Oops.

Steve Jobs debates Ryan Tate via email as Gawker employees continue to act like self-righteous adolescents.

Piper Jaffray: iPad is cannibalizing iPod sales. As Steve Jobs once said (I’m paraphrasing here), if anyone’s going to cannibalize our sales, it might as well be us.

On-board the iPad Cluetrain. “The iPad is a game-changer …  44% of iPad buyers view the iPad as a replacement for a laptop. CTO’s of huge companies like EMC are discovering that their computer-using family members are flocking to the iPad and ignoring their laptops and desktops…”

We are the family that came with the photo in your picture frame. “You’re probably wondering about the vintage jeep and hot air balloon in the background of our picture. That’s our jeep. I restored it myself. You’d think I’d be tired of working with my hands after fixing brains as a neurosurgeon all day, but I’m not.”

Previous installments here.