yahoo:

By Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!

… So we’re also giving our Flickr users one terabyte of space — for free. That’s enough for a lifetime of photos — more than 500,000 original, full-resolution, pixel-perfect, brilliant photos. Flickr users will never have to worry about running out of space …

Seems like Yahoo! is back on track.

A great little write-up by ex-Tumblr-developer Marco Arment about the early beginnings of Tumblr and the recent acquisition by Yahoo!

Twitter and music go great together. People share and discover new songs and albums every day. Many of the most-followed accounts on Twitter are musicians, and half of all users follow at least one musician. This is why artists turn to Twitter first to connect with their fans — and why we wanted to find a way to surface songs people are tweeting about.

I like the idea of connecting fans and artists inside the new Twitter #music app. For me as a fan this solution has a big plus: Instead of just buying or streaming music in an anonymous online store and manually looking up for the artist’s social media profiles, you can now directly interact with the artist while listening to his music.

It’s also pretty astonishing, that Twitter has managed it to bring iTunes, Spotify and rdio together.

My only concern: Being spammed on Twitter by my friends music status updates.

Ferris Jabr:

“When we read, we construct a mental representation of the text in which meaning is anchored to structure. The exact nature of such representations remains unclear, but they are likely similar to the mental maps we create of terrain—such as mountains and trails—and of man-made physical spaces, such as apartments and offices.”

When we move from paper to ebook, do we retain the same amount of information? Does the text and its meaning penetrate as deeply? Readworthy article in Scientific American.

Glass provides a new kind of interface. As with anything new it provides both new opportunities and poses new design challenges. During our time using and developing for Glass, we’ve learned a few things that we would like to share with you. Please follow these guidelines as you build out your service.

Can’t wait to build my first app for Google Glass. 

An interesting article by Julie Zhuo, Product Design Director at Facebook about the design process of Facebook Home.