Author: Dan Dickinson

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Quicksilver: Universal Access and Action

Few applications have energized the Mac community as Quicksilver has, and few developers have been more elusive to speak publicly about it than its creator, Nicholas “Alcor” Jitkoff.

The amount of peer pressure at Google is apparently overwhelming, as Nicholas have given a **fantastic** 25 minute talk as part of the Google Tech Talks series.

> In this talk, we will explore the motivation behind Quicksilver, highlights of its implementation, lessons learned from its design, and the ways it might inform the future of navigation for the desktop and the web.

Quicksilver users/fanatics/zealots should not pass this up.

Other people I know and love who have done Google Tech Talks: Suw Charman’s Does Social Software Have Fangs?, and Merlin Mann’s ridiculously popular Inbox Zero.

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Die, Foleo, Die

Palm CEO Ed Colligan announced today that the Palm Foleo is dead:

> In the course of the past several months, it has become clear that the right path for Palm is to offer a single, consistent user experience around this new platform design and a single focus for our platform development efforts. To that end, and after careful deliberation, I have decided to cancel the Foleo mobile companion product in its current configuration and focus all of our energies on delivering our next generation platform and the first smartphones that will bring this platform to market. We will, of course, continue to develop products in partnership with Microsoft on the Windows Mobile platform, but from our internal platform development perspective, we will focus on only one.

Kudos to Gruber for nailing the appropriate response:

> Everyone knew this thing was a turd except for Palm. Well, it looks like they’ve figured it out — but only after (a) announcing it; (b) blowing millions on developing it; and (c) its original ship date. The sooner you realize a mistake the better, but at this point it’s hard not to see the company as a joke. Credit, though, to Palm CEO Ed Colligan for making the announcement in his own voice on the company weblog, rather than hiding behind a mealy-mouthed press release.

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Battle Of The Awesome Non-Sequitur Adverthings

Both of the following are advertisements, kind of. Both don’t make much sense. Regardless, both are AWESOME.

Without further ado, for your consideration:

A Glass And A Half

A new ad campaign from Cadbury that has almost nothing to do with delicious chocolate. Features the music of Phil Collins. If that wasn’t enough, after you’re done watching the video, read the transcript.

UNIQLOCK

A flash clock application from UNIQLO that has almost nothing to do with hip japanese clothing. Features the music from Fantastic Plastic Machine. If that wasn’t enough, after you’re done getting entranced by it, partake in the UNIQLOCK BLOG PARTS™.