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Excellent news, no note about what he's doing next though?

IIRC, he hinted several times on twitter that he's experimenting with some new iOS apps ideas.

He's often said that his strategy was to do cool stuff with Apple's newer APIs to maximize the chance for his apps to get featured (eg. the magazine with newsstand).

So whatever Apple announced at WWDC could be a nice hint towards his next venture :)

Maybe something with Passbook... that's another languishing Apple technology that's had some uptake, but nothing very exciting.

I used passbook last time I flew home on Delta. It was really nice.

I, for one, am hoping he makes good on his threats to make a podcasting app. This space desperately needs some innovation and a solid bare-bones app to help facilitate the podcasting sector's growth.

I don't know how a new podcasting app would work in today's market. It would be competing against entrenched products on the high-end side, and a free offering from Apple on the low-end side. And it doesn't have any recurring revenue, which is not great.

That's a bit like saying "search is done" before Google entered the market.

I released a new podcast app a month ago and it's been doing well to date. Not to compare myself with the aforementioned :) Just saying that if you take the time to understand people's pain points and put a new spin on an old paradigm, there's still opportunity in any area.

Also, who said a podcasting app can't have recurring revenue? TuneIn just raised $25M today and we can be sure it's not for 99 cent app sales. (Not exactly podcasting, but same ball park.)

>That's a bit like saying "search is done" before Google entered the market.

All depends on where you think we are in the market for podcast apps.

He was talking a while back on the accidental tech podcast about a PHP framework based on the one he built at tumblr that he said he was going to open source "soon".

I don't think he can open source that yet.

I think the idea was that it already has an open source license, it just has never been distributed. And that the version he was working on had been forked off of Tumblr years ago.

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