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I agree, in the video it's kind of surprising how no one notices it.

API access requires a subscription account.

If you search for Instapaper and re-download you'll get 3.0.

It seems that the updates section has a little bit of a delay.

It's great software, and definitely worth $5, but one thing concerns me.

Most open source software I use requires Xcode to be installed in order to use GCC and other build tools.

Does this mean you'll have to purchase Xcode 4 in order to (easily) install these tools from now on?

Anyone willing to post how much they're actually making from what they have out there?

I get about $180 a month, but it's from Android apps, not iOS.

I don't know if it's live yet, but my concert listings site is now number one for a lot of common searches (philly concerts, philadelphia concerts).

It used to be like 2 or 3 pages down below a bunch of content farms, very glad about this.

Edit: Actually, now I'm number 4 for philadelphia and number 1 for Philly, still pretty happy though.

Even more level-headed when you consider that the Readability app that was rejected today was written by him along with the fact that he's an advisor for the company.

Instapaper does seem geeky, but if it's always in the top charts for paid news apps I think it's safe to say that it's pretty mainstream in the iOS ecosystem.

It wasn't anything bad, but it makes me very paranoid to text anything I wouldn't want public.

I'm sure they'll be fast to fix this, but how fast will phone manufactures be to push this out?

This is definitely a real bug, a few weeks ago a text intended for my girlfriend went to my mom. After you send a text and it goes through the phone changes the name to some random other contact and there's nothing you can do about it.

Any word on an Android app?

It's amazing that they haven't gone down at all during all of this.

The Delicious blog couldn't even handle its own traffic yesterday.

I don't think iPhone hardware is more powerful than Android hardware, but games support in the Android SDK is lacking.

Currently you need to use their weird NDK and wrap it with Java code. For example, there's no way to play audio without using the Java SDK.

Many of these problems have been fixed in Android 2.3, but it takes ages for updates to ship out to the majority of devices (a good chunk of devices still don't have Froyo).

I wonder if this means the Android Market's official web front-end is almost ready to go.

They previewed it at Google IO and it still hasn't surfaced :-(.

How is it legal for her to get patted down by a man?

Shouldn't it be females get patted down by females and the same with males?

He said on Twitter that he was working with a contractor on it, but it fell through.

I think my app has polish, and it's slowly getting better, but most of it based on the official app adapted to Android UX patterns.

Either way, Marco is nice enough to allow third party clients and I've made more than I thought I would already.

Hard Copy - Unofficial Instapaper client: http://www.appbrain.com/app/hard-copy-instapaper-app/com.ton...

It's a fun project to get into Android with. I imagine that my pizza/date money income from the project is going to disappear now that Marco is working on Instapaper full-time (as he's probably working on an Android client).

How so? People weren't willing to pay it?

Metafilter's $5 sign-up fee is incredibly smart. I imagine it brings in a decent amount of income and it really keeps the community top notch.

Yeah, it's really not much of a problem. Especially now that Google is working on their own push notification service there really shouldn't be a need for that many background services.

I believe the fast app switching is more or less the same, but Android lets developers write services that can do anything in the background, isn't iOS limited to just audio or VOIP? For example, I can't write an app to download new tweets every hour or something like that.

It's definitely a double edged sword on Android... some apps that use background services can turn into real battery hogs.

I like Disqus and how easy it is to implement, but does anyone else feel like it is cluttered?

I don't want a commenting system that allows me to "like" comments, vote them up or down, subscribe via email, etc.

To be fair though, I'm sure all of those features can be hidden via CSS and Javascript. If you look at some custom Disqus implementations (like Engadget) they do a good job of this.

I wonder why Conde Nast even bought reddit in the first place.

It's cool that they let them run the web site as an independent entity more or less, but it really seems like they don't like supporting them (see Reddit Gold).

I know most people always comment on how the Diaspora project is destined to fail, and they're probably right.

However, there's no denying how awesome it is that a few college kids can raise over $100,000 like this to build their project.

Even if the project fails like most people say, I imagine it will be a positive experience for the four guys that worked on it.

On a more positive note, does this mean he is working on Facebook's Android app?

If so, that's great, it's really _really_ terrible.

Foursquare's response: http://blog.foursquare.com/post/990202740/changes-to-our-aut...

tl;dr version: Implementing HTTPS, should be live in "coming weeks'.

You can, but it's not easy and it's definitely not something a normal consumer would do.

Although I imagine the people buying the Nexus Ones from the developer site aren't normal consumers.

The Nexus One is the only modern Android phone (besides the original Motorola Droid) that runs pure Android- it doesn't have any of the additional software like HTC Sense or Motorola Blur.

It's also usually the first to receive updates, it got Froyo way before any other device.

I'm not sure of the hours, but I would definitely make more money of I was doing contract work for someone else.

40%-50% seems standard, some novelty apps my friends have out only have like a 20%-20% install rate