Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for March 25th from 22:00 to 16:26:

• Apple’s broken promise: why doesn’t iCloud ‘just work’? | The Verge – Apple's NextStep-derived APIs–Cocoa–made developing traditional, non-networked applications easy.

  But where it's obvious Apple are lacking now are the services – not necessarily APIs – that developers would rely on to create networked applications. And a networked application these days needs things like state synchronisation, storage and authentication. There's not even an Apple-provided single-sign-on, for example.

• Forecast – Gorgeous. And wonderful on mobile, too.
• Forecast – Announcing Forecast from Dark Sky guys. Remember Dark Sky? That was also a kickstarter project.
• Games to play during commercial breaks – Boing Boing – Some of Hide & Seek's Tiny Games for ad breaks
• Newsfeeder | A Collection of the Most Creative Facebook Posts from Brands – "A Collection of the Most Creative Facebook Posts from Brands"
• [toread] Bookmarks for March 25th from 15:00 to 21:31 : Extenuating Circumstances – Bookmarks for March 25th from 15:00 to 21:31