1. Web services marketing: double-sided incentives. Example: Dropbox implemented a referral program that had benefits to both the referrer (they got more storage from Dropbox) and referee (they got a better deal on Dropbox’s service). More detailed analysis

2. Scoble’s favourite tweets is a good source of tech news. But why can’t I follow that list on Twitter (as opposed to following Scoble)? Or can I? Couldn’t figure out a way to do it.

3. Transmit 4 for Mac is out and looks good. Modernized interface, added S3 support. However, their support for mounting as a volume seems buggy (I mounted a drive that I couldn’t eject) hence for that I’m sticking with ExpanDrive for now.

As a side note, the design of their web page for Transmit (interactive screenshot that shows the features) is awesome and also crazy complicated underneath (that’s html for you).

4. Good redis tutorial.

5. NextStop looks good. It’s another take on urban recommendations (like yelp). Focused on people creating guides for specific things (e.g. best sushi restaurants in San Francisco) and not generic reviews. Website is nicer than yelp and the mobile version of the website is impressive. Found via this post

6. Google Wave waves can now be embedded in web pages as read only elements. It’s a step in the right direction, but still not good enough. My use case is embedding waves in this blog and I would like integrate the waves visually with the rest of the blog. The reader should not know if a given article comes from my database or is a wave. Unfortunately waves are enclosed with Wave UI chrome, including their funky scrollbar. They have their own, unique look. To be able to visually integrate with the look of the website, I would need an option to remove all UI chrome, including a scrollbar, and just insert the html content.

7. Apple drops Mac apps from Apple Design Awards, traditionally given out at WWDC. Prominent mac indie devs express their disappointment. No surprise there. The same mac developers were, in the past, usually among the most forgiving when it came to Apple’s increasingly ridiculous App Store rules. Rules that, if implemented by another company (say Microsoft) would have (and did have) brought an epidemic of complaints, not to mention an anti-trust investigation.

I wonder if they’ll show Apple as much love in the future given not so subtle relegation of Mac as the third most important platform (i.e. not too important) for Apple.