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“Delicious Monster is also exhibiting at next week’s Macworld Expo in booth 2602, where, supposedly, they’re going to have something new to show.” Um, judging from the artwork on their site and the occupation listed on Twitter of one of the “delicious librarians,” I’d guess that would be an iPhone app for Delicious Library. What do I win for guessing correctly?

Chuq von Rospach on the balance between transparency and control at Apple.

NOOOOO! Make.tv isn’t going to be shown in Massachusetts until later in 2009! Where oh where will I get my John Park fix??

This one’s pretty straightforward and it’s one that every product manager learns quickly, but it’s worth repeating nonetheless: assure the customer that yes, you heard and understood their feature request, explain that there are prioritization challenges, and Never Commit.

Does anyone do anything against the MediaWiki API? Good question. I’d bet there are a lot of Wikipedia add-ons that leverage it behind the scenes.

More of these “Wall Street shrugs off bad news” stories make me think that the market might be close to the bottom. Did all the bad news get priced in in advance?

One of the options, to open search results links in an embedded browser rather than closing the Google iApp and opening Mobile Safari, should be the default behavior. You can skip the rest of the settings unless you like animated voice waveforms.