[Friday Links] The Mountain Lion Edition

This week came with an announcement from Apple about their newest update to OSX, Mountain Lion. They didn’t do a large announcement but instead a few personal meetings with some key people. While that happened a lot of other great things happenend around the Web. I’ve summed up my favorites below, enjoy.

• Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle
• How Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ Decide Who Gets Verified Accounts [Social Media]
• How to Create a Compelling Browser-Based Presentation in Minutes with Deck.js [How To]
• The Rest of OS X Mountain Lion’s Features in Two Minutes [Video]
• 2 New Platforms Offer Alternative to Apple’s Textbook-Authoring Software
• In Search of the Holy Grail of Social Media Class Assignments #highered
• The Best Address Book App for Android [Video]
• Basecamp Next: UI preview
• social media may be sexy, but email is still important.
• Attack of the Memes – Inside Higher Ed
• TrueCar Reveals The Best Price for a New Car, Saves You from Haggling with a Dealer [Car Shopping]
• “An Ounce of Action Is Worth a Ton of Theory” [Quotables]
• A Field Guide to Web Apps
• HighEdWebTech – SendGrid + WordPress = Happy Web Developer
• Things It Might Be Fun/Useful to Try the Universal (*) Selector On
• .eduGuru – Announcing the 2012 eduSummit and Speaker Lineup
• Thoughts on Innovation
• The $15 million impact of ArtPrize and ArtPrize 2012
• Free Video: Getting Started with Accessibility
• TED: Jenna McCarthy: What you don’t know about marriage – Jenna McCarthy (2011)
• Basecamp Next: The goodbye list and the hello list
• Command Line Basics
• Have You Seen This Google Analytics Bug?
• Interview with Paul Adams
• Designing a ‘Modeling and Design’ Session
• The Latest Mobile Research from Noel-Levitz and What You Can Do About It
• VLC 2.0 Release Candidate Brings a New Mac Interface, iOS and Android Versions On the Way [Video]
• Detect What A Mobile App Is Sending To Its Servers
• Kristina Halvorson – Message and Medium: Better Content by Design
• HigherEd Live – Rethinking Mobile in Higher Ed: An Argument for an Admissions-First Approach
• Have you been to Winter Driving School?
• TED: Erik Johansson: Impossible photography – Erik Johannson (2011)
• How to Analyze Google Analytics (not provided) Data