Links for Monday August 8th, 2011
What tiny thing in Lion makes you smile or has caught you off guard? Pretty great list of all of the cool stuff that is in Lion. I'm really enjoying Lion on my Mac at home, and can't wait until it's allowed on my Mac at work.
Why HP is smart to slash the TouchPad’s price: To put it another way: HP needs to get Touchpads in the hands of users, so that they'll buy apps, which will encourage developers to make more apps, thus building the ecosystem.
Facebook’s Design Vacuum: I'm starting to buy into the rumors that Facebook is going to make a phone.
One month with Google+: why this social network has legs: Jacqui Cheng, reporting for Ars Technica, has used Google+ every day for a month, and found that it has legs. I'm still not using it a whole bunch, but I can see some advantages to Google+ if you want to share things online with restricted groups of people.