Apple.com has a new menu bar. The product selection carousel on the Mac and iPod pages also saw an update.

Tumblr’s brand new downtime page

They used my TumblBeasts!

Thanks guys!

–The Oatmeal

Introducing The iCard

Not surprising to hear that NFC is coming to the iPhone given that this is already built into the Nexus S. But good to hear nonetheless.

Interesting that it’s said to be built into the iPad 2 as well…

They key here is it being tied into your iTunes account (or some variation). That would be beyond a massive win for both NFC and Apple.

Imagine if they could get a cut of all those transactions —I mean, just think about that for a second. It’s hard to know what to say about that. Something with a lot of superlatives.

Introducing The iCard

My Trilogy Kicks Your Trilogy’s Ass

Great use of the logos there

Source: Laughing Squid

foursquare infographic

larger version of the checkin map

Source: foursquare.com

Microsoft: Users want choice.

Google: Users want open.

Apple: Users want things they can actually use to get their stuff done.

Mike Lee, via Twitter (via nikf)

laughingsquid:

Angry Birds Meet Sesame Street

Source: Laughing Squid

the Microsoft of 2011 doesn’t compete effectively with the Apple of 2007

Paul Thurrot compared the first three months of Windows Phone 7 to the iPhone’s first three months back in 2007. Microsoft has publicly released nothing in three months to improve WP7 while Apple from August to October 2007 had released bug and security fixes, new features and new services for iOS.