Hypercritical

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk more about a potential smaller iPad, OUYA's challenges, what makes a successful Kickstarter project, how the Penny Arcade Kickstarter could have been more attractive to funders, and finally, the strange case of App.net.

Links for this episode:

• Overcompensating for the Length - 2000 Nickels
  
• Penny Arcade Kickstarter
  
• OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console by OUYA - Kickstarter
  
• App.net
  
• HBO GO Android app
  
• Great apps for your new Nexus 7 - TechHive
  
• OUYA CEO: We're Confident We Will Deliver - Mashable
  
• Only 25% of Kickstarter Tech, Design Projects Deliver on Time - Mashable
  
• Letters.app on Twitter
  
• Letters.app web site
  
• Sparrow Was Born From Letters.App, And Why Tweet-Like Email Is Just The Beginning - Cult of Mac
  
• Rage against the Mail machine: the genesis of Letters - Ars Technica
  
• Some Letters.app source code - GitHub
  
• The iPhone Battery in Mike Matas's portfolio
  
• Marco Arment's answer to What is the Readability & Instapaper business model?
  
• Dreamcast WinCE games list
  
• Brent Simmons's "Email init" post that led to the Letters.app project
  
• 5by5 show length stats - Kieran Healy
  
• More 5by5 Data - Kieran Healy
  

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