One of my favorite artists, Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls, has managed to make more money over Twitter in 10 hours ($19,000) than she has from her recent major-label released album ($0). She’s got a great write-up describing how she did it, but the main points are brilliant and obvious — she’s dealing direct, she’s giving the people what they want. This isn’t so much surprising as it is one of those bell-weather moments for the music industry. It’s also the first time I’ve actually heard of anybody really making money off Twitter, and it’s nice to see it’s not one of those “Internet marketing experts.”

There were some very discouraging signs from Apple out of the WWDC with regard to iPhone developers and the App Store review process, but it sounds like the pile of online criticism is having some effect on them:

I also learned, through various statements and implications, that the App Review team tries to actively avoid major blog publicity about bad rejections, and it’s something they take very seriously. This means, fortunately for us as iPhone-dev bloggers, that we matter and we should continue to bitch incessantly whenever anything is rejected for an invalid or ridiculous reason..

Just a quick note that Stephen’s tutorial on building encrypted iPhone applications with SQLCipher has been published by the fine folks at Mobile Orchard. Thanks, Dan!

GUID collision
inevitable, but we
live with the odds

Lifted from Mr. Kradel. I know, I cheated a little.

Dan Grigsby has put together a helper for doing simple Facebook status updates from an iPhone app with a minimal amount of fuss.

Ignore the pirate-speak, that’s my lang setting on Facebook

- (void)session:(FBSession*)session didLogin:(FBUID)uid {
    fbHelper.status = @"is learning to set Facebook status programatically from an iPhone";
}

Most excellent.