Apple’s landing page for iOS 5 which ships this fall. They had me at Notification Center.

I am in San Francisco this week for WWDC. I’m not attending the conference, but am here for the week to finally put faces to names for all the fine folks I work with and write about all year long.

It’s likely that there will be more activity on my Twitter account than here on the site this week as I’ll be working “on the road”. (Whatever that means.)

Also, right now I am tweeting my keynote thoughts.

Jason Snell, Dan Moren, and Dan Frakes will be rocking the WWDC 2011 Keynote this morning. It’s too bad Macworld makes them use those embedded “liveblog window” things. Though it does have it’s advantages (like you don’t have to refresh the whole page every 30 seconds), I still prefer the normal updating-in-the-post-in-real-time-as-we-add-info-and-pictures type of action.

Engadget’s liveblogs have always been good as well, which means that This is My Next’s liveblog will likely be great this year.

Re-linking to my predictions from a month ago. In less than 12 hours we’ll see how right I was (or wasn’t).

And for way, way back (2007), here’s an oldie where I give a wish-list for the ideal .Mac service.

Thoughtful, as always, piece from Kyle Baxter regarding Windows 8 and Mobile Phone 7 and contrasting them to Lion and iOS. Here’s Kyle’s hook:

I think Apple’s attempting to converge Mac OS and iOS.

A huge thanks to the fine folks at Metaclassy for sponsoring the RSS feed this week to promote Byword. It’s an honor to have them sponsor the site because I’ve written about Byword before — it is one of my favorite apps to write in.

As you well know, I do a lot of writing. Fortunately I don’t consider myself too picky about where I write. I don’t need any certain type of app to be able to write. So long as I’ve got a blinking cursor then I’m usually good to go.

But, since I’ve got options then why not make the most of them and use what works best?

I like to write with light text on a dark background. And on many writing occasions I want my writing app to take up the whole screen. While it’s true that more often than not, my computer monitor is a mess with application windows strewn all over the place, that’s not exactly the best context for working on longer-form articles.

All this is why I dig Byword. It has a full-screen mode, a light and dark theme, auto saving, and QuickCursor support. And with the latest release, 1.2, Byword now has Markdown preview support and exporting of that Markdown into HTML.

It’s a great app, I use it, and right now it’s just $9.99 on the Mac App Store.

John Gruber’s interview with Brent Simmons and Black Pixel’s Daniel Pasco regarding the acquisition and transition of NetNewsWire. It’s a great conversation; the final closing remarks from John and Brent are especially nostalgic.

This is one seriously nerdy episode. Especially the front end where Ben and I talk about ISPs and DOCSIS 3.0 modems, off-site backups. We also talk about WWDC rumors and my upcoming trip to San Francisco.

This week’s show is proudly sponsored by Idea Division and Typekit.

And speaking of sponsors, all sponsorships of The B&B Podcast are now handled through a new division of Fusion Ads and its brand-new network of podcasts.

I love this. Seth Godin hits the why behind the what of “not checking your email or Twitter every 5 minutes” that we all talk about so often.

Coldplay’s new single, “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall”, is out today and I like it. It sounds like them, which I’m glad for because I was afraid it would have some new feel that didn’t sound or feel like Coldplay.

Parachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head were the defining albums for Coldplay. X & Y is where they matured that feel and that sound. All three of those albums are stellar. And though Viva la Vida is also a great album with some great tracks, it wasn’t quite as Coldplay-y as their previous 3 records (the intro track is the most Coldplay-like sound on the whole album).

I was fearful that their next studio songs would be even further of a departure. But, “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall” is great. Hopefully the full album, which is due out this fall, will be just as entertaining and enjoyable as this single is.

You can listen to it for free on their site, and you can grab the MP3 on iTunes for $1.29 or Amazon.com for $0.69.

Take Control of TextExpander is a brand-new e-book by Michael E. Cohen that covers the ins and outs and tips and tricks of TextExpander. Writing nerd-centric prose can be tough but Michael is very good at it — his writing is fun and light.

I haven’t read the whole book yet — I just found out about it a couple hours ago — but I snagged a copy straight away and am looking forward to learning a thing or two about TextExpander. Because, like Michel says in his introduction, TextExpander is one of those utilities you think is neat until you begin using it, and then, it becomes an absolute necessity.

David Silva also has some good thoughts about Twitter DMs, Address Book contact cards, and what things could potentially look like if Twitter account integration were baked in to iOS 5.

Interesting thoughts from Anil Dash regarding the potential system-wide integration of Twitter with iOS 5:

But in short, the hardest, most expensive technical part of building a web-scale Twitter competitor already exists in Apple’s infrastructure. What’s missing, in an odd reversal of Apple’s usual pattern, is a well-designed, simple user experience that makes people want to participate.