I think I just found a replacement to the official Facebook app on my iPhone. It’s the Facebook Camera app.

Released this week, the excellent camera app is one of the best designed mobile app experiences I’ve had. Not surprisingly it was designed by the insanely talented Mike Matas, who famously headed up Push Pop Press before it was sold to Facebook last year.

The camera app’s UI is intuitive, clean and simple in a way that the official app is distracting. By it’s simple nature, the app removes the pointless status updates and what-I-read nonsense that is continually making Facebook noisy and cluttered.

Great reading this week. Enjoy.

1. The Listening Machine

   Wicked cool concept from the BBC and the Arts Council England, The Listening Machine is “an automated system that generates a continuous piece of music based on the activity of 500 Twitter users around the United Kingdom.” If you’re looking for some background music to listen to while designing, hacking, etc. then this is worth checking out.

2. Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point

May 10 - 11, 2012 was the innaugural year for QCMerge, a web conference in Cincinnati, and I couldn’t be more proud of how it went off.

I’ve been involved in QCMerge since it’s initial planning stages thanks to my work at Ample. There’s a ton of people to thank who put on QCMerge, especially the dudes at Gaslight Software, who carried the brunt of the work. There’s way too many others to thank personally, so head on over the the QCMerge site and see the sponsors and organizers for yourself.

Been crazy-busy this week, so I only had a chance to really enjoy four articles. Hope you enjoy them, too.

1. Tomorrow’s Web Type Today

   Elliott Jay Stocks has been on a tear lately publishing three articles about what’s possible on the bleeding edge of Web type with his Tomorrow’s Web Type Today series. Definitely some good inspiration here to check out what’s possible with some Open Type features on the web.

• The Fine Flourish of the Ligature

Intro is a great font family release from the guys behind the popular Museo typeface. Download two styles of it for free here, or buy all 26 font styles here for $99.