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These are our links for August 27th through August 28th:

• Martin: How Big Is the Apple iPhone App Economy? The Answer Might Surprise You – here are some $200 million worth of applications sold in Apple’s iPhone store every month, or about $2.4 billion a year.
• Martin: Nine ways the Internet could change that would make Search as we know it Obsolete | Acquisio Search Blog – At this point in history we search by guessing at words that might be in the document that we are hoping also contains the actual piece of information we’re trying to determine. When you think outside the search-box a little, this methodology doesn’t necessarily strike you as the ultimate form of human-understandable information retrieval
• Martin: Facebook privacy: a guide – Ars Technica – Facebook has decent privacy controls, but most users don't realize how to take full advantage of them. Ars guides you through Facebook's privacy settings so that you can be both social and respectable at the same time.
• Martin: TwitterSense. It’s Coming. – The advent of a TwitterSense offering could not be timelier as the onslaught of noise on Twitter has increased dramatically and its manageability has become a real pain point.
• Martin: Functioning Form – Design at Facebook – Facebook’s design team walked through their philosophy and approach to designing for a quarter billion users. In particular, they emphasized the importance of writing code, sharing designs early and often, being involved with a project from start to finish, and not falling in love with your work.