David Emery OnlineFriday Links XI
27 April 2007
Scobleizer: Facebook added 1,000,000 users last week alone. 3.3% growth every week. Whew! – it seems like almost the entirety of my friends have joined Facebook this month.
Cringely: We need a search engine for hate. – I think Cringely has finally lost the plot.
The end of “desktop vs. web apps” – good points from Brent.
Most press I ever got for not doing an interview… – I simply can’t see news-based media – magazines specifically – lasting too much longer.
AOL One Step Behind Again: New Home Page Identical To Yahoo – um, what on earth is going on here? It’s identical!
Bjork album leaked . . . On iTunes – whoops!
Apple Notifies Partners: DRM-free Music and DRM-free Music Videos Soon – no surprise there, but it’s good to see that DRM video is very much part of the plan.
Apple VP: iTunes films in Europe – it would be really great if by the time we got TV shows and films they came without DRM…
The Devil’s Dictionary: Usability – “The quality of being easy, usually championed by the difficult.”