Friday Links XXXIV

12 October 2007

Adele
This is the new site we’ve just launched for Adele. I really like the way the large use of video has turned out, as the footage is so strong.

Aluminum & Glass: Apple’s Integrated Product & UI
I like that Apple is aligning its physical design with it’s UI design; they did it back when Mac OS X came out (all translucency and pinstripes) and it’s nice to see them realign again.

Yahoo’s Ian Rogers To Music Industry: “Inconvenience Doesn’t Scale”
I know I’ve talked about this already but I wanted to highlight TechCrunch’s slightly odd campaign against the music industry; I guess it’s just down to Michael Arrington’s affiliations with Amie St. which goes to show how ‘unbiased’ they really are over there.

Ave Satanus
I find the cult of Scientology utterly fascinating.

Chris Glass: 43 Folders
What a lovely post on a beautifully designed site.

Amazon S3 gets a SLA. Exhale.
I’m getting quite impressed with the way Amazon S3 is looking – I wonder if they handle really high traffic well?

Fun hobby of the week: Twitter-tracking dirty words
What fun!

Facebook Apps Contribute 37% of Recent Growth
It’s always a great idea to open up your platform or site – get other people putting in all the hard work and spurring on your growth.

A Two Year Old Feature Request Fulfilled
We’ve had great success on our internal systems adding post-by-email support; everyone understands email, so it can be a perfect bridge for a less technical user to a complicated system.

Vandenbrink announces production 599 GTO and new 630 GTO
That just looks stunning.

The ‘Un’ in ‘Unsupported’
Nail on head.

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood Discusses ‘In Rainbows’
”...it was an experiment that felt worth trying, really.”

Welcome to Word Publishing Layout View
After having spent a fair few hours battling Word this week, these look like great improvements.

HACK: Enable adding calendar events on your iPod touch
I don’t have a problem with artificial product separation, as it happens all the time with out us really noticing. Sure the products are similar, and yes it would be a nice feature to have, but it’s not the same product.

Music industry: five alternative business models
I’m fairly sure none of these models will really work, but it’s an interesting read anyway.

I’ve Been Transmit’d
I’m getting more and more fed up with the attitude problem that seems to come hand in hand with open source software development. It would be great if it worked (and sometimes it does) but there’s such a feeling of elitism that crops up so often it really sours the whole thing.

Zune 2 Store
This looks like a fairly shitty, 3 year old flash site to me; not a piece of software.

Exclusive: Radiohead Sell 1.2million Copies Of ‘In Rainbows’
“A source close to the band” = made up to get lots of hits.

I will be away – without an internet connection – for the next week, so their won’t be any posts here. Have a good week, folks…

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12 October 2007