David Emery OnlineTotal chaos mars UK iPhone launch
Very much mirrors my experience – I got to my local O2 store at about 7:50 to be greeted by a queue of people about 70 strong, with a couple of O2 employees looking like they’d expected 2 or 3. I gave up empty handed after about half an hour when it became clear that they both didn’t have enough iPhones and their systems had crashed – in the half an hour I was their they managed to process 5 people.
The queue:
The Greatest Bug of All
A great insight into the world of coding and bug hunting – well worth a read if you’re not a coder and want a glimpse behind the curtain.
Visit ➔Nonesuch Records
Nonesuch Records have just launched a new site, and very good it is too – really love the clarity of information (that is so often missed on record label sites). While I’m at it, take a look at the new Domino Records site – the design is maybe not quite as nice, but the use of colour is lovely and I particularly like the user controlled ‘status’ at the top.
Visit ➔Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web
Well worth a read – I particularly like the automatically generated life stream stuff.
Visit ➔Phasing out support for IE 6 across all 37signals products on August 15, 2008
Good to see some movement in this direction, although I think it may be a little premature; obviously it depends on your audience (and 37signals is going to have a more early-adopter heavy audience then most) but on the sites I look after IE 6 makes up 35% of IE users (which has about 40% market share in total).
It would really have to drop below 5% for me to consider dropping support I think, but it has got to the stage where it seems fairly reasonable to serve a less flashy version to IE 6 users – so we can start using things like transparent pngs and serve IE 6 a simplified version still keeping the fundamental content readable and the site useable.
Visit ➔MySpace opens its garden, allows third-party data sharing
A very promising start, although it seems to be limited to ‘people’ at the moment – I’d really like to hack away at getting data from artist profiles. It’s good to see MySpace finally getting their shit together, what with this and the recent redesign – they just need to redesign profile pages next…
Visit ➔Expression Engine vs Textpattern
Mr Hicks is pretty much on the money here, I think – Expression Engine is definitely more powerful then Textpattern, especially when it comes to things like users, but it’s just not as ‘nice’ to use.
Visit ➔Firefox developers accelerate CSS implementation
Looks promising – the more browsers that implement CSS3 selectors and CSS Animations/Transforms the better.
Visit ➔A New Day
A lovely redesign by Jason Santa Maria – makes me want to do yet another redesign (of course!). I’m very interested in this whole concept of per-article styling – bringing art direction into web design is very important I think; I’m itching to find a site that I can have a go at really mixing things up on and making all the content ‘unique’ from a design perspective.
Down with page templates!
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