David Emery OnlineConcrete and Glass
I would encourage everyone to go to this – looks like it’s going to be good fun.
Visit ➔Monkey: Journey to the West
One of the many, many things I’ve been working on recently. The album is amazing, by the way, and the BBC are going to use some of the music and animations as part of their Beijing Olympics coverage so you’re bound to come across some of it soon.
Visit ➔Last.fm: The Next Generation
I think the new version of Last.fm looks and feels a lot better then the outdated, slightly haphazard old one. The comments on this post are massively revealing, however – people really (really) don’t like change.
Visit ➔Cheapeasyglobal
No, of course blogging is not dead. It’s almost like saying writing is dead. No, what might be seeing something of a decline is this concept of ‘rockstar’ blogging – your Scoble’s; your Kottke’s; your Denton’s.
Blogging has gone mainstream, and the rockstars just aren’t relevant anymore.
Visit ➔Regarding Me.com
For a mass-market orientated web service such as MobileMe, not fully supporting any form of the most popular web browser is pretty poor form, isn’t it? Sure, I think you can just about get away with it if you’re a niche start-up aiming at early adopters, but not when you’re selling your product in cardboard boxes in retail stores.
Lazy arrogance, pure and simple.
(Oh and Ben, would you please finish your site? It. Hurts. My. Eyes.)
Visit ➔Total 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:
TechDouche
I couldn’t agree more. I am sick and tired of the continual ridiculous posts about music appearing on TechCrunch; I appreciate that Michael Arrington has a certain point of view on the topic, but he obviously has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about.
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