David Emery OnlineMetallica Repents, Sort Of
This is not how to do it. I love that they make a big fuss about pre-ordering and getting the music “first” where first means “midnight on the day of release”, which is the same time you’ll be able to get it on every other download service (and probably cheaper, too).
They seem to have watched Radiohead and NIN do their thing, and ripped it off without any of the innovation or interest. $125 for a 5 LP + CD + Download + “Platinum Mission:Metallica Experience“ (which seems to amount to some live recordings and ringtones…) doesn’t exactly seem like a great deal.
Visit ➔Behind the scenes of Fireworks CS4's UI
Several months ago, somewhere deep within Adobe’s headquarters.
BILL: Morning Frank, we’ve got a bit of a problem with Fireworks’ UI.
FRANK: Fireworks? I thought we canned that?
BILL: Nope, for some reason we’ve decided to keep on at it – something about not wanting to add any more features for Photoshop for a while while we sort out this whole re-write for Cocoa rubbish…
FRANK: Oh yeah, I heard about that. So what’s the problem?
BILL: Well, we’ve just taken a look at what Apple have done with the UI in 10.5, and we’ve all come to the decision that we’re going to need to darken down the UI a bit.
FRANK: Makes sense – it was all looking a bit clunky anyway what with all those 10.0-style square buttons all over the place…
BILL: …oh no, we’re not going to get rid of them.
FRANK: Oh.
BILL: No, we’re just going to add some more custom UI stuff to make it look all up-to-date and Leopard-y.
FRANK: Great, sounds good. Are we going to finally move to using a standard toolbar, maybe even some of those nifty HUD-style floating palettes that Aperture...
Read more ➔Sharing mixtapes is an unstoppable idea. Muxtape is not.
Anthony’s not wrong – the concept of a mixtape or sharing a playlist of tracks with your friends is obviously one that resonates, but centralisation like Muxtape will only lead to the traditional set of legal problems (which will no doubt cripple it).
Decentralisation is the solution.
Visit ➔asv_tumblelog
A tumblelog plugin for Textpattern which looks very useful as a way of pulling in posts, videos, links and photos on to your site. Irritatingly I found this the day after I had to hack together a way of doing this for an upcoming site… always the way!
Visit ➔Building the Next Last.fm
The new Last.fm beta is very nice – so much clearer and better laid out then before. They also managed to make me lay down some cash to become a subscriber so I could get access – I imagine I’m not the only one…
Visit ➔Two Posts - One Comment Thread
I don’t think that comments should really be run as a separate service, but there’s certainly an ever increasing need for some form of standard comment API so that comments can be shared across multiple sites.
One of my main problems with FriendFeed is that it creates an additional layer of conversation on top of content that normally has a conversation thread already going on the original site – whether that’s a blog posts comments or comments on a photo on Flickr. If services like this could tap into the original comment thread, I guess using something akin to XMLRPC that would be much better, but obviously if we allow posting comments via an API we’d have to think hard how to make to spam proof.
Visit ➔On Internet hype (not machine)
Couldn’t agree more with this – internet and blog hype isn’t really changing too much, it’s simply an outlet for peoples opinions.
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