David Emery OnlineThe Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit
Looking pretty good – I haven’t had a chance to install it yet, but IE8 has lots of very promising features (including some microformats support!).
I did find this amusing titbit in the release notes, considering the current push by Microsoft with Silverlight as a Adobe Flash competitor:
Visit ➔Adobe AIR Download Center Web site
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 crashes when you access the following Adobe AIR Download Center Web site:
http://get.adobe.com/air
No workaround is currently available for this issue.
Last.fm's SXSW Band Aid
Last.fm have done a recommendation service for what bands to see at SXSW this year, based on the music in your Last.fm profile. Very nifty – just wish I was going so I could you it…
Visit ➔1,000 True Fans
Very interesting article on the importance of ‘true’ fans – ones that will buy everything you produce and drive 200 miles just to see you play. On a similar topic it’s interesting to note that the $300 ultra-deluxe version of the Nine Inch Nails album – which was limited to 2500 copies – sold out within 24 hours.
Visit ➔Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8
Great stuff – Microsoft have reversed their decision about all this IE8-behaving-like-IE7-by-default rubbish. Good on them!
Visit ➔Indistr Lets You Choose the Price for Buying Music
Indistr is actually a surprisingly nice site, although slightly hard to browse around. There’s definitely a place for direct artist digital sales, although they’re not going to replace record companies (and their strengths in promotion and finance) any time soon.
Visit ➔Apple to Allow Free iPhone/Touch Apps Without Special Approval?
I do hope this proves to be the case – it would be a big shame to have to go through the hoops of Apple approval (which will no doubt take a while) before getting an app out there. If Apple approval is the only to way to get apps on the iPhone, I’m sure jailbreaking will keep its popularity.
Visit ➔The Broken Web Editor
I still don’t get Wordpress’ popularity – it seems to have so many problems. While Textpattern doesn’t feature the rich text editor Wordpress tries to use at least it, you know, works.
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