At the cost of being customer friendly. Sounds like Deezer is heading for a bit of trouble. Here’s a company that’s building a great service around something people really want, one that’s a pleasure to use, priced just right. And they’re acquiring users by the boatload. So what could possibly go wrong with a strategy to please your target audience? Being in the music industry.
StainRank. I just got hold of RESTful Web services: the Book. How good is it? There’s only one way to find out, as Engtech says:
screw ISO documentation numbers. File everything by coffee rings. The most important documents have the most coffee rings
I’ll give you the StainRank in a few weeks, but if you can’t wait, err on the side of buying one yourself.
Just a friendly reminder. Andrew McAfee (via Stu):
Sometimes, at least in part, it is about the technology.
Beauty and brains. InfoWorld reports:
Apple’s share of the laptop market is growing — the company now sells more than one in every six laptops purchased in the United States, a research firm said today.
Yes, nice for Apple, but not exactly the headline I wanted to read. In times like this, it would be more reassuring if the headline read:
One in six people in the US, smart enough to not buy a Windows PC.
Camel race. Thanks to a Reddit link for pointing to this W3C discussion. They’re deliberating what names to choose for the upcoming DOM CSS selectors. I happen to think that’s important, but like too many standard works, this is done in small groups, based on pure speculation of what would be in the best interest of future generations.
The other option is of course to ask developers using Prototype, jQuery, YUI-Ext or many of the other JavaScript libraries that already implement CSS selectors on the DOM, or get one of these tools, try them out and see how it feels. A little bit of coding home work could go a long way.
What is it about technical committees that favor design by imagination even when there are working implementations?
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