links of note
March 26th, 2008 by Gen KanaiSome links I enjoyed today…
- HowSoftwareIsBuilt.com - Interview with Mike Shaver - Chief Evangelist - Mozilla: Great, detailed interview with my colleague Mike Shaver on Mozilla.
- ZDNet - What Microsoft can teach Apple about software updates: Ed Bott of ZDNet agrees with Mozilla’s CEO John Lilly on the recent controversy where Apple is using their Software Update mechanism to send Safari to iTunes users on Windows.
- TechCrunch - Bridging Desktop And Web Applications - A Look At Mozilla Prism: Matthew Gertner deep dives into site-specific browsing.
- ArsTechnica - Safari 3.1 on Windows: a true competitor arrives (seriously): “Fonts are still a problem. In fact, for me, the fonts are a deal-breaker. Safari 3.1 for Windows continues to use the Mac OS X font anti-aliasing mechanism rather than ClearType, which is the native font anti-aliasing system in Windows. The result is text that is often fuzzy, particularly smaller text. Sometimes small text looks bold when it isn’t.”
- Comments on the ArsTechnica review of Safari 3.1: “Mind you, I prefer the look of Leopard to Vista, but in the overall context of Vista Safari looks drab. ‘Drab’ is better in Leopard, but on Vista it looks like Cheney in a hunting coat among the tuxedo wearers.”
- Fast Company - Dead Man Walking — AOL and Time Warner — AOL Troubles: “…what emerges is a tale of failure on multiple fronts: short-term thinking, bad technology, bungled product development, a dramatic miscalculation of what drives page views on its own site, and a risk-averse culture more prone to imitation than innovation.“
March 27th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
I never liked the business model of AOL that they should control the internet experience for their users, and dumbed down there platform to make it easy for their users, which retarded their learning on how to navigate the web themselves. Once the users started to learn of course they would go else where for the real deal.
Not surprising that they are circling the drain.