Steve's Blog
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My Space music breakthrough
December 08 2009
Thanks to the ground breaking deal it's just struck with PRS (the company who handle music rights) Myspace is set to position itself as one of the big future music distributors. It will rival music streaming services such as Spotify with it's own free online service with what it claims will be a larger catalogue and without any ad breaks.
Do you think the music labels will finally wake up and smell the coffee? Unfortunatly I don't think so. Whilst at a social media conference earlier this year they were still happily shooting themselves in the foot being stuck on mp3 issues. There's a big pot of money from the newly de-criminialised music listening public that the record labels simply don't want to take. Strange.... I'll have it :)
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Html 5
December 04 2009
Html 5 is the next major revison of html and the one which is set to liberate how we see online experiences.
The easiest way of showing it's scope is to imagine the interactive capabilities of flash but acheiveable through normal html without needing for any players or plugins! Many browsers already accept the standard and hopefully through the push of early of adopters such as Google with Google Wave, the technology will start to become more commonly used. Using html 5 will feel more like using desktop applications with on page interaction and feedback response. We can't wait for it become every surfers daily reality, come on ie, lets get going! -
ie6, how long is left?
July 16 2009
Since the news that Apple’s Mobile Me has dropped support for the eight year old ie6 browser, it seems that many more high profile nails have been nailed into its coffin. Both YouTube and Digg have recently announced limited or no support for ie6 users. I personally applaud their leadership in moving sections of the online community forwards for the greater good.
Whether for better or for worse it seems that there is the beginnings of a common sense counter revolution to the sometimes extreme accessibility culture of the present day. This culture encourages us to support an eight year browser which is no longer secure or in any way standards compliant whilst there is a huge amount of easy to instal alternatives. This support accounts for significant developer resources which is in turn in needlessly funded by yourselves, the clients.
The reason for the stubborn late migrations is internal corporate IT policies which are reluctant to make changes to existing infrastructure. From the current activity it seems the developer community is no longer as willing to support and fund the trepidations of the IT industry.
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What makes an iPhone user
July 07 2009
An interesting stat which shows it's not just the quantity but the quality of user which can make a big difference. iPhones have 8% of smart phone market but make 43% of mobile web requests and 65% of HTML usage, busy guys!
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move over ie6
June 22 2009
One up for us developers, Apple and Facebook are dropping suport for ie6. Finish him...finish him! errr, sorry, yes, as I was saying as these key figures drop compatibility hopefully this might be the start of mass migration to newer and more secure browsers, fingers crossed!
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Google and flash, the best of friends
June 16 2009
We're really happy that google has now improved search engine indexing of flash files. Whilst Google has been indexing flash for some time now, it's taken it to the next step by indexing external files such as xml too... happy days!
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OSX Snow Leopard
June 02 2009
One of the most exciting new features of the OSX Snow Leopard is its support for Microsoft exchange server 07 straight out the box. When Apple says straight out of the box that's usually exactly what it is. This is a big move forwards and opens the way for corporates to consider full Apple solutions for their IT strategies.