Yesterday, Google announced that they would be transitioning Chromium’s rendering engine from WebKit to their new Blink project. Many reactions and predictions have followed, but so far my favorite is from one of my Web hero’s, Peter-Paul Koch. He does a great job of explaining the change and its rationale, and gives a lucid prediction of his own.
This week’s public flap between The New York Times and Tesla Motors reminded me of a semantic slip-up that I see all too often.
Read moreMore on the nature of bugs and crashes in this post from the creator of Redis, the ever-insightful Salvatore Sanfilippo.
The typically thoughtprovoking Fred Wilson has a great post over at his blog that speaks against exclusivity as a value proposition. It’s a quick read, and raises a couple of good points in support of an open/free-as-in-whatever approach to your business model.
More subtly, it also argues against the trend in social media of creating the Next Big Thing. The problem with all these velvet-rope experiences is that, collectively, they inspire a culture of partyhopping, of people chasing the good times for as long as they seem to be strong. Catering to that crowd is a very different proposition than building a brand that inspires loyalty over the long haul. And if you don’t believe that brand loyalty is as important as ever to sustainable success, think about the real value of the cult of Apple.
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Twitter announced a new design for their bird brand mark. Here’s a side-by-side comparison. (Useful in case you didn’t, and really interesting from a conceptual standpoint even if you did.)
Earlier this week, Jeff Atwood published a blog post in which he railed against the “learn to code” trend. Jeff’s usually on-target with his posted thoughts, and his blog “Coding Horror” is an awesome resource, so I won’t bother picking on his obvious bits of tongue-in-cheek hyperbole. Even with that allowance, the post is still wrong, for at least two reasons.
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