Everyone is making logging out a 2-click process to reduce log outs “All these services aim to be platforms, and step one is keeping users logged in.”

This website is dedicated to watching Internet Explorer 6 usage drop to less than 1% worldwide, so more websites can choose to drop support for Internet Explorer 6, saving hours of work for web developers.

Microsoft is currently showing 12% worldwide usage, 10 years after the product was launched. The largest offenders skewing that percentage are China (34%), South Korea (24.8%) and India (12.3%). Luckily, the USA is a tiny 2.9%.

However, if you cater to any of these asian audiences, you might throw this lovely banner on your site and beg them to upgrade.

Most startups do not have product problems.  The product works.  Most startups do not have design problems.  The product looks pretty. Most startups DO have customer acquisition problems: they lack a repeatable way to find a new person, convince them to use the product, and take their money.  Startups which do not have customer acquisition problems have *already won*: there is no longer a question of whether they will survive to exit, the only question is for how much.

Then, later in the post McKenzie writes:

Consider two startups trying to raise a Series A round:

• Startup A: good product, gigantic market, users like it, 10,000 users
• Startup B: good product, gigantic market, users like it, 200,000 users

Startup B is likely going to receive a higher valuation from investors because  it can demonstrate more traction and because the perceived risk is lower.  They’ve already removed a key risk factor — can we scale customer acquisition — from their investors.

Great article.

The full emulator can be found here, and it is all on github.

(Note: it is optimized for FF4; the audio doesn’t play well in Chrome or Firefox 3.X or less, and I haven’t gotten it to play yet.)

Exciting where this is all going.

I currently work on a Q&A site; I couldn’t resist picking this up when I saw it.

If letterform heights or depths exceed the values set by ascender/descender vertical metrics, glyphs can appear clipped. Not helping here is the fact that type designers must juggle three sets of vertical metrics values that (surprise!) are each used by a different array of web browsers.

Good stuff.

We’re obviously disappointed by this decision, and surprised by the broad language [cited in the App Store Review Guidelines, section 11.2]. By including “functionality, or services,” it’s clear that you intend to pursue any subscription-based apps, not merely those of services serving up content. Readability’s model is unique in that 70% of our service fees go directly to writers and publishers. If we implemented In App purchasing, your 30% cut drastically undermines a key premise of how Readability works.

Translation: you’re greedy.

… which promises “truly 3-D reproduction of a recorded soundfield.”

Compared with 3-D, the sales pitch goes, surround-sound systems are unwieldy and offer crude spatial definition. Princeton is now negotiating with various consumer companies to license Pure Stereo

An audiophile at heart, I’ve always been turned off by audio systems that fill half a room in order to work just right (and rarely do). I can’t wait to try this new audio tech, assuming it’s affordable.

Mark Zuckerberg: Seriously, you guys are wasting my time. I’m sitting here listening to you, while back at the Facebook offices, my colleagues are inventing things that no one in this room will ever be capable of. Look, Barack, if you want to cut the deficit, run all the government’s IT through Facebook. All your employees are spending a couple of hours per day at work using Facebook already, why not transfer all the government functions into Facebook apps, so that that government workers can be more efficient doing whatever it is they do, instead of having to hit the “boss” button to hide Facebook every time they hear footsteps. And if you don’t like my idea, %*@! It. Look, Tunisia and Egypt were just beta for us at Facebook. We can overthrow your government in a few days. All I have to do is push a button and I’ve got 5 million people protesting on the Mall by Saturday.

Obama: Right, got it. All government functions on Facebook. But only if you can get Russia to do the same.

Zuckerberg. Don’t be silly. I Skyped with Putin this morning. It’s a done deal.

Dick Costolo: @Woodside mansion. Pasta delicious!

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“A research report published today by DisplaySearch found that sales of the iPad propelled Apple past HP for the No. 1 spot in the “mobile PC” market.”