German “dump IE” warning results in huge increase in Firefox downloads
300,000 extra downloads over a few days, all with no advertising, and all thanks to the German government. I bet Mozilla are well pleased with that result. Given this IE security scare, I think it’ll be really interesting to see what effect all this has had on browser usage share for January.
Amazon hikes Kindle royalties to 70%, with a catch
Ars Technica / Jacqui Cheng
Amazon dropped a bomb on the publishing world Wednesday morning by announcing a new royalty program that will allow authors to earn 70 percent royalties from each e-book sold, but with a catch or two. The move will pay participating authors more per book than they typically earn from physical book sales so long as they agree to certain conditions–conditions that make it clear that Amazon is working on keeping the Kindle attractive in light of upcoming competition. Still, authors and publishers are split on how good this deal really is.
Strings? Where We’re Going We Don’t Need Strings
Music – Gizmodo
Strings? Nope. Frets? Not really. The Misa Digital Guitar, an open source, Linux-powered MIDI controller, brings shredding to the 21st century by dumping traditional guitar strings for buttons and a futuristic touch screen.
Los Angeles Architect Uses Second Life to Develop Multi-Million Dollar, Mixed Used Shopping Mall Project in Egypt
New World Notes
David Denton thinks the potential for architects with Second Life eclipses even well-known 3D graphics development software, like 3D Studio Max. “If you’re using it as a design tool, you’re constantly changing it,” he argues, “therefore you don’t take the time to line everything up. When you get finished with it you get a lot of overlapping lines, so you can’t take it back to AutoCAD.” With Second Life, by contrast, “The ability to be able to design things in real time was beyond anything I could dream of.”
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