Comments for Daniel White

Comment on The Influence of Chrome by GeeDee

GeeDee — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:23:54 +0000

Firefox was awesome when it was released, I just think that they haven’t kept to their original plan to make a stripped-down, fast piece of software – it just feels quite bloated now. Neither MS or Apple have been great open source contributors, I much prefer the Google approach of basing software on open standards and supporting open source.

Comment on The Influence of Chrome by Omar

Omar — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:09:24 +0000

I think Firefox is awesome. I think it paved the way for browsers such as Chrome and showed how there is better way than IE! All that aside, I do think Firefox can learn things from Chrome: I would like to see each tab being a separate instance of the browser in Firefox as well. It is really useful when something (mostly flash) crashes the browser.

Also, it is an interesting point you made about how people are moving away from Windows to open source alternatives like Chrome OS and Android (it is definitely good to see open source taking off more and more). I know that Windows has the lion’s share of users, but I do think Apple are far worse than Windows when it comes to the ethos of open source. It’s just that they have a more fanatical followers. Anyway, I decided to mention Apple because here in the US they are everywhere and have really annoying ad campaigns ;-)

Comment on Tomorrow, I start work at Google by GeeDee

GeeDee — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:44:24 +0000

Cheers Omar! If you ever feel the need to apply let me know and I’ll forward your CV if you like? Internal recommendations don’t do any harm.

First couple of days have been pretty crazy, but I’m having fun.

Comment on Tomorrow, I start work at Google by Omar

Omar — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:36:27 +0000

Woohoo! Congratulations mate. Got to admit, Google does sound like a good place to work: quite envious. Hope it is interesting work and a fun place to be at. Look forward to reading more about it.

Comment on Pirate Bay, Spotify and DRM by Daniel White

Daniel White — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:14:43 +0000

Thanks for the comment, my first one on this blog! I love Spotify too – but advertising isn’t going to support anyone except U2, Kanye West and Coldplay. I don’t know if the paid version of Spotify delivers any more music to the musicians either? The real problem here is the record labels being used to getting such a large slice of the pie.

Comment on Pirate Bay, Spotify and DRM by Nick Anstead

Nick Anstead — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:48:59 +0000

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the response. Just to be clear – I don’t quite claim that spotify is the future of music (although I will admit to being a huge fan of the service personally). What I instead meant – and apologies if this was unclear – is that attempting to create alternative business models is the future of the content industry, including both targeted advertising, increased use of live performing and models we probably haven’t even though of yet. As you correctly point out the previous approach (simply put: printing CDs and selling them at colossal margins) is completely unsustainable.

Best, Nick