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Bye, Bye, BuyMusic.com

by Ryan Parman • March 29, 2004 • Browsers, Creating Websites • No comments

Do you guys happen to remember BuyMusic.com and all of the fuss from the web standards community this past summer?

Well, according to the guys over at As the Apple Turns, it appears that the BuyMusic.com experiment was a complete and utter failure. Are we suprised? We think not.

I suppose it was a bad idea to lock out users of Mozilla, Opera, Safari, Linux, MacOS, and other technologically advanced groups of people.

Ryan Parman

Ryan Parman is an entrepreneur, open source evangelist and passionate usability advocate currently living in Seattle. He is the founder and visionary behind SimplePie and CloudFusion, co-founder of WarpShare, member of the RSS Advisory Board, and is currently with Amazon. Ryan's aptly-named blog, Flailing Wildly, is where he writes about ideas longer than 140 characters.

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