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It looks far from pixel perfect to me: http://d.pr/i/U13O (Chrome/Mac)

We've seen that before. It's better than the skin servers being down. Which they probably are.

Who? Bitly.com?

Perhaps Libya is as reliable as anywhere else in the world - it's all a matter of perspective. Ask The Pirate Bay guys how confident they would be using a .com. Still, the idea of putting a service that offers 'permanence' on a domain so far out of reach seems like a bad idea to me.

Interesting choice to use a Libyan domain for a service like this.

I use Georgify, which only makes cosmetic tweaks but IMO makes HN much more pleasant to use.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfale...

Why does it have to be such a blatant steal of the Buffer design?

Being 'inspired' to produce a similar (but open) service is a fairly noble goal, but slavishly imitating the UI is bad form, surely? You should have called it 'Blue Buffer'.

I don't really understand why he used ligatures (or why he called these web font icons 'Ligature Symbols'). Surely if you are going to be substituting letters for icons, you may as well use easily accessible, memorable and slightly semantic keyboard characters (eg: B and I for bold and italic, S for save, X for cut).

Agreed, but a version that fell open almost instantly and swayed just for a moment would be very cool, and perhaps an improvement on the standard UI. I wonder what other subtle animations might be helpful?

To my surprise, Nielsen have (after a delay) published all comments AND fixed the graphic.

> Update 7/16: The original graphic in this post included a chart depicting U.S. smartphone manufacturer share which did not scale proportionately. While all data points in the original post and graphic remain accurate, the post has since been updated with a correctly scaled image.

24 hours later, and I think it's pretty clear that Nielsen aren't accepting any comments on that article.

Hm, one of us doesn't have a good grasp of what 'zero-sum game' means. In truth, it may be me, because you lost me there.

I wasn't praising the headline because it was 'clever' though. I think the question it raised highlighted a bigger issue that still hasn't really been examined. People are focusing on the importance (or not) of accurate charts. I'm more interested in understanding why a company that exists to provide a 'complete understanding of what consumers watch and buy' is misrepresenting data.

This story used to be called 'Why is Nielsen misrepresenting smartphone market share?' I thought that was a brilliant headline, and it made me jump into the conversation here. I doubt the new title, 'Lying with pictures: Smartphone manufacturer share by OS', would have caught my eye.

Why do the titles on HN keep getting neutered?

I found it odd that there were no comments on the original Nielsen blog post — http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/?p=32494 — so I left one politely pointing out the inaccuracies. It's being held in moderation. I doubt it'll ever see the light.

There's a lot about this Apple/EPEAT story that doesn't add up to me. I'd be fascinated to read some educated speculation as to what exactly happened, and why.

Bottom, below Chrome.

This is a nice web technologies demo, and there is good information in here ( I especially like the browser screenshots), but the thing I find most striking about this is how useless it is at visually illustrating the 'evolution' of the web.

I wrote a blog post about this when it first appeared last September: http://halfblog.net/2011/09/01/the-evolution-of-the-web/

Now it has become even flashier, and even more cluttered and confusing. The swooping colourful lines mean absolutely nothing. I realise they arc through the different browsers to (roughly) the point at which those browsers adopted the technology, but the swoops themselves only serve to confuse the information.

Very much a case of style over substance. This is a horrible infographic, and I'm confused why it seems to be so popular.

Neat. The presentation would be vastly improved without the text-align: justify; though.

An expletive in the headline, followed by a pretentious Shakespeare quote. I stopped reading when he described Zuckerberg as 'an arrogant 28 year old man-child'.

I don't like Facebook much, but I'm not siding with this guy.

This seemed relevant: http://unfunnythings.tumblr.com/post/1312737586/theoatmeal