Grab bag: new technology roundup

Smart JavaScript library for detecting and taking advantage of new CSS3 capabilities.

Brilliant. I have 140 years of Virginia Glee Club concert programs to run through this.

Kind of cool.

Nice writeup of Google’s recently released Google CLI.

Odds that we’ll see a 2010 Joint Strategic Plan on Reinforcing the Intellectual Commons: million to one.

Good discussion of how launches go wrong. I think the point about sales enablement is particularly critical.

Interesting discussion of the differences between product management and product marketing. While it’s true to say that both roles need to listen to the market, at the end of the day I think the difference is what each role produces. A product marketing manager and a product manager can both produce requirements, but at the end of the day a PMM produces positioning, pricing, and sales channel enablement, and a product manager produces the product itself.

Ars Technica’s usual in-depth review covers iOS 4, the new i(Phone/Pad/Touch) OS.