Veerle's blog

Coca-Cola has heralded [url=http://www.mycokemusic.com]http://www.mycokemusic.com[/url] as ”the first consumer branded, legitimate downloadable music site”, but for most of yesterday the website - aimed at British internet users - was offline, causing red faces at Coke and probably some laughs at Pepsi headquarters.

Last year Pepsi teamed up with Apple to distribute a million songs through Apple's iTunes online music store. This deal will start in February in the US. Even when the site was up and running in the late evening it was inaccessible for web surfers using a Mac rather than a computer running Microsoft's Windows operating system. When I did a check to see what operating system powers the website it should come as no surprise it wasn't a xServe ;-)

"We have been experiencing some minor technical problems," said a spokeswoman. "People who have entered their details will be emailed a link to the site as soon as it goes live. We just want to get everything perfect - although obviously we had hoped to get it done before the launch day."

What I personally would like to know is what is cokes definition of serious technical problem because this was just a minor one ;-) Also some pre-testing wouldn't have been a bad thing!