September 2008
39 posts
The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President... →
A lot of good stuff in here. I particularly like the 1, 2, 8 and 9.
Facebook finds making fun of Sarah Palin...
I just tried to post the Sarah Palin quote generator to my Facebook status (http://palinquotes.awardspace.com/) and was greeted with a message saying that my status contained content that had been marked as offensive by Facebook users. So I tinyurled it and put it up anyway. Has anyone else ever had this happen?
Learning From Mistakes Only Works After Age 12,... →
WatchFey as Palin again. So funny.
WatchPalin explaining her experience with Russia.
“I picture my epitaph: Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes...”
– Paul Newman
“You only grow when you are alone.”
– Paul Newman
Led Zeppelin reunion tour gets thumbs up from... →
Why?
Google Takes a Stand on California Gay Marriage... →
Google, in a post signed by Sergey Brin, came out today in opposition of the anti-Gay Marriage Proposition 8 in California. From a business point of view, it raises some questions. Is it wise to have company wide political statements like this? There are certainly many successful Christian companies out there, but should Google be so clearly positioning themselves with the California left? Is...
If You're Marketing to Young Men, Your Company... →
New poll finds that 85% of people think companies should interact with them through “social media” websites. Especially the young and men. These numbers are much higher than I would suspect and shouldn’t be ignored. If you work with a product or service marketed to men or youth, grab a Facebook and/or MySpace account depending on your income and education level demographic. ...
“I judge the relative strength of a man by how envious they become, of others,...”
– Barry Munro
CO2Stats - Making websites green →
If you want to take a green and niche approach to your business, this doesn’t seem like a bad badge to get on your site.
“I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate...”
– David Foster Wallace
SemantiFind - Semantic catalog of the Internet →
Semantic search is so obviously the future of search. Only the savviest users actually understand advanced search operators and full semantic search will solve this issue for the common user. SemantiFind is a new Firefox extension (ie coming soon) that makes searches from google.com (not the toolbar) work semantically. Pretty cool.
Small Favors, Big Success →
An article going over how getting someone to do a small favor makes them more likely to do a big favor for you. What is interesting is not that this is true, but the ridiculous percentage increase in some of these studies.
Perhaps eBay and Amazon should have read this? →
Sad (and not unexpected) news.
First eBay and now Amazon goes Green →
Go America!
ebay + worldofgood.com = socially conscious... →
You even get to choose what you buy by your cause!
Five Techniques for Getting Buy-In for Usability... →
Usability testing (whether for applications or for e-commerce needs) has possibly the best ROI of anything you do on the internet. However, only the big boys do it. These are five simple steps to convince a small to medium sized client of the need for usability testing.
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9 Reasons Google Chrome = The Shit
Holy Shit it is fast!
I was skeptical of tabs on the top, but I like it and love dragging tabs from window to window
The Opera style thumbnail home page is great
Recent bookmarks/closed tabs on home page is great
The fact that if one of my pages crashes the whole browser doesn’t crash
Quick add and organize bookmark feature
Google auto-suggest in address bar
“Privacy” mode...
17 Ways to Boost Your Competitive Advantage →
From Seth Godin:
Some of the ways you might build or maintain a competitive advantage:
Access to hard-to-replicate Talent
Hard-earned skills
Higher productivity due to insight or organization allowing you to be cheaper
Low cost of living for you and your staff allowing you to be cheaper
Protected or secret technology or trade secrets
Existing relationships (switching costs working in...
8 Good Things about IE8
Good things about IE8
RSS button is even clearer than IE7
Its one more away from IE6!
Privacy (porn) Mode
LivePages integration is kinda cool
The initial setup (choosing search engines, mail services, etc) was clear and simple
Anti-Phishing stuff
There is a link called Compatibility View. I don’t know what it is, but I’m sure its awesome.
Restore last session menu option
Playing with IE8 Beta
Have to say all this hype about IE8 passing the Acid test doesn’t seem that exciting when I see how its working in the real world.
Now. To be honest, I only visited three sites before I felt compelled to come here and complain about IE8.
Two of these three sites (facebook.com and boston.com/sports) experienced some weird css behavior with IE8. Facebook’s dropdown menu’s were...
Google to Offer its Own Browser: Chrome →
Googles new browser: faster, less memory, yada yada.
The important part is that it includes Google Gears by default. Offline web app access included by default is the next step in making the OS more about the browser than the OS and harpooning Microsoft’s market dominance (and lets be clear, its Google, not Apple, that has the best shot of doing this.)
“The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.”
– Oscar Wilde