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Monthly Archives: November 2007
I Thought Facebook’s Ad Targetting is Supposed to be Good?
Then why am I getting ads for manhunt.net on my profile? I’m flattered, but I’m pretty sure my profile is clear on this matter:
Mobile Startups: Hire Mike Rowehl
At first I was in denial. Now I’m on acceptance. Fine, Miker, leave. I like Miker, simple as that. Hire him, but only if your company is on the “raggedy edge of mobile”.
Execution > Idea: Verwandt.de
In another case of how execution trumps idea yet again, Verwandt.de is reportedly growing twice as fast as Geni.com. Even though Verwandt.de is an EXACT clone of Geni.com they’ve executed their multilingual versions faster. Myspace > Friendster, Google > Yahoo, … Continue reading
Macbook’s Lazy Keyboard Under Leopard
Yesterday was a nightmare of a computing day for me. Along with my Ubuntu box not wanting to restart (which was my fault, I upgraded the kernel without upgrading the video drivers, sigh) my Macbook’s keyboard would not work intermittently. … Continue reading
Delete Individual Form Auto-Complete Entry – Greatest Firefox Shortcut
This is quite possbily the greatest Firefox shortcut ever. I use my web history as a substitute for bookmarks but often times I mistype some urls and these get saved in the dropdown. Now I can remove them individually without … Continue reading
Be Open! A Web 2.0 Ideology Worth Following
Last night I was trying to grab all the photos off my friend’s fotki.com account. I couldn’t find any link to download a whole album easily. I fired up wget with some simple options and that failed. The reason? I … Continue reading
Designing RIAs, Let’s Get on the Same Page
I just finished watching one of the better YUI Theater talks “Designing the Rich Web Experience: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interaction Design on the Web” by Bill Scott. If you’re an interaction designer, product manager, or general front end … Continue reading
Random Things…
Some things that have been spinning around in my head that don’t deserve a whole post… There was a good post on Ajaxian on the subject of unobtrusive javascript. It points to an outstanding article written by Christian Heilmann called … Continue reading
“Thousands of Gphones”
So today Google dropped the bomb, which was really more like a water balloon. It announced Android, the Gphone that wasn’t. If you’re lazy like me, you can watch the official video. They haven’t demoed anything, no devices announced, and … Continue reading