May 2007
April 2007
“This data-centric approach may sound painfully obvious, but consider that at...”
– Kicking Pebbles » Blog Archive » On Yahoo! Mail + Singing News-O-Grams
“What’s really admirable is the ease and style with which Steve Rubel...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Radically, transparently stupid
“I was really impressed by Marten Mickos’ keynote. I guess in Europe they...”
– O’Reilly Radar > Overheard at the MySQL Conference
“The Flickr team spent a lot of time greeting every user that came to the site,...”
– Christine.net: Caterina Fake and Meg Hourihan Share Flickr, Blogger Lore
“The acronym POSH was coined on 6 April 2007...”
– posh - Microformats
“Friending is the next advertising,” proclaims the report. And 40 percent of...”
– GigaOM » MySpace: Friending Is the New Ad
“What’s a brand? I think it is the product of two things: [Prediction of...”
– Seth’s Blog: The brand formula
“Ten years! To put this in perspective, when we founded Panic, I was coding on a...”
– ~stevenf
“Using Twitter for literate communication is about as likely as firing up a CB...”
– From Many Tweets, One Loud Voice on the Internet - New York Times
“It has become known that Ron Hornbaker, the founder of Alexaholic, was convicted...”
– Amazon/Statsaholic Dispute Just Got A Lot More Complicated
“Keeping everyone aware of what you are up to every fleeting, uninteresting...”
– Kyte Launches: More Rich Media Streaming Presence
“when Paul Rademacher launched housingmaps.com, the first Google Maps mashup,...”
– O’Reilly Radar > Amazon Sues Alexaholic…Everyone Loses
Kramerica
Dean Jones: I've been reviewing Darren's internship journal. Doing laundry, mending chicken wire, high tea with a Mr. Newman.
Kramer: I know it sounds pretty glamorous, but it's business as usual at Kramerica.
Dean Jones: As far as I can tell, your entire enterprise is nothing more than a solitary man with a messy apartment which may or may not contain a chicken.
Kramer: And with Darren's help, we'll get that chicken.
“The underrepresentation of women and minorities in the information technology...”
– Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Women in web design: just the stats
“Today, we’re making some changes to how we help users find things to buy....”
– Official Google Blog: Back to basics
“There is no feeling worse than the one of being used. It brings forth thoughts...”
– UX Magazine - Stop Using Your Shoppers
“After turning down a $750 million -$1 billion offers, the company now wants to...”
– paidContent.org: The Economics of Content - Facebook: Is IPO The Only Option Now?
“Almost no new idea meets the needs of shareholders and CEOs. That’s...”
– Seth’s Blog: Meeting needs
“A more common complaint: that eBay’s culture was not so much homogenous,...”
– FEUDS: The Paypal vendetta - Valleywag
“The ruling goes on: “The State failed to produce any evidence that...”
– Judges: online comments by minors protected under Constitution
“Checkout and other issues have weighed on Google’s stock year-to-date:...”
– John Battelle’s Searchblog: Weisel on Google
“All this label-less iconography-as-UI gives me the feeling of being somewhere...”
– Daring Fireball: Stikkit
“The feedback you get from non-consumers is rarely useful, because the objection...”
– Seth’s Blog: Stinky Durian
“This is one of the hot opportunities in new new media: hyperaggregation. If...”
– Online video lets consumers create their own TV - February 1, 2007
vicodin
sox: too bad but at least now you know what address you should mail out your surplus painkillers.
kristin: haha. er... sox... you might have a problem. do i have to call for an intervention?
sox: no, you're not listening to me. i *used* to have a problem, but vicodin fixed all that.
“Word of mouth is directly proportional to risk. If I take a risk and it works...”
– Seth’s Blog: Take a risk?
“users arriving at our site had no idea who we were or what the site was about....”
– What do you do when your success … sucks? (Skrentablog)
WatchKATHY SIERRA: A storm in a teacup - Valleywag
