May 2008
Watchbenisadork:
Online Advertising: LinkedIn's CPM rates lower... →
pile mentioned this during our meeting today. i find it simply amazing. also mentioned during the same meeting was general perception on what facebook’s cpm was running at (cents), and that coupled with their payroll and infrastructure cost, how long they can afford to keep their “we ain’t selling” stance. i still think microsoft will buy them someday.
VoiceCloud : Voicemail to text transcription in... →
April 2008
Yelp Lets Businesses Fight Back →
biz.yelp.com will let businesses message customers who have reviewed their establishments. something about this makes me feel uneasy. i know it’s only fair. i know there’s value proposition here. but it will definitely make me think twice about leaving my reviews there.
“Mike McDermott: If you had it to do all over again, knowing what would happen,...”
– Rounders (1998)
The Daily F’log » Blog Archive » Back to the... →
i don’t know how andrew long does it time after time but he has a real talent for connecting the dots on fotolog.
WatchDo Da Scene with Pat Morita on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Poncho Haters
Sox: If I thought it was more socially acceptable, I would wear a poncho all the time.
Pete+Casey: Come on, Sox. Get real.
Setting the record straight
Bagel Shop Lady: Sockyung Hong? Are you Asian?
Sox: No, I'm from Luxembourg.
hot4discourse: Neverending Story Theme Song I’m...
“Flash takes 200% more CPU to play video on the Mac than QuickTime does”
– SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » I demand video to be awesome.
Facebook’s Insatiable Hunger for Hardware →
“The company is running around 10,000 servers, according to Data Center Knowledge, citing comments made by Facebook VP of technology, Jeff Rothschild, at a recent MySQL user conference.”
Smugmug is doing H264 over Flash →
Watchthe nation of ulysses look out! soul is back - Song - MP3 Stream on IMEEM Music i be blasting the nation at 2am. take that, internet!
The "L" word
the waiter: when we come back with your food please remember your order number. yours is L22.
sean: can we get the L Check please?
Google Chart API for Maps →
neat. i think they added this in recently.
“Doodlebug: Hair’s like a woman. You treat it good and it treats you good....”
– Cleopatra Jones (1973) - Memorable quotes
“sorry, wrong room”
– Beard: Day 92 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! still the funniest comment i’ve ever seen on flickr
One of these days i'm going to beat Chris...
willschneider: will, i’ll help you shave your legs.
“have you ever met anyone who eats honey bunches of oats + banana + nutella...”
Lighthead - Papaya →
i think this is a great step forward in file sharing ux. “Papaya is a web server for Mac OS X dedicated to sharing your files with others. Sharing files is now incredibly quick and easy! It’s a matter of dragging files to Papaya’s dock icon, or the library list. The web address for downloading the file is copied automatically, ready for pasting into an e-mail or instant...
“2. Every millisecond counts.”
– Official Google Blog: What makes a design “Googley”? site performance *is* part of the user experience. i forget that from time to time which i find strange given how often i will completely abandon a site due to their load time lag or flash splash page.
WatchDigg Dubb: Groove Is In The Heart on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Webware 100 winner: Vimeo →
John Resig - Versions of JavaScript →
javascript/browser support… if you wanna get really technical about it.
Ask E.T.: Interface design and the iPhone →
i like tufte but man does he like saying “computer adminstrative debris” or what?
