Thursday, October 15, 2009
A few months ago Wired Magazine wrote a piece about the potential of Facebook surpassing Google search in Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out. Their largest argument to make this point:
“At press time, [Facebook] was also planning to launch Facebook Search, allowing users to scour one another’s feeds. Want to see what some anonymous schmuck thought about the Battlestar Galactica finale? Check out Google. Want to see what your friends had to say? Try Facebook Search.”
The future of search most assuredly involves your network of friends, family & peers, but the spot for that search will not be Facebook. Their largest hurdle is that Facebooks Great Wall is holding back a Great Mound of useless garbage.
I’m convinced that the content within Facebook will never rise to a level of usability required to dominate the internet in the fashion Wired believes. Facebook, or someone else specializing in this type of content will always thrive, but will remain as they are today; a completely separate, much less useful version of some other kind of web.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
My new family is preparing to find a place we can really call home. We’ve been scouring the web taking in as much real estate knowledge as humanly possible and are prepared to commit to a buyer’s agent. We’ve even weeded out a local agent who stands a bit taller than the rest.
What I’d like to do before we commit, is compose a tweet summoning local buyer’s agents to contact me. Similar to brands that are alerted of mentions of themselves in the Twitosphere, I’m assuming a real estate professional using Twitter would follow specific keywords, perhaps even zip codes. They can then follow up with the twitterer, offering their services.
When I went to compose this tweet, I realized I don’t know the twit vernacular that will maximize my exposure. I’m thinking keywords would be a start. I’ve also seen tweets precede keywords with the pound symbol. For example, “#skate”. I assume that is to get themselves bunched in with some kind of keywording group?
This is what I’ve come up with. Any advice on maximizing my tweet?
In search of a buyer’s agent. North NJ, NY Metropolitan area. Real estate 07086. DM if that’s you.
Monday, April 06, 2009
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Wow, can you imagine an internet with a monthly data cap? A dark and scary place.
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The killer feature is overlay layout: it allows you to stack a partially transparent browser on top of a design mockup or any other browser… The full version of SuperPreview appears in the next release of Microsoft Expression Web.
Included in Expression Web? I take that link back. SuperPreview looks like something I’ll never use.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Update: These BBEdit Color Schemes and several new ones are now rolled up in a BBEdit 10 friendly package and available for download.
Update: BBEdit 10 has rolled BBColors into their own theme structure. Any installed BBColor themes will be auto-recognized by BBEdit 10.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
This multimedia mirror may work for women. I’ll go days, if not weeks, without seeing myself. If something’s terribly amiss, my significant other will point it out for me. Although she won’t mention the current temperature afterward.
Monday, March 17, 2008
There’s been a lot of discussion over Internet Explorer 8′s handling of web standards. The main concern is whether or not version 8 should support web standards out of the box, or default to IE7′s less strict web standards behavior. Microsoft has gone as far as to make a decision to support IE7′s less strict web standards by default, only to announce that they were wrong and launched IE8 Beta in strict standards mode.
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Activities: Microsoft’s version of microformats? They’re awfully similar & require no work for the developer. The downside? HTML documents will continue to lack the rich markup that microformats offer. We can continue using microformats to mark up our documents of course, but I wonder if this will stagnate their growth.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Just a tip. If you’re ever using SWFObject to write out your flash files and ExternalInterface to communicate with them, in Internet Explorer (6 & 7), make sure that the ID of your embedded flash file is all lowercase.
Take this basic code for example, used to mute the audio in a flash file from within HTML:
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Here’s a screenshot of what Internet Explorer 7 displays when it can’t find the URL you’re looking for:
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
My cable bill has been a consistent $145 a month and I really think it’s time to scale back. I whipped up a little spreadsheet to see my potential savings over the next 7 months, my time frame for packing up & moving east.
The savings quickly adds up:
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