links for 2007-03-09 March 9, 2007
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“…It all depends on whether this edgy, innovative campaign inspires young people to be better citizens or just gives them an excuse to feel good about themselves while they buy an overpriced item they don’t really need.”
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(openID) knows about your SomeBigCo accounts, your OtherBigCo accounts, and all your LittleOrg accounts, which is immensely valuable marketing information. If SomeBigCo knows that I have a $50/month Twitter Pro account, I start to look like the kind of person who might pony up for other services.
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Comparable to Second Life, PlayStation Home is a virtual community of PS3 owners living together in both public and private environments. Users will be able to chat & play casual games together such as pool, bowling and even embedded arcade machines. Watch the intro video, this thing is going to blow Second Life out of the water.
ghettocooler.net’s amazing friend space March 7, 2007 6 comments
I added a couple of new boxes on the bottom of the ghettocooler homepage, the first being my “Amazing Friend Space“. In this space I take my 9 internet friends and highlight the top 8. If I forgot you, click the “Add Me as a Friend” button.
I also added an “Amazings Internet Works Space” where I put images with links to the sites I spend most of my time working on. It’s actually quite boring & is completely unnecessary, but I do like the way the logos look. Enjoy.
Oh yeah - awhile ago I added a little flaming folder next to the title of the post if it has 2 or more comments. This indicates that the post is on fire, and you should probably comment too.
I Wuz Stuck in Ur Websitez February 9, 2007 2 comments
The other day my homie huphtur rounded up some people whose content was being ganked by a site covered in ads, éS Footwear being one that I work on. It’s not always a bad thing, and there will always be other sites that do the same. For some reason this one was particularly annoying. Maybe it’s the giant pop ups, or the google ads everywhere, or perhaps the fact that they’re even hot linking our images directly. The nerve!
Anyway… as I was saying, Huphtur rounded us up, and yesterday at 11:00 am PST, we all modified our .htaccess files to replace all those hot linked images with a brilliant one that he had whipped up.
For archival purposes, I’ve enclosed a screenshot of an old éS post from the aforementioned content gangker’s site with our new images:
Tivo, Netflix February 6, 2007
After I ditch both Tivo & Netflix, they make some pretty large announcements (the Netflix one is so old, I won’t be linking to it).
Tivo, Amazon offer video downloads.
In reality, I wouldn’t buy anything from Amazon Unbox anyway, and surely these things will be leaps & bounds better in a year or so.
etnies.com Relaunch January 22, 2007 3 comments
I posted the following on The Colab as well.
We launched a new etnies.com, the biggest change is having each sport’s home page better reflect the content found within the site. We put some callouts to the latest podcasts right on the home page, so the kids don’t have to search around for the content nerds hard work. We’ve stopped rotating featured product, differentiated between contests & other features, and the flash now allows you to view each promotional item we have, instead of them randomly being pulled. Even though you can go to the site & view it, We’ve enclosed a screen grab of etnies Skate below:
But who cares about any of that, when we embraced microformats! These things are the way of the future, as browsers will surely integrate what is now handled by extensions such as Mike Kaply’s Operator. The extension reads events (amongst other microformats) and creates one click access for you to add the event to your calendar program of choice. It even supports local applications, such as iCal. Below is the extension in action, picking up the upcoming events we mention on the etnies Skate home page:
Get the extension & view the entire etnies calendar to get a taste of a way futuristic, interconnected browsing experience. Check the rest of the site for some hidden micro gems as well. If any Sci Fi writings are to come true, or you just want to help advance the web as the medium we all hold so dearly to our hearts, the path involves embracing microformats!
Google Reader Trends January 10, 2007 6 comments
Google reader added trends data, a neat way to view what’s been happening with your RSS habit. There’s an area that shows least read as well, a way to remove superfluous feeds. Never remove Cute Overload of course.
“From your 188 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 1,005 items, starred 11 items, and shared 26 items.”
Supporting the Explorers January 5, 2007
There are a couple of key CSS selectors that if Internet Explorer Seven supported, would bolster the case for dropping support of Internet Explorer Six. As long as IE 7 ignores these, web developers are still forced to create workarounds. These workarounds can also be used in IE 6, so we’re basically making support for IE 6 a bit easier.
Is this something Microsoft thought of to encourage developers to hold on to 6, or are they still just a bit behind with CSS support?
While choosing what browsers to support will always be about market share, the better a new browser is, the quicker that browser will be embraced by the web development community, and the quicker it’s market share will rise.
There’s certainly more, but here’s a couple of key CSS selectors I’ve come across recently, that IE 7 still does not support:
- :first-child
- ul + ul
Run both Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 2 November 17, 2006 1 comment
Pretty handy, for web designers of course, is running Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 2 side by side. It was actually quite simple, just follow the instructions. It involves using a portable version of Firefox and has instructions for both mac & PC.
On my mac, I just installed them as separate pieces of software and didn’t use a portable version, although now I assume they’re sharing the same profile which may lead to problems in the future.
From muffin research - “The only downside with the windows version is that you can’t run both portable firefox 1.5 and firefox 2.0 at exactly the same time but I guess I can live with that.”
I can live with that too, if I have to. I wonder if anyone tests in AOL these days? Remember that thing? I dropped mac IE 5 quite some time ago, and haven’t started up Netscape in almost a year now. It’s IE 6 & up, FF & safari for the Colab. All these new releases are fun as hell. They remind me of the old days, testing in Netscape 4 & 5, and a couple Internet Explorers. Only this time, thanks to HTML & CSS standards, things are getting a little less tricky cross browser (with the exception of IE 7’s awful handling of line-height).
Facing the Sevens October 25, 2006
Yes, the Mets lost game seven in dramatic fashion, with Beltran not protecting the plate. Bases loaded, 2 strikes & he’s not protecting the plate? Very upsetting, but time to move on. They gave Met fans a great season & will make victory that much sweeter. Mets in 2007!
And now for Internet Explorer Seven. The simplest way ever to upgrade to IE 7 without losing 6 is as follows:
Upgrade to Seven as if you could care less about six. Then use this multiple IE installer to get IE six back. Works like a charm, especially if neither version of IE will be your main browser & used primarily for testing. The only difference I can see right now is that IE 6 now uses the new Quartz rendering that comes with IE 7 to make it’s fonts pretty, as if you were on a mac. I just did this this morning, so there may be some Inaccuracies, but I have already seen my 7 & 6 standalone versions rendering CSS correctly & incorrectly respectively.
I hear the Microsoft auto updates, which I imagine most IT departments have in place, will push IE 7 on users in November some time. It’ll be interesting to see the stats on browser versions when that happens.
Update: I am seeing what appear to be bugs in the IE 6 rendering, for example, ignoring an entire page of code for no apparent reason. Still can be useful for IE 6 testing, but may always want to break out that old ass laptop that has an original IE 6 for a more thorough test.
Buzzword Bandits September 28, 2006
We recently had a Buzzword bandit almost make his way into a position at Sole Technology. It could have been bad.