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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.

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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:

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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:

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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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Sunday, September 30, 2007

This is a screenshot of an email that ebay.com sends you when a potential buyer has a question about an auction.

Can YOU find the actual question? Now picture a few auctions with a couple of questions each. The search for ebays hidden question is tantamount to an extremely not fun game of Operation.

I think this reflects how ebay has gone from the early days of casual sellers (when the real bargains could be found) to a fully automated money making machine. This email is just the tip of the iceburg. Shame on them and the unfriendly web they weave.

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Friday, September 14, 2007

There seems to be a hot topic afloat regarding a leaked Google video showing their plans to offer “activity streams“. Basically, RSS that shows what your friends are doing, ala Facebook news feeds (which I must say, I haven’t used for myself). It sounds very similar to shared Google items, a Google Reader feature I absolutely love, but I assume it will be more of a central location for all shared Google activity.

This brings to mind SuprGlu – a site I started using awhile back, where you create an account & paste in the RSS feeds of whatever you’d like. I gave it the RSS feeds of my sites (including comments), my Flickr account, Delicious, Last.fm & google reader shared items – resulting in a single site of (most of) my online activity:

http://soupenvy.suprglu.com/

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Thursday, September 06, 2007

Danny Devito was on last nights Letterman. I always knew he was short, but my god is he short. So much so, that I needed an exact measurement.

As we all would do in this situation, I posed the question to google. To my amazement not only did I find what I was looking for, but my question was answered right in the first search result:

“Danny Devito — Height 5′, according to http://imdb.com/”

Naturally, there’s a ton of useful things google does; but it’s so very rewarding when it does the unexpected, right at the perfect moment.

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Monday, July 02, 2007

My unboxing pics are coming soon. In the meantime, salivate over the first pic of my brand new iPhone!

iphone

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

We recently relaunched two very outdated sites:

Sole Technology Institute:

“The Sole Technology Institute or ‘STI’ is the world�s first and only scientific sports research lab dedicated to the study of action sports.”…

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Friday, March 09, 2007

Costly Red Campaign Reaps Meager $18 Million on costs of $100 Million

“…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.”
more against openID (tecznotes)

(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.
the free virtual world of PlayStation 3

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.

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