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.
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/
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.
Monday, July 02, 2007
My unboxing pics are coming soon. In the meantime, salivate over the first pic of my brand new iPhone!
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
We recently relaunched two very outdated sites:
“The Sole Technology Institute or ‘STI’ is the world’s first and only scientific sports research lab dedicated to the study of action sports.”…
Friday, March 09, 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.
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
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.
Friday, February 09, 2007
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:
Tuesday, February 06, 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.
Monday, January 22, 2007
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!
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