June 30th, 2008 | Published in Business, Internet, Links, Music
Amazon MP3’s daily deal twitter is fantastic. It’s a great use of twitter. Customers get deals, and Amazon gets permission to put themselves in front of users every day.
(via Gruber)
May 27th, 2008 | Published in Internet, Culture, Technology
The other day I typed “why” on Google Suggest, and the first auto-suggestion was “why did i get married.”
At first I was surprised that the term was so popular and had over a million results. It seemed odd that humans, though admittedly a very strange mammal, could think Google could answer the question of why they got married.
But then I saw there was a movie by that name. A reasonable explanation after all!
April 29th, 2008 | Published in Internet, Links, Technology
There is a new phishing scam going around to executives. It is an email posing as a subpoena for the United States District Court in San Diego, but when the user clicks a link on the page it installs keystroke recording software to get sensitive information.
April 22nd, 2008 | Published in Internet, Television, Culture, Technology
I’ve often thought the nightly news will die a slow death, so of course this caught my eye:
Network newscasts are a holding effort. They are a rearguard action. They are prisoners of demography and cultural shifts that are as irreversible as the physical laws of the universe. Namely: fewer Americans have the time or inclination to watch a half-hour TV newscast at 6:30 in the evening; those who do will ultimately die; those who do not presently are not—unlike the generations before them—developing the habit as they get older. (James Poniewozik, “Life After Katie“)
When you can get more information in 5 minutes scanning CNN.com, why sit in front of a TV for 30 minutes at a specific time? Why scan the channels for weather when you can have all the weather you want in 10 seconds on your cell phone or computer? It’s a dying model.
April 14th, 2008 | Published in Internet, Links, Technology
Seth Godin explains why Firefox is like getting into college. I found it interesting that even though only 25% of Squidoo’s visitors are Firefox users, 50% of page builders use Firefox.
March 26th, 2008 | Published in Internet, Links, Art and Design
For all you web developers, Luke Wroblewski’s “Sign Up Forms Must Die” is an excellent primer on getting people to use your service without a sign-in form hitting them first.
March 3rd, 2008 | Published in Internet, Links, Education, Technology
How in the world did wikipedia — a seemingly anarchic encyclopedia — become one of the top ten visited websites? “The Charms of Wikipedia” explains.
January 23rd, 2008 | Published in Thoughts, Internet
We’ve had HTML and websites for over a decade now, isn’t it about time we can start using tabs? There’s still no easy way to do this with HTML, which is why most websites have a space between each paragraph instead of a tab. There’s something backwards here. Let’s get a &tab;!