Archive for January, 2007
Best April Fools Hoaxes (via Breitbart.com and doggdot.us)
Breitbart.com has an article about the Top 10 April Fools hoaxes and it makes great reading. The hoaxes were ranked on numerous criteria including number of people duped, by the San Diego Museum of Hoaxes. One of my favorites: In 1996, American fast-food chain Taco Bell announced that it had bought Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell, a [...]
Facebook in Charge (via Valleywag & VentureBeat)
If there was any doubt remaining in your mind about who’s calling the shots, here’s an excerpt from a post at VentureBeat that I found via Valleywag. Facebook completely removed the Audio music-sharing application from its platform last night, saying it violated music copyrights. Audio was developed by a third party using Facebook‚Äôs platform for [...]
Impressions from Seattle Facebook Developer Garage
I just got back from the Facebook Developer Garage in Seattle. These are local events started by a local sponsor for people interested in Facebook apps. There were a handful of people from Facebook including the Senior Platform Manager who spoke. Overall, a really interesting event. Some of my impressions: Facebook is an incredible phenomenon [...]
Google's Ad Targeting Quality is Damned Impressive
I noticed the ad below in Gmail today. This may seem unremarkable until I tell you that my office is on Eastlake Avenue in Seattle. Wow. From Google’s perspective, the best part of this is that because the ad in unobtrusive and relevant, it’s actually a positive experience for me. download the new rabbit hole [...]
The Opportunity in Local
Tom Evslin has a great blog and I just came across his post about the opportunity in the local internet. While I’ve written before about the challenges in building a local business that scales, Tom makes some great points about why the potential in local online is so great. grown ups full hd Tipping points [...]
Search Shortcuts in Yahoo Mail
I noticed a small menu called “Search Shortcuts” in Yahoo Mail a couple of days ago. This is a great example of a simple feature addition that has a huge payoff. alice in wonderland download People send photos around all the time and having one-click access to all photos in your email account is awesome. [...]
DecentURL.com is genius
This is definitely one of those ‘duh’ ideas. DecentURL was inspired by a reddit comment. Basically, take any URL, drop it in and you can create a pretty url that redirects to it. monsters HD stream part 1 So you can replace the following: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=2722+Eastlake+Ave+E,+Seattle,+WA+98102&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=41.682395,75.146484&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=1 With: http://decenturl.com/maps.google/google-maps-jb-office Awesome.
Don't Lead Users Down Dead Ends
I mentioned in an earlier post about how Kayak provided alternatives for people who clicked off their site and then came back without finding what they were looking for. This is great in my opinion but shouldn’t be limited to off-site actions. Within your site, users should never hit a dead end. This means, for [...]
Great Post on Social Bargain Hunting (via Probargainhunter)
I just came across this great post on ProBargainHunter about Modoshi and Dealspl.us. Yan talks about the time needed for community building and the commission vs. the flat fee approach to getting users to submit and scrub deals on the site. There are some great ideas in this post that are especially topical given that [...]
Great Posts about Comparison Shopping Engines (via Probargainhunter.com)
There are two great posts at Probargainhunter about comparison shopping engines which have great information about what users experience at the top sites. Highly recommended for anyone interested in this area of online shopping. Tips for smart price comparison shopping Price Comparison Engines – Small Fish, Big Fish the full black swan movie