Archive for the ‘Web’ Category
Monday, November 17th, 2008
Jerry Yang is stepping down as CEO of Yahoo. The press release is worth a laugh, if only for how much effort they put into finding something nice to say about the man who ruined the company and tanked their retirement.
Posted in Business, Web |
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Have you ever seen the show Ghost Hunters on the Sci Fi channel? It's effectively a weekly argument against the existence of ghosts, but somehow the hosts keep pressing on, and viewers keep tuning in. Sci Fi is opening up the Ghost Network, a social network where fans of the ...
Posted in Sci-Fi, Social, Television, Web |
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
The microphone I ordered for the podcast showed up broken, so I subsequently returned it to Amazon. Today, I got this in my inbox:
Hello from Amazon.com.
We're writing in regards to Order [REDACTED]. We hope you're pleased with the replacement order completed on 11-Sep-2008.
As it has been more than 30 days since we ...
Posted in Web |
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Sage advice from Wired: don't even bother trying to be good at anything, because you'll probably fail.
Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. ...
Posted in Social, Web |
Monday, October 20th, 2008
The long-awaited Brightkite iPhone app has hit the App Store. Congratulations to Martin, Brady, and the rest of the Brightkite team.
Posted in Social, Software, Web |
Monday, September 29th, 2008
Ever ignorant of how stupid he sounds when he talks, Metallica drummer and enemy of music Lars Ulrich weighs in on the controversy over the audio quality of their new album:
I will say that the overwhelming response to this new record has exceeded even our expectations as far as how ...
Posted in Games, Music, Technology, Web |
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
An entire day to recognize the glory of proper punctuation? The Internet is beautiful.
(Via Devin)
Posted in Design, Web |
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Today's xkcd sums up my feelings on mobile phone ringtones. My one exception is the "Never Gonna Give You Up" MIDI that plays when certain people call me.
Posted in Music, Technology, Web |
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Perhaps it's all the time he's been spending with Tycho, but Kurtz's blog posts are getting better. If this well of quality overflows into PvP, win.
Posted in Web |
Monday, September 15th, 2008
Penny Arcade sums up the new Microsoft ads.
Posted in Business, Web |
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
With scientists preparing to turn on the large hardon hadron collider, what better way to keep track of whether or not the world has ended? Be sure to view the page source for extra credit.
Posted in Web |
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
I have no interest in the product, but Woot's write-up of this HD Mini Stick is priceless.
Posted in Technology, Television, Web |
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Next week at Refresh Denver, an epic battle between Jay Graves and Ryan Cross. Jay with his Django-fu, Ryan with the power of Rails. Which man will emerge victorious? Join us next Wednesday at Forest Room Five in LoDo to find out.
Posted in Web |
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Steve O'Grady takes a look at chrome:
It is rather browsers that depend on choice such as Firefox and Opera that, to me, are most vulnerable to the introduction of Chrome. Firefox is likely to be more resilient, both because many of the casual users that were originally persuaded to switch ...
Posted in Google, Web |
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
By now you've probably heard about this a hundred times over, but Google is deploying their own browser. One process per tab is a pretty good idea, and it's built on Webkit, which means long-term benefits for Safari. I predict that Chrome will be heavily discussed, heavily downloaded, and rarely ...
Posted in Google, Software, Web |