February 2009
17 posts
I know it would be instantly spammed to death, but I wish blogs and comment-allowing sites like hackernews would allow me to post my response on my own blog, and then republish it on their blog. There have been attempts at this but no one has gotten it right so that the responses flow together properly.
Tumblr as an integrated system with their reblogging offers something like this, and twitter...
If It's Hard To Say, It Must Be Risky →
Could be bad news for ‘Adylitica’ but of course Arnold Schwarzenegger is the highest paid actor ever and the governor of California.
Adylitica Wiki →
I’m still working away at our Adwords project: Adylitica, and things are coming along nicely, although we have slipped a little on our date estimates. If you are waiting on a beta invite, we wanted to send them out this week, but we need another week or so before we can accept new people.
One thing I have been working on to go along with Adylitica is a wiki for Adwords information, trying...
Facebook: All Your Stuff Is Ours, Even If You Quit →
Facebook owns the rights to everything you post there.
One way I think they could monetize their data is by selling the ability to show friend’s pics on banner ads
If i see someone I know in a banner ad, I’d be much more likely to click, although that is pretty freaky stuff from a privacy perspective
“Defining the time frame, locations and specifics for planned Microsoft-branded...”
– Microsoft to open retail stores
What will they sell in these stores? Maybe Microsoft is working on a secret laptop project.
The reason of opening retail stores just to learn what consumers want is too ludicrous to be true, although I guess I can’t put anything past Microsoft.
Lifestreaming vs Blogging
I’m a fan of lifestreaming, party because it’s the new thing to do, but also partly because it’s easier to do, blogging takes effort - it used to take me days to write a post.
Of course, this means that my blog posts previously were higher quality, even if they were fewer and far between and I eventually stopped writing them because it felt like a chore.
I’ve had some...
Coding Horror: The Elephant in the Room: Google... →
Stackoverflow.com is an SEO based site: 83% of traffic is search referrals. And by SEO we should say GEO - no other search engines are competitive.
Businesses built on an unseen, unpublished and unpredictable algorithm are a bit risky, what happens if Google decides to cut off your traffic?
Could Google Open Source Their Rankings?
Google has been asked if they could open source their search engine algorithms before, and have pretty solidly said that they can’t because it would lead to even heavier gaming once everyone knew what really drives Google rankings.
Of course there’s probably a business reason there too, it’s likely Google thinks that if their competitors could see their code, they would have a...
Why I don't use 37Signals
I used to like 37signals, but I got turned off last year by their support last year, when a problem with their backpackit design destroyed a page I made on the site: they enabled ‘email to page’ on their pages, without considering that people would spam the emails, resulting in tons of spam on my backpackit page
I emailed them about the issue, and they were not very helpful. Instead...
Polymorph: Hacking Business Models →
Doesn’t actually include anything about a business model, actually hacking corporate policy.
I don’t know about not descriminating based on location: for me, nothing replaces face to face communication.
Recreating the button | stopdesign →
Or, fixing what isn’t broken.
One of the nice things about web apps is that you generally don’t have to learn a new interface because they all have common elements, that also map to your platform.
Now instead of my nice OSX buttons in Gmail I get generic Yahoo Mail-ey buttons.
Still, I see part of why they did this: HTML seriously needs a form elements upgrade, including a better...
MySQL Founder Monty leaves Sun - InternetNews:The... →
After I saw some of the notes that were being released publicly by the MySQL guys about how the project is being managed at Sun, this seemed like writing on the wall.
Maybe Google should do a takeover of the codebase, fork the server and hire all the devs. They do after all use MySQL in adwords, which is where all their money comes from. Also, if you talk to anyone who uses the adwords interface,...
Adwords in Beijing China
Interesting thing about using the internet in Beijing, Google rarely if ever shows me AdWords.
This is because most campaigns are location targeted at developed countries, or language targeted at Chinese people, or don’t exist at all since Chinese people use http://baidu.com for the most part.
A lot of people are also afraid of click fraud originating from developing country ips, so they...
Big Websites Start Small →
This is something that always is a struggle when coming up with a new site. You may have a big idea, but the best way to start is small with the basic concept and then build up from there.