Last time, the advertisers were way off (well, depending on your interpretation of their target audience (and given that there’s this, I suppose there is a lot of room for interpretation).
Here’s a recent Facebook targeted ad, which at least gets it half right:
As a side note, telling me what “you know” about me makes me [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on September 11th, 2008 | No Comments »
How long until all the ‘pundits’ (and by pundits I mean, Don Reisinger at TechCrunch, who recently brought me this thought-provoking post that I really liked about Hulu) realize that each tab is running as its own process? It sure seems like it’s running on only 45 MB of memory… until you look a little [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on September 2nd, 2008 | No Comments »
TechCrunch ran a post about Why Twitter Hasn’t Failed despite multiple, long outages in its short existence.
Here’s the money quote (for me):
Twitter has a simple premise: You tweet & the message is pushed to your friends. The actual mechanics are slightly different (messages go to everyone who follows you, whether they’re your “friends” or [...]
Filed under: Facebook, RSS on August 12th, 2008 | No Comments »
I recently discovered: Amazon’s “Add to Universal Wish List”. In a word: Awesome!
The Universal Wish List is pretty much just what it sounds like. You get a bookmarklet which pops up a div over a web page that has something you want to buy. You put in the price, pick a picture and a wish [...]
Filed under: Amazon on July 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
That’s what I’m talking about! (TechCrunch)
Netflix is coming to the Xbox 360 this fall. Netflix subscribers will have instant access to over 10,000 movies and TV shows, streamed directly to the Xbox 360 console.
Filed under: Uncategorized on July 15th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yes, the title is intended to be dramatic.
First, there’s the feelgood part: Netflix has decided to keep separate profiles for single accounts. As a Netflix subscriber: Thank you. When I heard they were going to eliminate the profiles, I wondered (right after copying my 300+ DVD queue into a an OpenOffice spreadsheet) if there was [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on July 2nd, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s a recent Facebook ad:
Okay, in truth, that was just an ad on an application in Facebook, which probably means they just show that to everyone who has the app installed. (Just for reference, it’s the Basketball Fan Application)
But here is something I just can’t understand: (No, not how I could just kill a man [...]
Filed under: Facebook, NBA on July 1st, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I really, really, really want to run Firefox 3. I’ve tested it out in the Beta versions and it has much better memory management, which, for me, is about the only thing I think really needs improvement in Firefox.
The problem is that Firefox 3 doesn’t accept (still) self-signed certificates. This is generally a good thing [...]
Filed under: Firefox on May 19th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Charles Nutter talks about reducing the number of people he’s following on Twitter. Here’s a quote from the post:
To me, the value of Twitter is both in keeping track of what people I respect are working on or find interesting and as a sort of micro-feed, a little forced 2-second thought break to help me [...]
Filed under: Twitter on May 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
According to ReadWriteWeb, yesterday was RSS Awareness Day. I totally missed it, but it’s funny because yesterday Soup.io did something really weird with my Hulu RSS feed. At first, I thought it was a problem with the feed itself, but the feed itself in my Google Reader has only my most recently viewed items, whereas [...]
Filed under: Hulu, RSS on May 2nd, 2008 | 1 Comment »