Category Archives: web
The Voice is in the Words
Ben Brooks wonders if Instapaper and RSS readers are making the web bland1: It would seem that everyone has a relationship with the way a writers site is designed — be it dark text on light backgrounds or light text … Continue reading
Streaming services are the new bitrate wars
Rdio discussion board post pretty much goes like this. Guy 1: Uhh – Rdio streaming is horrible!! Not as good as spotify by far. Guy 2: No way. I have a Soundblaster XTIWTFBBQ and Rdio sounds as good as my … Continue reading
Facebook Questions
Facebook had some down time today after some new features were accidentally released. Epicenter has more. One of those features is Facebook Questions, where you can ask a question in your stream and people can supply answers. Kind of like … Continue reading
MTV is teaming with Rhapsody for music discovery website
“This list is a pure hotness list,” Shannon Connolly, Vice President of Digital Music Strategy at MTV said in an interview with Wired.com. “We are intentionally presenting artists to the user that are high-ranking in velocity.” I’m not sure I … Continue reading
High Speed Internet ≠ Broadband
I thought it was weird that my ISP didn’t advertise their service as broadband. The FCC found that 30% of users had a download speed of more than 6 Mbps or more, 58% had a speed between 3 and 6 … Continue reading
Ollie Is Twitter
Meet Ollie. You may already know Ollie. Ollie is a Twitter bird. You can sometimes find him (or her?) on websites by Twitter account links. Sometimes Ollie even gets placed into news articles about Twitter. There’s no doubt about it. … Continue reading
The long guide for moving to WordPress from Tumblr
In response to the great Tumblr outage of 2010. This recommends using categories as post formats. Post formats are coming in WordPress 3.1 – so maybe you should just wait for the official implementation if that’s really important to you. … Continue reading
Maybe we’re taking this liking thing too far
You can order envelopes from this company and then bring the social by liking it on Facebook. …envelopes.
Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating
If you’re a subscriber to a pay dating site, you are an important (though unwitting) part of that site’s customer acquisition team. Of course, they don’t want to show you too many ghosts, because you’ll get frustrated and quit, but … Continue reading
Election season is a shitty time on social networks
From Parents on Facebook: Mom and dad and aunts and uncles became the most prolific of facebook users. And, with the election brewing, facebook became suddenly a horrible, horrible place. Being a Democrat myself, I enjoyed posting links, articles, and … Continue reading