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Archives for August 2006

30th

The voice of the consumer (0)

I recently had the opportunity to talk with John Ounpuu of Blast Radius about a project of his called Sutori. As companies such as AOL, Comcast, Ingersoll-Rand, and others know, new communications forums and online spaces are allowing consumers to express themselves in new ways and throu...

27th

New Design (16)

We got a lot of comments and emails about the old design; my favorite is one that calls us lazy and stupid in the same sentence. This new dark-on-light color scheme will hopefully prove to be more legible. If anyone has any complaints, or if the contrast between the text and background still isn't...

23rd

Be Your Own Aggregator: Create HTML from RSS Feeds (3)

Incorporating dynamic content from other sites into your own can be as easy as downloading MagpieRSS and customizing the script below. RSS works really well as a data format on the web, both because it's simple to create (which means lots of RSS feeds on the web) and simple to parse. With a script...

23rd

5 ways to create RSS feeds for sites that don't have them (5)

By now, most major - and minor, for that matter - online content delivery sources (newspapers, blogs, boards, videos, podcasts, etc) are rich content sources that have RSS feeds. But there are still sites out there that don't, for whatever reason. 5 new web sites are providing a free service that ...

21st

A New Way of Tracking Users' Browsing Habits (27)

Jeremiah Grossman came up with a really clever way of using Javascript to find what pages you've visited recently. It goes like this: when a link has been visited, you can use the :visited pseudo-class to style it. Using Javascript, you can walk through all of the links on your page and grab their...

21st

Washington Post on musicians migrating into Second Life (0)

The Washington Post has a front page article today entitled "Hear the Music, Avoid the Mosh Pit," detailing how musicians and bands are using online virtual worlds, namely Second Life, to host performances. Suzanne Vega and Duran Duran are among the names, the latter group is planning to hold a co...

19th

Chart Topping TV....on the Internet (0)

Brought to my attention by a colleague, The WorldTV Internet TV Charts gives viewers a list of the top videos over the past week on Google, YouTube, Digg, and Videosift. The ratings, done through a mixture of art and science, are updated every Sunday. The owner of the site uses viewing ratings, bu...

16th

New Features on Bluedot.us (0)

Bluedot.us, first introduced to me by my colleague Jay at Edelman, is a unique link sharing site that is looking to add value to communities such as digg or del.icio.us by introducing social networking and community building to the mix. Users of Bluedot.us "dot" sites, that then become added th...

13th

The Beginning, Part II (2)

Ross and I have been exploring the online world - and making websites - for a long time. I don't remember the exact date, but I know that I was still packing my lunchbox, taking the bus to school, and enjoying some form of recess/PE. My recollection of our first website would make your eyes bleed....

11th

Animated Page Scrolling with Javascript (26)

This isn't a totally useless effect. It might seem like nothing but eye candy, but it can be a great way to lead a user around a page while still giving them some context as to where they are. Clicking on an anchor link that jumps straight to another part of the page can be jarring and dis...

11th

The Beginning (1)

I've been wanting to create a webdev blog for a couple of years now. School, and then work, got in the way, but this time I've got a partner in crime to offer his view from the trenches and keep me posting. We hope that our areas of expertise will combine to produce content relevant to anyone in t...