Where software engineering meets online marketing
It’s interesting to see that the new Fast Company social networking feature is using the open-source package Drupal to power it.
Their logo is a bit unoriginal though. Being familiar with Linux, Drupal, and the other open-source CMS packages, I quickly recognized it as a mashup of some other logos. Here’s the steps it took to [...]
I just finished watching the movie Bullitt on DVD. What a great movie, best known for it’s “one of cinema’s best car chase” scene. This swingin’ 60’s movie has a great jazzy soundtrack, and is peppered with…one curse word…, when Steve McQueen, as Frank Bullitt, tells the dirty politician exactly what he thinks of him [...]
I’ve been reading Valleywag for the past couple months, and enjoy their mix of humor and commentary a great deal. However, they have one habit that I find extremely annoying. Take a look at this post. For some reason, when they mention a company or person, they feel the need to link that mention to [...]
Jack Dorsey of Twitter and the L.A. Times Travel Show “How Will Travel Change You?” guy:
Yahoo’s upcoming You Witness News will allow user-generated photos and video to be uploaded to the service, to be used in news stories that will be posted on the site. Natali Del Conte’s post about this new service runs happily along until smashing headlong into a brick wall in the last sentence. She states that [...]
I just finished installing Internet Explorer 7, and noticed something interesting during the installation screens:
Notice anything interesting? I’ll give you a hint, here’s the IE6 home page at Microsoft.com (red rectangle inserted by me):
and here’s the IE7 home page at Microsoft.com (again, red rectangle inserted by me):
That’s right, up until now, Internet Explorer was called [...]
I received an SMS message on my cell phone today, informing me that Cingular (my carrier) had a free phone for me, all I had to do was stop by my local Cingular store and …. etc. It also nicely told me to reply with ‘STOP’, and I would not receive marketing messages from them [...]