This is pretty interesting - Murdoch just dropped the bomb that he’s intending on dropping the paywall in front of the Wall Street Journal online. With paywalls dropping like flies it seems like everyone’s going hard after that sweet advertising money. More eyeballs, more traffic, more ad impressions and more click thru’s. I’m sure all [...]

Categories: business · open content · web1.0

Heh, spotted this over at youvert, Om nom nom nom. Um.. it’s a site where people draw teeth and eyes and the letters Om nom nom nom on pictures to make stuff look like it’s getting eaten. It’s stupid, but I guess no stupider than lolcats and strangely compelling in the same way. It’s important [...]

Categories: odd · web1.0

UPDATE: Found this great post on the problems with Java (via df). My experience with Java left me feeling exactly the way he describes.
Ok, the internet was abuzz with the news that Sun was changing their stock ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA. Does anyone else think this is the dumbest thing they’ve heard in [...]

Categories: finance · web1.0

I love InformationWeek for writing this piece about e-mail signatures and what they say about you (via lifehacker). I don’t know about some of the conclusions he comes to, but it’s still a good piece that raises the good ol’ netiquette spectre.
Remember back in the day, your signature had to fit in 4 lines? [...]

Categories: web1.0

Was just reading Arrington’s post on the lack of success of USA Today’s social networking relaunch. If you’ll remember from months ago when USA Today launched their social networking bloggers around the sphere were not impressed, outraged was more like it. I, as is my way, was extremely annoyed at said bloggers. Arrington’s post, on [...]

Categories: social networks · web1.0 · web2.0

So there’s a new web metric in town according to Nielsen/NetRatings - page views is so ‘96, the new sheriff is time spent on site. The rationale seems reasonable, in this new web2.0 world of AJAX and flash - for many sites pageviews are not a good metric to determine actual usage. Some sites are [...]

Categories: analytics · web1.0 · web2.0

Wow, this is really great news. Amazon has bought DPReview.com for an undisclosed amount. That site is consistently great for any photography gear review they do and while they do a lot, it’d sure be nice to see them do some more. The site, technically, is kind of lack luster - their forum software is [...]

Categories: amazon · web1.0

Ok, so the standardistas decry using tables for layouts, using divs and css is the one true way. You lose the ability to restyle things drastically by changing just the stylesheet, they say. But do you really lose that? It has been my experience that if you have a site with complex layouts, to do [...]

Categories: feature · rant · web1.0

Ok, this was a minor itch I’ve had over a really long time - every now and again I have the need to url encode something or find out what some encoded string is. Hey, what can I say, I’ve been working in the web. It doesn’t happen often enough that my true laziness would [...]

Categories: geekfindr · web1.0