As if our web developers didn't already have enough standards-fudging and code-juggling to optimize websites for every conceivable end-user browser, Google launched the public release of Google Chrome today — and I was right in line to download it. The Installation .exe file was small (a little over 400 kb),...
Continue ReadingA few days ago the John McCain campaign launched a new version of their social networking tool, McCainSpace. Having written about McCainSpace critically before, I figured I’d share some quick thoughts on the tool:
(1) The new version is built using a white label social networking product called KickApps,...
Continue ReadingOk, maybe I'm a bad person who relies upon stereotypes too much, but one would think a site for geeks would actually have great features since geeks are so tech savvy. Wrong.
While browsing through the magazine rack at Borders Books earlier this summer, I came across Geek Monthly with its cover girl,...
Continue ReadingI read an interesting ebook yesterday titled The Taxonomy Folksonomy Cookbook by Daniela Barbosa of the Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group. She's a product manager working with the taxonomy and metadata management tool Synaptica. In this "cookbook" Barbosa argues that companies should use both taxonomies (created top-down with rigid rules) and folksonomies (created from the top-up with flexible rules) to organize their data....
Continue ReadingGetting an article on the front page of Digg often takes a lot more than just writing good (or viral) content. Many of the stories that make it to the Digg front page do so as a result of a mini-PR campaign, with submitters actively recruiting diggs via back channels such Twitter,...
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