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The animated featured content box: Critical design issues
I saw this post from Ken Cox about his displeasure with the preview of the new VB developer site, specifically the animated box at the bottom. You've seen these before on a million different sites, where a number of featured content items are previewed...
Twitter: I begrudgingly get it
More than two years ago, I made a post on here about how I didn't get Twitter. It's one of the most popular posts I've ever made for some reason, which perhaps I'm not proud of. I been meaning to follow up on that for, well, at least a year, because obviously...
Caught in a flesh storm, with a 90% chance of satisfaction
This makes me laugh, in light of tech pundits who overstate the importance of Twitter. The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Jeff Goldblum Will Be Missed www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Jeff Goldblum The Colbert...
Mix09 Twittering
I've poo-poo'd Twitter before, because I haven't found it to be anything other than another channel to keep up with, but I'll try being active about using it whilst at Mix this week. If I make meaningful connections (and find fun people to hang with at...
Message to the .NET world: Seriously, the UX does matter
The new gig I started in December as the company's technical architect ("technical" to make the distinction that it's not "information architect") has been an interesting experience for me thus far. My experience at Insurance.com was excellent in so many...
Nine years of CoasterBuzz
As I posted earlier today , CoasterBuzz has now been around for nine years. That's a fourth of my life! In that time I've been married and divorced, owned three cars, had eight jobs, wrote a book and God knows what else. It's a long time. In the last...
Launching QuickTime movies in the player using ASP.NET AJAX framework
As my dearest friends know, I once existed as a broadcast monkey prior to my life as a code monkey. It gives me great joy that it's finally at least somewhat practical to deliver short-form high definition video via the Internet, even if it is only a...
Twitter is all about Scoble? Twitter is about something else
It seems like a good post from the folks at Twitter has been interpreted by Scoble as being all about him . I gotta say, I'm just not seeing it. I'm also not sure why Scoble is throwing such a public tantrum about Twitter's down time. Regardless of what...
Why Ariel is right about communities and doing what is right
There was some controversy surrounding Twitter's non-reaction to dealing with some allegedly harassing posts recently , with the noise being made by a user who is reasonably well known in certain tech circles. (The fact that she works for competitor Pownce...
$80 million Twitter
Twitter scores another $15 million, and it's worth around $80 million. So let me get this straight... A Web app with no business model that basically blogs short entries and aggregates them is worth $80 million. Doesn't that feel very 1999 to you?
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