Category: Internet (Page 36 of 40)

AOL is eliminating third-party pop-up ads, ostensibly because their users don’t like them. So how come they’re still using pop-ups for their own internal services?

Also fun in this press release is AOL CEO Jonathan Miller’s use of the term “member experience” rather than “user experience.”

Random bits:

Wired redesigns using XML and standard code. Nice.

Metaphors make for poor debate. Good points all the way through. I will start to eliminate them from my arguments. Right after my next Digital Web column is published. (via Kindall)

Hart Island in The Morning News. “Most people never think about it, but New York is an archipelago; outside of the Bronx, the city’s 8 million people live on a collection of 50 islands.”

And of course, one more plug for my moving sale.

Now that I’ve been engaged for two-plus months and living in Amy’s apartment for one, I’m about to move the geek in me into the apartment.

Now that I’ve been engaged for two-plus months and living in Amy’s apartment for one, I’m about to move the geek in me into the apartment.

First step: I ordered a webcam from CDW yesterday, along with a 15-foot USB extension cord, to install during my vacatio next week. I also bought a router to network the desktop and laptop computers together.

Next Wednesday I will bring my computer downtown from my old apartment, and Friday Amy and I are probably buying the cool-ass SoHo Club 8 computer desk from Bo Concepts. I’m buying my friend’s LCD monitor to replace my 17″ Trinitron (for sale, btw) and streamline the setup.

Also included in the downtown lug-fest will be my component stereo system, which will coexist in the same room as the computer. Always nice to enjoy the comforts of the introvert.

With each added item, beyond the geekiness of it all, comes the real benefit: I feel more and more at home. Obviously, Amy’s place is my place, and I’m happy to go there each night and awaken each morning with her. Filling the rooms with my gadgets and music gives me an added anchor, a reminder that it is my home, not just where I sleep with my fiancee. Having that sense of place, and sharing it with my fiancee, makes everything feel like it belongs, and excites me for my future.

Dejavu.org has an excellent browser emulator that runs live over the Web. I’m poking around sites with their Netscape 1.0 browser—a flashback to my first days on the Web, using Netscape in my college library and newspaper office. Those gray page backgrounds are great.

I have a copy of Netscape 1.1N on a floppy disk somewhere, a remnant from my first days as Online Editorial Assistant at Kaplan InterActive, when we were squatting in extra office space because the parent company didn’t know where else to put the Internet team. You know, the more things change….

It was a parody, I swear! A parody! No one was supposed to take me seriously!

99% Of Proper Grammar Is Obsolete in Digital Web Magazine.

The Amazon gold box concept is already tired. The box is up to 15 items from 5 (thanks, Olivier), and it’s filled with housewares the company obviously can’t sell at retail.

I just peeked into the first item in my gold box:

“David, here is the first of your Gold Box™ offers.

“Qual-Craft 2200Q Pump Jack – [Tools & Hardware]”

Not only do I not need or want a pump jack, I’m not even sure I know what it’s for.

Marketing concepts are great until they overreach and lose focus. Next time, I’ll leave the box unopened.

My essay “Let it be tomorrow” has been included on the September 11 tribute site A Perfect Morning (viewable here).

Happiest congratulations to—as I know them—Mighty Girl and B-May on their engagement.

Why are you still using AIM? The newest Windows release of Yahoo Messenger has 60 different smileys. Express yourself with animated emoticons! One wonders how will AOL keep up with this fierce pace of innovation.