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Great, great summation of the ReadWriteWeb Facebook hoo-ha. "And you tell the carwash manager how unhappy you are…." (via marco.org)
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Interesting stats in the article, including a nice new confirmation of the old 80/20 rule
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If you're not careful, the Buzz-Twitter-Facebook recursion will make your head spin
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Go Amy go! Continued congrats to her and Peter and Gian and Ian and the whole team behind the Snickers spot.
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Naturally, it has 24 reviews
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From 1994. Contains my favorite album review sentence ever: "This seventh effort's major innovation is the loss of singer Vince Neil and the arrival of his welcome replacement, John Corabi, formerly of the Scream (me neither)."
I am once again pleased as punch to report that my talented, hard-working wife has produced a commercial running in the Super Bowl, this time for Snickers.
The spot runs early in the game on Sunday, and there’s a teaser on Facebook for the curious and impatient.
I will go on the record as saying I think the full spot is great: perfect for the Super Bowl. And I think I’m more proud and impressed than she is.
Update: Snickers topped the Ad Meter as best commercial of Super Bowl XLIV. Kickin’.
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Farewell, HotJobs. Once upon a time, this was one of the biggest job sites on the Internet. I was flattered to have had the opportunity to work there briefly.
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What's crazy is that AOL still has nearly five million subscribers (including my in-laws, no matter how much I tell them they're paying twice with their cable modems)
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Bluetooth-enabled device monitors your sleep patterns, wakes you at the optimal REM stage. This is genius—I can always tell when I wake up at the "right" point in my sleep cycles. An alarm clock that ritualizes this for me may be worth 10X its weight in gold
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Blogger shutting off FTP access for remote posting. This is fascinating to me–not long ago, FTP was really the only way to publish a blog to a personal domain. Fast forward a few years and 0.5% of Blogger's users are FTPing anything. Interesting shift in both Blogger's usage trends, and probably of the migration of domain-level bloggers switching to local install apps (MT, WordPress) and then to remote services with auto-redirects (Tumblr, Typepad, and Blogger itself)
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Jake Dobkin knows from chutzpah
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This provides great perspective on the iPad. The startup making the JooJoo is creating an off-the-shelf Windows machine with a touchscreen for $499. That same price will now get Apple's polish and a unique user experience on a similar product. I know which one I'd buy
I’m having a lot of fun helping Nate learn to speak and watching him communicate. One of his more perplexing pronunciations is “lion,” which he learned perfectly, then switched to “liney.” So I figured we’d work on it.
“Nate, who’s that?” I said, pointing to his gold teddy-bear lion.
“Liney.”
“Yes, but it’s not liney, that’s lion.”
“Liney!”
“Nate, can you say lie?”
“Lie.”
“Good! And how about yin?”
“Yin.”
“Good good! Now say them together. Lie-yin.”
“Liney!”
So I’m showing my niece, a freshman at the Newhouse School at Syracuse, my web work, and she’s all excited by Amy’s site and so on, and then I send her to this site, and she says, “Really this is it?”
Sufficiently needled, I am going to get my two-years-overdue redesign in place soon. Netwert.com will have a shiny new home page (incredibly, I used to do them all the time) and some updates to the Ideapad’s layout and orientation.
I’d like to think Lindsay is at least impressed that when I began this blog, she was in second grade. But I doubt it. So: onward.
I’m skeptical about the new Apple iPad.
I don’t think it’s as big a deal as the excitement portended, at least not right away.
I’m dubious that, at least at first, it’ll do things in dramatically different ways that my current MacBook/iPhone combination cannot emulate.
I sure as heck don’t need one.
But, um, I kinda want one anyway.