August 2007
32 posts
TrimPath Junction: A walk through →
Jack Herrington and Steve Yen have put together a nice little article introducing TrimPath Junction:
Junction is an all JavaScript framework that closely models the Ruby on Rails model-view-controller design pattern and implementation. And with the help of the Helma JavaScript web server, it runs the same code both on the client and on the server. Exactly the same code, in fact.
The...
Deflation →
I have been interested in pricing strategies for a long time. Quite frankly, pricing is one of the most misunderstood topics in enterprise software and also probably the single most non-optimized part of our business. Even in the consumer world pricing has remained one of the biggest disrupters and will likely to remain so.
However, what gets my attention today is the reflexive belief that we all...
Kingsley is like such as south africa and. →
Kingsley is such as The Iraq. →
Circular Crops = Crop Circles? →
BennyPix posted a photo:
Apparently in an effort to cut out the alien middlemen, farmers of the Colorado plains are now farming their crops in circular shapes. Personally, I think it lacks a great deal of creativity and they really need to step it up to compete with the intricate crop circle patterns seen elsewhere.
(Pac-Man can bee seen making his way toward Texas in this shot. I thought...
a close shave →
anitabora posted a photo:
a barber’s shop in jorhat.
this is the morning we left for nimatighat, from where we boarded a ferry to majuli, a river island on the brahmaputra. march 2007.
Joseph Smarr: “High-Performance JavaScript: Why... →
Joseph Smarr gave a talk at Yahoo! with a pretty provocative title: High-Performance JavaScript: Why Everything You’ve Been Taught is Wrong.
He discusses some of his findings in performance such as, the Plaxo team found that in some cases they could achieve substantial gains by attaching event handlers inline using DOM level 0 syntax (e.g. <div onclick=”someGlobalFunction();”>)...
Increase Google Adsense Income with Simple but... →
As an experienced Adsense publisher, you know tons of Adsense Optimization tricks that will yeild maximum advertising revenue.
To quickly recap, you know by heart that wide rectangles perform better than banner formats, that Google Ad colors should blend with page background color, that section targeting serves more relevant ads, that border-less Ads convert best, that split testing helps you...
How to Make a Million Dollars (The New Way)
From Moonwatcher:
… given the frictionless way in which we can process individual transactions it’s actually easier and cheaper for us to sell 1,000 $25 licenses than do a single $25,000 deal.So how to make a million dollars? Create something that can leverage the Internet to drive your transaction costs to near zero and is interesting enough that other people will promote it for you for free and...
Kingsley is breaking the Prime Directive by... →
#1 Rule of Interface Design
From Bokardo:
#1 rule of interface design: the easiest action gets done most.
At least for public web sites, this is one of the truest, yet commonly ignored axioms. If a user wants to do A(fill a form), but B is just much easier to do (click a link), they just end up doing B. It sounds strange, especially from a traditional usability perspective, but this what I see happen all the time.
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IDC Says Advertisers Still Don’t Like Social... →
A report released by the IDC suggests that popular social networks aren’t necessarily on the right track to monetization.
The IDC states that online social networks will most likely require a mix of business models in order to financially successful, including advertising, e-commerce, and subscription services. However, advertising is the only model that can scale alongside growing social...
Open Friend Format Moves Forward →
We can sit around and dream up stuff like an Open Friend Format for social networks, but some people have the guts to go out and get things done. Tabber founder Anthony Romano has created a site for the standard - OpenFriendFormat.com - and explains how it fits in with Brad Fitzpatrick’s Social Networking Aggregation Protocol (may not be the final name, but it’s a good one with the catchy...
LOLburn →
Laughing Squid posted a photo:
You knew this was coming…
For the backstory go here: laughingsquid.com/burning-man-set-on-fire-early-arson-is-…
and here: laughingsquid.com/roll-your-own-lol-not-just-for-cats-any…
Shopping Teams →
Dreamforce, The Google Phone and Valley Blindness
Nick Carr is moderating a visionaries panel at Dreamforce. W00t! And yes, George Lucas is gonna be there too
PS: The Dreamforce site has talking heads and there’s no way to shut them up.
Let it not be said that I didn’t toss my worthless two cents into the Google Phone rumor mill. I learned from a certain CEO that reading recruitment ads can give you clues about what’s going on at other...
RIA Data Loading Benchmarks →
Self-proclaimed “RIA Cowboy” James Ward recently updated his RIA data loading benchmarks, this time adding Lazlo into the mix as well as gzip compression on the text streams. The tests are pretty straightforward and are meant to measure performance and latency when loading rows of data via various transport mechanisms:
The goal of this application is to demonstrate various methods of loading...
69 Articles on Free Traffic Methods, Tactics and... →
Breaking the Prime Directive
It’s a fascinating time to be involved in the “enterprise” world. The very word still screams Star Trek to me and it’s definitely going places where, at least, it has not gone before and shaking some very non-enterprisey hands. Some of the interesting places the stardrive is kicking towards:
The established vendors are copying the scrappy startups, not the other way around. It used to be that...
Jaxtr raises $10 million, doubles users in one... →
Jaxtr, a service for dodging international calling fees using your phone, has raised $10 million in series A round led by August Capital.
It says it has doubled in size in the last month to a million users.
The Menlo Park, Calif. company (coverage here and here) allows you to make free phone calls over the web or your mobile and landline phones, including low local rates for international...
BabyCenter Acquires Mom-Focused Social Network... →
You’re reading it here first: The baby and mom-focused BabyCenter, owned by J&J, has made its first acquisition in its 10 years of existence: it has bought Maya’s Mom, a Palo Alto-based social networking site for mothers. Last year MM raised angel funding from some high profile names, including Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, Yahoo exec Jeff Ralston, Tickle founder James Currier,...
BabyCenter Acquires Mom-Focused Social Network... →
You’re reading it here first: The baby and mom-focused BabyCenter, owned by J&J, has made its first acquisition in its 10 years of existence: it has bought Maya’s Mom, a Palo Alto-based social networking site for mothers. Last year MM raised angel funding from some high profile names, including Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, Yahoo exec Jeff Ralston, Tickle founder James Currier,...
Reduce? →
As is the trend, I’ve lately been a lot more conscious about my levels of consumption. Usually just simple things like saying no to a plastic bag when possible and just carrying things home with me, or choosing produce that’s travelled a few less miles to get to my fridge. Nothing terribly significant on a one-person scale, but stuff that makes a bit of difference if a lot of people...
Kingsley is SPARTAAA! →
FotoFlexer: Photo Editing Supreme? →
Starting this week, you’ll be able to harness the power of FotoFlexer with all of your social networking needs.
The powerful online photo editing service will be integrating their tools with Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Picasa and Yahoo to make it even easier to work on the pictures you find there, or even work inside their services.
Their technology (they say it’s patent-pending ) promises to...
Crain's Chicago Business interviews Jason →
Crain’s Chicago Business recently posted a video interview with Jason where he discusses avoiding structure, how interruption is the enemy of productivity, why it’s a good idea to emulate drug dealers, the secret to competing with free stuff, and more. Check it out.
Five marketing/business lessons from Harry Houdini →
Harry Houdini was more than just an escape artist. He was also a master of self-promotion. I caught a great documentary on him yesterday and it was interesting to see how much of his success was due to his marketing hustle and constant showmanship. Some lessons from the escape king:
1. Focus on the killer bit
When he started out, he was doing a bunch of tricks and escaping from handcuffs was...
Reflex: Cover flow for your soul →
Christian Effenberger, Canvas Library Creator Extraordinarie, has created Reflex.js 1.1, which allows you to add a Cover Flow effect (including reflection) to images on your web pages.
It works in all the major browsers - Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, IE6+ (tilting missing) and Safari. On older browsers, it’ll degrade and your visitors won’t notice a thing.
As per usual, usage is via a...
7 Reasons Why StumbleUpon Traffic Is the Best on... →
After being stumbled over and over again, I took a closer look at the traffic. It’s unbelievable! The lowest bounce rate ever among others. Check your stats peeps and optimize for StumbleUpon for targeted traffic. 9 Vote(s)
Kingsley Joseph: Sure sounds fun. (via Twitter / Kingsley Joseph)
Kingsley Joseph: i can haz mashup ninjaz? kthxbye (via Twitter / Kingsley Joseph)
MINDSET LIST® FOR THE CLASS OF 2011 →
A list of mindset aspects about the generation born in 1989. #30: When all else fails, the Prozac defense has always been a possibility.
“The Prozac Defense” would be a cool band name.