In my mind, practically all the reasons you’d want to own a house instead of rent an apartment lie in the back yard: a grill, a small garden, and space for a dog to run around during the day. With it being Memorial Day weekend, I couldn’t wait any longer to knock item #1 […]
I went up to the little Interplay conference yesterday, so I thought I’d post a few notes.
The Future of Social Gaming
This panel had guys from Kongregate and Meebo (two companies I actually like) and guys from SGN and Xynga (companies I’m not sold on yet). Of the last two, they get a fair amount of […]
I went to the Yahoo! SearchMonkey (one word apparently) launch party/developer presentation thing tonight (a friend of mine works there and told me that there’d be free t-shirts, food, and beer involved… SOLD!). After I got back, I whipped up the little example above just to test the system out. All it does […]
I was poking around with Google’s webmaster toolkit today, and I came to the somewhat shocking realization that not a single one of my blog posts is in the Google index. Whaaaaat? I’d assumed that WordPress in general would be fairly SEO friendly, but such is not the case. I’ve done robots.txt files and sitemaps […]
I love how Flex’s (talking Flex 2 here, we haven’t jumped to Flex 3 yet at the day-job) LinkBar looks, but I’m not a big fan of view stacks. I wanted to use one just as you would normally use a ToggleButtonBar, but by default the LinkBar only grays out the “selected” item if […]
Another day, another kooky web idea. This time, it’s the Stock Moose. We’ve had a lot of debate at work on how to gather data, how to present that data, and how to make that collection/presentation process engaging enough that someone might actually enjoy doing it just for the sake of doing it […]
