When I originally tossed the Stockmoose up a couple of months ago, it was mostly a prototype–one that had taken a single evening to produce, and one that was based on a single request to my artist girlfriend: “Can you draw me a moose with a tie?” Well, now it’s finally back with a […]
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 […]
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 […]
When I read about insoshi on Mashable and TechCrunch this morning, it got my mind buzzing… and immediately my thoughts turned to another Y Combinator startup–Heroku. I’ve been using Heroku for quite awhile now, and both my fondness for Ruby on Rails and my disdain (so far) for Google’s Big Table make it my […]
I’ve had a Google App Engine account for around a week or so now, but my biggest problem with it is that I don’t have any time to spend developing an app for it. I’ve got plenty of website ideas kicking around in my head (some that’ve been kicking around entirely too long), but […]
Interesting news tonight: it seems as though Google is opening up their massive resource pool to the public at large (well, at least 10,000 of them). I signed up for it and got my invite an hour or so later, and I have to say it looks pretty promising. I’ve been tinkering with […]
Remember that first website you made back in the 90’s? Did you ever join a web ring? I did. I joined lots of them. While I was in middle school, I’m pretty sure at different points I had an Aliens fan page in a sci-fi web ring, a “download movie quotes […]
First off, a little disclosure. Before signing up for Dreamhost 6 months or so ago, I found a TON of blog posts on how much people love them and blah blah blah… all riddled with referral links. And discount coupons, etc… Their referral network is pretty… pyramid-ish. You won’t find any referral links here, but […]
