Posts written for the ‘Life’ Category

An examination of Plurk and how it uses “karma” to guage your involvement in the online community. It is intersting to look at whether this type of system is really a motivator or a deterrent in social media and whether a user’s interaction with a system can really be graded.

Today I watched in awe as the most beautiful golden retriever frolicked.  Of course I had to ask where the pooch was groomed so I asked the owner. “We don’t get him groomed, we use the Defurminator.” “The Defurminator?” “Yah, it’s amazing.  It totally pulls out his undercoat and there is so much less shedding. [...]

Today Matt Good questioned whether or not he’ll continue after show signings and meeting fans after his shows.  Kinda makes me feel weird considering I was actually there and met him in person… I’m like… was it me??

I love it when someone asks for my design opinion, but I was definitely not expecting it from a moving company!

Who’s using Twitter and why it’s an important communication tool for today’s companies. Stay ahead of the curve and tweet to your customers like Dell, Baskin Robbins and GM do.

Well, it’s been a while, but I’m back. Needless to say I’ve learned a lot in two years, and I guess I’m pretty ready to have an outlet to express myself.  There is so much change that has happened online with that advent of Facebook and the social network boom that I’m sure I will [...]

Ready for a new look to your normal XP system? I found this tip on Life Hacker’s blog. Microsoft New Zealand is offering the Royale Media Center theme that you can download and run on your XP system. It gives more of the 3D, shiny look to your OS. See the difference here. Microsoft New [...]

OK, so I finally bought the DOM Scripting book by Jeremy Keith that I’ve been drooling over for a few months now (nothing like Amazon 1 click!). I’ve been learning so much cool stuff that I figured I may as well write it down here for reference – here are two takeout points gleaned from [...]

If you have 40 minutes and some headphones, listen to this great interview with Adaptive Path CEO Janice Fraser. The podcast is from the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series at Stanford University. She discusses, hiccups in startups, how to motivate employees to get behind the company and some of the new technologies like AJAX (this term [...]

I just downloaded the Beta release of Internet Explorer 7. Just tried out the italics bug that I mentioned previously and it seems to be fixed. If you are interested, listen to this interview with Microsoft Product Manager Margaret Cobb on the eve of the IE7 release. She explains the features and the reason behind [...]