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- Let’s all take a moment to cleanse our collective mental palettes, shall we?Yesterday
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photoshop - Just because it’s Friday: Phil Collins & Philip Bailey’s “Easy Lover”Yesterday
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This is such a great song from the ’80s and still sounds remarkably fresh, doesn’t it? And pretty great video too.
As a random aside, when I hear this song it always reminds me of descending down an amazingly long escalator, down into the bowels of London to catch the tube. At the bottom of the escalator was a man in a full black and white cat suit, holding a saxophone, and dancing away to this very song.
Phil Collins and Philip Bailey’s “Easy Lover,” check it:
london, music, phil collins, philip bailey - Google Reader’s list view just might reveal secret of The MatrixOctober 8
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There was a time some months back when I believed that a combination of Techmeme and “smart people networks” like Twitter and FriendFeed were becoming so useful that it would lead to vastly reduced reliance on an RSS reader.
I was wrong.
I’m using Google Reader more than ever, and love its social features as much as the ability to wolf down monstrous amounts of information in a relatively short amount of time. If I had to complain about something (and why not, this is my blog and I can whine if I want to, right?), it’s that right now, this very moment, the pointer finger and middle finger are sore from working the scroll wheel on my mouse!
As the story goes, I just finished a pretty good session of tearing through hundreds of feeds and noticed that the tips of my scroll wheel fingers were burning up, Sahara-meets-sun like. It was then that I “discovered” a miraculous feature: the ability to switch over from an Expanded View to a List View on Google Reader. Now, I’ve known about this feature for a while, but have kind of neglected it. I do enjoy scrolling through stories and seeing associated images and a quick glance at the content and so forth, but a long list of feeds as I’ve noted can take it’s toll.
What I didn’t realize until today is that List View can be an extraordinary way to scan ever vaster mounds of articles at once while easily letting you “drill into” article titles that interest you straight away.
- Wario Land shakes it upOctober 8
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This is one of the coolest ad integrations I’ve seen in a while (via Webware):
advertising, wii, youtube - As though you needed another sign that the economy is getting wacky…October 7
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I worked for a start-up called eFrenzy in 2000 (and can you think of a name that better symbolizes the exuberance of the web 1.0 bubble than that?), which later rebranded as Nextdoor.com. It was an online platform that aimed to connect real world service providers like plumbers and nail salons with service seekers.
Sometime in the autumn of 2000, as the web 1.0 economy was clearly deflating, Nextdoor made the decision to abandon its business strategy to try and become a B2B company. In November of 2000 I was laid off along with a bunch of other people. And not too long after, unfortunately, the doors of the company were closed.
Louis Gray’s piece on how Spokeo is also changing its business model to go after the B2B space reminded me of that time.
Gray notes that Spokeo founder Harrison Tang sais that “the Web 2.0 era is long over.”
That may be true, and I also think that the post-web 2.0 era is turning out a little bit differently than anyone could have imagined. Lets all hope that innovation and great ideas and world class web products and services and execution and vision will keep on keeping on during these bleak-looking economic times and see us all through to the other side.
economy, nextdoor,
