August 27th, 2008 | Published in Technology | Comment
A couple of friends and family have been asking:
What’s up w/ the status updates I see quite often?
What’s w/ the “@” (at symbol) next to names on your status?
What the heck is a tweet?
Rather than pointing them to Twitter’s site, I rather just show them this video:
I hope that makes sense. Thanks to Common Craft. They have done a great job explaining it “in plain english” =)
Update
Some Twitter terms written by Peter Cashmore on Mashable.
August 8th, 2008 | Published in Design | Comment
Nice animation from Del.icio.us showing how they got to their new design.
October 3rd, 2006 | Published in Uncategorized
In the next several days we will unveil the Valleyschwag General Store, where our customers will be able to purchase future issues of our famous schwag bags. And by popular demand, we will be offering some of our most requested schwag items for sale.
This store replaces our subscription service altogether. We will notify people by email when a new issue of Valleyschwag is available, giving them the first opportunity to place an order at the General Store…
May 12th, 2006 | Published in Design
One of the sites I frequent, TechCrunch, has emerged with a redesign.
TechCrunch, founded on June 11, 2005, is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new web 2.0 products and companies. In addition to new companies, we will profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the web 2.0 space. TechCrunch is edited by Michael Arrington, who also writes a companion blog, CrunchNotes.
This time around, things seems to be quite green. Other notable features of the redesign would be that the main-content area got moved from the center, to the left. Following that, most of the ads were then flanked on the right, which used to be on the left and right sides of the main-content.
I don’t know what it is, but the green skin just reminds me too much of Technorati’s. Besides that, I think the font-size and line-height improves on usability from the last version. Although, I kind of am still used to the subtle, natural colors of the last one. Anyways, congrats to Michael and cre8d design/Rachel Cunliffe on the launch.
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coComment Helps Us Remember What We’ve Said
April 29th, 2006 | Published in Technology
I was actually thinking of something like this. I was going to make it my first RoR project but that might just be to ambitious. Anyways, plain and simple,
One con (at the moment), is that “users can only track comments from blog posts that they have actually commented on, and only comments left by other cocomment users are shown.”[1] But this was a day or so ago. I have to check the new version out myself as I’ve just signed up a few moments ago.
Along with their news yesterday about version 0.4c being released, the team also mentioned the fact that there is now a Firefox extension for coComments. This addition, for sure, will make things a bit easier than having to use a bookmarlet on the user’s computer.
There might be one small gripe though. As I was taking a look at coComment’s Blog Integration section which lists which browsers and blog/CMS/site-platforms it supported, I read that Movable Type blogs must have the following format,
Otherwise, the comment (in coComment) will show up as “(untitled)”.
So, seeing that, there might be an issue of having everyone involved have a standard way of templating their TITLE-tags. I, for one, see this as a big thing (so it ain’t “small” after all). If this is true, and hasn’t been addressed in it’s next iteration, coComment is pretty much forcing everyone to do “this and that.” Then again, we’ll see how this plays out with Microformats. So if you are listening/reading this oh-Lords-of-coComment, please do let us know. (Then again, I just signed up and haven’t gotten to play around with coComment that completely yet.)
All in all, the service is practical and very useful for those that like to read and interact with different blogs. It’s great for coComment to have gotten around and implemented something useful to the millions that are very involved with interblog-interactivity. In it’s current state of version 0.4c, I just can’t wait to see the other features it will have when it rolls out from “beta”. Pretty much, like all the other “Web 2.0″ application-sites. =)
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