Relentless Persistence
January 21, 2009
Dear Mr. President and Web Team,
I am glad you have changed your robots.txt file on whitehouse.gov to be open (though it seems like it used to be as open in the Clinton days). The new whitehouse.gov looks great and it will be exciting to see how it promotes transparency + participation.
One little request: could you [...]
December 29, 2008
If you own a blackberry go read this article on how to dial phone numbers that contain letters. You know the ones like “1-800-DIALNOW” or “GOOGL”.
December 22, 2008
The question: What percent of countries in the google zeitgeist had “facebook” as one of their ten fastest rising search terms in 2008? This is 23 out of 35 countries including the US (unless I miscounted).
Also, 11 out of 34 countries had “facebook” as one of their most popular search queries (they don’t list most [...]
July 28, 2008
Google pays a lot of money to be the default homepage / toolbar / desktop search tool to folks like Dell. Too bad the first thing the proud new Dell owner will do is visit facebook and decide to check both of these boxes since she visits facebook 20 times a day. Poof, there goes all [...]
July 8, 2008
Tonight I was playing with the new facebook Profile Design and noticed that “My Pages” box was missing. Kinda weird given this help article from facebook:
Where do the Pages I’ve added show up on my profile? Can I be a fan of a Page without it displaying on my profile?
The Pages that you become a fan of [...]
June 12, 2008
I thought the iPhone 3g announce was cool. Cisco’s holoconf demo is unreal…like I am still not sure if it is real. Stop what you are doing, click here, and watch the freaking video:
http://www.musion.co.uk/Cisco_TelePresence.html
Via the one and only…Guy!
May 27, 2008
I was driving back home last night rocking out to a local rock station which is not all that unusual when my iPod touch runs out of juice. What was crazy was the ad I heard from the radio station, paraphrased:
“quit your googling, facebooking, etcer-ing, and twittering…“
Lofty company!
Granted I live in SF so this is not [...]
May 18, 2008
Whether you like him or not, you should read him. Welcome back my friend…and next time you come near SFO I hope to get a call!
May 14, 2008
From the Cedar Creek Treehouse website:
“we are redefining the concept of a treehouse resort”
Turns out there is a market to redefine!
March 27, 2008
Last week Microsoft’s JD Lewin (Evangelism) and Michele Johnson (Strategic & Emerging Business) sponsored our Halo 3 Fragfest at the Microsoft Home. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any links to the Microsoft Home but it is one kewl place! They have converted a part of the Microsoft Silicon Valley’s Conference Center into a home (living room [...]
