Archive for July, 2007

I’m sure after a nite of beers and mexican food I emit more dangerous microparticles than a laser printer. Even with that disclosure, Australian scientists still chose to study laser printers and their death dealing air pollution instead of my eating habits, comparing the health effects of laser printers to cigarettes.
According to the study:
“The health… »

In a Nutshell: Textango offers music purchases and free promotions by text message. Send a code (like “bbq”) to a number (23333), and you’ll get a redemption code to enter on the site which will download music to your PC.
IMHO: There’s something here in providing a unique promotion and avoiding credit cards (for consumers) and… »

From the NYT:
He rejected the notion that in the future all software would be based in what computer industry executives refer to as “the cloud” — computer hardware and software reachable over the Internet. “People tend to get weird and extreme about this,” Mr. Ballmer said. “Does everything move to the cloud? I think that… »

From funny blog Liam is Big comes news of a new meta tag that Google indexes and uses: the unavailable_after tag. This will apparently take stuff out of Google’s index after a certain date so that limited-time pages (like contests and promotions) won’t clutter up the tubes with 404’s after their… »

As part of the ridiculous effort to transition UpcomingDiscs.com from custom CMS to WordPress, one thing I’ve had to do is figure out to replicated a bunch of custom coded functionality - things like DVD Review Ratings for instance - UpcomingDiscs rates discs across a number of criteria (audio and video quality, film quality, etc.)… »

Just noticed a press release about expanded offerings from photo-booth website Phozi.com, which I reviewed a few months back. From Compete, it doesn’t look like Phozi is going viral yet.
Phozi’s new offerings include seasonal graphics and the ability to order physical prints and stickers of your created photos. Phozi’s also announced plans to build a… »

Here’s a pretty uninspired vertical, that looks to be built for search engine rankings: FuneralHomes.com. Say what you will about “directory” sites of this type, FuneralHomes.com does have a surprisingly comprehensive list of funeral homes, though their resources are sparse. Oddly enough, the site seems to have a real advertising model, as opposed to the… »

I ripped into MochiAds a few weeks ago in my post entitled “I hate Zwinky’s” (I really do) - to which I received a very nice reply from Jameson Hsu of Mochi, followed by some email back & forth. Well, it looks like Jameson has had a busy few weeks, with Mashable announcing that big… »

Recommendations and discovery are becoming more and more important - to the internet in general, but also specifically as a complement, supplement, and (gasp!) replacement to core search activities.
The big question I’m wondering is how long it will be before a “Search” box appears on the StumbleUpon home page - leveraging their human derived… »

This is a question that I’m investigating that I could use your help for.
I’m trying to find out if its possible to force Outlook to use a specific email template; the twist is an enterprise setting: I need to do this across 3000 desktop Outlook installations, and centrally administer the template. The goal is to… »