A Link Drop of Sorts, 3 things that really spiked today & their similar paths
Up until a couple months ago I’d collect a number of links over a week, look at what patterns tied them together and make a mind map of it. Things have been really busy and I haven’t had the time to focus on that type of post. I’m also looking at a huge magnitude shift in the number of things I can read during a week—it is really hard to take the time to stop... Read More
Questions And Answers Directory Via Twitter Conversations—Where Is This Site?
When a question arises, what’s one of the first things a person that spends a bit of time online will say? “I’ll just ask Twitter” is one of those thought bubbles that pops up. Why search the web when you can ask a real person? The person likely to respond is someone that they know (somewhat) and probably share the same interests. I’ve typed in a question... Read More
Bitmap & ASCII Art streaming through Twitter
I have a love/hate relationship with Twitter lists. They help me filter people that I follow but they don’t really mean much. I can’t get any stat data from them so it’s not as useful as they could be. And I don’t really follow that many lists because I could essentially do the same plus it’s there’s effort click that isn’t really worth... Read More
How do people see you on Twitter? Understanding lists and tags.
When it comes to lists on Twitter I’m of two minds. I take it as a compliment every time I’m added to one, but for me personally I don’t use them and even if I did I probably wouldn’t make them public. Before I explain why I like them I should just come out and say that I think they can be a bit more clique’ish than I want to push out on to other... Read More
#gmailfail Arrogance
I don’t use gmail as my primary email service so I wasn’t affected personally that much went it went down. It affected work stuff for me, but I had ways to get around that issue. While reading about the gmail outage I came across an interesting piece of info: “According to the New York Times blog Gadgetwise, Google engineers faced extra difficulties in fixing the... Read More
Double issue of Link Drop (8·14·09) & (8·21·09)
This week’s version of Link Drop was a week late and while I hate excuses there’s a pretty good one. Last weekend I was redesigning the format of Link Drop when my computer stopped working. I wasn’t exactly happy about that so I decided I’d continue finding good stuff on the web to remember and keep working on the design when I got my computer back. It’s... Read More
Talking to the Crowd
I’m always fascinated to see how people communicate to each other publicly. Since I am in the communications business it makes sense to understand how conversations go back and forth and spread. Up until recently the standard two way talk between blog post and reader was with a comments field. The writer publishes something, a reader comments. Of course a blogger can turn... Read More
Link Drop (8·07·09)
It’s been a bit of an up and down week over here at DesignNotes. I’ve been under the weather of most of the week which is highly unusual, and on the flip side the weather outside has been actually pretty decent. In more relatable Link Drop news, I found that the sites I spent time with has a lot of personal expressing in them. There’s a bunch of interviews, process... Read More
Twitter: powered by people?
Above: Twitter Homepage on IE 6 Above: Twitter Search Results on Firefox Twitter recently upgraded their homepage for those to see that have either A. never signed up for the service, or B. those who have signed up, but had to log out. Having users log out to use Twitter’s amped up search defies logic at least to me. Hopefully they will rectify that situation with a simple... Read More
Link Drop (7·17·09) & (7·24·09)
This week’s Link Drop is a double issue as I was preoccupied with being in SF last Friday. For this post I combined the best of what I found in the last 14 days. The biggest surprise for me was that I didn’t mention the iPhone, Apple or Google once. In their corporate place was Amazon and Zappos—no big surprise considering their news this week. There were quite a... Read More
