November 2006

Google Maps in your Pants?

November 30, 2006

Oh my God – this is so bad it’s funny. Dave Cassel of 10 Zen Monkeys deconstructs a radio spot on the GPS-enabled Helio that features a jingle refrain that’s going to stick with me a long time. I don’t think this was what Google was thinking when they set out to “organize the world’s [...]

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A Lazy Man’s Hack

November 30, 2006

Back in September I wrote about a quick and dirty hack which showed how you could use a service called favoritethingz.com to build a badge which would show a visual representation of your blogroll. I never got around to finishing up the rest of the story. Basically, the 20-minute hack post made the front page [...]

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When Ad Sense Misbehaves

November 26, 2006

Jay Allen of Six Apart points to Ad Sense showing up in his Vox comment box. It’s a bug of course (limited to Safari) but with all the talk about marketers "inserting themselves into the conversation" this made me laugh. UPDATE : Whiz kids over at 6A kicked the tires and now all is well [...]

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Sitemaps.org

November 16, 2006

Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google now all support the same sitemap protocol. If you are concerned about the way the search engines crawl and index your site, create a sitemap and make it available. More information at sitemaps.org. Also be sure to check out Yahoo! Site Explorer for more tools on how to manage your site [...]

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Web 2.0 Summit – Highlights

November 12, 2006

Eric Schmidt Denied earlier rumors that funds were distributed to studios that have them “look the other way” while Google/YouTube put a licensing scheme in place. Would like to support the exporting of user’s search history out of Google. This is the “ultimate pressure valve” to keeping them honest. Positioned online (and free) word processing [...]

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Web 2.0 Summit – where do we go from here?

November 11, 2006

Various technological shenanigans kept me from live-blogging last week’s Web 2.0 Summit as planned so here’s my run down of the highlights from my notes. Don Tapscott’s workshop and the popular Launchpad session are covered in earlier posts. The conference has already been covered in depth so I’ll try and add my own personal observations [...]

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I’ve been Wagged!

November 10, 2006

It wasn’t exactly the debut on Valleywag I was looking for but I’m on a roster of folks scheduled to be booted from Yahoo next week: Senior Product Manager in Corporate Development Ian Kennedy [here for another ride (maybe the tilt-a-whirl)] Heh.  They’ve got me in the wrong group, I’m a Product Manager of publisher.yahoo.com [...]

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Web 2.0 Summit – Launchpad

November 7, 2006

The Launchpad session last year was one of the more exciting sessions at the Web 2.0 show. This year they had a panel filter through hundreds of candidates to arrive at the “baker’s dozen” below: inthechair.com – music practice as a video game. Play along to background music and get realtime feedback on how you’re [...]

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Don Tapscott – The Digital Generation

November 7, 2006

Don Tapscott wrote Growing up Digital and the Digital Economy We’re going through an echo of the baby boom but the echo is actually louder because there are more kids than there are boomer. 80 million. No wonder we have a crises in the school system. This generation is the first to grow up “bathed [...]

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Christmas Shopping 2.0 and Riya

November 7, 2006

A little tidbit I picked up from a fellow at Riya. They will be announcing Riya 2.0 in the next few days which will take their face-recognition know how and apply to finding similar things when out shopping. He pointed to the rather ornate carpet on which we were standing and said that Riya would [...]

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