First, an announcement from the Department of Holiday Offerings: Happy Thanksgiving to you, you U.S.-living internet reader. For you other-country folk, well, no turkey.
Yesterday Flickr announced Flickr Places — new indexes for what looks like just about every place / city / town / state / province / country (but not neighborhood, yet — […]
Hey, you never know, the World Series could come to your town next.
World Series: Before ticket sales start
What’s the most you would pay for a single World Series ticket? ( I wouldn’t / $50 / $100 / $250 / $500 / $1,000 / $2,000 / $5,000 / More than that / I don’t know / […]
… you know who you are, heck, I know who you are. But furl.net re-engineered big parts of their site (to the detriment of all the spammers on their site, and, in a handful of places, the users too) and you aren’t subscribed anymore. To get subscribed you either have to sign up for furl […]
Ran across a couple fun quizzes today: “How many HTML elements can you name in 5 minutes?” and “How Many CSS Properties Can You Name in 7 Minutes?” (also on that site is the Booze Test, which sports the best online quiz interface I have ever ever seen. Must steal.)
Anyway, so I didn’t do as […]
First off I’m giving a shout-out to Foamee, the site that helps you keep track of beers that you owe people. It’s not grand, it’s not big, it’s not going to change the world — it’s just small and it’s fun.
There are two sites worth thinking about that do local and do small well: SignalMap […]
These are the links from my reading list that got the most clicks in October (along with any notes I wrote on the link, or sometimes a quote from the linked article).
Nine Steps to a Successful Online Community (whitepaper): “Social media is a powerful way to grow and engage your audience, but it’s even […]
Stumbled on this at Peter Van Dijck’s weblog
Sites that put “community” in a separate tab most likely think of community as an add-on to their business, not as core to their business.
I’ve seen it countless times: Reporter wants to help out online. Reporter gets the okay to start blogging. Reporter blogs for a few weeks. Without any comments, or any idea that anybody’s really reading, reporter quits the blog.
Or, there’s video. Or audio. Reporter shoots video, hands it off to online team. Neither online team or […]