Passion: it is most often the difference between the mediocre and the sublime, the merely acceptable and the exciting, between trudging your way down a rock strewn path and dancing barefoot through the wildflowers. It’s also the one thing so often missing in web design. There’s too much “that’s good enough” and too little “is it great enough?” The web is the place where we can strive for greatness and make it stick. Look at your site and try to…
So much to cover today, and so very little time… First off, Open Social – Google and MySpace collaborating on a series of APIs that will let us share profiles, etc. across social networking platforms (previously known in the 1.0 world as “sites”). The Good: It’s time for a univeral identity (perhaps permission based) . There’s only so much we can do if everyone has to be completely anonymous. Widgets free us from platform dependence – which means we can…
I’ve been troubled by some time by the chorus of Web 2.0. Again I’m seeing too many companies rushing headlong into new technology, without a prayer of finding profitability in either the near or long term. The word “eyeball” from Bubble 1.0 has been replaced by “engaged user” and they both stink. We’re once again training the Internet public to expect everything for nothing, the world is free, the Internet is free. But I digress…my point here is that John…
I’ve been waiting for this. I was at Walmart the other day, and they are no longer just selling Alaskan King Crab Legs, they are selling “Northwestern Brand Alaskan King Crab Legs.” If you’ve ever seen the Discovery Channel show “Most Dangerous Catch” which is about the treacherous Alaskan King Crab Fishery, you’ll recognize the Northwestern as the boat captained by Sig Hansen, a perennial top captain in the King Crab game. I’ll avoid going into the show, it’s simply…
In business, there are a few things we hold dear, such as our registered company name, trademarks, copyrights and patents. What surprises me on a fairly consistent basis is the number of businesses that don’t give their domain name the same regard. Case in point, I had a customer a month or so ago ask me to just go ahead and register his domain name for him. I told him that I would help him, but that as a general…
Our host, One World Hosting moved out of the Albanza facility in Baltimore and into a new state of the art facility over the weekend. Apparently things took a little longer than expected, as this site, as well as about 20 Vario customer sites have been down for most of the day. Some are still down, but we expect to see them up shortly.
I never really thought I’d be posting about great service from a domain registrar. But I just got off the phone with EyeOnDomain.com and it was an entirely different experience than I usually have dealing with registrars. You see, due to an unlucky string of events, there was a site that was due to go down quickly. No one could put their hands on the domain registration name and password. This usually leads to very, very bad things… So I…
Got the pointer from David Churbuck this morning…absolutely hysterical video. David, you owe me a new keyboard – I spewed coffee through my nose. View the video at makemylogobiggercream.com
Just found these guys on Archive.org – love ’em, so I’m sharing them. It was a little hard to find decent video (although they have a good one on their site, it’s not on YouTube. This cut is called “14 Days” performed live at their fan appreciation concert (I add points for that…), and the song appears on their “The Bridge” cd. Buy it (like I did) and support these guys… Basically, we’ve got a funky, horn-laden jazz vibe here….
I just upgraded to the new release of WordPress. You might have noticed the blog was “misbehaving” for a little while. A word to the wise: a couple of the popular plugins, notably Jerome’s Keywords and Ultimate Tag Warrior aren’t compatible with this you’ll get a database error about “post2cat”. To fix, you’ll need to disable these plugins. I had a look at the plugins and the database, and it looks as though there have been some tables added, and…