Tag Archives: Web

How not to act on J-Date

Posted on August 10, 2006 by jetrotz

Oy this is a doozy. Darren meets Joan on J-Date, the online dating service for Jewish singles. They go to dinner at China Grill in NYC (yummy, by the way). Darren pays for dinner, despite Joan’s offer to split the … Continue reading →

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Ben at Bonnaroo

Posted on June 16, 2006 by jetrotz

Can’t make it to the hinterlands of Tennessee?  The good folks from AT&T are showing off their ability to show stuttering video via their high speed networks with a live video webcast of many of the acts from this year’s … Continue reading →

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Meme Alert – Websites as Graphs

Posted on May 31, 2006 by jetrotz

This spiffy web app maps the contents of web pages into a tree with different nodes representing various types of page elements – blue for links, red for tables, green for divs, violet for images, yellow for forms, orange for … Continue reading →

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Flickr Changes a comin’

Posted on May 11, 2006 by jetrotz

On the Flickr blog today, George Oates reveals a slew of site changes coming next week: It was a little funny for us to win a Webby Award for Best Navigation/Structure (we also won for Best Practices – yay!). “Funny” … Continue reading →

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YouTube as News Aggregator

Posted on May 10, 2006 by jetrotz

C|Net.com reports on a new feature user-generated content play YouTube rolled out yesterday – the ability to recieve and post content sent directly from mobile devices. As evidenced by the role Flickr has played in events like the London 7/7 … Continue reading →

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No way this is legal…

Posted on May 9, 2006 by jetrotz

It’s amazing what’s available on the web today. Who needs user-generated content when you can post network TV? Guba.com appears to be like most of these services – another storehouse for UGC material. Some enterprising soul has searched that site … Continue reading →

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‘C is for Cookies’ Patented

Posted on May 5, 2006 by jetrotz

Microsoft has been awarded a patent they applied for in 2000 to extend the functionality of cookies and web beacons. Trouble is, I really can’t discern where the originality in this concept lies – thousands of web sites do this … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! Releases MCE Competitor

Posted on April 26, 2006 by jetrotz

Just weeks after closing their deal to buy Meedio, a software developer of a ‘roll-your-own’ digital entertinament solution akin to Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center Edition, Yahoo! has put a branded version of the software out for free download. called … Continue reading →

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010203040506 – Singularity Meme

Posted on April 4, 2006 by jetrotz

 01:02:03 04/05/06 – a moment that can only happen once every 100 years (assuming a two digit format for the year). It’s coming on Wednesday morning. Some have suggested the blogosphere post what they were doing at this auspicious moment. … Continue reading →

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NYTimes.com Redesigns

Posted on April 3, 2006 by jetrotz

Wider format, most popular emailed/blogged/searched feature and a new horizontal drill-down navigation added with more prominent multimedia. Also a very smart ‘Today’s Paper’ feature that let’s you find articles as they are organized in the print edition – would like … Continue reading →

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