There’s a little Ninja in my gmail!
Friday, November 21st, 2008 Posted in Blatherings, Geeking Out | Comments OffSweet! I get home yesterday to discover that Google has decided to emblazon gmail with themes, and I am happy as a Ninja in a Samurai stronghold. You now have 32 different themes to style your gmail interface to be ...
5 days and a headache later: Cuil doesn’t make the grade
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 Posted in Blatherings, Geeking Out | 2 Comments »I was willing to give Cuil the benefit of the doubt, but I have to say that after using it heavily for the last 5 days - this isn't a competitor for Google: not at this stage of the game. ...
cuil: Good, bad or just different?
Monday, July 28th, 2008 Posted in Blatherings, Development, Op/Ed | Comments OffAfter getting past the initial urge to play on the name; cuil (pronounced cool), it's not that bad of a search engine. The design is top rate, and an image next to the returned results is nice as well, but ...
Enhanced indexing for Flash – is it just what the Doctor ordered?
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Posted in Development, Geeking Out, flashFoo | Comments OffI have, in the past, written at some length about SEO tactics for Flash development, which now thanks to Adobe, Yahoo and Google has just gotten quite a bit more in-depth and practical. On the first of July Adobe released ...
Google Lunar X Prize: Great Challenge; Lame Marketing
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Blatherings, Design, Marketing | Comments OffThe X Prize challenges so far have spurred great competition and amazing innovation, but yet one of the latest - the Google Lunar X Prize leaves me with the sour taste of lameness.In a world where everything seems to have ...
