Don't Trim Me, Bro!
24 Jun 2009 10:03pm GMT Stefan Constantinescu is trimming his news feeds of excess crap. It's sort of been interesting reading, except for the general bitterness towards his former (and my current) employer. I've been mostly skimming for his "keepers", but also reading some of his reasons for cutting feeds out of his bloated subscription list. Normally I just do that sort of thing on a daily basis, wacking feeds I get sick of if they get useless or piss me off, and thus the list of feeds I subscribe to ebbs and flows,...
Awe.sm-O!
4 May 2009 10:01pm GMT Congrats to Jonathan and his crew for getting Awe.sm out the door today, complete with a post from his first big client, TechCrunch! W00t! Personally, I'm ecstatic that TechCrunch wrote about it, because Jonathan has been including me in emails about it since the idea was incepted, and I had no clue WTF he was doing. You can read all about the grand plan on the Snowball Factory blog. According to Jonathan, Awe.sm is "an open sharing analytics platform - a way to instrument, track, and analyze...
Playing with PercentMobile
28 Apr 2009 4:33pm GMT Just saw this article in TechCrunch about a new analytics company called PercentMobile which keeps track of the number of mobile users you have. That's a pretty great idea, I should have thought of it myself! I just threw their image-based tracking into the top of my template to see how well it works. -Russ
Think
23 Mar 2009 11:25pm GMT My first real job out of college was at IBM in Boca Raton, Florida where the original IBM PC was made. It's been long closed, but I remember my boss had a framed picture of Thomas Watson sitting under the Think sign hanging on the wall that I thought was really cool. I just like the idea of that simple word as a mantra: Think. It's clear, focused and yet says so much. IBM has embraced the Think theme again with a new set of ads and mini-site at http://www.ibm.com/think, and I think it's...
Quick tweak for tweets
8 Mar 2009 6:55am GMT So I took a few minutes and went into the code of my custom news reader (which, again, is hosted on my server written in PHP) to see how much effort it would be to tweak the results a bit like I wrote about in my last post. Happily, I was already saving the Atom/RSS "author" field into my database, and also happily, Twitter provides that information, so re-grouping and displaying my feeds "By User" ended up being pretty trivial. You can see from the screenshot above, that the tweets are now...