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Category Archives: internets
Media roundup: sci fi, electronica, the tragedy of suburbia, and public radio
And now, a brief list of things produced by fellow humans I enjoyed reading, hearing and watching in the past few weeks. Books: Larry Niven’s Ringworld I was drawn in by the concept of a ringed artificial habitable structure orbiting … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, card, count souvenirs, cut copy, dead, digg, dyson, ender, ender's game, forum, game, halo, james howard kunstler, junior boys, kqed, larry, larry niven, niven, npr, orson, orson scott card, pri, reddit, ring, ringworld, scott, selected shorts, speaker, speaker for the dead, sphere, star, sun, ted, time stands still, universe, wnyc, world
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Last.fm + iPod = Profit?
Last.fm is a top-rate music streaming service that suggests music based on your previous last.fm plays, songs you play in iTunes (“scrobbling”), and songs your friends like. But, it’s frustratingly tied to your computer. You have to listen to via … Continue reading
Online ad networks: Good, bad, in-between?
PaidContent.org has a great rundown of differing views regarding online advertising networks. Any analysis I could make is already well reflected in the collected views, so without further ado here it is: Link
Finally, I see a relevant advertisement on Facebook.
So, Facebook knows my favorite TV shows, my favorite authors, my favorite music, my zip code, telephone number, gender, age, work history, education history, friends and personal pictures. Given all this information, you’d think that Facebook would be able to … Continue reading
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Tagged ads, advertisements, agencies, agency, book, capital, digital, face, facebook, fb, funding, internet, internets, media, nbc, office, online, over, overvalued, shows, spending, tech, the office, tv, valley, valleywag, valuation, valued, vc, venture, zuckerburg
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Google makes a better online ad manager. (Oh, and it’s free.)
When I worked in ad agency land, one of the most excruciating parts of my job was working with poor, poor web interfaces to accomplish relatively simple tasks. This was severely magnified by our lack of bandwidth which slowed down … Continue reading
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Tagged ad, agencies, agency, ajax, app, as, asp, banner, click, client, cpm, display, double, doubleclick, end-user, experience, flow, google, html, interface, lamp, manager, mysql, online, php, process, process flow, server, service, software, software as a service, ui, user, web
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A great intro guide to version control
Through work on a pet project I’m getting quite a crash course on making a web app with guidance from my friends Jay and Steve. Jay has rightly pushed version control upon us so we can start working like real … Continue reading
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Tagged about, app, command, control, cvs, dev, explain, explanation, guide, info, information, intro, introduction, learn, sub, sub-version, subversion, svn, tutorial, version, version control, versioning, visual, web
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