Tag Archives: web

My First Hail Using Cabulous

Posted on October 27, 2009 by kfarr

I’ve been advising the team working on Cabulous, a new mobile location-enabled app that makes it easier for cabbies to advertise their locations — and for passengers to find them. I drove last Saturday and helped with an early beta … Continue reading →

Posted in internets, taxi, tech | Tagged android, app, application, at&t, blackberry, ca, cab, cabbie, cabulous, california, gps, gps-enabled, hail, iphone, location, location-aware, location-enable, mobile application, san francisco, sf, taxi, taxicab, taxis, transit, transportation, web | 5 Comments

Examiner print daily is heaven, Examiner online is hell. Why?

Posted on May 28, 2008 by kfarr

The current iteration of the San Francisco Examiner — the free, tabloid-sized print daily focused primarily on San Francisco news and events — is top notch. It’s a quick read, conveniently sized and simple but effective in delivering a local … Continue reading →

Posted in internets, media | Tagged ads, chronicle, cpm, daily, digital, examiner, industry, journalism, journalist, media, news, newspaper, online, pageviews, print, reporters, revenue, san francisco, sf, sfgate, stories, the examiner, views, web | 2 Comments

Google makes a better online ad manager. (Oh, and it’s free.)

Posted on March 13, 2008 by kfarr

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 →

Posted in internets, marketing, media, tech | 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 | 1 Comment

A great intro guide to version control

Posted on February 29, 2008 by kfarr

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 →

Posted in internets, tech | 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 | Leave a comment

Newspapers losing relevance in users’ everyday lives.

Posted on February 21, 2008 by kfarr

Editor and Publisher says newspapers no longer hold relevance in end-user’s daily lives. TRUE. Newspapers cling to their old function as news reporters, but end-users want more. They want to hear about events that affect their lives and their communities … Continue reading →

Posted in internets, media | Tagged ads, advertisers, banner, buying, conversion, cost, cpm, display, impression, media, news, newspapers, online, page, per, rate, relevance, revenue, search, views, web | 1 Comment