Facebook’s new advertising model includes publication of activity from partner sites in news feeds. Their official list of affiliates does not include Yelp, but tonight, I had a little DHTML “toast” pop-up inform me my latest review would be shared on my Facebook profile.
A little investigating shows that this was pulled off via a […]
Tag Archives: web
Facebook Yelps
Visual weblog
A crazy idea that needs to be written down to get it out of my head: a wordless, visual weblog. Posts are pictures with no explanation prose, and the comments form is a sketchpad for visitors to draw upon.
Police 2.0
It has been fashionable in our culture to address undesirable behavior by enacting laws that call for the police to make the bad people that stop doing those bad things by arresting them. For the really, really bad things, like possessing a leaf from a plant which makes you happy if you consume it, […]
Daily Bookmarks
Links bookmarked on 2007-01-31
 Welcome to Cowgirls Espresso udderly the best!!
Business model of the day: coffee and cleavage. See also: how to differentiate from Starbucks.
Absinthe Films: More Trailer
Crazy snowboarding
Spellbot
As part of the day job I’ve had an index built that is fed from limited web crawling and blog pings. The point is to feed a data warehouse that is used for social media research and analysis, the sort of thing you might use Technorati to do manually until you realize just how […]
Being erased
Inspired by a mention of Eternal September, I spent some time today trying to place my memory of it on the ol’ mental timeline.
Last time I researched myself, Google found many of my Usenet posts from 1993. Today, though, it finds only a handful, with the earliest discoverable message from November 1993 and a […]
Daily Bookmarks
Links bookmarked on 2007-01-25
iconophobia » inlineRSS
A sensible RSS fetcher
Metakine - DVDRemaster - DVD Backup or Personal Copy for Mac OS X
Twitter is the new finger
Back in the day, we used to leave a small file named .plan in our Unix home directories, which others could read over port 79 with the finger command. It was a useful for quick status updates, to find out what people were working on (or where they were off to) without pestering them. […]