Posts made in January 2007
Motivated by the success of this blog and increased advertising inquiries, I’ve finally gotten around to updating the Awio company website. I’ll never claim to be a web “designer”, so don’t be surprised to see how similar the header is to this blog.
Looks like the topic of the week among technology lovers is the Apple iPhone. I was in the middle of a course on GUI design minutes after Jobs revealed the product at MacWorld and could see half the other students’ laptops in the room checking out the photos and features at Engadget, Gizmodo and other [...]
This morning I was considering selling one of my sites — Award Winning Hosts. It wasn’t earning as much as it did a few years ago, and I could probably get more selling it based on its PageRank, age and past sales than I’d make just letting it sit. But I really can’t let go [...]
I often run across websites that provide something useful or interesting; a small tutorial, some inspiration, a useful tool. Not everything warrants a permanent listing in my links, nor do I want to clutter my already unorganized browser bookmarks, so I’ll share them here each week. Maybe you’ll find some of these sites useful as [...]
Looks like I won’t be packing up and moving out to California in April; Google turned me down for the job I applied to. Maybe that second interviewer‘s questioning really did mean they wanted a C coder despite the job description listing C++.
Yesterday, Amazon.com quietly launched its latest initiative, an independent brand selling high-end shoes, handbags and accessories. Amazon.com still carries its own, broader selection of these products, while Endless.com offers a boutique-like shopping experience online, following in the footsteps of Zappos (Zappos Couture) and Gap (Piperlime).
Do people “stumbling” across the net have their wallets open while doing so? Will they stop when they see a commercial site or keep on “stumbling” by? That was today’s quick experiment: advertising through StumbleUpon.
Sometimes dynamic elements of a page can slow down page loading or use too many resources for re-running the code every page load to be practical. The sidebar of this site touches four databases to pull up the stats it shows, and the counter I just added to the header gets its count from a [...]
Two of the new reports I hope to provide with the new W3Counter are whether a site’s visitors have Flash and Java installed. Since different browsers, and different versions of browsers, make plugin information available in different ways, this is proving more challenging than expected. I have a first attempt at detection of Flash and [...]
It began with Google. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the company’s founders, decided to build a search engine which didn’t rank pages primarily by keyword density like their competition. Early search engines were easy to fool — fill your page with the same phrase over and over and you’d appear near the top of search [...]
