Archive - October, 2008

What is Adobe thinking not supporting new computers?

October 26 6 Comments Category: Personal

I just bought my new computer, an HP m9350f, a month ago and installed Firefox and Opera as part of my first day setup. I have a Netflix subscription that I use primarily to watch streaming movies, usually on my computer in the living room, not the one in my bedroom. Netflix only streams with [...]

Dan Grossman

October 23 0 Comments Category: Marketing, Personal

MrLen wrote in September: By the way, I think I see your name “somewhere” online once or twice a day (and I get around).. you remind me of that clone guy from the Matrix lol. And earlier today, I found a post by “Young” about WP Review Site: Shit….I practically started this whole web shit [...]

My new favorite snack

October 12 3 Comments Category: Personal

Melon pan from Maido in Narberth, PA. They make tasty okonomiyaki too.

Maintenance Screens and Updates

October 10 1 Comment Category: Business, Personal, Stumbling

“Web 2.0″ sites always have better maintenance screens when they go offline than big companies. PayPal smashed some red text in my face about site unavailability, while Lijit gives you a video to watch:

W3Counter

October 09 4 Comments Category: Portfolio

W3Counter provides hosted real-time web stats for websites and blogs. Spun off from Website Goodies‘ hit counter in 2004, W3Counter now tracks millions of visitors per day across over 30,000 user websites, reporting on their activity in real-time and in aggregate, with free and paid subscriptions available.

WP Review Site

October 09 5 Comments Category: Portfolio

WP Review Site allows site visitors to leave reviews on a WordPress-powered site while rating items on a scale of 1 to 5 stars across several dimensions. It work with any WordPress theme and provides the ability to display average ratings, sorts posts by weighted average rating, adds sidebar widgets and provides tools for affiliate [...]

Diffmon

October 08 0 Comments Category: Portfolio

Diffmon is a website uptime monitoring service. It checks that a site is available, responsive, and serving the expected content. With e-mail, SMS and RSS alerts, site owners know instantly if any of their sites is down, hacked, or serving an error page.

OpenCalais PHP Class

October 08 0 Comments Category: Code

The first freely available PHP interface to the OpenCalais semantic analysis web service. Calais takes text or HTML input and identifies facts, entities and relationships from that text through natural language analysis.

Zune Social Plugin

October 05 1 Comment Category: Code

The Zune Social WordPress Plugin allows you to share your recently listened and favorite music from a Zune player on your blog. I no longer own a Zune (it was stolen from my car), so I don’t maintain the plugin, but it’s still available.