This is another one of those things on the internet that has gotten popular in the last year. It’s big brands trying to be funny like they are your friend. And it has become a really popular marketing strategy. It’s not being funny in a ‘let’s make funny commercials’ kind of way, although to me … Continue reading Commercial Comedy
Ok. Let me explain. Knowing about new tech companies is like knowing about indie music. There is this sort of template conversation you hear over and over again and you can literally replace band with startup and it makes complete sense. When people talk about indie music, it’s cool to know about obscure bands. For … Continue reading Startups Are Like Indie Bands
I forgot to post this when I made it a few weeks ago, but here is a parody of Feross‘ viral YouTube Instant site. Meet YouTube Sloth, which lets you experience YouTube like you are on a dialup connection Continue reading YouTube Sloth
There is this big thing on the internet these days where computer people write essays. And its weird because these people are supposed to be techie people, you know, they just code and talk about binary, not write essays. But a very large genre seems to be emerging on the web which is the sort … Continue reading Hackers with Opinions