A little while back I made a site with Google App Engine that is a very simple voting website. I tried to mimic the style of StackOverflow in terms of voting, but the goal was to make it much simpler. The site is made to be used to sift through lots of ideas or items. … Continue reading Best To Top, an App for Brainstorming
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
I always thought it would be interesting to find out who I had the most mutual friends with on Facebook, but it would have been a lot of clicking to find that out. So here is a little tool that lists your friends according to most mutual friends. The results are actually quite surprising. Most … Continue reading Most Mutual Friends
This is my final research paper about social norms on the web. It’s a good time. It’s kind of long, but here are the highlights: You need investment from the user, either through a genuine offline to online identity, or a strong tie to the community focus. We want the same things online that we … Continue reading Social Norms on the Web
I just did a research project for my CS224N class where we tried to predict the gender of different Facebook statuses. We also made a fun tool that will generate typical male and female Facebook statuses. Check out our research here. Continue reading Predicting Gender of Facebook Statuses
Check out the 5-person juggling pattern I made up. It is a variation on a feed weave with five people and two feeders, with the feeders passing in a two count and the feedees passing four out of six passes. Continue reading Double Stitch
I wrote a short PHP script which allows you to compile study guides really quickly. Lets set the scene: You have a long list of vocab terms, and you need to collect basic information on them all quickly…basically you need to find the definition from Wikipedia. With this tool, you just type in your words, … Continue reading A Fun Tool For Making Study Guides