So I saw a post on my wall from a friend, but something just didn’t sound right. Again, it was a case of the Facebook spam that somehow tricked you into posting something you didn’t want to post to all of your friends. And many people made the mistake, and it spread fast. Mainly, it … Continue reading Wow, Facebook Hackers
Heres a quick code idea that I came up with a while back. I call it a type shift code. Basically imagine that you type as normal on a keyboard, but you shift your hands over one key on the home row. If you do this and type, everything will look like complete nonsense, but … Continue reading Type Shift Code
If you’ve been on the internet in the last couple years, you may have stumbled up FMyLife, or My Life is Average, or Damn You Autocorrect, or any number of sites in this genre. The genre is sites that let you post little bits of content around a certain theme, and they are usually similarly … Continue reading Popular Site Template, a site that lets you make silly websites!
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
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 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
So I got the ipad yesterday, and ive been playing around with it a bunch and I think I figure out some of the things that make it an awesome piece of technology. The reason I want to explain it is because I have heard such opposing opinions on the device. I have heard people … Continue reading A review and explanation of the iPad (written from my iPad)