Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: RANTING
21 Apr 2006Usually I classify this sort of mail as complete nonsense, and delet it. But this one was such a classic, I had to post it.
The letter is from the new CEO of the joint Borland/Segue. He is announcing that he thinks that Segue and Borland customers will be able to find cool ways to use [...]
In: smp
18 Oct 2005For lack of anything intelligent to say right now…
Step Right Up
Tom Waits
from Small Change
Step right up
step right up
step right up
Everyone’s a winner, bargains galore
That’s right, you too can be the proud owner
Of the quality goes in before the name goes on
One-tenth of a dollar
one-tenth of a dollar
we got service after sales
You need perfume? we got [...]
In: smp
11 Aug 2005Today, by special delivery, I got notice that FIOS is available at my house.
I called Comcast and asked how they were going to match this offer. They offered me $29.95/mo. for 6 months.
Now, because of my unique situation (i.e., requiring a semi-permamnent IP address to allow people to access my servers), I may be stuck [...]
In: smp
20 Jul 2005Ok, congrats to Dave Sifry and teh Technorati team. So far today, things look good.
But they are still using broken HTTP to deliver the pages.
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:24:16 GMT
Server: Apache
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11
Set-Cookie: BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!
Set-Cookie: BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: close
Throwing hardware at a problem solves [...]
In: smp
6 Apr 2005No, this is not a shameless attempt to drive me to the top of the rankings. It is a legitimate comment on a quiet little secret of the new Google Video Search.
Google co-founder Larry Page has announced that the company wants the public to send in its homemade videos – and he doesn’tÂ’t mind how [...]
In: RANTING
22 Mar 2005Travis Smith points out that Google, out of the goodness of it’s heart while trying to raise awareness for World Water Day, accidentally crushed the Web site of the group organizing this event, worldwaterday.org. [here]
Travis poses the excellent question about asking your Web provider how they will handle a huge spike in traffic. Can you [...]
In: RANTING
17 Mar 2005As the Web moves toward the delivery of services, I have been ruminating on the continuing importance of browsers.
Scoble writes:
Oh, well, back to my RSS news aggregator. That’s where I spend 90% of my Internet time now anyway. Are you still using a Web browser? Good. I’ve been telling audiences that those of you still [...]
In: smp
14 Feb 2005This comment on the British DIY giant B&Q’s sponsorship of Ellen MacArthur’s solo round-the-world sail cracked me up.
Ouch.