“Making a microsite or game does you no good if there’s no method—emails, blogs, press, ads, anything else—for consumers to find it, experience it, or link to it.” - Danny G, Interactive Agencies a...
“The value of a perk is inversely related to the expectation of that perk.” - Seth’s Blog: When you least expect it (via fred-wilson)
“As with all quantitative methods, Web analytics is a dangerous game. If you measure the wrong thing, your metrics won’t just be weak — they’ll be directly misleading and might cause you to pursue ...
“The problem isn’t the widgets - it’s the introduction of noise into your otherwise strong signal.” - chasgrundy, in reply to Why Widgets Is The Wrong Word For What We’re Doing
Is Google Making Us Stupid?: via catbird:Here’s the short answer, since you won’t actually read the article because it’s 4 pages long: Yeah, probably
TechnoTheory points to an article at Everyday Systems that has coined the perfect phrase: Weekend Luddite.Luddites, historically, were craftsman who railed against the growing technology that threa...
Excited to go to SEED tomorrow. Looking forward to more counter-intuitive wisdom from 37signals, Coudal et al.Made use of some of that advice recently when an “emergency” conference call between ab...
re-posting Things looking up — mostly from twitterstatus: “In the last 36hrs, we’ve had 99.4% uptime (according to Pingdom), which is not where we want to be, but is a heck of a lot better than t...
In 2003 I visited Haus der Kunst art museum in Munich. I don’t remember anything I saw on the walls there, but I do recall being enthralled by the surfers in the River Eisbach (literally “ice brook...
So Web 2.0 is “web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users (wikipedia).” The whole sort of emerged after comments by Tim O’Reilly r...
Telegraphese is characterized by structures smaller than a grammatically complete sentence in Standard English. Their use, and name, derived from the fact that the telegraph charged per word or som...
N.B. I like what TECH Cocktail is doing and support anything that promotes the local (Chicago) tech scene. This is simply my opinions on the TECH Cocktail Conference that happened on 30 May 2008. ...
“The problem with hype is that it transforms the use value of a would-be work of art into its exchange value.” - “The Hype Cycle”, n+1
“As an industry, we’re awfully good (and by good I mean bad) at bastardizing or perverting pretty much any natural and pure expression of engagement, influence, authenticity or passion.” - Joseph J...
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