Nisan Gabbay has an excellent analysis of the site at HOTorNOT.com Case Study: Mixing free and premium services
My wife and I celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary a few months ago. I'm happily married, so I haven't visited HotOrNot in years. I was fascinated by the description of the …
There's an excellent summary of how FaceBook came to be and what its possible valuation might be at: [Facebook Case Study: Offline behavior drives online usage - Startup Review Blog](https://www.startup-review.com/blog/facebook-case-study-offline-behavior-drives-online-usage.php]
Snippy is a neat tool for capturing parts of images. From the description:
How often have you carefully selected some text from a Web page and copied it to an email message? Snippy makes this a snap! Simply click on the little Snippy icon in the taskbar notification area, and …
As somebody who's spent his fair share of time putting together desks and bookcases and children's toys, one of the most powerful quotes was (paraphrased) "that things should be cheaper - we're making them ourselves".
In a post on "Is it tech rage or customer service rage?", Techcrunch talks about how …
This is an easy way to convert images (photos or pictures) in Windows XP using the paint.exe program from Microsoft itself.
It takes 3 steps per picture, so it's not the fastest way to do this. But they're really easy steps. But it also means that you don't have …
Today is election day. There's an article today in Techdirt referencing a movie about the problems with Diebold (not Deibele) election machines.
I have to admit that I do miss a little bit the tradition of going to the local school or church and voting. Seeing the volunteers, seeing the …
Regal Cinemas is testing giving somebody a wireless device that summons an usher. In exchange for being the eyes and ears, you get a free bucket of popcorn. Seems like a reasonable deal to me. Thanks to: Techdirt: Ever Wished You Could Push A Button To Remove A Disruptive Movie …
It's good to see that MyPages is changing to be more interactive. Portland Yellow Pages and Portland, OR Guide by MyPages.com
Something neat is the ability to link to specific businesses:
Browsing at work and don't want people to know? workFRIENDLY makes your browser look like Microsoft Word. Hopefully you don't need to use this but nice implementation.
Get Organized With Google Notebook is a nice article that talks about working with Google's fairly new notebook.
I like the notebook more than I do Google's calendar or Gmail. However, the problem for me is that Google is mixing together different types of services and trying to use one …
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