A decently funny joke about how as web designers / developers progress in ability their code becomes more and more complicated.
[tags]web design jokes, web developer jokes[/tags]
Archive for January, 2007
The evolution of a web developer/designer
Friday, January 19th, 2007Digg, Ethics, and the Power of Top Submitters
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007I’m about to launch a niche social media site myself so I’ve been looking closley at the history and some of the problems and potential exploits for digg. This article is way too long, but gives some interesting stats about digg users and the potential traffic and power they can manipulate. It’s also worth reading, because the author is one of digg’s top submitter and he talks about ethics and self-promotion.
[tags]digg, social media[/tags]
Digg the rigged? A closer look at Digg’s democratic model
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007Take a look at this story about the power of certain digg users and how digg may not be as democratic as some people believe, it’s a good read. It’s also interesting that the story itself recieved 873 diggs, but aparently never hit the front page, it appears that from my inital scan that a moderator didn’t allow the story to go to make it to the front page.
[tags]digg, social media[/tags]
Wikipedia Search Engine WikiSeek Launches
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007I’ve been reading a lot about this new Wiki search engine, I tested it out and while it doesn’t work as well as I would have liked, I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on it and using it to search Wikipedia and take a look at the improvement. The cool thing about Wikiseek is that it only bring up results from Wikipedia AND THE SITES THAT WIKIPEDIA LINKS TO. So if you’re looking for a quick reference it seems to be a good choice, although I still find the regular Google results absolutely wonderfully relevant most of the time.
[tags]wikipedia, wikiseek, wikipedia search engine[/tags]
SEO Geeks on Video – WebProNews Video Blog
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007With most of the web still consisting of text based content (as of today all of my blogs are text and images based, but I’m going video soon too) the sites that take the inital step to producing video content designed for online consumption have a unique advantage. It’s interesting to see what people you may have read online actually sound and speak like on video. Webpronews (which syndicates the Stir Crazy Search Engine Marketing Blog I co-author at Acclivity, Inc) has an interesting video blog that interviews some of the search engine marketing world’s biggest stars.
The information the videos contain is pretty basic and not anywhere near as valuable as what you would find in text-based blogs, but I imagine that will change in time. If you ever wanted to hear some SEO geeks on video here’s your chance. I definitley found it amusing. I hope they expand their video blog to tackle some deeper issues, although I may be out of their target audience.
[tags]seo video blog, seo geeks[/tags]
Web Pages That Suck Fails to Innovate
Monday, January 15th, 2007In November of 2005 I wrote an article on entitled “Why Vincent Flanders, of webpagesthatsuck.com, is a Success, but Still Misses the Point.” It’s a bit dated, but the idea is still valid. Today I revisited webpagesthatsuck.com expecting to find an updated vibrant website and I was unfortunately surprised by the lack of change. It seems that webpagesthatsuck contains essentially the exact same content, dated site design, and lack of images that it did over a year ago.
I would think with all that traffic (Alexa rank is 23,538), two books out, and a website with a page rank of 7 he would have done more with the site. He has Google adsense on there (meaning he’s trying to make money from the website traffic), but not in a place that will get enough click throughs and his website almost completely void of useful imagines and surprisingly enough violates many of it’s own rules. I remember how impressed I was with the innovative marketing strategy when I first learned of web pages that suck 10 years ago when I designed my first website.
[tags]web usability, web design mistakes[/tags]
Corporate Logos re-designed with Web 2.0 influences
Monday, January 15th, 2007A Collection of classic corporate logos re-designed with modern web 2.0 features like glossy text, bold colors, and reflections. This wasn’t meant to be taken completely seriously, but the end results are excellent. Although, I believe we’ll all get sick of the web 2.0 look eventually for now it’s a welcome bright and bold change to normal boring design.
[tags]web 2.0, logo graphic design[/tags]
Online Education Free
Sunday, January 14th, 2007This website (Elite Skills) contains a large list of free education links to courses and video lectures. It obtained a large amount of bookmarks and votes on various social media and bookmarking sites including digg. I haven’t had a chance to go through them all yet, but it look interesting and I’ve added them to my list to check out.
How-to Download Videos from Websites Like Google Video, YouTube, MySpace, and Others | Gil’s Method
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007This is an interesting article ( gilsmethod.com ) describing one method of how to download and save videos from the huge variety of video distribution sites. Once the videos are downloaded on your computer they can be replayed or burned onto DVD for playback on your television.
[tags]download video, youtube, video distribution sites[/tags]
Web Services, Contracts & Copyright – Part 1- Clients
Sunday, January 7th, 2007(via Acclivitymarketing.com) Part 1 of a good series on contracts and copyright and how they apply to websites.