Archive for May, 2009
Will Google and HTML 5 Kill Flash?
This past week Google hosted it’s annual I/O conference for developers. The conference is geared towards pushing the boundaries of web development and web applications. This year Google unveiled an amazing new web app called “Google Wave“. There has been a lot of hype and tons of press around this announcement that occurred on Day 2 of the conference. [...]
Posted: May 31st, 2009 under tech.
Tags: ajax, Android, developers, Firefox, Google, HTML5, I/O, iphone, Javascript, Safari, technology, web
Comments: 4
The Power of Facebook Ads
I’ve been meaning to post this for ages now but kept forgetting about it. A few months ago my sister sent me a screenshot over iChat. To my surprise, it was a clip of a Facebook ad with a picture of OUR (well, my parents) barn in it!! How in the world is there a [...]
Posted: May 28th, 2009 under tech.
Tags: ads, barn, facebook, horses, marketing
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Dirt Jumping @ Lake Crabtree
This afternoon a few of my friends and I headed out to Lake Crabtree for some biking after work. We generally go biking 4-5 times a week and Crabtree is one of the most popular spots since it’s so close to work and my apartment. The park has a fun line of dirt jumps that [...]
Posted: May 22nd, 2009 under personal.
Tags: biking, jumps, mtb, photography
Comments: 1
The Great Scalability Problem of 2009
If you’ve been following tech news this week you would have heard about the Twitter #FAIL that has users up in arms. I’m not going to bother typing up a full recap as this has been done many times already this week. However, I would like to reflect on the blog post that Twitter co-founder Biz [...]
Posted: May 14th, 2009 under tech.
Tags: scalability, technology, twitter
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Why I Hate CitiBank
Let me start by saying that I consider myself a very responsible credit card user. I never spend more than I have and I always pay off my card in full each month. (Thanks for the good advice, Dad!) So, my current issues with CitiBank aren’t related to increasing interest rates, or other issues like [...]
Posted: May 11th, 2009 under personal.
Tags: CitiBank, fraud, frustration, hate, hateful, rant
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Spammers Find Twitter
As Twitter’s popularity continues to skyrocket, I’ve been noticing an increasing amount of spam content out there in the Twitterverse. Typically, when we think of spam the first thing to come to mind is usually email. Every morning I sift through my email accounts and remove a few unwanted messages. While spam filters can help [...]
Posted: May 10th, 2009 under tech.
Tags: spam, spammers, twitter
Comments: 1
Writing Applications for Twitter
Oh hey! It’s been a few weeks (months?) since I’ve updated. It’s always tough to get motivated to blog because I totally hate writing… still trying to understand why I have a blog. Anywho, it’s been a busy few weeks! Lots of biking and working and biking. One of the more interesting things that has [...]
Posted: May 1st, 2009 under tech.
Tags: code, php, TweetCounter, twitter
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