Over 3 years ago, I posted my small collection of websites optimized for PDA or small screen viewing. Since then I’ve had a steady stream of visitors (recently averaging about 10,000 page views per month) and some great referrals from other sites, but the page and its contents were being neglected and needed a refresh. This past week I... (more)
September 2006 Archives
Searching around the Mozilla Add-ons site yesterday, I found a cool extension for displaying mailing list headers in Thunderbird. This addon reads the extended mail headers and if mailing list headers (ref RFC 2369) are found, they’ll be displayed as active links. Common links include subscribe/unsubscribe options (mail or web) and archives.... (more)
This weekend I was explaining to a friend the new geotagging capabilities in Flickr and other online photo sites. After posting a photo from my Treo 600, I ran into an interesting phenomenom when I went to geotag it: what happens when the physical structure or location is significantly different now versus when the satellite data was taken. Streets,... (more)
Bloglines just released an update to the Bloglines Mobile portal that integrates Skweezer technology: For those of us who rely on and love Bloglines Mobile while on the go, here’s another reason to dig it. Bloglines has now integrated Skweezer technology to optimize web pages for your personal handheld mobile device’s viewing pleasure. Bloglines Mobile is pretty interesting, but its... (more)
Today was the final day of the Future of Web Apps conference and another set of great speakers. Today’s best talks were from Michael Arrington, Ted Rheingold and Evan Williams. The whole day was good, but those three stood out. Overall it was a great event and I’d recommend it for anyone in or trying to learn about the latest... (more)
Today the Yahoo! Mail Beta software is being opened up for general release (previously it had been in a limited beta). It’s still “beta” software, but I know they wanted to make sure it was reliable and scalable before opening up to the general user base. (Internally, we’ve been able to run it for about 6 months.) This release... (more)
Had a pretty good time at Day 1 of the Future of Web Apps conference today. The presentations by Dick Hardt, Tom Coates, and Tantek Çelik were the best. The Yahoo! ZoneTag talk was pretty cool, but could have been shown better, maybe with an ELMO. The Google Calendar talk was pretty good, but the presentation ran a bit and... (more)
I’ll be spending the next two days up in the City attending the Carson Workshops Summit on “The Future of Web Apps”. Yahoo! is a gold sponsor, so I’ll be helping represent the company (as best I can…), but mostly trying to learn from all the talks and other attendees. Should be fun!... (more)
This post from Creating Passionate Users is a couple weeks old, but really stuck with me: Why do so many companies treat potential users so much better than existing users? Think about it. The brochure is a thing of beauty, while the user manual is a thing of boredom. The brochure gets the big budget while the manual gets the... (more)
This week the hard drive on my Windows desktop at work bit the dust. I had most of it backed up, but still need to reinstall all the software and tweaks (yet again). To help me keep better track of this, here's my definitive list of essential Firefox extensions... (more)
For a while I’ve been using the Y!Q context search support for individual entries on this blog. I thought it was kind of novel and might be useful, but tonight I ripped it all out. I was not able to tell how many readers were using it (I probably could have written a wrapper to track clicks or something), but... (more)
