Entries Tagged as ‘Uncategorized’

November 27, 2006

This blog has moved

This blog has moved here. The RSS feed is here.

November 2, 2006

links for 2006-11-02

Color Palette Generator
Creates a color palette based on a photo
(tags: webdesign color)

How iTunes saved ‘The Office’
(tags: itunes theoffice television)

Raw Thought: The Aftermath
A co-founder of Reddit reflects on their recent sale to Conde Nast. “So it’s just a list of links?” he said. “And you don’t even write them yourselves?” I nodded. “But there’s nothing [...]

March 3, 2006

Digg Effect

This is what it looks like when a low-traffic blog like mine ends up on the front page of Digg.com. This happened last Sunday evening with the iTunes sales graph. By Wednesday, the traffic was back to the usual numbers.

Filed under: Digg Effect, Digg.com

March 2, 2006

Matt Pond PA, 3/5 at Slim’s

Matt Pond PA is playing in SF this weekend at Slim’s. Photo by flickr user chriswarren.
Matt Pond PA – Grave’s Disease (MP3) (temporary link)

February 28, 2006

iPod Hi-Fi – no thanks

I’m going to pass on the Apple Hi-Fi and stick with my Sonos system. And $99 for a leather iPod case? Yeah, I think I’ll pass on that too. Here’s a sample reaction from the comments section of the Engadget livecast.
how can jobs say he’s an audiophile when iTunes sells crap lo-fi [...]

February 28, 2006

Skype Registered Users Graph

For those of you saw my iTunes Sales Graph, make sure to check out a similar graph that I did a couple of months ago showing the growth of Skype registered users. I’ll be updating that graph in a month or so when eBay reports Q1 2006 earnings.

February 26, 2006

iTunes Song Purchases plotted on a graph

Apple recently announced 1 billion songs purchased on iTunes. I dug around the Apple press releases and tracked down some of the major iTunes milestones over the last few years. It’s amazing that there have been 500 million songs purchased since July 2005. That’s 500 million songs purchased in 7 months for an average of [...]

February 24, 2006

Diggnation at Beach Chalet

Diggnation did a live show at Beach Chalet last night. More photos here.

February 22, 2006

Trying out the new Google Page Creator

I tested out the new Google Page Creator and, I have to say, I’m pretty impressed with the WYSIWYG tool, but I’m not really sure where they are going with this. I was able to build this page in about 20 minutes. I just worry that this is going to be Google’s version [...]

February 20, 2006

Craig Newmark / Edgeio

Craig Newmark from craigslist brings up some good points about the soon-to-be-launched Edgeio service in the comments section of this post on BuzzMachine. It will be interesting to see how Edgeio deals with these issues.
Mr. Newmark’s comments:
“…I act as full time customer service rep, there’s a few of us, only a few, [...]