For the past two days, I have been at An Event Apart at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.
For years, it’s been the one conference I was dying to attend. Last year, I finally got in. But this year, I took notes.
If you want a full recap, check out my posts on ZDNet from today [...]
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that I switch my theme almost weekly. I have been told numerous times that I am not a designer, but I like to think that I am learning. I have put together a lot of websites for people, but never really spent time designing [...]
Marc Mendell pushed some pixels around and made me a new design.
I will cut it as soon as I get to a computer that has Photoshop
UPDATE: Watch it being built here.
Google is the first place many people go first when opening a web browser. It’s fast, reliable, and accurate. Search engine optimization could be the special sauce that makes or breaks your website. So let’s learn a little SEO from Google. Maile Ohye will be our driver.
Crawling
When you create a website, make it accessible without [...]
When you focus on the things people use every day, you solve big problems.
iGoogle gadgets are a new form of advertising.
The orginary and the every day.
Occam’s razor for logic: the simplest answer is probably right.
The Google homepage. Sergey created the original homepage. What inspired him to make it plain?
“We didn’t have a webmaster. And [...]
Social data, get in my belly
Joesph Smarr from Plaxo reminds me a of a preacher, but not a boring one. Someone who is passionate about integrating the web into the real world a lot better. Below are some notes from his speech at Web 2.0 Expo.
News is better when it’s social, with Digg.
Bookmarks are more fun when they’re social, with [...]