I have been here in Dubai now for about 20 months. I arrived on March 7, 2006. For that whole time I have been helping to manage the redesign and redevelopment of Emirates Airline’s website. Monster of a project really. Every line of code is new. Nearly every image is new. Vendors from all over […]
I’ve always been pretty good at coming up with pet names. If I see a dog on the street, I can look at him and name him within 20 seconds, and most people seem to agree that is was a great name. It goes like this. Me: “See that dog? He should be called ‘Phineas.’” […]
Today I thought of an idea. A real honest-to-goodness web 2.0, Google-buyout-typed idea. I mulled it over in my head for hours. I started spending the VC money in my imagination. Information Architecture - check, Web 2.0 design - check, Offshore Programmers - check…
I’m not one to give away ideas like this, but in this […]
It looks like Khoi Vin’s capable hands have already had a major impact at NY Times.com. The homepage is redone - looks a little like The Onion, and interior pages are fantastic.
For those of you who DON’T know, Khoi is a brilliant designer and founder of Behavior. They recently redesigned The Onion to […]
Expect some screwiness for a little while. I am going to install Wordpress 2.02 and hope for the best. Wish me luck.
UPDATE: Success.
Wordress 2.0 broke Ecto and sucks at image handling. I am working some stuff out now.
I am a little worried about this upgrade. I am about to shut down all the plugins and do the install. Everything might be fucked for a while. Please be patient. Wish me luck.
UPDATE: Wordpress 2.0 is now up and running, but as you might be able to notice, a bunch of shit is broken. […]
Here’s a fairly incredible little experiment with Flickr’s API. Retrievr has a tiny little sketch window where you select a color and a brush size and draw a quick little representation of what you are looking for. The app then searches Flickr for photos that roughly match the sketch by color and shape. Brilliant - […]
I have really been getting into this Firefox thing. I’ve been using it for a while, but my recent discovery of Tab X opened up this new world of extensions to me. I have always known there were some useful ones out there, but I never really looked for anything for myself. Well, I have […]
This is stunning/revolutionary news. Amazon owned, Alexa, the web crawler that powers Amazon’s A9 search service among other things, has decided to open up the entire web index to anyone who wants to use it via web services. Welcome to the Alexa Web Service Platform. They are charging nominal fees for bandwidth consumption, storage space, […]
Yahoo! finally bought del.icio.us! I KNEW this was coming. I just wasn’t sure if it would be Yahoo! or Google to do it. Yahoo! is making a ton of great buys/hires lately, Flickr.com, Upcoming.org, Tom Coates (plasticbag.org), AJAX and RSS in webmail, new Maps, and now del.icio.us.
With a market cap worth roughly half that […]
So, one thing I did not realize yesterday when I posted about the new Yahoo! Maps Beta was that they also opened up a very public API for geocoding addresses. Normally this is a little more of a process, but now, you can write some very simple PHP code to send Yahoo! an address, and […]