Back when most of the early adopter set was getting their epiphanies about FriendFeed, there were dozens of other services cropping up on a near constant basis on a mission to prove how easy it was to design a lifestreaming service, and thus, why you needed to use theirs instead. The one that sticks out most in my mind is Iminta, who for quite some time during the lifestreaming arms race matched every one of FriendFeed’s features two-for-one. Mark Krynsky over at the Lifestream Blog found a script that does exactly all those things you see the “big boys”...
Late to a party long populated with the likes of AmEx, Apple, Converse, Motorola, Microsoft, Dell, The Gap, and Giorgio Armani, Starbucks finally joins the Product (red) brigade, spearheaded by U2's Bono to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria....
If your Twitter experience has been a little hum-drum recently, check out these tools to help you make the most out of the biggest microblog network out there! Twitter Classification Script for Greasemonkey One of the most effective ways of quickly gauging the quality of someone you discover on Twitter (maybe you got a notice that they were following you, for instance), is their follower count. Now almost every account grows its followers over time, so the ratio of following to followers can be a nice metric. Michael Klier of Splitbrain created a really neat script for Greasemonkey that displays...
So John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing fame posted a pithy little list of tools you can use to automate your social media activity the other day. He was trying to offer some options for the time-swamped small business owner who can’t sit on Twitter all day or spend hours online because, well, they have better things to do. Jantsch is a smart guy. He knows the social media space. I haven’t read his book, but it seems to have sold a lot of copies and he’s a well-received speaker at conferences around the world. But damn, if I wasn’t...
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Filed under: Restaurants, Business, Cocktails, Trends, America, Comfort Food, Spirits, Liquor CabinetLast week, I wrote a piece about David Herr, an engineer who followed the ultimate foodie dream and pursued a second career as a chef. Oddly enough, I subsequently discovered that the bartending industry is currently seeing a major spike in new employees and trainees. Over the last few months, bartending schools have seen a 20-25% growth in enrollment, as traditional jobs evaporate and the newly unemployed begin to explore their next career move. Given the fact that we're facing a long, cold winter with limited resources, it seems...
Sooner or later we need to slam shut the door on technical have-nots. Pew Research found that nearly half of adults surveyed need help setting up computers and cell phones. Ars Technica notes what follows: Kids are always fixing their parents' PCs. But they don't take these insights to the logical conclusion: It's time to fire the IT support team. Imagine how much progress we could make as a society if we just dropped those who just can't merge onto the Information Superhighway. I will never get back those lost weekends I spent formatting my mom's Filemaker forms or troubleshooting...
I was playing with some toys earlier and thought; why don’t we look a little deeper into the world of Buzz Monitoring. And I don’t mean for tracking buzz altogether either. What about utilizing it when crafting new content or blog posts? Buzz monitoring need not be a glorified vanity search endeavour when it can unlock a genie of information to bring life to your content generation efforts. While you can certainly use a buzz monitoring program to track activity relating to ones blog or company metrics, it can be also used to track/research just about anything. You can...
Along with those Doors shoes, the 100th anniversary Converse hi-tops line includes this Black Sabbath commemorative edition. And here's why the subject line is so clever. I guess the Gonzo ones never happened. (Thanks, Richard Metzger!)...
The folks at Saigon Market have posted terrific and very different music compilations by artists like Dustin "UPSO" Hostetler and David Horvitz, best known for traveling anywhere you want him to go, for a price. I like hearing what artists I like are listening to. Saigon Market podcasts Previously on BB: • Converse designed by UPSO • New issue of UPSO's Faesthetic: UFOs!...
Filed under: Polls, Cable It's official, folks. tru2way is live -- in Denver and Chicago, at least. As is the first official tru2way-compatible HDTV. Now, the only question remaining is this: are you planning to buy in? Be it a tru2way set or just a set-top-box of your own with tru2way support, we're curious to find out how many of you are really planning on ditching that cable company-provided set-top once this technology really starts to take off. Converse below -- after all, that's what comments are for. View PollPermalink | Email this | Comments...
Remember American Apparel's utterly creative costume suggestions on how to slut it up this Halloween? Whose mother DOESN'T want her to dress up as a 90s Teen Pregger, complete with short-shorts and a faux baby-bump? Well, now AA has gone and invited their loyal customer base to submit photos of their AA-incorporated costumes. And some of them are actually pretty amazing. You've got your Amy Winehouses, your Converse-clad superheroes, and even a "Lady" (this really is a novel idea, considering), sure, but I think the group-Thanksgiving costume is my favorite so far. Not just because that awesome girl in the...
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Yesterday I gave 13 tips for having great conversations on a blog. As a followup to that I shot an email to a number of bloggers that have a habit of having active comment sections to ask them how they make their blogs more conversational. As expected - their responses were rich and full of goodness! Here are their responses. Leo Babauta “Conversation on Zen Habits is as important or more important than the posts themselves. The readers on my blog have really formed a positive community and I am deeply grateful for such a great readership. A few things...
Senior Soft Goods Industrial DesignerDesigner, Basketball North Andover, Massachusetts Unique Abilities Required : Manual dexterity to manipulate design, art and drafting tools. Moves around campus to attend meetings. Travels internationally and domestically. Irregular working hours around concept debut, tech package deadlines, and other delivery dates in product creation calendar. Technical: Exceptional ability to ideate, create and develop projects around project briefs and market needs from conception to finish. Drawing, Sketching, 2D and 3D Capability or ability to learn; Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Office. Discussion Thread » view The best design jobs and portfolios hang out at Coroflot.......
We’re excited to have Nick Barham, Planning Director for Wieden + Kennedy Shanghai, joining us in Singapore at PSFK Conference Asia to discuss the new middle class in China. We asked him to share a little bit about himself with us. First, who are you and what do you do? I’m Planning Director for Wieden + Kennedy Shanghai. We work with brands like Nike, Converse and Nokia, to help them escape the bland celebrity-obsessed shiny perfection that dominates the Chinese advertising landscape. Over the last year, we’ve made documentaries, TV shows, computer game graphics, and put on China’s first rock...
A bunch of artists designed Chuck Taylor sneakers this season for the CONVERSE (PRODUCT) RED line, including my pal Dustin "UPSO" Hostetler. I dig the color scheme and of course UPSO's artwork on the upper. They're $49.99 with 10 percent of the wholesale price going to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS. Click "Converse 1Hund(red)" on UPSO's site or search for "Project Red" on converse.com's online shop to see the whole line. UPSO (UPSO.org)...
