Archive for October, 2006

Firefox 2.0

The official Firefox 2.0 release is now available on the Firefox download site, but their public-facing pages won’t list Firefox as available for download until tomorrow according to BetaNews.
I downloaded and installed it. Unfortunately, the upgrade broke my del.icio.us toolbar, which is currently incompatible with FF 2.0. I’m sure that compatibility [...]

My guess is you have heard the buzz surrounding Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, one of the best-selling title in the Xbox Live Arcade. Back in March 2006, the conversion rate for this game in the Xbox Live arcade was a massive 39%! Needless to say, based on that conversion rate, it’s a pixelated [...]

IP-Geolocation Widgets

Anyone have any luck getting the WordPress GeoTrack widget to work?  I love the idea of letting people see where my users are from.  I think location is an interesting dynamic in the dialogue that occurs on blogs.  Where someone is from very often informs their opinions.
For example, a recent article in the NYTimes grabbed [...]

Bloatware.. ugh!

I haven’t been updating my blog recently because I’ve been spending too much time in front of the computer for other reasons. The primary reason why I have been using my computer is combating a phenomen I’ll call bloatware (I think I’ve heard the term floated around before, I don’t claim to be coining [...]

I am indexed on every search engine I try, except Google: MSN (where I’m now the number one hit for the terms: Andrew Parker), Yahoo, Ask, Technorati, IceRocket, Kosmix, Clusty, etc…
A number of bloggers have linked to me, some even added me to their blogrolls. This blog is linked from a number of indexed [...]

A Story in Six Words

Caterina Fake posted Hemmingway’s six word story on her blog:
“For sale: baby shoes, never used.”
She then asked her readers to contribute their own. There are tons in the comments. It’s well-worth 5 minutes of your time to scan and read them. Here are some highlights:
“Cow died. STOP
Come home. STOP” - Shawn Lea
“Praying [...]

I completely agree with Fred on his post about IE7 pissing him off, and I want to further explain just how brutal IE’s hijack is.
You should really read Fred’s post because it has an excellent visual description of the extent of the problem, but here’s a quick summary for those who did not read Fred’s [...]

Different Users’ Goals at Odds

Many of the entrepreneurs I have the opportunity to speak with during my day job have a common problem. They have a business that has multiple groups of users and those users’ goals are at odds with each other.
For example, at Ebay, buyers want to find poorly-marketed, hidden auctions with misspellings because less awareness [...]

Tourb.us Widget

I threw the Tourb.us widget on my blog today. I feel bad supporting a TourFilter competitor considering how much I liked their Hype Machine mashup, but Tourb.us is really cool in its own right. They have tight integration into Last.fm, they have significant single-player and multi-player value, and they can search and sort [...]