Archive for March, 2005
I’ve been duped!
What a difference an “s” makes…
I posted about this seemingly clueless company. Turns out, it’s some sort of fraud. The real company is http://www.ibackup.net/ and they seem to be legit.
Yeah, fact checking is good. As Forrest Gump said: “I’m not a smart man”.
More Google Greatness
Google launches more cool stuff: Google Code
What is code.google.com?
Code.google.com is our site for external developers interested in Google-related development. It?s where we?ll publish free source code and lists of our API services.
Who are the people behind code.google.com?
A lot of people worked together to both prepare source code for release and prepare code.google.com for launch and [...]
Homemade comics community
Another cool Boing Boing find:
Our Parisian friends at Fluctuat.net and AEIOU are the creators of Gnomz, “a community that enables web users to create customized online comic strips quickly and free-of-charge.” You can design your own characters or use Gnomz inspired by public figures and pop culture celebrities. BB pal Alex Boucherot says that more [...]
The Rules
As you probably know by now if you follow this blog, I do community work for a living. I work day in and day out with colleagues and product enthusiasts to help build bridges, and more importantly, relationships between those groups.
As much for my own sake as to help those of you who are [...]
eBay Spoof
Lately I’ve been getting a ton of those eBay spoof mails. You know the ones - some spammer sends you an email seemingly from eBay saying that you need to update your credit card info. Going to the link in the email isn’t taking you to eBay, but a spammer’s site that looks just like [...]
Clueless Defined
Dear lord… this is bad. Really really bad. As Seth said, if I hadn’t seen this with my own eyes…
NOTICE TO ALL IBACKUPS CUSTOMERS:
As most of you are aware, iBackups is down due to issues beyond our control. We are sorry but there is nothing we can do at this time to resolve this. [...]
Tipping Point Primer
Regardless of whether you’ve read The Tipping Point or not (and if you haven’t, what’s wrong with you??), this Tipping Point Primer is a great read. Here’s the intro to get your hooked:
THE TIPPING POINT IS:
That one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once.
The moment of critical mass, the [...]
Earth to Sony - reality is a nice place
Yeah… it’s the P2P networks that are killing the music industry:
Cory Doctorow: A Fiona Apple album that Sony decided not to release has become a hit online in underground file-sharing circles, traded by fans who are begging Sony to release the disc so that they can buy it instead of downloading it.
“Extraordinary Machine” is [...]
Play some Skynrd
Hehe… I have to admit yelling this a time or two.
Yelling “Freebird!” has been a rock clich? for years, guaranteed to elicit laughs from drunks and scorn from music fans who have long since tired of the joke. And it has spread beyond music, prompting the Chicago White Sox organist to add the song to [...]
Selling Community
Scott nails why “selling community” isn’t quite right. Here’s how it started:
Last week, I got an mass email from There.com a virtual environment I once contracted with while they were just starting. I haven’t really dropped in since they went public so I really don’t consider myself a part of their community. But I am [...]
