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Archive for August, 2007

links for 2007-08-06

CAPTCHA or a Challenge Response E-mail? | alexking.org
A good discussion: “Which is More Annoying? A CAPTCHA or a Challenge Response E-mail?”
(tags: spam blogging)

More cowbell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ha ha ha - why Wikipedia is so much better than a traditional encyclopedia: More cowbell.
(tags: wikipedia humor)

phpBB • View topic - [Beta] AJAX Chat/Shoutbox Mod
(tags: phpbb)

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Andy Sernovitz is coming to town

My buddy Andy Sernovitz, the founding CEO of WOMMA is going to be here in Dallas next week to speak at PRSA Dallas. Come on out, I’ll be there!
Please join us at 11:30 a.m. on August 9th at Las Colinas Country [...]


links for 2007-08-05

JetBlue | About JetBlue | Chairman David Neeleman’s flight log
Not a half bad attempt at a character blog + co-promotion. Nice stuff.
(tags: characterblog blogging marketing2.0)


Threadless shirt is on it’s way!

After many moons of lust, I’ve finally bought my first Threadless shirt, “Surprise”. There’s still several others that I’m really wanting to buy, but they’re out of stock. (This one is probably my favorite… please Threadless, please reprint!)
I got to thinking a lot about Threadless recently after talking to a client about people doing great [...]


Blog comments: Are you supporting “return to site”?

I don’t know about you, but I tend to post quite a few comments on various blogs in the course of a week. In fact, I post enough comments that it’s hard to keep track of all of them, and end up with a mostly “fire and forget” strategy. I hate this - the reason [...]


links for 2007-08-04

Chapter 3: On The Defense: A LEGO® creation by Keith Goldman : MOCpages.com
Weekend fun - LEGO Zombie stories.
(tags: zombies legocreation)

Big Trouble In Sato Plaza!: A LEGO® creation by Keith Goldman : MOCpages.com
More weekend LEGO fun!
(tags: legocreation)


links for 2007-08-03

Highway Tampa: A Battlefield 2 Map Brought To You Exclusively By Intel
Great partnership! Intel pays for development of new Battlefield 2 map… EA loves it because they can continue support for an older game without worrying about sales issues. Intel gets “Man, those guys get us and want to help us out” for BF2 players.
(tags: [...]


People-Powered Product Companies?

Hello, loyal readers, Jake here - deep from within the depths of client work.
One of my clients asked me this week for some ideas of “great product companies who really understand how to work with consumers for design and development, and are turning out physical products because of it”. The example, of course, was Threadless. [...]


links for 2007-08-02

The worst tattoo ever. | Thought Mechanics
Hilarious.
(tags: humor)

Fisher-Price Toys with Lead Paint Hazard Recall
Wowza, this is a lot of toys to recall at once. Mmmm… lead paint.
(tags: toys)

Dogster is hiring a community manager
“Woof! Meow! Do you really care about online community? Do you really care about dogs, cats and people? Do you want to work [...]