Tag Archives: Web

Ad networks: the new cool kid clique?

I’ve played with advertising on Eloquation and Squandrous in the past. While all my advertising experiments have been a relative success when it comes to making money, I really didn’t feel as though the Google Ads (or even the few ads bought directly) did much to enhance the experience on my site.
My rationale to get […]

Download Firefox, Set World Record

Today is Firefox Download Day, where hundreds of thousands of people around the world will download the newly released Firefox 3. If you download the browser today, you’ll be part of a Guinness World Record attempt for the most browser downloads in one day.
If being part of a world record doesn’t inspire you to download […]

New TTC website: giving me what I want

Yesterday, the TTC unveiled the beta of their new website, exciting web junkies and transit aficionados all around Toronto.
The new design and functionality comes after a long series of consultations with the city’s web community, and promises to make information about transit services not only more accessible to residents, but also to position the TTC […]

Questions for a Friday evening

Because I’m too tired to throw together a long essay on either of these issues, and because sunny Friday afternoons were meant to be spent eating ice cream outside instead of writing, here are a few question running through my head as I sit and watch the sun set this evening.
Who stays for the credits?
Every […]

Alltop is like marijuana (kinda)

“Too dumb for geeks, too geeky for dummies.”
That’s a horrible place to be stuck if you’re a new web application, and that’s exactly the reaction I received from Jay Moonah when discussing the newly launched Alltop.
For those of you that missed the big announcement by Guy Kawasaki this morning, Alltop is basically an aggregator that […]