Category: General

Dexia reminds the athletes they sponsor the correct way to celebrate victory: http://www.wikimaniacs.com/think-of-your-sponsor/

An API is a way for website or service to talk to another website or service. APIs let you mix information and media from other services into your own site or application. API stands for ‘application programming interface’ but it is best explained by looking at an example: The folks at Yelp let their users […]

MarketingSherpa has a case study on a newsletter publisher that used social media sharing buttons in their newsletter. Here’ a few nuggets: They asked their subscribers which networks they used. They checked inbound traffic to see where content was already being poseted. They used the social buttons for each article (or piece of content) in […]

Yes it is heart-breaking when your favorite TV show gets cancelled – but imagine the agony when you are the executive producer. Josh Friedman, the creative brain behind the recently-canceled Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles lets us inside his disappointment: Losing your show is more like a surprise divorce where you get served papers in […]

I don’t completely agree with this angle but a thread on Metafilter offers some insights into Twitter and its effect on online communities: It’s for people who want to post innocuous, witty, generally self-promoting, usually uninformative things about themselves. … Basically, there are a whole lot of little groups that are otherwise ignored, but which […]

Part of this Wired article on neuroscience and illusion

From my contact form: Matt writes: why is there a totally different guy on the front page of your site and in the Media Room? That old black and white photo is from my theatre days and was used in the dust jacket for Blogwild. I’ve put off doing a new photoshoot while I continue […]

I’m sure that Microsoft is packed full with immensely talented developers and engineers and designers and other smarty-pantses. But whoever makes strategic decisions like these clearly hates their customers: A routine security update for a Microsoft Windows component installed on tens of millions of computers has quietly installed an extra add-on for an untold number […]

It is rare that I get excited about a keynote for a developer conference. I even forced Ron to wake up as I started watching this because it is completely blowing my mind. Email, instant messaging, wikis, forums, blogs, mobile, SMS… Google Wave completely obliterates business models and entire verticals of companies left and right. […]

A fascinating deck of slides from Valve software company illustrating how they use artificial intelligence to ratchet dramatic tension up and down: Replayable Cooperate Game Design in Left 4 Dead (several more sets of slides from the Valve guys).