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Archive for May, 2008

Privacy violations can be so useful

Posted: Saturday, May 31st, 2008 @ 12:38 am in privacy, web | 0 Comments

Have you noticed that, after you visit a web page, links to that web page change color, usually a lighter shade of blue? That’s one of the earliest User Interface wins of the web, a feature that dates all the way back to the first version of HTML. How convenient to be able to tell, [...]

Weezer Culture Mashup

Posted: Friday, May 23rd, 2008 @ 12:04 pm in fun | 0 Comments

I’m a fan of Weezer, and their new video is a fantastic example of a culture mashup:

Why I’m switching to Yahoo Search

Posted: Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 @ 7:27 pm in data, web | 0 Comments

[Disclaimer: Yahoo supports RDFa, which is a specification I've worked on. So, obviously, I'm excited. But hey, that doesn't mean I'm wrong.]
Yahoo recently announced SearchMonkey, and for the first time in 10 years, I have a reason to switch search engines, from Google to Yahoo (In fact, I just did that in Firefox.) Most web-savvy [...]