Chances are, if you’re a geek you probably have at some point played with Legos. Heck maybe you still do but that’s cool because I know people in their 30′s who still play with Legos. If you’re a Lego fan, you’ll be interested in the Lego Superheroes that I found at ComicsAlliance.com. Enjoy!
Hat tip to ComicsAlliance.com for the uber cool photos.
In this day and age, there is more focus on great web design than just pure functionality. In the early days of the Web, we saw websites that weren’t exactly masterpieces in the art world sense, but they were highly functional (at the time). Now we fastforward to 2009 and the trend we’re seeing is a high focus on the aesthetics of web design rather than just how the site functions. In my humble opinion, this is an excellent thing due to advancements in not only the web technologies or coding languages being utilized.
My favorite coding language, if you will, being a designer, is CSS or Cascading Style Sheets. This allows designers to design to their heart’s content knowing that with CSS all those fancy designs can become reality. I, like many of you, design and code my own websites. This gives me a better insight into any possible limitations of design and the actual code going behind the code. This also allows me to design, code and place that code into various popular CMS or content management systems for easy updates to the website. CMS usage allows me to build more websites, faster because I don’t always have to manually manipulate the code to change content as we had to do years ago with pure static sites.
Just about anything you could dream up can become reality using the right technology and it’s all right at our fingertips, literally.
That is correct. If you haven’t gotten the news from TechCrunch, Mashable or any of the other tech or social media type sites out there already, I’ll fill you in on this little ditty. Marc Andreessen, founder of the once popular browser Netscape case strapped his thinking hat back on and is now backing a new browser called RockMelt. There are no Alpha or Beta releases as of this posting but they should be out later this year according to Andreessen.
Andreessen said earlier this summer that he was backing the new RockMelt browser citing:
Someone please explain to me why we need yet another browser to jack-with and test staging sites on before they role out to production and become live sites.
I’d just be extremely happy if my least favorite browser IE, which I affectionately call Internet Exploder would dry up and go away.
Ok, I know I haven’t posted since before the Independence Day celebrations but I do have good reason for that. You see, I was kidnapped by some..um..angry badgers. Yeah, ginomous angry badgers and…oh, who am I foolin? I’ve been preoccupied with other shtuff! Anyway I’ve got some big guns just in case we ever do have an attack of ginormous angry badgers and I WILL use them. In fact, I’ll just call Chuck Norris and he’ll take care of my light work for me.
On to another topic. Now I may be way behind the game here but I just realized the other day that Youtube now has full-length feature movies on their site. Oh yeah! You know you dig the Karate Kid
Huh? Huh? Yeah, I thought so. And what about Bruce Lee? That’s right! Bruce F-ing Lee! I couldn’t embed that one… Punks!
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If you haven’t heard by now, The Pirate Bay is being acquired by software company Global Gaming Factory X. GGF will acquire the torrent/file sharing website in August 2009 and will change the business model so that artists will be paid royalties for their work according to the TorrentFreak blog.
A sad time for lots of Pirate Bay fans out there for sure. This will inevitably be the end of an era in my opinion. Despite what the press release says, I believe the site will never be the same. Will they keep the free-spirited, defiant attitude of the old Pirate Bay? I sincerely doubt it.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m behind the artists getting paid 150% but the RIAA and big record companies are greedy and only a small percentage of the money actually goes to the artists on any music sale. Of course The Pirate Bay isn’t just about music. It’s also host too millions of other files as well such as movies and television shows. I guess, in the end we’ll just have to wait and see what happens. The current owners of The Pirate Bay lost a huge lawsuit and with that looming over their heads, it’s bound to be one of the reasons for the sale but that is purely speculation on my part. Should The Pirate Bay have sold out? I think they should have sold for more than $7.8 million if they were going to sell at all, but that’s just my humble opinion.
What is Twitter? That’s the question a lot of people ask. Those who are familiar with the service and use it on a daily basis will tell you what it is, but are they right? Twitter started out as a project by company board members of Odeo. Not realizing just how popular the service would be, the board members including Jack Dorsey, branded the service Twttr. Inspired by services like Flickr, the service adopted American mobile short code 40404 due to the fact that it is easily remembered and can be used by SMS from most American mobile phone carriers.
The working name was just “Status” for a while. It actually didn’t have a name. We were trying to name it, and mobile was a big aspect of the product early on … We liked the SMS aspect, and how you could update from anywhere and receive from anywhere.
We wanted to capture that in the name — we wanted to capture that feeling: the physical sensation that you’re buzzing your friend’s pocket. It’s like buzzing all over the world. So we did a bunch of name-storming, and we came up with the word “twitch,” because the phone kind of vibrates when it moves. But “twitch” is not a good product name because it doesn’t bring up the right imagery. So we looked in the dictionary for words around it, and we came across the word “twitter,” and it was just perfect. The definition was “a short burst of inconsequential information,” and “chirps from birds.” And that’s exactly what the product was.
—Jack Dorsey
Twitter is not the new kid on the block anymore. The service has become mainstream in the fact that the name alone is being used in everything from commercials and news casts to viral advertising by companies like Pepsi. Twitter is used by individuals, companies as a form of marketing and even celebrities. So, what do you think Twitter is? Is it a messaging service, a status tracker, an instant messaging service or all of the above? Do you think people are using the service as it was intended?
Personally I think Twitter has spun out into a life of its own. I believe it became bigger than anyone had anticipated and will have dire effects if it ever shuts down for good. I don’t anticipate that happening in the foreseeable future. Is it a fad or faze that we are going through or will Twitter stand the test of time? I guess we’ll have to wait and see but they will have to come up with a plan to monetize the service before they run out of funding, otherwise the service will be lost and that would be a sad day for those of us who are social media geeks.
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