Crowdspring. Throw Your Design Away.

Jun. 4, 2008 in business, design, web too oh!

Haven’t heard of crowdspring yet? They call themselves a “Global marketplace for logo design, business card design, graphic design and website design”. It works like this: if you need a logo for your startup you post a brief on the site,…

Buy My Friends Dot Com

Apr. 14, 2008 in net life, web too oh!

Now I know for certain that I’m just too old (or old-fashioned) for this social-networky friendy microbloggy stuff. Andrew Baron, Rocketboom founder, is selling his Twitter account, and his more than 1,600 followers on ebay (where else?). If we take this seriously,…

Shame? Um, no.

Nov. 21, 2006 in personal, photography, web too oh!

What’s the use of having a blog if you don’t use it to shamelessly promote yourself and leverage your audience to increase your fame and fortune?

I’ve submitted 2 photos to JPG magazine. If you’re interested in photography and don’t know…

Social Advertising

Sep. 28, 2006 in web too oh!

In the nine and a half years I’ve been in Germany, I’ve given the German telephone company, Telekom, a shitload of money. Regardless of this fact, I have never managed to speak to a living, breathing, human Telekom employee in…

Resistance is Futile. Buy Dead Steve Irwin Now.

Sep. 6, 2006 in web too oh!

The whole automatic, context-sensitive advertising thing has made quite a few people quite a lot of money over the last few years. And for the user, it’s sometimes surprisingly useful. Often it’s just ignored. Occasionally, it’s an absolute disaster.

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Ciao Ma.gnolia! (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love del.icio.us)

Sep. 5, 2006 in personal, web too oh!

In the beginning, there was del.icio.us. Then Ma.gnolia came along like a primped and polished hussy and seduced me away. However after almost a year, I’ve freed myself from her clutches and my bookmarks and I are returning to my…

Drawn & Quartered

Aug. 14, 2006 in web too oh!

For those of you unfamiliar with the history of barbarism, the “quartered” part of drawn & quartered was a punishment consisiting of four horses attached to four ropes attached to the four limbs of the punishee. You can imagine the…

Playing Tag

Jun. 12, 2006 in design, web too oh!

Ex-Colleague and interface philosopher Christian Jung had some thoughts on tagging patterns recently, which got me thinking too. The idea of tagging is a good one, but tag clouds have always irritated me. We all know how they work and what…