June 2008
4 posts
Bell Biv Devoe "Do Me" lyrics adapted for Yelp...
I received a “summer’s almost here” email from Yelp this morning. Here’s an excerpt, the highlighting is theirs, not mine: “Summer’s almost here! And you know what that means. It’s time to smoke it up, flip it, and rub down some meat — BBQ that is!” Oh no, I need a body bag! Seriously, Yelp, BBD? Nice. Was BBD the male version of TLC, or was...
Jun 17th
Duncan, Thanks for Putting Plurk in FriendFeed
Duncan Riley, editor at The Inquisitr, posted a new GreaseMonkey script for Firefox. This script adds a Plurk tab in FriendFeed as shown by the attached screenshot. I’m sure this will give some ppl some ideas about how to integrate other apps into the interface at FriendFeed. Thanks for opening up some ideas, Duncan. Good job!
Jun 5th
“Are you not sure you don’t wish to cancel?” - The...
I often share the story about the image above. This image is a replication of a dialog box within a software application that was developed by a team of Russian offshore developers. On this side of the pond, our internal team joked about this for weeks. Our foreign friends, initially embarrassed by the garble, came to find humor in the statement once the primary English speaking guy on their team...
Jun 3rd
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ZobZee a hoax? Probably
Sometimes tech hype gets retarded. Robert Scoble sends a message and we just sign up for any new beta Scoble mentions. Here’s the email from ZobZee after I signed up for the “beta”. They claim to be a killer in the social space. Raised $50 million from unamed investors…sure you did. Pics, or it didn’t happen… Thank you for requesting to be part of our beta....
Jun 2nd