Ever feel like it's just one thing after another? Mountains of information to sort through and just do something with? Like it'll never end? Then want to just try to bury it all deep inside until it catches up with you?
So did Peter Ramsdal except he's a mail carrier so that shit was all super literal and now he's in jail on mail hording charges. Just like in Seinfeld. No word on if he was wearing a puffy shirt.
--SK
LinkedIn turned 7 today but it feels like 37. The service is a great place to stalk SVPs of mid-size companies in flyover states but any sense of newness or excitement faded long ago. Reference checks are done by looking at mutual facebook friends, tumblr/twitter/(even ew)wordpress are the real online resumes employers check. Happy Birthday LinkedIn, both you and your user base look pretty good for middle age.
didn't think this little rant would be validated so soon. First they came for the teachers... sk
The sorta-kinda last thing I worked on before leaving the NBC/MSFT mothership, Nightly.Msnbc.Com has launched. (See also: NBC @ CES.) Congrats to everyone at 30 Rock and in Redmond.
Discovered on the same day: dontclick.it, which tries to build a navigable interface in which you don't click anything, and History of the Button a blog that traces "the history of interaction design through the history of the button."
It would seem that new design around a search engine's home page would be as limiting as designing a new Campbell's soup label. But A9.com (Amazon's search engine) just released a new front page with an interesting panel design, while Ask, Live, and AOL's beta continue to make small experiments.
A very, very long post on what it's like to be an agile programmer at Google.
Yahoo has purchased the video-sharing platform Jumpcut (blog post). See also: Fox allows the Clinton-Wallace videos back on YouTube.
Om predicts Rupert Murdoch is gonna buy a blogging platform -- either Six Apart (Moveable Type, TypePad, LiveJournal, and Vox) or Automattic (WordPress). Interesting theory.
Michael Kinsley in Time: It's not so bad that people refuse to pay for online news.
The New York Times hires some dude as its "futurist". No jealousy here, nope.
WSJ: YouTube will introduce copyright detection software and rev share advertising revenue, starting with Warner Music.
New product release: Jim whined for two weeks, but the pay-off is worth it... PhotoBlog.MSNBC.com.
McClatchy is consolidating and moving the online unit to Raleigh, thereby eliminating a bunch of San Jose (Knight-Ridder) jobs. Take that, Sillicon Valley!
A new perspective on the recent 'bad design' debate. I'm intrigued by the populist sentiment of "bad" design, but am concerned how to accurately phrase this.
NYTimes.com launches the blog First Look, about features and services from the website.
2006 Online Journalism Awards - Finalists. The first visible project that I worked on a little was nominated for the "Outstanding Use of Multiple Media" category: Katrina Virtual Tour.
Looks like Google is snagging a 20-story tower in Bellevue. Great, more nerds of the 520 commute.
Yahoo blog search (which had been integrated with Yahoo News search results) has been taken offline.
Etsy.com. The left nagivation introduces new ideas for ways to navigate a shopping interface -- by color, by sample, by geography, by time.
Calacanis says off-handedly he's gonna buy a newspaper and tv station. Good luck with the FCC, dude.
Google redesigns! (Okay, they added "Video" to the nav, and subtracted Froogle and Groups.)
Microsoft's Photosynth is going mainstream. I've played with this, and it's pretty awesome.
MySpace disables Flash scripting to external domains. Otherwise known as Stage One In the AOL-ification Of MySpace.
I saw Phil Torrone's newest "kit" presentation at Gnomedex, but here's video from a Microsoft campus presentation.
Dan Rather has a new job, working for Mark Cuban. Big question: will he have anything to do with Sharesleuth.com?
In has last interview for Channel 9, Robert Scoble interviews Bill Gates' assistant.
