March 2009 Archives

• ‘I am a PC Ad’ was staged. Haha!! FAIL!

  03.29.09 | No Comments | Filed Under Uncategorized

  
  

  via 9to5mac.com
  Look at 0.13 in the video – the bald guy is walking past looking in the window. Less than a second later, in the shot where she exits the Apple store… he is STILL walking past! She walked in… turned around… and straight back out again….

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• This infomercial is very funny – it’s up there with the Snuggie! (via sophiestication)

  03.27.09 | No Comments | Filed Under Uncategorized

  
  

  via youtube.com

  Posted via web from Miles Tinsley’s Posterous

• How China sees the world – cool cover illustration from The Economist magazine

  03.26.09 | 1 Comment | Filed Under Uncategorized

  
  

  via picocool.com

  Posted via web from Miles Tinsley’s Posterous

• There’s a Better Way to ReTweet!

  03.18.09 | No Comments | Filed Under Uncategorized

  
  

  Retweeting is a popular way to share a useful or interesting tweet. The concept is beautifully simple, but fundamentally flawed. Using the “RT” prefix worked well when the Twitter-verse was small, but since the big bang it has simply failed to scale. Prolific RT-ing is polluting the Twitter-sphere, suffocating the original, high quality tweets that [...]

• Interesting post on how to measure ROI from social media (via @yongfook)

  03.18.09 | No Comments | Filed Under Uncategorized

  
  

  via zygote.egg-co.com
  This is a great article and very insightful. Read it in full at http://zygote.egg-co.com/social-media-roi/

  Posted via web from Miles Tinsley’s Posterous

• A funny sketch -The only valid measurement of code quality: WTF’s per minute!

  03.16.09 | No Comments | Filed Under Uncategorized

  
  

  via geekward.com
  Sounds familiar!!?!?! WTF… WTF… WTF

  Posted via web from Miles Tinsley’s Posterous

• “Even Faster Websites” – slides from SXSW about the importance of optimizing your site for speed

  03.15.09 | No Comments | Filed Under Uncategorized

  
  

  I bet this was a great presentation by Steve Souders from Google about the importance of front end performance of your site. I wasn’t there, but the slides are really interesting, with some really useful stats and tips… A must read for anyone interested in optimal user experiences.

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• Wise words from Seth Godin

  03.14.09 | No Comments | Filed Under Uncategorized

  
  

  The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.
  via sethgodin.typepad.com

  Posted via web from Miles Tinsley’s Posterous

• I really like this “Periodic Table of Typefaces”, even if the analogy doesn’t *quite* work :P

  03.14.09 | No Comments | Filed Under Uncategorized

  
  

  via i.gizmodo.com
  I wonder what the equivalent of the atomic number is here?!?!

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• Review of Posterous: Dead Simple Blog by Email

  03.13.09 | No Comments | Filed Under Social Media

  
  

  Short Version: Posterous is a fantastically elegant way to maintain your online presence across multiple sites. Email once, post everywhere!
  Long Version:
  Lately, I’ve made the conscious decision to blog more and embrace the social web. In the past I’ve found this to be quite time consuming – especially trying to maintain my content accross multiple sites and networks. Yes, [...]