Joel Spolsky wrote a while back about how hard it is to find rental offices in New York City. It would basically be impossible for a 2-man startup to find a decent office in NYC. And it’s not like you can just use your garage. After all, how many people in Manhattan have a garage? [...]
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Back in the late 1990s, there was a parade of websites using Adobe Flash to show audio/visual introductions that both took a long time to load and a long time to play. It was sort of cute the first time around, but it quickly got annoying the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th times you accessed a [...]
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Google celebrated its 13th birthday with a doodle on the Google homepage.
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Slideshare, the appropriately named site where you share presentation slides, has ditched Adobe Flash. They redid the whole site in HTML5, which means you can access it with iPhones and iPads now, because iOS doesn’t have Flash. Sometimes the Slideshare widget takes a lot of CPU time, so here’s hoping it’s speedier.
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Dreamhost, one of the largest webhosts, is holding a promotion today only: Sign up today for a risk-free trial of a one-year hosting plan using the promotional code “777bday11″ and you’ll get an entire year of web hosting (including a domain registration) for just $9.24! That’s 92% off our normal pricing!
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The Google homepage had an interactive doodle today honoring Jim Henson‘s 75th birthday. Henson is the creator of The Muppets. You can play with the doodle, and the “E” muppet on the end even gobbles up the “L”, but there’s no sound.
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Ever wonder if a store’s changed prices from the last time you visited them? Shopobot claims to be able to tell you.
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Netflix is being widely panned for its weird and sudden decision to split into two, with one company handling streaming and another DVD rentals. Here’s a well-deserved and funny parody of the whole situation.
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Today’s Google homepage doodle features a pair of oranges, representing the man who discovered Vitamin C aka ascorbic acid. Albert Szent-Györgyi was a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel prize in 1937.
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Does RSS kill your productivity? (What’s RSS?) Jacqui Cheng at Ars Digita seems to think so.
So, is RSS a time-suck, or a time-saver?
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