Monthly Archives: June 2008

Twitter is Like the Weather

Jun 5 2008
Written by Jake. Also tagged under general. Comments.

Warning: This post is about Twitter, so if you don’t care about Twitter, stop reading here. Proceed at your own risk of boredom.
Last week, friends of the ‘Lab David Haimes and Michael Krigsman were exchanging some jabs over Twitter, about Twitter. Michael argues that Twitter’s frequent outages make it appear suspect if/when a business model [...]

Topper’s Voting Widget

Jun 4 2008
Written by Jake. Also tagged under general. Comments.

Matt has provided the community with a sweet widget to track all the sessions that have been suggested for OpenWorld.
Since we deployed the session suggestion feature in early May, we’ve had 129 suggestions. You can view the full list on Mix, Latest and Greatest. One reason Matt built the widget, which pulls the Latest RSS [...]

Scariest Ride Ever?

Jun 4 2008
Written by Jake. Also tagged under general. Comments.

The annual Portland Rose Festival is going on now, although Summer didn’t get the memo. You can see the carnival and rides along the western bank of the Willamette.
Chief among the rides is this monster, which looks even more sinister in this picture (courtesy of joshualane on Flickr), than in real life. It’s basically four [...]

Maybe Email Isn’t Dead After All

Jun 3 2008
Written by Jake. Also tagged under general. Comments.

I was wrong. You were right. I’m ugly. You’re pretty. I’m dumb. You’re smart. I fail. You rule.
Almost a year ago, I riffed on the death of email. Apparently, email didn’t get the message, and rumors of its demise were exaggerated.
While Generation Y thinks email is for old farts, it still serves as the single [...]

Collaboration with real ROI (finally)

Jun 2 2008
Written by Paul. Also tagged under general. Comments.

The family and I decided last Friday that we all deserved cheeseburgers for dinner (ok, my 4 year old daughter decided, but let’s pretend I had some say in the matter. We decide on Chili’s and commence to enjoy a fantastic heaping helping of saturated fat and salt. On the bright side, the [...]