Passing Notes

Steve Norcup, a Pittsburgh photographer, was kind enough to let me use one of his photographs as my header pic. You should check out his work.

October 11, 2007 – 9:51 am, New Header Pic

I just discovered this awesome blog the other day. The Adnostic did this great post on social web awhile back. There’s a mix of slideshow, text, and video. It’s going down as one of my favorite posts of all time. Within it she had this video which I thought was amazing:
It was made at the […]

October 7, 2007 – 3:11 am, Web 2.0 and the Warm Fuzzies

Interstitial Advergames!
Okay, admittedly, I had to look up the word interstitial when I read this article on the use of advergaming. The author of the article talks about using advergames that actually work. You know advergames. They’re the things you see on the sides of some webpages that ask you to click […]

October 4, 2007 – 6:00 pm, I Spend a Lot of Time Online, but I Never See This…

I recently read an article about the limitations of viral recommendations. A recent study was done showing that the more links a person sends, the lower their conversion rate or the less they’re able to convince friends to check out a link. Another interesting point was that there is a point of saturation. If […]

October 3, 2007 – 12:17 pm, The Limitlessness of Viral Recommendations

I may be behind on the times, but I just discovered Google Web Trends. Fun stuff.

I was able to prove that Christmas does in fact come earlier each year. The blue line is Christmas, the red is Thanksgiving. Notice the blue peak in 2006 is further away from the end-of-the-year line compared to the […]

October 3, 2007 – 9:00 am, Christmas Does Come Earlier Each Year