Yep, Sulia. If you follow bay area beat writers associated with Media News Group (who by their corporate site look like they "get digital" with their awesome space graphics and drop shadows) you've seen it. As far as I can tell, writers tweet about things, but make them too long so you are taken to Sulia to read the rest. From there, they might link to another article, or, in the case of the San Jose Mercury news, take you to another link in between prompting you to download their app. 4 clicks to get to the bottom of ...
Sulia is Hostile to any Conceivable User Experience Goal
Written by on date March 14, 2012 in User Experience .
A Problem with Facebook Sponsored Stories...
Written by on date February 23, 2012 .
Here's the problem with sponsored stories. I posted an amazon listing for a tub of lube as a joke on valetines day, and now facebook is showing that I am recommending it to my friends and family.
Facebook didn't know my intent in the post, so it's use of "sponsored story" is laughable. Honestly, I'm glad I can recommend lube to people, but I wasn't actually recommending the purchase of it, I was poking fun. I wonder how often they ever get this right? I still haven't seen a single sponsored story that is ...
Web 2.0 2011
Written by on date December 18, 2011 in Conference Notes , Web 2.0 .
Overview
Recently, I had the pleasure of attending the Web 2.0 Conference in SF. It's a small conference (500 people or so) where a lot of web industry leaders get together and discuss the state of the industry and the next big thing. In fact, the term "Web 2.0" was first coined in 2004 at this very conference.
Each year there is a theme, and this year talks and sessions were concentrated around Big Data. There are amazing facts floating around about how there is more data produced in the last year than all of human history ...
Hi Folk. Jason Here.
Not a lot to say at the moment except I'll update this all the time (like a blog or something).
This is more my good time experiment in HTML5, django, CSS3 and all those fun things. More to come soon.