Posts from ‘November, 2008’

The Challenge
Three or four years ago it was easy to track friends, news, topics, blogs, etc. You used an RSS reader. It was simple – you organized your feeds in to folders and you were done.
Then Twitter, FriendFeed, and Facebook came along and changed the entire concept of how you behave online. No longer did [...]

As I tweeted yesterday, today is the day I officially launch my company. BrowserMob opens the doors today by offering the first on-demand, low-cost load testing service that uses real web browsers.

Please read the official announcement for all the details.

When I left Gomez, I didn’t intend to create another testing tools business. My last one, [...]

First: it is a complete rip-off of the Wii dashboard, all the way down to the concept of “channels” and “avatars” (Miis).

But it’s still really good.
A few tidbits:

Setting up the NetFlix integration was cake. Just download and install the Netflix app ($FREE) and then enter the activation code they provide you on the [...]

If you haven’t seen it yet, now is your chance. I recommend watching them in this order: Volume 1, 3, 2, 4, and then finally 2.5 (Jack Black is in 2 and 2.5).
Volume 1

Volume 3

Volume 2

Volume 4

Volume 2.5

Really good read. For as much crap as Carter gets, this speech from almost 30 years ago was really spot on. His speech about government, energy, and politics is important, but so is his early identification of the infection that has completely contaminated the American culture:

In a nation that was proud of hard [...]

I hate to say it, but I sort of agree with the GOP and Mitt Romney on this one:

Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the course – the suicidal course of declining market shares, insurmountable labor and retiree burdens, technology atrophy, product inferiority [...]

I’ve been looking for a decent blog publishing tool, but every time I think about it I realize that nothing is likely to be as easy to use as the FriendFeed bookmarklet. I’m completely in love with the FriendFeed bookmarklet and it’s super simple way to add media to your comments. I wish posting to [...]

I thought Ecto might be perfect for me, but then I just got let down In my last post, the following quote, when pasted in from the original NYT article, ended up with garbled text after the apostrophe in “Toyota’s”.

It’s likely due to the fact that it’s a special character vs. a [...]

I just added the FriendFeed widget to my blog, as well as updating the theme to something a lot nicer. Unfortunately, some weird CSS magic is going on where the widget’s text is way too big. I’ve tried adding CSS rules with !important, but they still aren’t being honored. Anyone care to take a look [...]