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Dolphin Spotted In Newtown Creek
Top 25 Facebook Games for February, 2010
Just to keep everyone informed on the web. Big HUGE numbers for FarmVille. Now you know why you get some many updates.
The Economics of Getting Drunk
My mother as I explain my phone
Edelmira Ventura. My mother, an educator, an activist, a Puerto Rican and a New Yorker.
Online Game Disruption – Take everything, everything? EVERYTHING!
We've yet to see a big portal or game site take EVERYTHING. None of the older sites, have taken the long tail approach and accepted every game that comes their way.
Great web trends regarding user experience.
Things I basically knew and had in my brain but wasn't able to clarify. (Very typical me)
Usability testing of websites can be crowdsourced or semi-automated
Trying to find better web metrics that measure meaning.
This is a key point and something I am happy to say AOL has. We have a strategy of how we create content.
Design for as broad a platform as possible and that to me means, mobile websites.
People seek authentic experiences. They are starved for it. It's why you can be a jerk, curse and still have people like you because you say what you mean. (I'm living proof of this)
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The final stretch home
102nd street heading east towards 3rd avenun. The 23rd precinct is on the right side.
Aol.’s own “Portait of Dorian Gray”
Another day in the books in the online games business.
Today was about admiration. Admiration for what some people are capable of and admiration for for the things I can’t do.
I work with people who can grind. Grind though daily repeatative tasks like those crazy giant bulldozers on Pandora (first Avatar reference of the day). Its a special skill to have and I think takes practice. Its unreal to me that some folks can sit, focus and annialate their to-do lists like a lion eats. Anyway enough with my bad annologies. Here’s to you folks, because it is not something that comes easily to me or do I enjoy.
I would say if you hired me to grind, you are wasting my talents. Give me chaos, give me things going wrong or let me analyze quickly and I’ll come up with some hot shit. I have a quick scattershot brain with lots of ideas and cacamaimi thoughts in it. Thoughts need to be freed!
You need a grinder? I am not your man. Don’t get me wrong, I am capable of a good grind now and again when I am grinding with purpose – to grind for the sake of the grind? Blech.
Here’s to you grinders! Huzzah!
The Morning Commute – 103rd Street.
Taken from the downtown train platform towards end. There has always been an odd gap in the columns in this spot. Image is of the uptown platform.
